The Reel Rejects - COMPANION (2025) IS WILD!! MOVIE REVIEW!! First Time Watching!

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Starting point is 00:01:03 More on them in just a bit. Yeah, that's why I walked in and said, Why are you weird? Here we go with Companion. We'll look it up. Okay, I've got to figure it out. New Line Cinema. That's who did this.

Starting point is 00:01:18 So Warner Brothers. Yeah, that's who we were shelling for them. We didn't even know. We shilled. That's the only reason we liked it. Why'd you get rid of it? Because I'm about to pull it up on him. I wanted to see, I wanted to hear the rest of the credits. You never know if it could be a post-credit.

Starting point is 00:01:30 scene but Amazon was telling us to move on with our lives. He does that anyway when there's one. No, no. He always watch all the way through. Come on. Greg, it's like you don't own a reaction channel. No, I thought it came on. No. It does that all the time for me. And that's how I've missed so many in the comments of them telling me. Uno Momento. Let me explain my reasoning as I pull it back. I know when you recommend something else and you think that means there's no post credit. Because they showed us the mid-credit scene. And the mid-credit scene was where she waived for herself.

Starting point is 00:01:56 No, no, no. That's a mid-creddick. I know, but then even the thing coming out oh no we go all the way oh oh my god guys we just why don't we just look up if there's let's just let's just watch all the end we just watch companion we just what i want to see how uh what the credits look like they're so cute we just watch companion for the first time if you're listening on apple or spot if you're on youtube thumbs up don't forget reject nation chat dot com that's where you can get this dope merch follows at real rejects across all social media come on patron if you're not already patreon.com slash the real rejects okay so going in into this. Greg and I were having two very polar opposite days. One of us was having a Saturday. One of us was having a

Starting point is 00:02:38 better day. And I want to ask Greg how this affected his mood and where he's out after just seeing companion. But he's busy fast forwarding for my request. So, well, I'll tell you. I had multitask. Let's see. I can. Because I've been back into writing lately. And today I did it. I've been writing for like either five pages or an hour right usually takes like an hour to do five pages if I'm lucky so I didn't do that today for obvious reasons

Starting point is 00:03:09 five pages an hour is really good yeah if I'm like really just because I as I embrace the rewrite so that way I'm like all right I'll get this out I can usually do no keep going I want to watch them watch the actual credits yes I love watching the credits why do you I like to give respect I want to see if there's any names I recognize

Starting point is 00:03:26 I like to give credit to the people who do the music you just keep trying to take it from me I understand I can usually do about three pages an hour so you're way quicker than me it's weird how a page takes so long I know it's like one page to read is not long what to

Starting point is 00:03:42 come up with something it's like why have I been here for an hour sometimes I do negative pages I think I already finished the pages and you have to go back and you're like I wasn't even done with those pages god damn it and I didn't do that today but this inspired me to write yeah yeah because the script's so clever it's a great it's a really clever screen

Starting point is 00:04:04 do you know who wrote it that's why we watch the fucking credits it's said it already at the top if we just had i mbb but now you see sometimes you have to see things three times in order to maybe it could just be an i mdb and we could easily not go to the top so okay here gives your credits right here josh's card is rupert friend okay i got to look up rupert friend where we know him from because i definitely know him well a lot of stuff people make sense robot arm puppeteers yeah yeah there is a lot of a lot of different see wow this is why we watched them there were two loaders you wouldn't have known that's true i'm going to commit this to memory you wouldn't have known you wouldn't have known how many different mixed

Starting point is 00:04:46 technicians they had gregg um okay so this inspired you yeah this was one that was hyped for me and by people whose opinions you really trust about horror movies or just in general all this saw was the RT score. I didn't see the specific What is the RT score? It was like 94%. So it was really high. Oh, snap. I don't know what the audience score is. I feel like it's got to be really high too. I mean, the audience, I'm the audience. You are the audience. We are the audience. And I, I knew the, I knew that she was, that's what I was heard. Have you heard about the doll movie where it's a sex doll killer movie? That's what I heard. And so. Oh my God. I feel like you mentioned this. to me a while ago because there might be a similar theme that you have in something you're

