The Reel Rejects - HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS (2002) MOVIE REVIEW!

Episode Date: February 23, 2025

SCARED POTTER?! YOU WISH! Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets!! https://www.patreon.com/thereelrejects Follow Us On Socials:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/  Tik-Tok: https:...//www.tiktok.com/@thereelrejects?lang=en Twitter: https://x.com/thereelrejects Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ Save & Invest In Your Future Today, visit: https://www.acorns.com/rejects Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Reaction, Recap, Commentary, Analysis, & Spoiler Review! Tara Erickson and Greg Alba delve into Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, the second film in the iconic series directed by Chris Columbus. This installment follows Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe, The Woman in Black, Now You See Me 2) as he returns to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for his second year, only to encounter new challenges when the mysterious Chamber of Secrets is opened, unleashing a monster that petrifies students. Key moments include Harry's encounter with Dobby, the house-elf, who warns him of impending danger; the thrilling escapade where Harry and Ron (Rupert Grint, Driving Lessons, Wild Target) fly a bewitched Ford Anglia to Hogwarts after missing the Hogwarts Express; the humorous scene where Ron receives a Howler from his mother, reprimanding him for stealing the car; and the climactic battle in the Chamber itself, where Harry confronts Tom Riddle (Christian Coulson) and the deadly Basilisk. The film also introduces memorable characters such as Gilderoy Lockhart (Kenneth Branagh, Henry V, Murder on the Orient Express), the flamboyant new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, and features returning favorites like Hermione Granger (Emma Watson, Little Women, Beauty and the Beast), Severus Snape (Alan Rickman, Die Hard, Sense and Sensibility), and Rubeus Hagrid (Robbie Coltrane, Cracker, GoldenEye). Notable quotes from the film include Dumbledore's profound insight, "It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities," and Ron's humorous remark, "Why spiders? Why couldn't it be 'follow the butterflies'?" Join Tara and Greg as they explore these scenes and more, discussing the film's impact, character developments, and how it continues to enchant audiences worldwide. Follow Tara Erickson: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TaraErickson Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/taraerickson/ Twitter:  https://twitter.com/thetaraerickson Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Music Used In Manscaped Ad:  Hat the Jazz by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! Head Editor: https://www.instagram.com/praperhq/?hl=en Co-Editor: Greg Alba Co-Editor: John Humphrey Music In Video: Airport Lounge - Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ask Us A QUESTION On CAMEO: https://www.cameo.com/thereelrejects Follow TheReelRejects On FACEBOOK, TWITTER, & INSTAGRAM:  FB:  https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thereelrejects Follow GREG ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER: INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/thegregalba/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thegregalba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:01:27 WhatsApp, message privately with everyone. Thank you to Acorns for sponsoring this video. More on them in just a bit. Let's do it. Well, ladies and gentlemen, we just watched Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Yeah. Tara, how are you feeling? I'm feeling good.
Starting point is 00:01:54 That was a fun. That was a fun time. Magical. Did you like it more than the first? huh good question i think i did actually i was i think i did i like the pacing more in this i really uh i think i got into it more too and i really like the story so yeah i would say yes yeah i felt like pretty early on i was like i like this one way more yeah the last one the last one's like a great introduction into the world but i did have a little bit more uh like i i love the movie i did
Starting point is 00:02:29 to have a little bit more, oh, there are aspects I felt could have used some refining, though, in terms of structure and storytelling a lot. They felt like they had to cram in, you know, for a book and put it in this one. And it's hard to do an introduction. Now the introductions out of the way, they were able to just relax us into a story that I felt personally was consistently more focused and tied in and cohesive. And perhaps there's like more fun stuff in the last one, depending on when you're definitely of fun is yeah because this one definitely takes like a step up in darkness yeah but I find that
Starting point is 00:03:08 more fun exactly yeah exactly what were some of your bigger takeaways with this one well I okay so I think that this is a really great movie where you're like you're trying to figure out the puzzle piece because you never would have thought like that Hagrid would be a bad guy and then they show and you're like this Tom guy you wouldn't assume that like there's a bunch of twists in here that I just didn't I was like what and then the the scar at the end and that's why he's so powerful and I love that we also got to find out more about them like they call them mud bloods that they're mixed and like the weasleys are actually full wizard family but they're not still not respected versus malfoy is like pure blood and they actually look it like all of those little details
Starting point is 00:03:57 within this movie, I thought, were really great because in what you were saying in settling in, it gives us a moment to actually learn these things. You can't really all, you can't fit all that stuff in like one movie. It's just too much. And I think that the most fun part for me was, I feel like the spider thing with the car. That was a lot of fun. And that spider looked real as hell and it was scary. And I like that.
