Seeking Derangements - SD 491 - Movie Jacque-set w/ Michelle Gold

Episode Date: April 15, 2026

Hello Seekers! Today we're bringing you another episode of the ONLY movie recap podcast available. Hesse and Jacques are joined by Michelle Gold to review the movie Now You See Me. Follow Michelle on... IG/Twitter @waziot

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Starting point is 00:00:29 welcome to another episode of movie Jacques set, another episode that Jacques is late to. It's okay, we forgive here. We prescribe to the philosophy of the eye here, because we're talking about one of the finest movies of all time. Now you see me three, now you don't. And we're joined also by the lovely Michelle Gold. Thanks for having me
Starting point is 00:01:00 And Michelle, maybe we should talk about how this movie entered into our radar, which was that we were hanging out and we started watching it for no reason. It literally was the most spur of the moment decision of all time. Like just a flick of the button after watching another movie. And our lives were never the same afterwards because it's one of the funniest movies I've ever seen. I literally was glowing, like, I was both hot and cold at the same time. I was levitating two inches off of the bed, just overjoyed. And just, it might have been the experience of watching it together and having, I think, I believe I took an edible beforehand. And there was a lot that was really, really getting me that was going on in it.
Starting point is 00:01:52 just the gall of the movie to be itself so uniquely like it was beautiful it was so beautiful i i just like i don't even know what especially after not having seen the first two in like 10 years or whatever and the movie kind of assumes you're the third one assumes you're a super fan who's like it's like you know all of the But also it assumes that you know none of the lore because it retcons a lot of it sometimes, which we'll get into. But there's a lot of, but basically, now you see me is like Oceans 11 with magicians. Okay. It's like Oceans 11 X-Men. Look who it is.
Starting point is 00:02:35 And now you see me and now you don't. And welcome. Period. And now we see you. And now you see me. And now you see me. And now you don't. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:02:48 It was a... It's a spoon. But I have it here for the reason... I have it here for a reason you wouldn't think. Not what someone normally uses a spoon for. Well, some people might use it for this, but maybe not the kind of people you want to hang out with. I'm using it to open a bottle.
Starting point is 00:03:07 Whoa. Tutorial. I thought you were going to bend it Jack Wilder style. Jack Wilder. Oh my God. He's a cool guy. When I ask you, I told you... Jack Wagner?
Starting point is 00:03:20 Jacques Wilder. Yeah, Jack Wagner. Jacques Wagner. Jack Wagner. I love that guy, man. Wagner. Wagner. And Ben Mora.
Starting point is 00:03:31 And we've gone all around the circle. Jack Mora, Ben Mora. When I texted you, I said, this movie's so good. You said, I, that one guy. I like that one guy. So who's the one guy that you liked in this? The only one that seems to really smile. Woody's Harold.
Starting point is 00:03:52 Harry Woodleson. Okay, period. McKinney. Look, I'm just going to say it. He was the only character I could even fathom to scrounge up even a little attention worthy of. Are you kidding? You didn't like, okay. So here's the plot.
Starting point is 00:04:10 First of all, actually, before it even begins with the plot line. And Michelle, also wonderful to see you again. Yeah, great to see you. I made the mistakes of watching 45 minutes of now you see me, now you don't, the first movie. Or now you see me. And I was like the fuck 15 minutes into that movie, they say tranny Tuesday. So I was like, okay. I was like, okay.
Starting point is 00:04:35 Which is how I knew that you were watching the wrong movie because he said they said tranny in the beginning. I'm like, oh no. That's the 2013 edition. well it's pretty you just go ahead hessa and tell us what we need to know because well no what did you think of it did you like this movie jacques were you as transfixed by it as me and let me tell you there was only one person as unhappy watching that movie as i was and it was my girlfriend that i may watch the movie with me
Starting point is 00:05:05 and i think was it the worst movie i've ever seen no actually i would i would give it maybe two stars on letterbox instead of one. You know, and honestly, some movies that I hate even more than this movie, I would give three. But that's just to drive them crazy. This movie doesn't want to be rated. Wait, what do you mean? This movie doesn't care what I rated. I don't understand.
Starting point is 00:05:29 This movie came out of birth. It makes movies mad when you rate them higher than they deserve. This movie came out of the birth canal, happy, smiling, and having. having won the attention. It's the third in the franchise, so they don't even have to guarantee that it's a good movie. They just have to guarantee that the people from the other movies are in it. And even then, they don't need that.
Starting point is 00:05:54 Yeah, because in the second one, they didn't even have Isla Fisher in it. Yeah, they dumped her like a hot bucket of honey. So when it first opens, we see the coolest location in the world. The place that all the kids, all the kids are talking about, all the kids are living. and of course you gotta know it's Bushwick
Starting point is 00:06:13 Sacramento It opens on Bushwick, New York and the horsemen The horsemen who are the Magicians played by Jesse Eisenberg Woody Harrelson Dave Franco
Starting point is 00:06:28 annoying And Isla Fisher in the first movie And Lizzie Kaplan in the second They switched girls But they thought we wouldn't notice Yeah Yeah
Starting point is 00:06:40 I got to Google that And then There is Yeah Jacques The one girl is the The goth girl for mean girls Did you know that? Yeah, no I noticed her
Starting point is 00:06:51 So I'm pulling up is Island Fisier Volcanique Which is a French for Island Fissure Volcanic Completely wrong I was trying to get that You typed in the wrong thing It's so interesting
Starting point is 00:07:05 You thought that was her name Just continue It's not worth me, but... It's close to this thing I typed in. Oh, my God. Well, and it's the horseman. They're back. They're looking a little smooth.
Starting point is 00:07:20 They're looking a little AI-generated, one might say. Yeah. And, but then they acknowledge what I think is really the linchpin holding this whole movie together. And it's, they find a volunteer in the audience. He steps up there. And who is it? It's Dominic Sessa. The actor from the whole...
Starting point is 00:07:39 Holdovers playing Anthony Bourdain in the new Matt Johnson movie that's coming out. He is the next big, the next big thing, he's red hot. He is, he's a popcorn draw at the box office, and we all love him, and he kills it in this. Is he the, he's the lead in this movie? Yeah, he's the skinny guy, who's tall. The tall skinny boy. Oh, we're not talking about Detective Pikachu. Detective Pikachu's Ryan Reynolds.
Starting point is 00:08:09 I believe. No, no, no, no. Detective Pikachu's main actor is also one of the three. Justice Smith? Yes. Justice Smith is in I saw the TV glow? No, Detective Pikachu is voiced by Ryan Reynolds. I'm pretty sorry.
