The Reel Rejects - HARRY POTTER 20th ANNIVERSARY: RETURN TO HOGWARTS (2022) Review!!

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Starting point is 00:00:13 Tickets on sale now. August 1st. Let's watch this, guys. Let's do it. So, ladies and gentlemen, we finished watching moments. ago the Harry Potter reunion I want to say thanks to Prepper for editing down these highlights yeah hopefully uh music companies and Warner Brothers did not make life of living hell for us by the time you're watching this I'll say that um wow Tara yeah you're crying yeah with a big smile on your

Starting point is 00:00:55 face how are why are you crying how are you feeling tell me how you're feeling it's just so nostalgic and for me i i i really relate to that when you are on like a film and i have always thought this on projects that i've worked on like the reason that i like to do it is because those things live forever and you won't and like coltrane was saying he's like he'll always be here he's like i won't right and it just makes me like oh i relate to that and i also just love how much all three of them being so young but still being in love with the the art of acting and like basically growing up through this series so when you see at the end how grateful they are to have done it um i think sometimes when you work a lot um you can

Starting point is 00:01:52 become ungrateful i know that i have been when i have like this will sound a little absurd but let's say like a couple years ago I booked like 15 commercials and I was like it's too much I'm not grateful anymore when I get a call it's like you booked it I'm like great when does it shoot when am I doing it like it became more work and less like why I was in it in the first place and sometimes you need a second to remember that like every time that I have ever been on set it's always been like a life changing great thing for me that has changed my life and in great and incredible and I meet great people. And I think I just, I just felt that.

Starting point is 00:02:33 And I was like, it's so cool that I have gotten to do what they do on the smallest scale. I'm the bottom of the ladder. I get it. But I still just relate to it. And I just found it just a really beautiful ending. It just made me, I don't know, just made me cry. Yeah. So you feel it gave you a.

Starting point is 00:02:59 you're talking about perspective yeah like a reminder to be you know grateful which i am i'm just saying that i i really related when they were like i think we all had those feelings where they were like they wanted to maybe get out do we leave this all behind um and there's times or i've been there like oh what do i who am i what do i really want to do and then um but also remembering like all of the things that I have done um have made me who I am today as an actor as a host as a human being in general yeah I mean that's more related I think I just found a bit listen it's not about me it just touched my heart that way especially when Coltrane said this thing will live forever I will not um I don't there's nothing anything huge that I've done that will that people

Starting point is 00:03:55 will be like let's look up this lifetime movie in 50 years that's not going to happen maybe but like i just related to that and i i really like how they show that when you're on set with a film whether it's two weeks or 10 years 10 years is very very different but you do become like a family and those you could not see someone that you shot a thing with and you see them years later and you're like hey it's like yesterday it's weird i don't know it's a weird thing and i just i really like seeing this and how real they were and emotional like they're just human beings who did a thing and they went to work and they fell in love with the process and each other at the same time. And it is difficult when you're sort of

Starting point is 00:04:37 ripped from the process because you have to leave all of these people that you have grown with and spent all this time with. It's it's jarring. And I feel like I'm ripped out of it currently because we just ended the Harry Potter series. It's like when you have post-gick depression it's the same of like post movie depression like i just feel all of that i get that with television shows quite yeah a lot it's difficult for me to especially if it's a show i watch not here but like a show that i watch on my own yeah i was like messed up for a solid week after friends was over god i bet yeah that's like yeah something like that and i i don't think what you're saying is far if they're saying it's not about me or you when you're saying that by you right but i don't think

Starting point is 00:05:29 that's that's true i mean this is like anything it's you're experiencing something and if anything you're not experiencing characters emotions you're experiencing real people's emotions that they're editing down here and translating because this is like you know on behind the scenes footage i'm sure the actual footage they shot was like like like days worth of footage right you know exactly they do that and then you get like these fantastic editors to trim it down to something cohesive for less than a two-hour experience. Yeah. But what you're speaking about