Starting point is 00:05:32 working on there's something else i was working on yeah but it's actually there's like outside of a couple of scenes i'm like i know there's actually very uh little cool yeah but i have that's not the one i've been working on lately but no but because of that i've had there's a lot of the the thematic things that i was thinking about of like no this is a a very valid thing to discuss to me in terms of like real life and where they're at with creation of dolls currently and it's only going to evolve and maybe it'll get to a point where it's indistinguishable from the real thing like how it is here which i feel like they will probably get to one day but anyway i this was a film that i actually thought exceeded the um the reputation it had already garnered in my own brain i thought

Starting point is 00:06:15 it was a really clever film with great acting and i was surprised by the heart and the nuance yeah and the uh the allegory domestic violence you know i mean it's not even as much of an allegory as it but yeah Yes. It's like straight up. We're watching that. But just different because it is with robots and somebody really feeling like they're right and thinking somebody else doesn't have feelings or thoughts. Yeah. I like that subject of just because it's a robot, does that mean we can degrade or treat it however we wanted to just because we created it and what is life in terms of artificial intelligence? And that whole thing with the programming of the brain that he was saying, I'm like, but that's how human beings are. human beings are programmed in their own way from upbringing or whatever you want to call it nature versus nurture there's a programming and we respond based off of our programming the way how you program the computer of a brain to do they'll emotionally respond when they evolve and so all these songs man this is great the soundtrack the soundtrack was incredible yeah I thought this was really good would you what you feel how do you feel my favorite part of the movie there's so many brilliant things about this movie but my favorite aspect of this was probably the pacing I just think that the

Starting point is 00:07:29 when was so important here because on paper this is the premise of this movie is sex hire you rent a sex doll and she ends up murdering somebody and then but you actually you put her up to the murder that's the premise of the movie which could be really just like oh okay I get it sure fine but when we found out certain things and how we found out certain things and how we found out certain things, and just the way that the act structures broke down, I thought was so impressive and made me so invested in this story. It's obviously, of course, also the performances, the music, the characters, you know, like, there's so many great aspects, but the first reveal coming, taking a little bit of time to breathe, and then we get the reveal that she's the sex

Starting point is 00:08:17 doll, or she, that's not fair, she's the robot. I see, we got to be kind to her because we know she has feelings and I can't just call her the sex bot. The F bot. Yeah, the F bot. Even the cover ruined, oh man, you didn't even say it's good that we didn't have the cover on, huh? Oh man, that's crazy. That's crazy. That's crazy. But that's the cool thing, Greg, is that we were like 20 minutes

Starting point is 00:08:37 in when we hit that she or 15 minutes in, whatever it was when we hit that she is maybe even further that she is a robot. But then that second reveal. With Patrick. With Patrick. That

Starting point is 00:08:52 No, you didn't see coming. I didn't see coming. Nobody's expecting it because you think that you've already seen the major twist. Keeping this movie to under 100 minutes was keeping it so tight. It just, there was nothing that lulled. Nothing I wish we got earlier. Nothing I wish we got later. Nothing that could have gotten cut.

Starting point is 00:09:11 Just great, great edits here and figuring out the tightness of what your movie is and when we needed to know what. That was just like, brilliant. I agree. I agree. you get editing and pacing doesn't get shattered out enough and I think this movie excels at that because it

Starting point is 00:09:27 also builds too. It just keeps ramping up in ways you kind of don't expect it to really ramp up like it's not you kind of I like that the one predictable element we all would have predicted that she would have killed them in the end and I like that they just kind of get it out of the way

Starting point is 00:09:43 at the very beginning and it's about the journey and there's still surprises and twists along the entire journey. A hundred percent. Dragon also I don't want to watch a movie where she doesn't kill him at the end. I don't even want to watch it. You know, like, there's so many... Sorry.

Starting point is 00:09:58 Okay, go ahead. You go, please. I was interrupting. There's so many horror movies that I'm watching. You know, because this is, my bad, pretend this is beginning, because this is horror Thursday or maybe Wild Card Wednesday. I think it's a Wild Card Wednesday. See, there's only the printout back there now.