Starting point is 00:04:25 I thought that the spookiness of that was really cool. Oh, shoot, but also the snake scene was awesome. It was. I like when they throw in the, they'll do like the bigger shots with some CGI. But then when they have some close-ups, they would do that Jurassic Park as well. When they have them close-ups,
Starting point is 00:04:41 they would use like actual animatronics or puppeteering. Just to enhance the reality of the experience. And this did feel like fun haunted Hogwarts Halloween-ish, even though like it takes place at Christmas at one point. For the most part, it is like a spooky good time and you know elevating the horror levels on this one i i think does make it more gripping yeah than before totally and i think Daniel ratcliffe improved a lot as an actor this time around i can only imagine what it must be like to be daniel ratcliffe i mean
Starting point is 00:05:18 today must be weird but yeah that time to be like the most famous child in the world and to take on the role of Harry Potter and then to come back for a sequel like what the ability to ease yourself into it. That's the thing is I thought the chemistry with the three even though like Hermione's taken out for a good like hour of this movie. Yeah. The chemistry with the three feels way more natural this time.
Starting point is 00:05:46 Agreed. And like you get the sense of their friend. And maybe you did in the beginning I just personally felt like I could feel some of the greenery behind them getting comfortable as actors with each other yeah and this time around i really felt the chemistry uh overtook the scenes more than actors remembering uh their lines and how to say shit and stuff yeah i agree well also i think it's because they were they had just when they had got called on the set i think i've read read about this or saw in the documentary about harry stunt guy
Starting point is 00:06:18 that they really had not known each other for more than like a few days when they were on set is like when they got to know each other yeah so it was like on christopher columbus to be like how do we make this seem like they've known each other for a long time but you still did a good job in the in the first one but now you know once they've had i'm sure many many months together now at this point it's very natural yeah filming and press touring exactly i mean you're like and then they have to go back to that a couple months later they've literally much pretty much inseparable exactly even when you're on like a two week film you're you still feel like those people become family for the two weeks.
Starting point is 00:06:57 Yeah. So I can't imagine with them it's like they will forever be in each other's lives. Sure. You're in the grind. You're in the trenches. You're going through uncomfortable shit together a lot of the time too on sets and the grueling hours. So to see them evolve as actors was really cool. And I agree.
Starting point is 00:07:13 Like the mystery of the narrative. That was the thing is like some stuff. I don't want to just keep making this a comparison game. I just, I feel like Chris Columbus as a director probably came back to, too because I know he's not the director who stays on this franchise I mean this is the last one he did um it's they they start changing directors and eventually they have one director who like takes over the franchise but uh I felt like this was a refined step from listening to maybe some of the few shortcomings in the first Harry Potter movie but even though it might have just been a few
Starting point is 00:07:48 those few fixes make a massive difference in the overall experience like it's the way they thrust you into the immediate thing with Dobby saying and like a lot of it comes down to probably perhaps like just adapting the book itself and I'm sure J.K. Rowling as a writer evolved too. Yeah. But to be able to go, hey, Harry, there's a threat. Don't go back to Hogwarts. Yeah, right away. Immediately sets the stage and that's kind of a consistent thing throughout with the mystery of like
Starting point is 00:08:17 someone's coming for Harry. Someone wants Harry. Yeah. And to be able to utilize. gross gags and darkness yeah and and and even you can even see it in the cinematography there's there's a much more like of a darker shadow to the way it all looks oh my god there's a post credit scene what heck oh he's in the oh my god who am i that's funny i that's great What do you think of Kenneth Brana?