Starting point is 00:08:26 Listen, I'm sorry to get angry like this in front of you, Michelle. I'm not sorry, Hessa. Let me explain something to you since I'm the real movie critic, and you seem to be a woman posing as a movie critic. He plays Ryan Reynolds' voices Detective Pikachu Justice Smith voices Tim Goodman It's not it's not it's not
Starting point is 00:08:46 No no Tim Goodman is the character he acts It's not a voice situation I saw Detective Pikachu For four days in theater Yeah it's all live action movie Oh are you right How do they get a Pikachu
Starting point is 00:09:00 Because it's CGI you've Nimbed wit Nimbuit Period that's on period poop there's a show and they steal money from this rich Wall Street asshole
Starting point is 00:09:16 crypto douchebag yeah they so they do this secret show and it's at a hidden location which is which appears to just be a warehouse in it's a market hotel can I no it's not market hotel can I call out real quick
Starting point is 00:09:31 the first time you see Jesse Eisenberg on screen he says coming close closer and then he says, because the more you think you see, the easier it will be to dress up old tricks and fool you that they are new. And I was like kind of high and I was like, oh, wow, they're doing a meta commentary on how three is just rehashing the same bullshit of one.
Starting point is 00:09:57 It's like the screenwriters cry for help or something. Yeah, and it seems like they're like, okay, we'll figure out a better way to phrase that and we'll go back to it. We'll put a pin in that for now. and then we'll go better, a more, a less clumsy way of saying that. It is such a mouthful. Yeah. So this guy, this Wall Street stock bro is stole a bunch of money from the pension fund of like city workers. And they, they stole it back.
Starting point is 00:10:25 And what do they do? They give it to the crowd at this magic show, which is all these millennials living in. It's literally pouring in there. Literally, I don't think you could have assembled more people that owed other people on Venmo. They all have about 17 Venmo notifications, it's all requests, none paid. And they're all like, yes, we can finally pay our uncle back for helping us move in. Yeah, it's just everyone who's at Avant Gardner gets $50,000. Yes, exactly, literally.
Starting point is 00:10:59 And they leave, they were holograms, it turns out, and it's just to. it was just Dominic Sessa, Justice Smith, and June Ruclair, who I forget her actress's name, but it is June Ria. Classic Hesse racism forgets the girl's name.
Starting point is 00:11:18 From Barbie. Well, from one girl to another, kind of harsh. I think you should research her name. They enter their apartment where Geese is playing. They're listening to geese. Oh, I didn't even clock that. I stay away. Look, I don't like
Starting point is 00:11:32 I'm going to be very frank. with you two. I don't like duck. I stay away from ducks. I like eating duck. I don't like live ducks. I'm certainly going to stay the fuck away from geese. Swans, I'll go look at. Oh, I think they're foul, but I see what you're doing there, Michelle. I see what you're doing there, and I love
Starting point is 00:11:53 it. I'm going to text Lex Walton and ask if we can start a band called duck. Can we start a band called duck? Yeah. But anyways, they're listening to geese and lo and behold Jay Daniel Atlas is in there in the flesh and they are like whoa it's fucking J. Daniel Atlas.
Starting point is 00:12:12 They're like, is this a hologram? And they touch him. He's like, don't touch me. Yeah. The day, Daniel, well, I like the idea of just someone going to where there's a hologram of themselves
Starting point is 00:12:24 and hiding. Yeah. So they can do the old hologram with the real person switcheroo. Absolutely. Classic magician trick. Yeah. It's like, I think they'd be able to tell that that's not a hologram, because he's not in the piece of plastic.
Starting point is 00:12:39 All holograms have to be in front of a piece of plastic until the end of the movie when they don't. When it's not convenient anymore. Jesse Eisenberg has that plastic surgery skin where it looks like it has a filter of plastic on top of everything. I don't think so. I think in the opening scene, he does for surely. But that's because he's being deep-paked with AI. And Dominic Sessa in the first scene, also does a flawless impression of all of Dave Franco, Jesse Eisenberg, and Woody Harrelson.
Starting point is 00:13:11 Yeah, wait. Can we talk about when they all go inside of Dominic Sess's body? That whole sequence is so weird. I really forgot. See, there's so much that happens. There's no way. This is good. This is, this would be a nine hour long. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. But we have to dive in. We have to dive in. I just want to say one thing. When Dave Frank When he says Dave Franco, go inside his body, Dave Franco says, it's what I do best. And I'm just like, what is that interesting? What do you think of my thing?
Starting point is 00:13:43 That whole sequence, I will say I've never been scared of a mentalist until I saw this movie. Yeah. I'm like, oh, gosh. For the listeners at home, if you haven't seen the movie, which you should, you should watch it right now. Don't watch the first two. Don't want anything about it.
Starting point is 00:14:00 Well, look, I'm going to watch the first. first two. I wish I had finished more than 40 minutes of the first one. No, no, no. You don't need to watch the first two. Take my word for it. It's also very jarring to watch 40 minutes of the first movie and then go straight to 40 minutes of the third movie. Very confusing.
Starting point is 00:14:18 It really it's incredible because basically during this stage show, because they're holograms, they basically, but you don't know their holograms yet, but they turn into ghosts and go into the body of Dominic Sessa and that he
Starting point is 00:14:33 is impersonating all of them basically up there on stage and uh you know it's pretty good too and he's doing a really good impressions of that he's a really good actor i feel i don't want to suck him off too much but i'm like he is really you know he lends a charm to this very very dumb movie they all do it feels like they are all having fun kind of you know except morgan freeman they was oh my god they just they just don't make they don't give them enough fun but Basically, Jesse Eisenberg tells them the I has a mission for us. We need to go right now. And we don't know who the eye is.
Starting point is 00:15:11 We don't know, especially, this is what's amazing if you haven't seen the first two. They keep bringing up the eye and they never explain it. I don't think really, there's a slight explanation like the eye is good. The eye stands for all that's good in the world. But they don't explain it at all. there's no other members seemingly except for Morgan Freeman it's like an empty organization and Morgan Freeman isn't even a member he gets told
Starting point is 00:15:38 his name is like Thaddeus Ding Dong or something really Thaddeus Marcus Bradley Okay well the name is just too They sought out to give every character The most obnoxious names possible Yes this is why oh yeah Dominic says his name is Bosco Leroy boss toleroy
Starting point is 00:15:58 this is why we don't mr smith's name is charlie geese which is another geese nod another nut to geese uh and the girl's name is june ru Claire and yeah June ru Claire this is why we don't
Starting point is 00:16:10 this is why we're gonna pivot as a society and stop adapting books for movies that's why we get these horrific like thadious mobius dungaloo what what like genre would you put this in like i would say it's
Starting point is 00:16:26 almost John Wickian in its world building where it's like a little bit, like, not Spencer's Giftsy, but like some kind of cool, edgy person who liked Invader Zem in high school adjacent. Do you know what I'm driving that? It's very, it's very like. I see the person you're painting, but I'm having a hard time putting them between. Well, look, it's not quite that. I see what you're saying. Johnwick is the perfect because it's like the step, it's like Marvel, but there's no. source material to draw on. But they're doing Marvel things, but with completely invented, a completely invented world and characters. Exactly. Which gives them freedom, which lets them, which lets kind of their best and worst impulses
Starting point is 00:17:10 kind of come to the forefront. I'm thinking a person with bleached hair, striped fingerless gloves, and they grew up with Chris Angel, and they've been looking for some kind of mainstream magic to take over society again. And they're like,
Starting point is 00:17:26 You people don't even know the amazing feats of Houdini. We need to move in the plot. We need to move forward. I'm sorry, Jacques. I'm so sorry. But, so they have this offer. Joscoe LaRoy says no for no reason to this offer. And then says yes, he relents.