Starting point is 00:06:01 I think makes a lot of sense. I think a lot of people can relate with that beyond film. Like what I've heard people talk about with camp. That's about the only thing. I mean, music, you hear that with. Any type of thing and experience that causes you to congregate, create, be immersed together where it is

Starting point is 00:06:18 a big part. When I say consuming your life, I don't mean that in a bad way. I mean, it is your focus. And it is the people you learn to be vulnerable and trust and you're literally growing as a person with anyone who's been in any type of group thing like that could be sports could be and in the entertainments you know i've done like short films even where it's a month of my investment and yeah i think i'm going to be like hanging out with these guys forever i don't yeah and you don't yeah and but in that moment it's magic yeah yeah when you're actually pulling it off and you're going through the experience together it is it is magical

Starting point is 00:06:53 And, you know, dawned on, there was so much that was dawning on me. Like, this whole thing was a shift in perspective in so many ways. Like, that ability for you to relate on that. I can't, I don't have it as strong to it. I've had experiences where I could certainly liken it to it. Like, for me, it was the class that I knew John from. I went to school for the same group of less than 30 children from first to eighth grade. And I only went to high school for six.

Starting point is 00:07:23 months. Look at me now. You don't need school kids. Look at them now. You just watch movies. No, I went to the high school. So I don't have like the high school experience. So there's a lot I can relate to them on when I'm watching this of yeah, I don't really know the real. I don't know the life that most other people have where because I had the same group and then when I felt similar to me where a lot of my friends from that point they were like yeah, yeah, but high school like all a lot of them went to high school and had the high school life. And I'm like, for me, it ended at eighth grade. And you guys are like such a formal, primitive time in my development.

Starting point is 00:08:03 Like my personnel. And so that's why, you know, like work with Alex. I've known her. She was part of my eighth grade class. John, eighth grade class, the guy who bought this place from, who was in my wedding. Eighth grade class. Yeah. So I'm really tight with them.

Starting point is 00:08:17 Wow. Like a good handful of them. Another person named Vanessa, there's a good handful of them I'm really tight with. because of same group of people for ten years yeah and not also not having a traditional I'm more attached to them in some ways and they probably are with and I'd say Brandon is the same thing because we didn't have the traditional life right you know right and so yeah I get it and you know Daniel Radcliffe talked about something doing another podcast with John where I'm going to be on like on a separate channel

Starting point is 00:08:52 where I'm going to be unpacking this in one of our videos one day when we have like hours to film. I used to go by a personality named Ryan Wright and people who watch enough videos can see the difference. And when I stopped being Ryan Wright,

Starting point is 00:09:04 I had a very similar thing with all three of them were talking about. I'm like, that's all I know how to do. That's all I know how to be. I don't know how to be me. Like what is me on camera?

Starting point is 00:09:13 Like this is another, it's Greg Alba and act. You know, and learning how to be authentic true to yourself. And that was such a journey for me to, I was stifled, you know,

Starting point is 00:09:22 I was scared. And so yeah, there's a lot that I personally related to. And I didn't expect that. I thought I was going to get like a good bunch of trivia. Right. Which we did. We got like plenty of that. But there was an experience happening here. I'm very drained, you know. I feel like what you just said is like I relate to that. I will tell you that I was auditioning a lot and I was booking some things. This is like nine years ago. And then I started my YouTube channel. And, everything changed after that and I all will always say that YouTube it sounds weird for me to get emotional about it but like made me realize who I am because it was just like if you look at old ass videos it's literally me sitting in my apartment doing dumb really dumb things like

Starting point is 00:10:10 reenacting a movie trailer talking about I have no idea but because I put myself out there in such a ridiculous manner that I was like this is this is what I'm doing I then in my life I felt more secure to go into an audition and be like, I'm going to tag it and I'm going to say this. And then I just started booking because I was just being me. It was like I had the sort of like the soapbox to be like, yeah, this is who Tara is. She's not like perfect. She's going to do this. Hire her if you want mostly comedy or whatever.