Starting point is 00:08:53 Oh, I love him. I am a huge fan. He's in a lot, a bunch of favorite Shakespeare movies that I'm obviously not going to remember the name of right now. He's directed also a bunch of Shakespeare movies and been in a lot of the place. There is one Shakespeare movie that I really, really love. It will come to me later. He's in it. I've always been a big fan of him.
Starting point is 00:09:16 I think he's very, very talented. That was really great, great casting. And I think that if it had been anyone else that isn't as good as playing the theatrics of that character as well as playing around with the comedic tone that he had immediately set into when he forgets who he is, it's great, right? He has this like arrogance about him. And then it's almost becomes a childlike nature when he's like looking at the rocks and like, who am I? And where am I? You live here? that i guarantee you not directed kenneth brahma made all those choices um which is i love him he's great
Starting point is 00:09:55 why why don't did they did they hire him why did they yeah why they hire it it's like he's so obviously a fraud in the way that everyone snarky remarks who kind of knew he was a fraud like did they oh yeah is there something we missed of of why they would still take him on even though it was like it's pretty obvious this guy's full of shit yeah right Yeah. I thought for sure that they would have sniffed him out. They would have, like, Dumbledore would have known, right? Because you're going to have to be like, if you're going to be a teacher here, you've got to show us.
Starting point is 00:10:28 But maybe. Well, they would, like, roll their eyes at him on certain things he would say or like, oh, he says he can do this. But everyone, the way they would talk, it was in everyone's demeanor. Like, we all know this guy can't actually do half the things he says he can do. Maybe it's just because he was a celebrity. And like he would, and they knew that. And they were like, well, he could maybe, like, drag our name through the mud as a celebrity if we don't keep him on and just, like, placate him. Okay.
Starting point is 00:10:57 That's fair. I mean, I'm trying to make that, like, an okay argument. But honestly, I don't know. And I don't believe they didn't tell us. But maybe that and being like, who am I? Will he come back? And they might explain? I don't know.
Starting point is 00:11:10 Yeah. Well, I like how everything was very much tethered into. even when it came in terms of like story wise because I even think of oh the quiddage match is not really narratively heavily focused but they still managed to they still were smart enough maybe it's in the actual adaptation of itself but to keep it part of the focus to have the thing be attacking Harry the whole time just adds and to know that it was a spell affected enhances again someone's after Harry something's after Harry and yeah that actually makes a that makes a big difference and the overall focus and momentum that your movie's getting as you're staying.
Starting point is 00:11:45 That's what makes the journey go by so fast, I think, is you are kind of gripped by the immediacy of the danger and the circumstances that they're dealing with. And like, I love like the weird oddity charms, like the, like the car having a personality. Yeah, that was so cool when the car saved us. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right? And I think also because we weren't sure how that the ball thing is going after Harry, how are these things like how does he keep ending up in the area where everyone is like petrified we're still like asking ourselves so many questions during this which is what I said in the beginning like it's like solving a piece of the puzzle which I think keeps us more on the edge of our seat because we're like wait who's controlling the ball because there are options where it's like Slytherin right Malfoy and then I thought Dobby but then they kept they did a really good job of doing pickup to
Starting point is 00:12:40 on Kenneth Brawna that made me suspicious of him. Like they, when they were having the Quidditch match, they zoomed in on him in the stands. And he was like, he did an eyebrow thing, which I'm like, cool. That gives us a little bit of juice. I don't know what he's doing. And then in some of his other, whatever,
Starting point is 00:13:00 when he would speak, he would say it as though like, well, I guess we'll see, like kind of a thing. And I'm like, wait, what does that mean? Like, do I trust him? or do I not? And I assume that that was very intentional because that just gives us another like,
Starting point is 00:13:16 I don't, we don't know this guy is. He can't do magic well. He's obviously fraud, but is he a bad fraud, right? Is he the one messing when it does he know where the Chambers is and then I was like Slytherin and then it was Hagrid.
Starting point is 00:13:29 I mean, it's a lot. Yeah, that's true. I love giving the Hagrid. Even though I felt Hagrid had more screen time in the last one, I think his effectiveness.