Starting point is 00:17:46 And then they go. They go to Antwerp. But before they get to Antwerp, we cut to South Africa. And then we see the crown jewel. The Gone Girl. What's her name? The Gone Girl herself, Rosamond Pike, one of my favorite actresses. Yes. One of my favorite actresses in the world doing the hardest South African accent of all time. And it is either the worst or the best. It's impossible to tell her performance is either the worst performance of all time
Starting point is 00:18:21 or the best performance of all time. It's, yeah. It's enough magic to fill the Nile. kind of performance. She's known as the Gone Girl, but I hadn't seen her on my screen since 2002's Die Another Day Featering her as Miranda Frost A forgotten Bond Girl.
Starting point is 00:18:41 Seeing her in South African was kind of scary. It's weird because it's like both a German accent and a South African like mishmashed. So you are just like damn, this is the weirdest choice. Yeah. We're just unfortunate choice. It made me hot for South African women.
Starting point is 00:19:00 No, because she is so hot. She's serving cunt on a silver platter, on a diamond platter. She is putting her cunt into a bowl made of diamonds and filling it with diamonds instead of ice-chew. Honestly, she owns the diamonds because she's a diamond heiress. Yeah, and in fact, she puts a diamond in a guy's mouth and then says, if he were to swallow the diamond, it's put to, that self-same diamond, but tear his so two shots. Before the paramedics could get there.
Starting point is 00:19:29 Before the paramedics, because even think of the seven, and then it's unclear. And then right after that scene, I remember watching it with Michelle, I was like, what the fuck were they talking about? Like, what?
Starting point is 00:19:42 It's unclear. Like, John, upon a rewatch, like, yeah. It doesn't make any sense. I'm not kidding. I've rewatched this maybe five times. Since we first watched Michelle. I keep showing it to people.
Starting point is 00:19:53 I did pause it and rewind it, because I was like, is that even how diamonds work? Because I feel like people would just commit suicide by swallowing Redding rings. I mean, the metaphor doesn't make sense because she's like, I'm selling this to unique customers who are money laundering essentially. But like the metaphor of him dying from a diamond and paying a lot not to die, like, it just literally doesn't functionally work as a metaphor. Yeah, and this whole board meeting of like everyone at the board meeting is like,
Starting point is 00:20:23 show you why you don't put diamonds in mouse like they're like our thing isn't making enough diamonds and she's like or no they're like our mine is making too many diamonds and she is like we're no because we're selling them all so it's fine and then that's
Starting point is 00:20:39 pretty much the argument they're having it doesn't really make sense but her we're introduced to her then it cuts back to Antwerp and we realize she's our target she has a big diamond shape like a heart the famous heart diamond.
Starting point is 00:20:55 The biggest diamond in the world, it's bigger than a fist. I'll show you something bigger than a fist is my foot. It's going up your ass. It's his biggest jock's foot. And they do an amazing scene, one of my favorite scenes in the movie that is definitely from an earlier draft
Starting point is 00:21:16 and got left in, where they do the kind of like, here's how impenetrable the vault is. And they're like talking about a vault that's at the bottom of the desert. They're like, in the middle of the desert, guarded by the leagues of armed guards under a key padded and biolocked elevator, there's a safe room on the bottom floor. And then they say, but we're not going to be worrying about that. Yeah, that is completely irrelevant to the story. And in fact, it is completely irrelevant. Pretty much, I would argue, it remains completely irrelevant the whole time.
Starting point is 00:21:49 Forget that. I do love. Sorry, forget everything I just said. I love, we're going to We're going to touch back why this becomes such an important detail later, but the got-you element that the magicians have to get past this. Did you love that, Jack? Oh, my God. I was just like, why haven't I been dragging people in a box up and down a hill? And shaking it and blowing smoke. Yeah, I mean, like, I could have, I could, Jacques's secret elevator fortress could have been a, could have been made millions by now.
Starting point is 00:22:21 You know, I would have been. I just love that they don't have any helpers, so you see them all doing every job. So, like, the girl, June is driving a semi, like, 18-wheeler truck. Yeah, it's so odd. This 21-year-old? Yeah. There's a lot of loops. There's a lot of holes that come out in this movie, and I'm not talking sexual.
Starting point is 00:22:46 I'm saying a lot of holes of how do they... There's no way that... You have to believe in magic, essentially. to believe that anything that they've done is at all possible. They teleport. They, things vanish. They, a real helicopter will turn into a cardboard cut out. I mean, I don't know what kind of witches.
Starting point is 00:23:08 The helicopter part was amazing. Okay, we'll get to the helicopter part in a second. In fact, let's get to that scene. Well, first of all, Rosamine Pike is getting dressed. She has a phone the size of a door in her room, which I loved. And then she gets a phone call. from another South African voice who's like in due time
Starting point is 00:23:28 and then hangs up and then we don't know what that's about we don't know what's going on or what or anything at this point. She's like slightly horny by it too rudely. Yeah, I would argue at this point that it's barely clear that they're trying to seal the diamond even.
Starting point is 00:23:42 Try having mental. If you thought you two were confused, trying having mental incontinence because watching this movie and understanding what was going on was nearly impossible for a brain. You had to wear a damn diaper on the head. I had to get my calculator out and just a matter every about 10 or 15 minutes to try to
Starting point is 00:24:06 understand the physics behind it all. It's just so, darling. Well, Mark Schreiber enters the picture next. Mark Schreiber enters the picture. We don't know who he is, but they are stealing him. They are stealing him away. They steal Mark Schreiber, who is a man. a Dutchman looks like
Starting point is 00:24:24 and he basically he's like oh you're meeting me here where's Danny and they're like Danny had to be fired she was racist and it's like what the fuck kind of what are they talking what are they doing and she got you a shitty hotel room at the radisson yeah
Starting point is 00:24:41 the lines in this movie when they say a line they just say some bullshit to kind of back it up that just makes you go it almost relies on the the viewer to be like kind of barred out or not fully paid attention. And it's perfect. And it's perfect for that. And so they, next thing you know, they're, it's the diamond gala. Okay.
Starting point is 00:25:07 Rosamond Pike is walking with people talking about how Mary Antoinette never wore the hope diamond, which I didn't even know that was even a thing that was in history. But then out of nowhere, Jesse Eisenberg walks up and. Almost like he's doing a parody of his characters in movies in like an episode of Party Down or something. He's like, oh, you're talking about diamonds? Well, why don't I tell you how much Diamond suck and how much I hate you and how much you're kind of a capitalist evil guy? And she's like, actually, it is you who's not known who you are here. So why don't you just watch yourself here?
Starting point is 00:25:45 Let you eat cake. Yeah. No, she goes, let him eat cake. Yeah, that weird fucking cracked out. The voice is jar. Okay, she's like already a villain. You know she's the villain in the movie. And then you hear this jarring voice crackling through a giant event space.
Starting point is 00:26:03 She never settles into it. She fully does. No, she fully does. She fully, it's we never settle into it. She keeps us on our toes. It's our fault. Because it takes us by surprise every single time she opens her back. If you have.