Starting point is 00:10:44 And I felt like at that point after I started YouTube that I really found out who I was. So I'm grateful for that. That's awesome. Yeah, I think there's a lot of, I didn't expect so much correlation. Like, they were saying that they were saying in here that I didn't, it really didn't dawn on me until watching this of, oh, yeah, I mean, like a lot of kids, most, most children in UK and U.S., this is like a worldwide book, right? But, you know, generally the biggest audience is for English-speaking UK, US.

Starting point is 00:11:19 and most kids are going to school and then they get to experience this alternate school reality when they're reading these books or watching these movies or experience them as adults so I'm not drawing that line I'm not connecting those dots and it showed me in this doc

Starting point is 00:11:41 that oh yeah that's probably what a lot of people were going through was the alternate world here and so when they're saying people who are misfits and unusual and their oddities. I wrote down, I mean, I tried making notes, but I can't even read my own writing 90% of the time. This says Tara something.

Starting point is 00:12:03 Tara, really. I know. Tara Rendon. I don't, there was something that happened where I wanted terror. I don't know what that means. I don't even know when I wrote it, but I got a separate section. Tara reality. Tara does reality show reactions.

Starting point is 00:12:19 And that was meant, that's what it was. It was meant to plug her fucking channel. That is so hilarious. After you bought the YouTube thing. And I didn't even realize. I wrote that down earlier because I was like, oh yeah, plug her channel because this is something reality. And she does reality show reactions on her solo channel. Oh my God.

Starting point is 00:12:36 So. But you're talking about the correlation between young kids and the books. Young kids and the books. And it is kind of like this timeless tale and to be thrown into. their perspective their journey of what they went through it's they can daniel ratcliffe said something in there when he's talking to helena bonham carter about one i don't know if he has children like this was done a while ago this documentary i don't know if he has children now but he's talking about showing his children these right he's hypothetical he said so yeah who knows if he

Starting point is 00:13:12 hasn't now but they'll never really understand the way how we'll never really understand their journey they'll never really understand other people's journeys yeah they have with the like the effect that they have that it has on them to experience these movies and these books like his kids will never be able to truly grasp it right because these kids will see their dad you know yeah and it's it is it is strange how there's so much connection but from audience to the people who created it is there is such a a split of how they can never truly get it you know and both feelings are so powerful and i and i and for them that was their school like that was their growing up that was their school yeah they they did their homework they did their

Starting point is 00:14:00 school their school work there um but for their careers it's where they mastered their craft but that's where they had their romances that's where they had their late nights their stresses they're studying for lines and growing up as people around the same crew of people like while directors my shift and while some crew members get swapped in and out and some cast members leave just like how you know i was in the same group of 30 kids but you know a few of them left and a few new people came in you know right but it was mainly like primarily the same 25 people so yeah it's the it's it's it's it's it was it was illuminating to watch them as children and go holy shit i can imagine being like a little kid getting cast this part and having no clue

Starting point is 00:14:47 like the the comprehension of who you're even acting with and not grasping the realities of that and even discovering when you want to be a serious actor is probably not happening till like the third or fourth movie into this massive thing and you're going you know what I want to take this seriously I want to be a good actor like the way they talked about it right of like oh I'm getting better I'm getting good like oh we're doing something big here we're doing like and it wasn't until like the third or fourth movie where it's really hitting them like maybe we can do something with our craft yeah it's it's it's insanity to me it is there is a boot camp it's there it's immersion totally it's their therapy it's their class and um i'm glad that there is a

Starting point is 00:15:31 equal share time and it really showed me like Daniel rackliff seems like a really damn good like he seems humble as shit doesn't he yeah really good dude it seems like from his parents being very cautious about not wanting him to like go to outlay and looking out for him yeah even in the talks he seems like such an incredible incredible listener. Yes. Yes. And I feel like in the correlation with the books and kids and them in general is that the films and the books, but especially when the books first came out, I feel like the books saved a lot of children just in general with like life because they found a way to escape into this different world and relate to other characters who were also being