Starting point is 00:10:17 But because you know that I kind of dominate our Thursday viewings now because I'm always doing horror movies because I'm one half of the horror people here however I'm kind of like I feel like I'm the main horror person here because I've not seen so many things and then

Starting point is 00:10:35 after we watched Black Phone the first movie I ever covered here you were like I loved it and then you started naming all these movies I was like I never seen any of those I just really gravitated You're freaking out at the beginning now you're like it's a horrible no I love I love that

Starting point is 00:10:51 It's one of the gifts this channel has given me is that I really, really love horror movies now. But one of the things that kind of sucks about horror movies is that they don't mind ending in an absolute devastation. Yeah. Like, I'm used to growing up watching a lot of, like, fantasy, a lot of romance, those movies typically don't end

Starting point is 00:11:12 in devastation. Right. Now I'm on all these horror movies and I go home and I'm like, ugh. That was like, it's a brilliant ending, but it's everything's failed and everything's bad. You know, you just have me watch the smile movies. I won't give too many spoilers of those,

Starting point is 00:11:27 but like, holy shitballs. I mean, it's just like horrifying endings. So watching something like this where they're like, no, no, don't worry, she's going to get her vengeance. It made me just so much more excited for this movie because sometimes I just want an ending where I feel good about what I just watched. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:11:48 Well, I think the ending would have been, I don't I feel like if there if there was an alternate ending where she doesn't kill him in the end or get away I think it would actually undercut a lot of the journey the messaging yeah I think it would it would weaken the experience and it would just be like we're being sad and bleak for sad and bleak sake versus it letting it actually serve the story because if you let your characters live or win it still has to be earned and justified and it also has to complement the journey along the way and it does complicate it. the journey along the way because while she is growing into her freedom he is descending and being more revealing about who he really is underneath you know like i love that i think casting jack quade was like perfect casting as a guy who would comes across as like the everyday likable guy like that's why he's perfect as he but the world's set up against him yeah but that's my point is that he it's tall handsome white dude like there was this is like victim

Starting point is 00:12:46 mentality coming in from do what he talking about um but that's true it's like a lot of guys out there and to have him be so likable at the top and do play into the jack quidisms that we know him for because of that meat cute that wasn't real but so we got bamboozled like she

Starting point is 00:13:04 did like we but that was such a cute moment and it was perfect and I think in terms of pacing the way they reveal who he really is underneath at all is cleverly constructed in the positions he sort of pushed into and I like that they decided to divert and let

Starting point is 00:13:20 Eli and Patrick's romance also feel very real. Yeah, like showing that there is the alternate side to this, which can be real. Like there's so many conversations about the use of AI right now when it comes to stuff like chat, GVT and all that or artistry work, which is all very valid and important conversations to be having. But I'm like, this is a thing that we are headed towards right now. Like, this is a very real thing that we are headed towards. And there's going to be a time where people are going to be having. having relationships with essentially artificial intelligence and where are we going to be as a as a society there so to put it in its very isolated section was smart and i think just as a

Starting point is 00:14:03 script idea to make your first 20 minutes in her POV that way you're on you're on her to treat her she is the protagonist so clever because there was like that i felt like this this concept of a doll that might be something threatening or dangerous is it is an idea that you know how there was a time where maybe maybe you're not you don't know but there was a time where I feel like a lot of spec scripts or something were so what if you get into like a lift ride and they're a they're a killer like that beat into death idea and I feel like the idea of like dangerous AI doll is going to be a topic that people are going to be pitching a lot of we saw it with Megan yes and that but then speaking to Megan they did the Megan Fox one have you heard of that one where she's it's literally that

Starting point is 00:14:47 AI doll and she's a helper but then she's she's really dangerous and she's a killer and I think that's the plot's going to be done to death and to do it from to make her the protagonist really does flip the conversation in a way that question that I feel like societally questions are it but beyond beyond like the bigger themes of that it's also just a really good engaging micro tail that they're telling last time I talked to you guys about liquid IV I had just started incorporated it into my new diet that started on January 25th. A little over a month later, 19 pounds lighter, more to go. I'm proud to say I still take one to two of these a day.