Starting point is 00:26:18 ever been afraid of South African people, do not watch this movie. Because you are in for a bigger scare than you probably care for. Yeah. And so he's being very hostile to her. And she's like, don't kick him out for no reason. Let's keep him here for no reason. She loves keeping him around. Then Andrew Garfield in a cameo comes in as the photographer.
Starting point is 00:26:43 Jack, what's wrong? Nothing. Did you see Andrew Garfield in his cameo? truly the movie was going by so fast I didn't even notice it was Andrew no it was it was Dominic Sessa disguised as the photographer but he does look a lot like Andrew Garfield he looks like if Garfield became a person kind of he finally became a person no he's flirting he's flirting with Rosamond Pike and they have a plan and they're like they tell Rosamond Pike take the diamond out of the case and
Starting point is 00:27:12 hold it so I can take pictures of you because we didn't mention this and but he's a photographer and that's why they're impersonating him. Yes. By the way, he is a photographer and they are impersonating him. So write that down in your detail notebook, listener. Yes, and June is the makeup person
Starting point is 00:27:35 and like she basically, their plan is to get her to take the diamond out and then June slowly tiptoes toward her in front of everyone. Yeah. And the guard eventually goes, hey, what are you doing? And she goes, I have to get really,
Starting point is 00:27:55 really close to her, please. And he's like, no. It's a stealth game where the cone of the guard's vision is directly on her. And he's just walking into the way. There's a question mark over the guard's head. Yeah. It's fucking insane.
Starting point is 00:28:11 They meet up with each other and they're like, well, that didn't work. What the hell are we going to do now? And then they say, we'll do, we'll improvise. And then they rip off their clothes. They're all wearing different costumes. They're dressed to the nines, except Justice Smith, who's dressed like a chef, which I thought was fun. And then they do another, a second distraction, a second confrontation where Dominic Sessa stands up and goes, hello, everyone, excuse me, I'm here.
Starting point is 00:28:37 And he's like, I'm a protester. Why don't you suck on your plastic straws? and then dumps over a big glass diamond. He knocks over this glass sculpture as if it's like the biggest inconvenience in the world. And I'm like, you just made water on the floor, bro. There's a rhyming reason though,
Starting point is 00:28:57 shock. There's a rhyme in reason. It's a perfect cover. Because here's what happens. Ben Jesse Eisenberg does distraction number three at this party where he stands up and goes, excuse me everyone. Can I have your attention? And it's at this point,
Starting point is 00:29:10 it really is devolved. Like, the movie is so recursive. It doesn't make... It's too many hats on it. She's like, he's like, I have the diamond. She's like, the diamond is right here. Don't worry about it. I have it for here right now for me.
Starting point is 00:29:26 Yeah, she's holding it up. He's literally, he's like, prove it. And she's like, okay. And then opens the case and pulls it out. And she basically pulls this thing out and it explodes. It's really the most common. comical movie of the part of the entire movie where she's like oh kuzay i've got my diamond and and it just pops in front of her and she's like hey that's not my diamond yeah also can you blow up but i know that like
Starting point is 00:29:59 diamonds are like really hard like tough no i think it was a fake diamond jock i think no i know that i'm just saying like just for the listeners out there the shards just shoot into her jugular they kill her Yeah, I think you could blow up a diamond for sure Because I think people are like they're indestructible Which isn't true I think they are you can destroy a diamond Pretty easily if you do it the right way How old is to they carve them into shapes and stuff
Starting point is 00:30:24 And die another day the diamonds explode And they famously slice up this guy's face Oh yeah Were those I always thought that it was like ice I can't feel anything I always thought that was like the ice An ice hotel Right
Starting point is 00:30:37 That is the ice hotel James Bond movie but but were those diamonds at the end or was that just ice no in the beginning of the movie in the beginning of the movie oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah when he has to get the surgery yeah yeah yeah yeah so random i never would have thought of that okay but as they're escaping this is one of the first times i cried laughing was when um james franco or dave franco steps in and he punches a guard in the face and he's like there and jessie eisenberg's like, what are you doing here? And he's like, saving your ass. And then, Michelle, you turned to me when we were watching it and said, wait, they weren't on the same page. They really made me lose my mind. They were not working together or aware of each other at all.
Starting point is 00:31:23 They weren't on the same page. It's so funny. That's the magic of a group of magicians. There'd be 15 magicians in one room and they're all in the middle of one trick so they never know that each other are there. They got their blinders on. And then I, Isla Fisher has an introduction. She is, it's pretty unceremonious compared to the other ones. And then Woody Harrelson has his introduction. There's an amazing fight scene where Justice Smith dodges a punch by dropping his head, by dropping his shoulders up in one of those headless man kind of like,
Starting point is 00:31:57 he hits a jabber walking. And then the June Ruclair throws a wine bottle at a guy so hard that it can kills him. He does not survive that impact. And they go under the roof and get into a helicopter, and then the helicopter turns out it's a piece of cardboard, which I knew from the moment it showed the helicopter. I'm like, that is definitely
Starting point is 00:32:19 a flat piece of cardboard. Well, that is. I'm glad that they... I just think you are... You have you and your MC Escher ass thinking, oh, that's not the real dimensions of a helicopter. It's actually an optical illusion. I was just like, this looks so
Starting point is 00:32:35 weird. Why doesn't it look like a picture? Why are the rotors not spinning at all? And the, but yeah, they get in this helicopter and it falls down, there's a puff of smoke, and the guards are like, where did they go? Meanwhile, it cuts to a zip line, which I think is one of the most hysterical,
Starting point is 00:32:57 another hysterical just moment of just like, hoo-hoo-hoo-ha-ha, they're the world's greatest musicians, but they escape on a zip line. Like, what is this fucking Treasure Island? Period. It is the best way to escape. It really took longer for them to do that helicopter thing
Starting point is 00:33:13 than they would have to just get on the zip line. Well, to set all this up with the lighting, like the fucking lights in the background, they had like Chris Caruta set this up for them. What the fuck? So then they go on a boat. They have the diamond, but for some reason they're all like,
Starting point is 00:33:36 all right, let's all go home. We give up. And then... We're tired. Yeah. Dave Franco's like, I have to go perform somewhere. And I signed an NDA. So maybe he's going to Epstein Island or something.
Starting point is 00:33:49 Blackstone or something. Yeah, yeah. Guys, he's playing for Israel. Period. Tel Aviv. I wouldn't put it past the horseman, honestly. Actually, I feel like they would be like, magician show.
Starting point is 00:34:03 Everybody's got to know about this. They pull a reality. Yeah, but they basically, they find the map and they go to a place that we all know and love. David Busters. One of the most famous locations in Europe, Chateau-Rusilion in France. And there's a title card telling, letting us know. We're at Chateau-Rulillon. Well, that was their fault because they should have known that I don't read.
Starting point is 00:34:31 I refuse to be, I'm not going to read in a movie. I don't know why you think there's a book that this is all basic. no no i'm saying that you mean you don't read the kairons on screen oh yeah you didn't read the title cards okay okay okay okay so i'm not going to go season of a foreign movie as is you're right you're watching in english you know what i'm saying you do the parent version of covering their kids eyes but you just hold it like directly yeah yeah that's exactly what i did you think of the lock on the door the incredible locks i i wanted to talk about this because i love that every post-covid movie they have to have the new class kind of like, hey, these jinsey kids may know a thing or two after all.