Starting point is 00:16:16 bullied who also felt really nerdy who also feel rejected right who feel like a misfit and can feel understood so i'm i'm not surprised why there's thousands of people waiting at a door for the next book to drop because it's just like you you want to know where that character is going because you see yourself in that and there's a way that the way that that character's written can help you like throughout like you know middle school high school whatever which i find very um i just find that very touching when earlier when we were watching these movies in the beginning stages we were acknowledging like it's going to be fun watching these actors grow and get better uh as actors and in the beginning it really seemed like daniel radcliffe was had the most roomed they

Starting point is 00:17:10 needed the most to grow yes between the three of them but like it was around it must admit, I think it was like around Half Blood, Order Phoenix or Half Blood Prince where suddenly he was like, damn, he is freaking He's perfect now. Now he's perfect. Holy shit. Where in the first couple movies, it is that rough child acting and like all three of them

Starting point is 00:17:31 had a bit, but it felt particularly strong with Daniel Radcliffe. Yeah. And it really showed me, though, that this guy was perfectly cast for the he talked about being like the sweet kid but there was a bit of like a hauntingness in his eyes and like how he would constantly

Starting point is 00:17:50 they would say stuff like Hermione's perfectly cast because she's so much like Emma Watson and Rupert Crenz so much like Ron and I was like how is Daniel Radcliffe exactly like Harry I didn't quite see the connection there and the documentary really shined a light on

Starting point is 00:18:08 you know what even though in the acting side he had room to grow it kind of compliments Harry like of the journey of the journey that he had to go on of the responsibility of leading to be the lead actor in this is insane for a like when they were saying in prisoner Vascovati's 14 I thought for some reason he was like 60 like there's a big difference at that age like I'm 34 there's a big difference between 34 and 36 but there's a big difference between 14 and 60 you know sure when you're at that age it's a massively big difference and we're a big leap and when you show it when they were going there like

Starting point is 00:18:47 damn like that is harry potter though you're entrusted as this little boy with so much responsibility to to helm something and everyone's counting on you because if you're not working this whole thing will work and damn you guys perfectly cast it is perfectly cast and the way his personality and real life was developing and how they were tying it in to goblin of fire in the hormonal stages and how that was barely any real acting required for him and to have even with Sirius Black the first family member of his that he gets to have a real interaction with and that's not because he didn't have his parents and then he had that awe and when wonder for him yeah it's like damn this guy was perfectly cast from the beginning

Starting point is 00:19:38 and it it didn't hit me you know it really didn't hit me there's a lot that I that kind of flew over my head or i didn't bother to think about so this this this was definitely like as equally immersive as the movies i would say you know rejignation like many of you i can get obsessed with the world of game of thrones it's got the characters the politics the danger it's such a richly lived in universe and now with game of thrones king's road you don't just get to watch it you get to live in it this is a brand new action adventure RPG set during season four of the show And it's available on both mobile and PC with seamless crossplay. You step into the shoes of Air to the House Tire.

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Starting point is 00:21:17 your place in the seven kingdoms. I mean, I think that's what a good movie does is we're not really necessarily supposed to think that much about it. Well, I mean, in our position, yeah, but but shoot, what was I going to say? Just lost a thought. I was going to say, oh yeah, that

Starting point is 00:21:35 with Harry, in him needing to grow as a character and show more emotion and more depth. Because in the times that, and we stated in the first or second movie, when he showed emotion, it was like, oh, I didn't believe him. But then as we grow, he grows as a person, right?

Starting point is 00:21:55 And now becomes more vulnerable and also, you know, more hormonal and just like growing up to where then you find more depth and being more vulnerable and having more emotions and providing that on screen. and that comes to life as we grow in the movies. It's sad that as a collective society, if people have money, we're very dismissive of a lot of their problems.

Starting point is 00:22:20 If people have fame, we're very dismissive of a lot of the problems. That is one slice of a pie. It really is one slice of, it's a percentage of what makes up someone's life. Correct. You know, like I don't fully agree with the phrase money doesn't buy happiness because people have money problems. So if you have money, it solves a problem. Yeah, it does.