Starting point is 00:13:38 I think it's like just a really good complimentary sequel too you know like you i don't think you can just watch this one without seeing the first one no i feel like you'd be kind of confused you would be lost you'd be able to probably pick up but it would it definitely is is much more like it treats you like you know the rules you know the world just you're getting into it this is a proper this is a continuation of that story um so i i love the uh i love the respect for audience that it has and i think for haggard as well uh him having the heart at the end where you see that for like for man how for how long has this like fly affected him and you see how he's treated with the dragon in the last movie yeah and you know it's like this he's
Starting point is 00:14:21 obviously a lonely guy yeah he's lonely and is a part of him that feels sad and has been you know I'm sure deal had struggles of being accepted so to get that acceptance ending and to end it off on that note I thought was a very strong way to end a movie that actually felt like rather dark and kind of unexpected to have that ending too it was an unexpected moment brought tears to my eyes it was such a really loving beautiful moment and i love jason isa he's the guy plays malfoy's dad luci oh yeah he's great he's so effective he's really good at playing villains in general um but particularly here he's incredibly effective yeah he knows the right pitch for the right tone like yeah adult actors are so good delivery yeah i i agree i also think that the relationship that we saw even though you said Hagrid's not in it much but when they go to his house and they get
Starting point is 00:15:14 under the cloak and it's Hagrid looking at them we really realize that now this is the start of a full-blown friendship because what Hagrid says to them knowing full well they're under the cloak to the minister of magic whatever the F he says like follow the spiders right he gives the kids like all these clues and you're like oh he's not now he's not holding anything back and he fully trust them, which I really like. And I do agree if you hadn't seen the first one, you wouldn't have graduated to that here. And it's a nice thing to see because the payoff at the end really, really makes sense.
Starting point is 00:15:51 Yeah. Yeah, it does. Which is full of heart. Dobby. What do you think of Dobby? Oh, I love Dobby. He did remind me of Gallum. Right.
Starting point is 00:16:02 That's his name. A sweeter of Gallum. Oh, God. Sweet. Yes. I love that the the intention there and that he's the one doing actually all the bad things just to get Harry to like get out of there
Starting point is 00:16:17 because he wants to save him. But I thought it was a great fun character to add and also just give us another freaking reason to like really hate Malfoy, right? I mean it really nails it down especially there at the end and it really makes us puts Harry Potter into a hero position, especially when he has the journal.
Starting point is 00:16:44 He's smart enough to do that. He's smart enough to know to kill the journal with the snake tooth, right? And then he's smart enough to know that if he puts the sock in the journal, the journal is what Malfoy wrote, that it would be as coming from the master. Like that puts Harry Potter in the hero's position. And I think hopefully I will see, like, I think Dobby might be with Harry now.
Starting point is 00:17:08 Like, we'll see maybe more of Dobby, like, helping Harry. Like, he freed him, but I feel like Dobby might, I don't know. I would be surprised if he came around every once while, like, they're buddies. Yeah. Maybe not, but, like, that would be cool because I really like, I would like to see him, like, happy for once. Fellow rejects the other day, we had one of those days where everything just piled all at once. Our back studio flooded.
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Starting point is 00:19:21 view, reports, disclosures, acorns. Seriously, Acorns. Thank you. I mean it. I feel like Dobby's a character who could easily be annoying in another movie. Yeah. and he wasn't annoying here there's there is a that like the pathos to Dobby how sad he actually is like like like the way he will attack himself trying to be careful for my words YouTube hates her words but he like attacks himself um as punishment yeah is it's hard to watch it's a little hard to watch yeah because you can tell like there's what that's what I really liked about it is it it really does a good job at a looting
Starting point is 00:20:02 to the massive amount of psychological torture this elf is actually under without diving too much into it and then to use to have Lucius just pop up throughout the movie and you just see how much of an asshole and manipulator this guy is that the second you learn is his master you're like oh man it must be domestic violence central for Dobby at home totally and just enough of like actual physical beating that you see he does to Dobby I hated that there's a little moment was like wow it must be a like it weirdly fills in the mind yeah just how much abuse this this one elf actually goes through um to get you to really care about him in a way that is uh unique compared to the way you learn to care about the other characters in this movie it's a really strong metaphor though
Starting point is 00:20:50 too for malphoy you know treating harry potter the same way it's like you know son like father right he learns directly from him and Malfoy is constantly bullying Harry and, you know, in the first one and kind of this one, you know, he wins in some of those fights and does some really like awful things and gets to just like walk away from them. Yeah. So it's nice when you see Harry gets to free Dobby, sort of a nice like metaphor that I think like he was able to in a sense also free himself or will be and hopefully continue to be able to free himself from Malphi. voice slither and bully type stuff and i like how this movie opens up the houses are a political system uh showing like here's the people here are the names of everyone who formed it everyone has an alliteration to their name god salazar slytherin godrick uh griffindore but the way they hint at the history of the formation of the houses being like look we have our differences but we have it's