Starting point is 00:35:11 He thinks the kids are all right. Yeah. It's like some kind of you get a tax credit if you do this now. I thought you were going to say it's like Raqaza. It's some Pokemon. Reco. But just the fact that she's like, not every lock is just a fucking key, bro. And it's like, okay, sure.
Starting point is 00:35:31 Whatever you say. Yeah, he's looking at this door, which. appears to have a giant mechanism comprised of two giant wheels interlocking several smaller wheels and Dave Franco goes up to it and he's like time for me to pick the lock I just got to find the keyhole on this thing and then we'll get we'll be able to off to the races and the girl is like I think that that's not a lock that you put a key into
Starting point is 00:35:58 I think you solve a puzzle on it he starts lifting up rocks like where's the spare like yeah yeah there's got to be a spare around here. And then she unlocks this door, which has the easiest lock in the world on it. It's two wheels. This is easier than Resident Evil for like early
Starting point is 00:36:20 level, like, you know, puzzle. Like, give me a difficult one. Please. Yeah. Yeah. I was hoping for Resident Evil one puzzles in this house where they make you stop watching the movie because they're so hard to do. but basically they go into this house and this is where I think this is my favorite part of the movie I like to call this the what are we doing here again like what let's wander around
Starting point is 00:36:47 and just fuck around everyone go to a different room yeah there's this house filled they see Morgan Freeman and Morgan Freeman is in there he has a fake hand for some reason I don't know what happened oh wait does he I didn't even clock that
Starting point is 00:37:03 We were screaming at it When we were watching I was like, look his hand. Michelle's like, I don't even remember that. And this is like, you were screaming about it. Yeah, we were literally, his hand, he's wearing like a black glove
Starting point is 00:37:16 and his hand is like dangling. How did Fadius lose his hand? I was like, it's never mentioned or anything. I'm like, it might just be an old person thing. Maybe he had a stroke or something. But like, he, he's there.
Starting point is 00:37:31 Got that Trump hand. Yeah, they're talking. talking to him and he's like, you gotta just wander around. And then they do, they do likewise. They go, they split off, you know, the girl and Justice Smith go off into a hall of mirrors. Jesse Eisenberg and Dominic Sessa go into a hallway that rotates. Yeah. And he's like, we got to figure, we got to focus on solving this room.
Starting point is 00:37:59 And it's like, it just looks like a regular hallway, but it's upside down. I don't know if you solve that. I wouldn't see that hallway and be like, how would you solve this? There's nothing to solve. Walk down the hallway. Someone goes to the Museum of Illusions, which is like one of those like, every city has the place to just like,
Starting point is 00:38:20 it's like a selfie place. And they have a bunch of upside down rooms so you could take like crazy selfies. And someone walks into one of those rooms. It's like, how do I make it go right? How do I escape? How do I see it?
Starting point is 00:38:31 They're going to the museum. Going to the Museum of Illusions and thinking it's an escape room. That's a good. Michelle, we should go to the Museum of Illusions. Wait, what was the... It's a tangent, but what was the movie idea we had last night? Oh, Strangers with Candy. Yes.
Starting point is 00:38:47 It's called Strangers with Candy. It's a competing documentary to the one... To the documentary about John Candy. That his son made, but it's us interviewing people who didn't know John Candy about it. Because I was not even really know. Andy has a movie. Yeah, who haven't really seen movies with him in it. They keep thinking he's Chris Farley or something.
Starting point is 00:39:08 Yeah, yeah, yeah. And, yeah, it doesn't... So expect that 2027. Yeah, it's going to be really good. I miss Chris Farley more than I do, John Candy. Yeah. Okay, as is you're right, I miss them both, because I don't hate, I don't hate fat people like you do, Jacques. I don't hate fat people.
Starting point is 00:39:29 I'm the fattest person in the group, so you could not. even tell me that I, well, I hate, while I do hate myself, I don't hate my fat self. Look, it's like, it's not too bad. Okay. I hit my head on the shelf. So, wow. There is a, then we've, I, wait, real quick, can I call this one thing out? Yeah. They, we pass this, but they, um, they, they realize all their cards that they got from the eye combined together to make a map that leads to the Chateau and someone goes, Justice goes, it's a map and Dominic Sessa goes, hey Atlas, it's your dad.
Starting point is 00:40:09 Which I laughed. We laughed and we both laughed at that one. That was genuinely a good joke. It's a cornyest. They leave like some air. Yeah, yeah. There's a lot of dead time. Hey, Atlas, it's your dad. It's a citizen delivery. I'm telling you.
Starting point is 00:40:25 This kid's a feed him. This kid's a generational talent. He's going places. And so then Morgan Freeman takes his fake hand and goes like, look at this. And reveals a sphere with Adolf Hitler on it. And then says, do you want to take this one, Michelle? This sequence of lines that occurs here. Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:40:49 I just thought it was, before you even explain, it's like the biggest reach. They're like, you think these South African diamond miners are evil. Wait till we really break it down. Yeah, it's like that wasn't enough that there's South African diamond miners. It's like also they worked with the Nazis. Yeah, pretty much. It's the Holocaust and chattel slavery combined into one evil ball. Yeah, so apparently Jasper masculine was the only person in World War II who was standing up to the Nazis.
Starting point is 00:41:22 No, because you didn't even, you spoiled it when you didn't even say the line. You got to say, they say, do you remember, Morgan Freeman says like, Do you remember the magician who defeated Hitler? And Justice Smith goes, of course, the genius of Jasper Masculine. The genius of Jasper Masculine. And it was, it's one of the funniest things I've ever heard in my entire life. I'm sorry, but Jasper Mascula. I'm sorry.
Starting point is 00:41:52 And that's his actual name. I think it's actually. There really was a Jasper Man. You did it. This movie felt like such a. a strange journey for me that I couldn't even have picked up on the world's most beautiful trans
Starting point is 00:42:07 mask drag king Jasper masculine. I'm like, good God. And then give it up for Jasper masculine. But then they have the trick off, which is maybe my favorite moment in the whole movie because it's basically them being like, is this your card?
Starting point is 00:42:27 And it's like, yeah, it was. But why don't you check your pocket? And then they check their pocket and there's another card. Old school. It's like, pick a card, any card. They're like literally going up to each other. It's one long tracking shot of them doing all this. And it's the stew. It's so amazing.
Starting point is 00:42:43 Like Dave Franco is like, uh, there's one part where Justice Smith takes a ball, puts it under like, it does like three. He does the cup and balls. And then the ball disappears and Jesse Eisenberg yells black art. And I was like, whoa, man. I know. Actually, that caught my ear attention. And in the moment, I said, oh, I didn't know it was this kind of movie. Yeah, I believe that must be some kind of magic thing.
Starting point is 00:43:11 I was like, yeah, a magic term if you related to America history. He was like, and this was what he meant when he said he had a damn dream. No. What he meant when he said he had a damn dream. Me and Michelle watched, me and Michelle saw the, the movie Napa Boys in theaters yesterday. That's one of the greatest movies of old. It was so fucking funny.