Starting point is 00:22:41 But that is one thing out of many. And it dawned on me with people who often say to those friends who say, I'm going to link it back to their fame in a second. When people say, I have a hard time gaining weight. I can eat everything and anything and I can never gain weight. The average person, I hear that, I'm saying this out loud right now and I'm going, man, I freaking wish I had that problem. That's an amazing problem. Yeah, right.

Starting point is 00:23:11 Like, jealous, some problem that is, you know? And it hit me like a couple months ago when someone was expressing this. And I thought, man, what an isolating problem that must feel like? Because most people think the way I do about that. Right. Maybe I think a little bit more heightened or whatever, but most people won't be like, man, that's a real struggle. Most people love to have a situation. They can eat a large box of pizza and not freaking worry about gaining weight, right?

Starting point is 00:23:40 Totally. And to me, I started thinking, man, what must that struggle be like? What must that lead to? And it's the same thing here when I'm hearing about like Emma Watson dealing with the struggles of fame and Rupert Grant dealing with the struggles of fame and how lonely that can actually be. And it's really easy to be dismissive of those kind of problems when, you know, they have all this money. they're set for life and then we chalked that up to then everything in their life must be solved then because they have money and fame probably forever when that's really not the case like i can only

Starting point is 00:24:22 imagine obviously the amount of like i don't like go into screenings a lot of time because then i feel like i have to like put up an act with a bunch of people from a bunch of sides of the internet that i'm I'm like, I don't really want to be here. I'm going to, I'm going to put a smile. I'm like, imagine, that's like a very tiny thing. And I'm like, they have to be on, like, all the time. You never have privacy. You never get to be alone.

Starting point is 00:24:46 It's invasive. You don't get to, at your age, you don't get to have a lot of relatability when everyone your age has had schooling and it goes to proms and all this shit or whatever the hell you do in the UK. I don't know. So it's like, what do you talk about? You talk about being at Hogwarts? it's like you know in real life like you're not that must be very isolating everyone always wants

Starting point is 00:25:06 to talk to you about your fucking harry potter experience and like what about you as a person you know like who are you as a person and when your life is this big when you complain about stuff that you're having i'm imagined that a lot of that probably gets dismissed as what does it matter you have money and fame you know and yeah like it it was there's so much that i didn't think truly through that this was shining it was really magnifying a lot that I had not considered of oh yeah totally makes sense when

Starting point is 00:25:36 we read that as a fact that she thought about quitting and when I was hearing her here even though they don't go fully into it it really started kick the gear started churning of oh yeah of course like burnout the this is they're doing this all year around for 10 years

Starting point is 00:25:54 you know yeah probably longer than that probably more 10 years i imagine probably takes like because you got to do the filming and the post right that's true promoting it you know right right it's a long freaking time it's your whole life and it's a first for eight movies that is uh that is it's probably more than 10 years yeah probably i mean i feel like they said 10 but yeah i mean it's it's a lifetime which is why they're like yeah we saw each other grow up like they excuse me they grew up together and that's like um i don't know it's it's it's It must be such a jarring experience when, like, he's saying that he's, he's like, well, I have kids and what else did he say?

Starting point is 00:26:34 He's like, kidney stones and kids. When you skip to that, like, you're like, oh, crap, you know, they're just, they're just real people trying to live their lives and do other projects probably and other things. But this is a thing that will always live with them and be something that people will always relate them to, which is. can also be a problem, meaning that that line of them going, this is going to be forever. It feels like it's going to be forever. But the tone of that is really, you will always be initially when people see you. It's Harry Potter, even if you do other things for a long time. Even Jason Alexander, as probably talked about that.