Starting point is 00:21:55 like a country in this in this microcosm of a school of like we have our differences we have different political point of views but that's why we have to work together that's why this school can't just be only griffindore people allowed we got to let slithering people in here as well even in spite of slithering being like we must cleanse the bloodline um right and it is it is like a cool like government establishment because the school is so significant right because they have like the ministry of magic which is not on the school premises controlling a lot or has a lot of a big say in what goes on at at a school and showing the the significance of like the house is there and and then to introduce this element of what feels like nazism seems like pretty
Starting point is 00:22:41 clear cut right of actually like hey we mean like this mixed race stuff ain't going to cut it and wizards should be pure like with actual born wizards to introduce that element's a very mature element And so I think like to mature your tone and story and to have all these things in there and to add that extra later for Hermione having to prove herself because she is human and not born of wizards, it just gives that extra depth to it and more of a relatable wizarding world. Yeah. You know, of like, oh, even they deal with this. Even even though it's like this must be the part of what Voldemort sort of fights for is that he is the Hitler of it all. Oh, yeah, totally, leading the charge. And I think that it's great for Mudblood to only come up in this second book,
Starting point is 00:23:31 which totally is a full-on definition explanation for why Hermione is so good at magic. Right? People who are not given serving, being served to them on a silver platter work a lot harder than the rest. And that is Hermione to a T, right? She's Mudblood, but she's very, very talented. And it's not that it's just given talent. It's that she's worked really hard for it. And I like that that is her background.
Starting point is 00:23:58 And I really liked when Maggie Smith had to explain it. Yeah. And like Hermione asked that question so that what's his nuts would hear it. You know, the meaning. Traco. Blonde. Draco, Malphoid. Yeah, I keep calling a Malfoy.
Starting point is 00:24:15 Although I call them both Malfoy. But yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I thought this one was definitely a solid step up. For sure. in a direction that I personally found more like mature but not alienating from the kid department you know it's like it's like a mature kids horror movie yeah you know and like there
Starting point is 00:24:34 are those that's a genre of like kid horror films and this actually hits that mark in a lot of ways yeah with those deals a lot with death way more than the last one like actually taking parts of the first or like with the ghosts and expanding upon it and in ways that you just kind of don't expect with great effects so yeah i mean everything that carries over from the last one in terms of technicalities i wish i was better at the uh dialogue and expansion of specificity on what to say in these scenarios of like wow the sets being built to just make it feel way more alive and tangible uh the music is so iconic for a reason even like getting to hear an iconic line like scared potter you wish I've I've heard that since so many things but I didn't remember the scene or much less that
Starting point is 00:25:28 it was from chamber secrets so I'm like oh yeah I get it that's like a badass moment because it builds up the dual do the the rivalry between the two so well right and yeah I think that this one with all the technical size like Chris Columbus I felt became a strong a sharper director visual effects still to this day plenty of times look real and when it doesn't look real it's never to the point that it pulls me out of the narrative no um which is weird because it happens in so many modern movies today yeah or like if it doesn't look real it pulls me out but it doesn't happen here because they're still in the age of where they're using practical effects which i appreciate they're building a set these these kids aren't totally on a green screen and like in in the only times
Starting point is 00:26:15 that they really, really are is like I saw some of the behind the scenes in the documentary they told you about a Harry Potter stunt person. They don't tell you the story of like any of the movies, but they do show you that they were in like a green screen psych room
Starting point is 00:26:31 when they're in the car and the car is on wires. They had to make it seem right, like they're flipping around. That's not, see, they're in a practical car that looks like awesome. And then they're on wires on a stick when they're doing the quidditch stuff. for the stunts which is really awesome that's all like they're not just which nowadays you're like yeah just
Starting point is 00:26:52 make a video game character of terror and have her fly through the sky yeah right we're not doing that now yeah it's like what usually nowadays everything in the shot looks cg i including the human like every aspect so even as long as something feels practical that your mind can naturally can grasp on to that so that the background it's fine like if we really paid attention because they built a lot of these sets that if you're really paying attention sure in a master shot that you might notice the outside is not real it's a painted backdrop yeah to look like an outside city and and set or sometimes it's inverted where the character might like the monster bird or snake might not be real in that moment but the but the background that surroundings are real exactly and they they did a good job at blending the effect with the background yeah
Starting point is 00:27:45 Where you can still make out the creature. Totally. But it's blended enough where it looks real. Yeah, I agree. I think that that bird was a practical, animatronic bird. And if not, they built something that is just the body and head of a bird and you fill it in and green. Yeah. And then you just, you plop that on there and green screen the bird there.