Starting point is 00:43:37 The band that sold Nirvana? No, no. That's Nirvana, the band of the show the movie, which is also, also really funny. Wait, what are y' all talking about? What's a Napa Boys for the Somali-A stone. Yeah, the Somali's Amulet. Yeah, yeah. It's a movie series?
Starting point is 00:43:53 Yeah, it has David Wayne in it, Chuck. It has a bunch of... John Wayne's famously gay son. I've never heard of this movie. You got to watch it. Send me a link. I only watch movies I can download from Apple TV. Oh, wait.
Starting point is 00:44:08 Yeah, let me. No, I'm just kidding. I think it releases on VOD on 420. So we all have heard. Video on demand. I need a V8. I need someone, if someone's listening who has access to seasons five through nine of the real world, I need copies. Michelle does have an out.
Starting point is 00:44:29 out today's time. Oh, I got time. I got time. So, like, literally it's like, oh, this is your card. Check your pocket. Like, what's that? What's behind your ear? A coin?
Starting point is 00:44:41 And, like, they're doing all this. And then there's, like, a bunch of torn up shreds of paper. And this is the moment where I really left my body. Yes. Where Islifish walks through this storm of, like, slices of paper. And her dress changes to a different dress. just without saying a word and everyone's like, whoa.
Starting point is 00:45:02 What the fuck is going on? What are we watching? I know. That's where if I was in the audience, I would have started turning around saying, are you guys seeing this too? Now are you seeing this? This is stupid as fuck.
Starting point is 00:45:20 I would be like, what the fuck are we doing? Well, it literally, it's the closest we get to like a scene from like X-Men first class or something. We're just like, what the fuck is happening? And just the moment that the snow falls and the way that the little pieces of paper suddenly come out as like 500 perfect little squares, that alone was enough for me to be like math, math, not adding up anger, anger, gonna kill them.
Starting point is 00:45:53 Yeah, it's both its biggest strength that its weakness is like how little regard it has. for any reason. I don't know if it was, I don't know if it was just me, but like, Dominic Sessa makes the diamond disappear, and then Jesse Eisenberg's like, how do you do a vantage so good? And he's like,
Starting point is 00:46:13 you know, whatever. And then Jesse Asimberg starts fueling him up, and Dominic Sessa, for some reason, his jeans are like way distended in the front. And I was like, it's definitely in his crotch, right? And that's going to be like the twist. He's going to grab his crotch or something, but it wasn't. I was like,
Starting point is 00:46:29 I guess it was just the genes were fitting weird. Anyways. He should have been like, I'm going to make my dick disappear real quick. Yeah. So Justice Smith is like, wait a second, Jasper Masculine, let me go over it. Maybe this is a Mario painting. And preaches into the painting and pulls out a scroll. They say, what is that?
Starting point is 00:46:52 And they say it's an encyclopedia of Nazi war criminals. Yeah, see, that's what? First of all, the way that he grabs the painting is very annoying. It's like, oh, it's stretchy. I hated that first. He keeps looking back at everyone. He's like, yeah. Also, Dave Franco at this moment, he's looking good, I got to say.
Starting point is 00:47:14 He has like the physique of like Tony Curtis or something. He has a very 40s, 50s, like strong man physique kind of, like a small strong man. So what is revealed behind the painting is a stack of random documents. bullshit that um is basically like every Nazi that escaped in the head and how one of the other and for anyone who profited from the Nazis
Starting point is 00:47:41 escaping and I guess it was the main South African woman's father who helped the Nazis escaped and financially let them run their money I don't fucking know or fucking care I'd not I don't like not you want to be a Nazi more power too. No, it's not even that.
Starting point is 00:48:01 It's not even that, but I'm like, haven't they killed all of the existing people who were Nazis that weren't, that are, like, I feel like if they have a Nazi person that's alive, they've been murdered. Yeah. And I could be wrong. You're reaching, they're reaching really far back to be like. And when I say a Nazi person that got murdered, I mean, someone who was alive during the real Nazi times who was on the Nazi side.
Starting point is 00:48:29 I feel like they can't either be alive by just numbers. I mean, it's kind of like spoon-feeding it for like the median voter, where it's like, if her being a diamond mine owner didn't make you think she was evil, well, she's a Nazi too. I have the movie, I've had the movie on mute playing over here just in case I missed anything. And I just saw, I just saw like the bottom, the subtitle, Jasper Masculine, the magician who vanquished the, the Nazis, which is one of the great quotes of all times.
Starting point is 00:49:03 Where's his imitation game? What the fuck? I know. Like, we need Jasper Masculine, the magician who vanquished the Nazis. I'm crying. I'm sorry. I'm so crying. Do you want to know how masculine is spelled? M-A-S-K-E-L-Y-N-E? And it is a real person. It's awesome. I thought it was masculine, like M-A-S-C-U-L-I-I-E. Which would be even funnier, honestly. If it was just a made-up guy named Jasper Masculin, that would be incredible. But basically the police storm in, they have a bunch of dumb fights and in the different rooms.
Starting point is 00:49:40 And there is, like, Morgan Freeman is cornered by five cops pointing guns at him. And he's like, hello, welcome to the, welcome to the magic house. Welcome to the magic house. You might have noticed at this point that this house isn't all it seems. In fact, this mirror. right here. Let me just go ahead and slowly step by and they're like, don't, don't move, please.
Starting point is 00:50:03 He's like, I'm just going to slowly move right behind this. And one of them just shoots him and he disappears. I didn't like that. I'm like, do we need to shoot the oldest person? The only old person in this movie. Well, yeah, we got to get his character out of the series.
Starting point is 00:50:21 We're done with him. He's definitely trying to wrap up. By the way, we forgot to mention that there is a another famed character in these movies, Mark Ruffalo, who is not present, but we are told that he is in a Chinese prison for life. So don't worry about him. And this happens in between movies, which is incredibly confusing to be. Yeah, and at this point, they find Morgan Freeman in a crypt, and he's like, leave me here to die in the crypt. It'll be fine.
Starting point is 00:50:50 It's all good. And I love, Jesse Isamirk says, we can't do this without you, Thadius. and I didn't understand because after watching this I watched the first two movies and he's the villain until the end of the second movie. Yeah, they've done it without him for the majority of time. In fact, they've never done it with him. They weren't even never doing it. Dylan Rhodes, what a fucking asshole name. So that's Mark Ruffalo's character.
Starting point is 00:51:21 They have to, but then. Dylan Shrike. Dylan Shrike, yeah. Dylan Shrike is his real name. Secret. Please pay attention. But also, they get captured. Three of them get captured.
Starting point is 00:51:33 Woody Harrelson, the girl, and not the girl, the June Ruclair, Woody Harrelson. And is that it? Yeah. Those are the only two. Oh, Dave Franco and Dave Franco. And so basically, they are stuck there and they're like, we need someone else to buster out. And then this is one of my favorite moments in the entire movie where an old woman, is an old drunken woman
Starting point is 00:51:58 wanders into the police station and goes by Dave Franco Stellan is like oh he's cute they let her keep her bottle of wine yeah that was a they're dragging her throughout the police station and she's like
Starting point is 00:52:11 yeah and then she falls on the ground and her arm splits in half and is dangling by like a muscle fiber I spoke to Zoom blood is of spraying out
Starting point is 00:52:25 that really was one of the most shocking. That was really good. That was so funny. Yeah. Also, just, I was like, God, these paper thin elderly alcoholics, because your skin does get so thin when you're an old alcoholic. And when they fall, it does, it can.