Starting point is 00:27:21 About George from Seinfeld, it doesn't matter how many Broadway shows you do after it or other shows. people want you and see you as George and sometimes it could be a hard it could be a hard thing if you don't you want to get out of that world for a second so I'm sure it must be a little difficult but they all seem to be doing all right

Starting point is 00:27:43 they weren't like gimmicky though or something with that you know like when you look at what happens with a lot of actors like we were just talking about with Jason Alexander in Seinfeld a lot of actors are pursuing acting for so long and they become an adult and they could keep her soon and they finally get a role but they they're booking some random role that they don't they want to be able to have

Starting point is 00:28:08 versatility they have all these desires and dreams and aspirations of being actors and stuff right like these children did not have all that in them for like for decades right trying to become this versatility actor you know they were discovering themselves through this So their relationship with the fans and with themselves as these characters is totally different than the average person who will always be remembered as this one thing. It's like the guy who plays Bond and is only remembered as Bond forever. It's trying to break out from that. Totally. Is it completely different?

Starting point is 00:28:43 Because they planned for that. They did not. They did not know what was coming. They didn't know what was coming. And I think the gratitude really shows because it's like such a formative part of their development. Yeah. And it's, it's different. And it really is different.

Starting point is 00:28:58 It's more than them being like the funny child on, you know, a sitcom and then they're stuck being known as that funny kid. Oh, God. No, it's, yeah, it's them really growing from, from kids showing that they have talent to blooming into full-blown actors who very much respect and appreciate the work that they are doing. And the time that they put in is very, it's very, it's very obvious. Except just in the beginning, they're not of the age where they would recognize where this is headed. Let's talk about Chris Columbus really quick. Directed the first two. I love that Daniel Radcliffe gave him his flowers there saying that your work contribution is often overlooked.

Starting point is 00:29:45 And, you know, sometimes novels have drawings and stuff, which is usually actually different from what the like the author sometimes has nothing to do with that oftentimes i have nothing to do with right this vision that is being drawn out you know and for his contribution that laid the foundation for everything that we saw even if the first two are not your favorite films bottom line like we know what harry potter world looks like we know what the buildings look like we know what the clothes look like we know the aesthetic so well yeah and the vibe and the tone and that all started with this one guy who was like casting people and stuff and you that that affect that you forget about like you don't really i don't it's true i don't i don't think he really gets the credit and even for mike newwell for

Starting point is 00:30:42 gobble to fire i remember saying that i don't really think he had um as much of a specific type of direction with his style and it was illuminating to see the type of energy he brought in that everyone was so specific on what made his direction

Starting point is 00:31:00 so unique so that educated me and even him he was the one who cast Ray finds as Voldemort oh damn I thought that would have been someone else

Starting point is 00:31:09 like a lot of the times in these casting decisions especially with the ways movies studios are run now like if you look at Marvel it seems or DC or whatever a lot of times it seems like

Starting point is 00:31:20 producers are casting and then they put some independent director out and they put them on this giant movie so they can kind of control their, that way they have someone to shoot for hire and they can kind of control the independent director and they're casting without the directors knowing, you know, totally, absolutely. It happens so much of the time now and to see like, oh damn, I thought that might have been the case like something like I didn't know Mike Newell was the one responsible or one of the main people responsible for casting the iconic Voldemort. yeah you know like damn he deserves way more praise then yeah i agree i think that that is how a i mean

Starting point is 00:32:00 how a film really like comes alive is when a director can have um a direct hand in involving what actors that they would like to have which good films or like indie films you do which is why those are like those are super fun and to me super great even though sometimes they're weird like I bring it up a lot 824 films they have sledge a vibe sometimes they're weird but they will get big actors to be in this thing because they can and those actors know this director can control it and bring his vision to life versus even if they do a bigger project where they get more money they know that there's other people in this room that are producers who aren't really like great filmmakers who are going to make the decisions and when that trickles down can make not a good

Starting point is 00:32:50 good film i i fully fully agree with you i really do there's that what chris columbus said about the anxiety because look guys i've been dealing with a lot of stress management problems i have anger problems i'm doing a lot of shit right terror knows a lot about it i'm doing my best to be honest of myself and with everyone around here and a way that's not like oh woe is me i'm actively doing stuff to develop myself so chris columbus had that thing in there where he was talking about leading a set and he was saying that he has all this anxiety and fears he's he's trying to like bring this thing to life that is so beloved and he had to know how to not project that or put that in the environment on people and that really clicked to me because I'm like man do I do the exact opposite