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Starting point is 00:18:38 So I felt like it really did work Even little quirky things like her Saying the weather and him being like gets me every time I was like oh that's probably a cute little bit that they do If it's not if she's not AI Because I wasn't certain it was just a guess So it was cool that we did start like that And that she she really is the protagonist of this movie

Starting point is 00:18:56 Unlike Megan, not Megan Fox But Megan the Doll movie Where she goes You know bonkers and is the antagonist So yeah I'm with you fully and wholly on this I also think the casting director did a really excellent job with everybody else, not just with Jack Quaid. You know, this was, this was somebody who clearly has been on the lookout for TV stars on the rise.

Starting point is 00:19:19 I think it does show an evolution in the transition of what we're doing where television feels like cinema. And because we are so in that day and age now and to watch it bleed over into a full on feature film where like everyone's from a highly praised piece of television for like a claim for its. acting and everything oh i gotta look up that guy oh i don't have a phone because uh the the transitional stuff can be a little bit challenging so yeah i think this was a perfect example of it's being very seamless and not drawing attention to it you know i'm like an absolute despite you refusing to ever put me on tv shows on the channel you have like two hours a week here i literally have so many hours what are you talking yeah like two hours two to four hours a week i want you to be honest with me right now other than you who were

Starting point is 00:20:08 works the most hours a week for real rejects i think uh it's gotta be me you and terra pretty pretty equal i can't be i can't be the least hours a week i have you terra john well i mean you do a lot of like stuff in like other places on the phone though you know like heaven you come all the way out it's a different story no you work you work like hardcore for sure um okay but looking oh rupert friend the reason that i know him oh my god this is that's so silly i When I'm looking at his IMDB, I'm like, oh, my God, he's in, what's the show that I, I got a scroll. I got, well, he's in four episodes of Obi-Wan, has the Grand Inquisitors. That's interesting.

Starting point is 00:20:49 Oh. He's in the French Dispatch, which I haven't seen yet because I've been pitching you that for a while, too. He's in 57 episodes of Homeland is Peter Quinn. There we go. He's the guy in Homeland. Yeah, and he's really good in that. Wow, he's so different in that than he is here. But everybody else, like I clocked and could tell you where I, um,

Starting point is 00:21:08 I had known them from, which was really cool as a person who's obsessed with television that I always am wondering, like, why aren't these TV stars getting more attention, the ones that like really stand out and should be on the big screen? The girl in this, that's the alive girl, not the robot girl, is on a show called Never Have I Ever, which is an excellent, excellent show. It's the Middy Kailing Produced show that's loosely based off of her life. And she's been amazing on that. Lucas Gage, I already called out, was from you.

Starting point is 00:21:36 but he was he's in white lotus euphoria euphoria that's probably where I recognize it's I mean gossip girl he's been on like every show his face I've seen for sure somewhere and he usually cousin plays that douchey Sophie Thatcher I think yellow jackets is one of the best shows that there is right now so so so good she was an heretic which I haven't seen yet

Starting point is 00:21:58 but it's just cool to see Jack Quaid obviously the thing he's most known for probably is the boys so and Harvey Gien being this star of what we do in the shadows. So those are all like big hitter shows. Absolutely. And they're pulling the people from them. And I just I was like, yes, way to go. Way to give

Starting point is 00:22:14 the people their flowers that are killing it. That are killed. A lot of people don't know because they don't watch as much television. Drew Hancock, which is the director, writer of this. Wow. He was a staff writer on Blue Mountain State. That's wild.

Starting point is 00:22:30 Suburgatory. He was the executive story producer. My Dead X. He did a lot of television before this. That's probably another reason why they went with so many TV people. That's really cool, too. Do you want to know any other fun things about this? Please.

Starting point is 00:22:47 All right, let me see what I can tell you. Trivia. Sophie Thatcher can cry from one eye at a time on command. Oh, my God. What a perfect actress skill to possess. Very Danzel of her. That's amazing. One eye on command?