Starting point is 00:52:43 Yeah. I mean, I knew that it was a diversion or whatever, but I also was like, damn, that might be real. Yeah. It's so, it's so jarring. You don't expect this movie is going to do gore. like that. And it is a brutal. It really is brutal to look at it. Um, yeah, it's, it's kind of amazing though. I mean, I brought it brought it said, it said, oh, this movie's kind of real actually.
Starting point is 00:53:10 Yeah. And then it turns out this old woman is Lizzie Kaplan and she's serving, she's tearing. She looks fantastic and she she could have kept those teeth in for all I care. Yes, absolutely. I'm just gracious for the body. Keep the teeth in. I'm just gracious for your body, baby. Jacques's Oscar acceptance speech. I'm just gracious with the body. I'm like, let me just do a little cheers here.
Starting point is 00:53:38 I'm gracious for your body. You don't even have to keep the teeth in. Love you. Thank you for the award. So they bust out. Lizzie Kaplan, before she bust out, she tells Woody Harrelson, watch for flashing lights,
Starting point is 00:53:50 which doesn't ever pay off at any point in the entire movie. I was so confused by that. I did not understand. I can say in with the in hindsight oh wait no it's in the second movie the second movie
Starting point is 00:54:06 they get hypnotized by flashing lights at one point it is a movie that requires that you remember like like the bullshit when the guards start playing like a fake violin Beethoven's concerto D major like they fully don't explain that
Starting point is 00:54:24 they are just kind of like oh yeah If you're a real head, you know about those. It really is so Napa boys. When Dave Franco is like, when they're like, what the hell are these guards doing? And he's like, hey, Beethoven's concerto, D major. Jack, who are you texting, buddy? I'm literally trying to understand the watch for the flashing lights thing. And I was just like, like reading about it.
Starting point is 00:54:47 Just. Yeah. No, it's fine. But basically, they're like, we have to do. they all escape except Woody Harrelson and they're like, okay, we'll trade you Woody Harrelson for the diamond. Let's go to the coolest place in the world. The Orlando of the Middle East, as you might say, the UAE. We're going to, where do they go?
Starting point is 00:55:09 Abu Dhabi or Dubai? Abu Dhabi, they didn't want to get slavery with it. Abu Dhabi do. I mean, it's also a slave state basically in Abu Dhabi. Well, then I misspoke. I don't know. As portrayed, no, you're fine, Jack. I, yeah, the, um, but yeah, it's the same location as Sex and the City, too, which we also have to do. Oh, my God. Don't even get me.
Starting point is 00:55:37 You're going to rattle my, it's like I live in a cage and I'm not fed all week and Hessa comes in the middle of the night when I finally fell asleep and she starts shaking the cage and goes, Sex in the City, too, the movie! We got a Masha for that one because I showed that one to her. It was a true The X-Ding is one of the greatest Endicest of all time Oh my God
Starting point is 00:56:00 I went to the movie theater Alone to see that And I brought I snuck in a bottle of absolute And I made a drinking game up And I drank the whole bottle of absolute And I left my phone in the movie theater And I had to ride my bike
Starting point is 00:56:16 To go get the cell phone And you know what day it was It was motherfucking black Friday And it was the worst day to have to ride my bike across town hung over off of a bottle of absolutely nice. Period. So they go to Abu Dhabi. They go to this party and they're like, okay, we have a grand plan.
Starting point is 00:56:35 It seems like they don't, they didn't have a grand plan at all because they get there and they're like, let's wing it. Yeah. And their plan to wing it is Dominic Sessa steals a, uh, an F1 car. For no real reason. Yeah, I didn't like that. It looked, it doesn't even look like an F1. It looks like a go-kart. almost, it looks like a track mania.
Starting point is 00:56:56 It didn't look fun. It's like a track mania car in scale and physics kind of. Absolutely. Also the worst car chase of all time. Yeah, yeah. It wasn't a masculine car. Yeah, not many places to go in Abu Dhabi
Starting point is 00:57:14 they're driving 15 miles an hour. And he's in a super car. It's like, what the fuck is going on? Also, there's police that are in like Lamborghini. they can't catch up. I'm like, then y'all are just stupid MPCs. And then basically,
Starting point is 00:57:32 um, the, uh, like the, the horsemen are standing and then they fall through the floor and it's like, okay, this must be part of, yeah,
Starting point is 00:57:43 this must be part of their plan. Even though it looks like they all break their necks when they fall through the floor, because it looks like they didn't tell the actors they would be fall through the floor is really what it looks like. It's like Brad, pit getting shot and burn after reading. It's like that level of jarring.
Starting point is 00:57:59 And they're in a giant cube, a plexiglass cube that is slowly filling with sand. And Rosamund Pike tells them, this is my final vision for you all, is for you to go in here in this cube and for you to stay here.
Starting point is 00:58:14 And I am excited for you to be dead from joining in the sand. That was actually a really good impersonation of her. I know, that's why I kept going when I was like, wait, I feel like I'm close to it. I feel like I'm close to it here. She literally, the way that she delivers their fate within, like, she just kind of says it very casually.
Starting point is 00:58:35 And I'm like, why don't you have guards sitting there ready to shoot them in case? These people are famed. The whole movie's, like, kind of understaffed. It feels like a COVID-era movie where, like, there's like 12 people missing from every scene. Yeah, there's, there's, the wide shots feel like stock footage. It's like, they're in a green screen. a room of just green screen. Like the F1 gala
Starting point is 00:58:58 has like 25 people in attendance. Yeah. It's a thing. I'm basically the easiest audience member to convince outside of a children or someone who's been sheltered for their entire life and sees a movie
Starting point is 00:59:12 and believes. Yeah. I mean, I was already indoctrinated, ready to believe anything this movie had. And I'm like, also I'm like, this could i could believe this but where are the fucking people in every scene yeah the okay so then so rosman pike is like i'm gonna go to my vault
Starting point is 00:59:34 and meet with uh the voice from the first scene where she's getting dressed and she has a giant phone there's a voice a south african voice is like you meet with me you give me the diamond and then we will be well because of who's doing the voice maybe i shouldn't imitate the accent on that one but the um uh the uh The, she goes to the thing, and it's Justice Smith. It turns out Justice Smith is her half-brother, who she killed the mother of because her father was having an affair that killed her mother. And it's a very, very, but they're in this vault. And she walks in, and then in the middle of this, she shoots Justice Smith, and he gets up and he has a bullet between his teeth. And he's like, bullet catch.
Starting point is 01:00:19 And yeah, but because is it racist? I keep doing the accent if it's the same. I don't think that Because he's not actually Southwark You're not saying You're not saying you're not saying You're not saying any of the slurs That you normally say off camera
Starting point is 01:00:37 Or not in the recording so you haven't said You're the only one who's ever said the N word off camera I have never said that you edit that out right now I demand that be edited out If that's not edited out I'll shoot you in the head bitch I'll edit it out I don't want that That fake ass accusation.