Starting point is 00:33:39 a lot of time I have kind of known this is a lot of the time and it was a it was a really like enlightening moment to me that like of course i logically have known that for so long but that really showed me the importance of that as people like you and i who have our avenues who want to get more involved in the actual creation of these things is why we admire this stuff so much is why we love to allow ourselves to be affected so much by these things so it was it was really uh it was really cool the value of like the leader on set of a director and the the the importance of like a lot lot of times I talked about the directors. It wasn't really so much about the shots they got or the ideas they had.

Starting point is 00:34:20 It was about the energy they brought. It was about the attitude that they had. And how safe they made them feel. Exactly. And like all these things that I was going, yeah, director really has to be like a really great leader. And it was that that one really struck a chord with me as a great lesson. I'll say that for a movie franchise that's about magic, this documentary did an

Starting point is 00:34:43 incredible job at being about the about movie magic you know the magic of making movies and it's been a while since i have felt that yeah of the magic of film the magic of making a movie you know it sounds weird to say considering what we do i really forget that there is a magic to making yeah and there's so much cynicism about the film business understandably so there's so much cynicism there's a lot of criticism and there's a lot of media outlets especially on youtube that seem like they primarily make their living off of bashing developments of movies the stages that they're at the movies that are coming out like that's that is their lane and do your thing this brought me that feeling though of movie making magic and yeah to do that for a

Starting point is 00:35:36 for a franchise that's about magic uh i think this is like an incredible i'm a friend's is my favorite show of all time. And I wasn't actually a big fan of the Friends reunion overall, which was on Max as well. Oh, okay. So I wasn't the most excited to watch this. Yeah. And this was like, this is like a million. It's very different things. And I thought this was an absolutely incredible. I had an amazing time. I'm glad we watched. I'm really, really glad you guys encourage this. And I'm glad we watched this today. Me too. I feel like it just in that where I made like a joke where I was like, yeah he just buries it where um uh it's kind of like the thing where it's like you can't bring your crap into an audition if you got a you got a parking ticket like you just have to go and and do the job right

Starting point is 00:36:22 and it's it's fun to hear chris columbus say that but there are but then there has to be avenues which we have to remind ourselves that you have to take an avenue in order to get all of that like out because it's like i i can carry around like stress and anxiety with like jobs or things that I got to do, but there's ways that you can find that you can helpfully get that out, which I think is like, I'm only saying that. I don't even know why I'm bringing it up because we're talking about this, this reaction. It's because I, I'm starting a podcast. I'm not going to name it, but we talked about that of like ways that you can alleviate that type of like a world on your shoulders thing, but in a healthy way, which it's like hard for us to find

Starting point is 00:37:07 that. It's actually legitimately sometimes difficult for. you to think in your brain how do I get this out of me without it negatively affecting like other people or even myself right like how do I do it in a positive way there's plenty of ways but they just it reminded me of that and I I'm like very risk I think Chris Columbus in working with kids especially like you look at like home alone I'm like oh yeah and now it's like it's Harry Potter he he just has I think that takes just a lot of fortitude to be be able to walk onto a set, have the world on your freaking shoulders, and keep these kids in line,

Starting point is 00:37:48 but make them feel like they're on a playground and get a film out of them. Meaning like, no, you got to grab this and it's fun. I'm like, I would be like, you guys got to shut up and listen and let's do like action. I just, I give them a lot of credit and all the other, all the other directors too. And I thought that in all of these movies, bringing back the magic for me, movies raised me. There is a magic inherently to every single one that I watch, but especially when it's in a theater. And I feel like I was raised in theaters that when you can escape into a film, whether it's good or even if it's not great, that there is an inherent magic within that that those film makes. and those people are giving us

Starting point is 00:38:40 that I truly think is priceless. I agree. When Watson said it in there, it's a chance to be, to rest and be held. I've never heard of that way before. I think that's, that's brilliant. Understanding the significance of that. And yeah, it's a great reminder