Starting point is 00:23:05 one one we did do we did see her do a bunch of single tears i can do a single tier but i can't dictate which i it comes from at which time so it's a physiological thing or you could just channel it without like getting emotionally there wow that's weird um Zach Krieger initially eyed companion as his directorial follow-up to barbarian although the team wound up setting setting the project as the directorial debut of drew hancock i wonder what happened there No year is given in the film. However, Josh's phone reads Sunday, June 25th. Years this date falls on the 21st century include 2028, 2034, 2045, 256, 267, 2072, 72, 78, 89, 95. I guess that's a fun. That's a fun clue. Song Iris by Goo Goo Dolls is playing during the scene film Jack Quaid's mother, Meg Ryan, starred in City of Angels, for which the song was written. oh no way really that's why that song was written yeah oh wow yeah i didn't know that oh damn uh cat

Starting point is 00:24:12 mentioned sergey's password for everything is stallin's birthday rubert friend who plays sergey also starred in the death of stalin where he played vastly Stalin the son of joseph stolen there you go all right i'm going to do a couple spoiler ones patrick is named after robert patrick who played t t000 No shit, so it was intentional. He also puts on a police uniform and impersonates a police officer like the T-1000 does. Cool. The picture in Josh's phone at the end when Iris leaves the cabin has a broken pixel line that passes through the head of Josh just in the section where Iris kills it. I didn't notice that.

Starting point is 00:24:51 That's cool. Towards the beginning of the movie, when everyone's dancing inside the house, Patrick does the robot dance, which is fitting since he is later revealed to be a robot. That's funny. That's clever. Josh repeatedly refers to Iris using the nickname Beep Poop, which are the sound you expect a retro movie robot to make that we picked up on. Okay, one more. Oh, I don't know how do you say this word. The eponymous. Eponymous.

Starting point is 00:25:19 The eponymous companion's name Iris is Siri spelled backwards. This could be a shout out to the app. That's funny. never even realize that. Oh, that's smart. Oh, shit. Damn. But I'm not surprised that there's all those kind of things because this script was really smart.

Starting point is 00:25:40 No, it seems like they thought out every line in every moment. Man. This feels like a very... I'm super into this movie. Super crafted film and no fat on it. You know what the last movie you and I, horror movie you and I watched that we were really into us? The Autopsie of Chained Do? No, we watched something after that. We did?

Starting point is 00:25:57 Mm-hmm. It's Oscar Nom. Oh, the substance. Yeah, that's right. Oh, my God. And I don't know that this feels like that movie, but it does, is the same feeling afterwards where I'm like, that was bonkers good. Like, I was not expecting that to be so good. Yeah, this is a great one.

Starting point is 00:26:14 It was like, this would be like science fiction horror, right? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, they're calling it sci-fi suspense. Okay. Which I think is fair. Yeah, the other one is more like body horror. They're not similar movies, just you and I watching both them and going in like, hope this is. this is good and coming out like oh yeah it was awesome it was just awesome yeah it was amazing any final

Starting point is 00:26:35 thoughts gregory no i hope more people end up watching this movie and it's it wasn't like a huge film when it first came out but it was one that some of people were telling me about this month i think it came out in january okay some stuff happened in january so maybe a lot of people want to go into theaters then yeah i hope this movie i think this movie will probably grow in popularity I think so. Oh, the other thing, too, is I mean, my last thing is, even though it's pitched as, like, the AI doll movie, there's not much to do with the actual, like, sexual stuff. And I thought that was great that they don't lean on that or abuse. Yeah, of course, they sleep together a couple of times. But they don't make a, they don't even show it. No. Like, they don't make a thing about it. I mean, there's other things about it, but they don't make it the focus, the central focus. And I thought that was really smart. That would have been a little cheap. And I like that or what they didn't do that. I completely agree with you. My final thoughts are I don't want to be your companion and I don't want to be your companion.

Starting point is 00:27:36 I won't be nobody's companion anymore. And that note, that was companion. Thanks for you, Jack. See you next time.

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The Reel Rejects - COMPANION (2025) IS WILD!! MOVIE REVIEW!! First Time Watching!

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