Starting point is 01:00:55 I have a not. Don't even start. Do not even start to say what I have. No. I'll edit it out if you admit that you have. I'll edit it out. No, I am not admitting to anything because I didn't do anything. You, you fucking little gypsy.
Starting point is 01:01:10 You course, you would try to set me up. You would try to set me up. You, you, you're a dyke. You're a dyke. You're a dyke. You're a dyke. You're a dyke. Okay.
Starting point is 01:01:21 Okay. So basically what happens is, This is a set, but not a normal set. Michelle, do you want to explain what happens here? This is the most, like, amazing, perplexing part of the movie is that it's revealed that she was tricked into going on to a set. She's not actually in the vault at all. It's a set, but it's not only a set, it's a curtain. It's a painted background of a curtain that has pulled up, and she's revealed to be on stage in the middle of a magic show in front of a billion or in front of, like, 50.
Starting point is 01:01:53 It's a giant piece of, it was like a, it was like a fabric. It was a piece of fabric. Yeah. That has the same appearance as a room. As a room that she walked through. She walked inside of this room. So the perspective would have changed, presumably, at some point. But I suppose not.
Starting point is 01:02:10 I would literally, if this happened to me, I would have a psychotic break in like Manchester by the sea myself as soon as possible. I would have my hands in the air. Like, there was a gun pointing at me. Like, I could accept a mission impossible. Like, I was on a set the whole time, but if the set is a piece of fabric, I would fucking kill myself. And then they announced to their crowd in Abu Dhabi that they've taken all the money from her. Yes.
Starting point is 01:02:36 Because she's a war criminal and she launders money for criminals, which is never really doven into at all. In fact, it's almost to the point where I don't believe them that she's laundering money for criminals. Because I feel like the criminals would be involved in some way. in any aspect of her life. But the, she, they tell the crowd at, in Abu Dhabi,
Starting point is 01:03:02 like, we're given all the money to you guys. Let's go. We got to give these people, the Abu Dhabi people need money. Yeah, the people in Abu Dhabi who could afford tickets to their show are, I am curious,
Starting point is 01:03:16 like, are the shows free? Like, yes, I believe the shows are free, actually. But I don't think, I don't think,
Starting point is 01:03:22 I don't think slave laborers there with no passports are allowed to go to these shows. That's the thing. Yeah. Yikes. But yeah. They, what do you mean whoops? But I said what I just said, I just said, I just said, whoops for fun.
Starting point is 01:03:39 Period. But then we get to a, the, the epilogue where they're all hanging out. We were like, this is the bell. I felt the welling up of potential joy. this scene played out? I, yeah, this was really, this was the, one of the happiest moments of my entire life. When, when this, yeah, because as me and Michelle were watching it, we kept saying, Ruffalo's got to be in this.
Starting point is 01:04:07 He's got to show up at some point. Where's Ruffalo? And, and as, as the ending scene happens, they're hanging out and it's like, the time is running out, Ruffalo might not, he might genuinely not even be in this. But ding-dong. ding-dong the doorbell rings and then they all turned and me and michel were like oh oh we were like what's the trick we were like this better be him what's the trick and we're like this better be him they open the door and there's a bag on the floor and then they bring in the bag they open the bag and it's
Starting point is 01:04:41 like a giant machine it's like a giant cryptic puzzle machine and they're like wow it's just like the box from the door remember And then I had to pause it because I was crying laughing, so I literally couldn't breathe. Because I was like, if Mark Ruffalo is in that box, I'm going to lose my fucking mind. Just fully have an aneurysm fold out. And lo and behold, the box is a hologram of Mark Ruffalo who goes, Hey, hey, everyone, sorry for not being in this movie. Bet you're wondering why.
Starting point is 01:05:19 well it's a good thing I wasn't because now we're all back together and you guys you knew young guys you thought you were good you would get away with it well you were right welcome to the crew and anyways we got the biggest job yet so get ready let's go ahead and do it the most sauceless before like he's like gunpoint that was the only thing he's doing a cameo that was the only point that I I I I I I I felt like, oh, this is actually not a real movie. It's like the Skype watermark should be at the bottom left of the video of the hologram. Like, it's literally.
Starting point is 01:06:01 It's the most fun-dispressive when you use a hologram. I'm sorry, that is so 2018 Coachella performance of Biggie and like whatever pop star had died recently around then. It's Biggie and Britney Murphy or something. And tonight at the... At the L.A. Soundgarden, we present the homograms of the Hollywood Bowl. Biggie Smalls and Brittany Murphy in the tale of two bees. But it was, it was so nice to see him and I got so, I was very happy.
Starting point is 01:06:40 Yeah, I was, clearly was like, get me the fuck out of here. I do real movies now. Yeah, and I loved, I also was a huge, huge fan of, um, Well, the way they escape from the box with the sand, by the way, is that they fill it with water instead, which they realize, oh, this also will kill us. Yeah. And so they, you know, the Isla Fisher is like, I'll use my wedding ring to get us out. And for some reason, there's a shot where it's zooming out as she's using her wedding ring. And Dave Franco and Woody Harrelson are standing completely still, literally like,
Starting point is 01:07:19 statues. It's so straight. It might be mannequins of them. Yeah, I think literally there are two mannequins of them. Like, standing in this, in this pool, and it looks like a new metal album cover. It's amazing. It's a beautiful screenshot. We're going to
Starting point is 01:07:35 make it the artwork for this episode. I don't understand. I still don't really know. It's like a Chris Cunningham show. All I know is that they duped the diamond lady. I don't really know what else happened in that movie. Jack, you know what? Neither do we.
Starting point is 01:07:49 Honestly. It's truly up in the air as to what happened in this. I mean, there's one amazing moment at the end when she's like on her knees on the ground and they're all talking shit about her. And she just goes, ugh, and like kind of rattles her hands at them. Rattled your jewelry. Maybe you can rattle you, John Lennon quote. But yeah, that is now you see.
Starting point is 01:08:14 Now you don't. You can just call it now you don't. Because everyone know what movie you're talking. Now you don't because then you're going to watch the first one. Now you don't. No, you didn't. Don't fall for the movie's trick, which is watching the third one instead of the second or the first. No, you have to watch the third one first and then the second.
Starting point is 01:08:36 That is the canonical order. It is the wrap around. I'm going to have a hymn. Get me out of here. All right. So final verdict, this is a 10 out of 10 for me. Genuinely, this is the best movie. This is my favorite movie the year so far besides Napa Boys.
Starting point is 01:08:51 Four of ten. It's, yeah, it's neck and neck five stars times two. Gervana the band the show. Four out ten. I hate to even say this, but I bet Marty Supreme was probably a little bit more interesting. I liked Marty's Supreme. I liked it too. But it didn't have any magic in it.
Starting point is 01:09:07 Well, I heard it doesn't have any supreme. It has no supreme clothing brand stuff. So I don't want to see it. That's more your speed shock. You like a Supreme type movie. I thought the movie would have. have all The joke's favorite movie
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