Starting point is 00:38:55 of, you know, we watch these things that people will, you know, it's really easy to get the views and the clicks and the engagement by being hardcore. I'm being raw. I'm just being honest. I'm going to tear this thing apart you know and sometimes a movie kind of feels like a disrescent but you watch the thing like this and you go yeah man it takes like it takes an army to put this shit together yeah every time it's

Starting point is 00:39:21 whether a small army or a big army it's an army and they're in the trenches from getting the first freaking words on the on the paper to then putting it in the theater or on television or whatever so yeah Matt Matt's credit. I will say, we'll say I can understand why J.K. Rowling, like I can see an argument

Starting point is 00:39:44 even without her controversies of, yeah, I wish she's not really as needed much because, you know, there's about the films. Yeah. You know? She wrote it.

Starting point is 00:39:53 She did bring this whole universe to life. I will say that like, look, I understand. She is a controversial-ass person. She is a polarizing figure these days. Absolutely.

Starting point is 00:40:04 Undoubtedly. It's a little. Touchy subject. Yes, I know even weirdly mentioning J.K. Rowling, even to do Harry Potter. Yeah. Some of these seems like, wow, it's kind of like weird to bring up.

Starting point is 00:40:15 Yeah. I do think she should have been featured more, though, because at the end of the day, this this did come from her brain. Like the movies existed because the books were a phenomenon before the movies existed. Exactly. And this all came from her, you know, watching her creation,

Starting point is 00:40:34 her imagination. Yeah. We're stepping into her subconscious, you know? Right. And I do think they kind of pushed her to the side. They glaze over it a bit. And I, you know what? I do think that that is most likely in the best interest for a doc like this,

Starting point is 00:40:53 not because of who she is, but because of how people view the movies. Who do they view? They view the three kids and how we grow up in Harry Potter and the magic. Jake Rowing is at the very ante, she's the antecedent to the whole thing. She's the beginning. That is sort of a thought that's dismissed because it's just like, well, she wrote the word. She created the universe, but everything else that people experience, it has to do without

Starting point is 00:41:22 her, but they sort of forget she's sort of, she's sprinkled throughout. This is her like brainchild, right? So I do think they glazed over her, but they probably did it. it because people are like, oh, okay, she wrote the books. Like, I don't really care. What are these people that I saw in the film, I have to say? Maybe. I don't know.

Starting point is 00:41:42 I would have liked to hear more from her, but. I would have loved to have, honestly, especially in the beginning stages of the Harry Potter of it first coming to life. I think it would have really added to, I understand that there's like a large camp that really hates her now. And that has that, you know, contentious relationship. Yeah. Like, I love the Harry Potter ways,

Starting point is 00:42:02 but I really don't like JK Rowling. I love the most I really don't like so I get it and it would probably cast too big of a shadow

Starting point is 00:42:09 for that percentage who is really affected by seeing her presence so I understand I like I do I think there could have been a little bit just just a little bit

Starting point is 00:42:20 like I'm talking like five more minutes in the beginning yeah because they definitely kept her away from everyone else said like you're doing

Starting point is 00:42:29 you're totally separated for the Harry Potter Yeah. She's in another country in a closet that's well lit with one producer. She got like four lines in this whole thing. So, yeah, it's a strange thing. And, you know, I do think, though, like, you have to give credit where credit is due. But, hey, that's my point of view. And I'm not here to argue her weird thing where she's really after a certain community and really wants them to stop being them, which I. saying that out loud, I'm like, okay, yeah, that's actually, that's upsetting.

Starting point is 00:43:07 Yeah, that's shoddy. That's shitty. That's shitty behavior. So, there you have it. Harry Potter reunion. Yeah, loved it. What are you going to do? What are you going to do?

Starting point is 00:43:18 What do you guys think? Leave your thoughts down below. We'll see you guys soon. We'll do fantastic beast. Check out the pod. Thanks for supporting us. And we'll see you guys soon. Bye.

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