Starting point is 00:28:11 But I think it was practical. Yeah. I love this one a lot. I thought this one was amazing. That's great. They did Chris Columbus, good job. Yeah. And the next one, I forget who the director is a Spanish director, Mexican director.
Starting point is 00:28:24 Really? Yeah, he did, uh, is it Alfonso Quorum? I'm not sure who, I haven't looked up anything about any of it. I forgot who does the third one. Um, and I have no idea who does the fourth one. Huh. Which means he must not know who did. Five, six, seven, seven.
Starting point is 00:28:45 or eight five six seven seven there's eight there's nine oh god i don't know there's a lot because the last one's a part one and part two um oh right like a twilight like i think harry potter was like one of the first one of the first ones to do that um okay uh i don't know but but there was the director's name is david yates who like takes over the franchise and becomes the permanent director for what does he do now what did he do at he just did nothing but harry potter movies and fantastic beast the prequel oh and then and then he did some movie i think with chris evans and no one cared about yeah he probably just made so much money and he was like oh i'm out yeah and i think he just like was probably like i'm tired i got sick of harry potter world too you know yeah that's all he was
Starting point is 00:29:29 doing he's like i have enough money or tire let's do it yeah but as this stands i thought this was uh i think this was really good and it got me excited to watch like the next one i got me too and it's refresh sometimes when you're going to be here sitting like i'm not as comfortable sitting for this long. I don't think anyone really is. Yeah, I know what he really is, but. But it's nice when you look down. You got a timer and you're like, thank goodness. You're like, oh, shoot, two hours. I have no idea. I haven't felt it because there's plenty of movies we watch where I look down and it's only been 25 minutes. And you're counting the runtime of like, okay, yeah, this movie's going to say that's a real while. Yeah. Yeah, like, don't look at the
Starting point is 00:30:04 time. We've been there. Just, uh, sometimes I'm like, let's just hide it. Yeah. Because we've, I have a feeling. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Maybe we should just do that from now. Right. Right. so then that way you just have no idea although sometimes you can get a sense of relief if you're like if you're like it's been if you look down you're like it's been 25 minutes feels like an hour and then you're like good I'm not going to look at it and you're like let's just focus when you get through
Starting point is 00:30:31 watching a movie you talk about it you're like it's going to be okay and then you look down you're like thank God another hour has gone by yeah hallelujah thank you guys so much for being here be sure to subscribe leave a like keep a look out for our next reaction to this
Starting point is 00:30:47 we got a lot of Harry Potter to get through and go watch my channel I'm watching reality shows damn it we should have played at the top yeah I plug it at the end they know you guys know you're in you're in the comments the real rejects they they know it's up not all of you yet
Starting point is 00:31:01 but come on over one day you will come on over peace that's the peace sign Everett pixel my baker Everett. All right, Everett. Here's how this works.
Starting point is 00:31:15 I'm going to guess what Everett means. John's going to guess what ever it means. Whoever is closest wins the game. Simple enough. Let's get it going. Everett. Everett means everlasting. Oh, okay.
Starting point is 00:31:28 Yeah, there's a lot of different adjectives for that. Everlasting. Everett. Law abiding or, you know, some kind of authority figure. Everett. Name meaning. All right, the name ever It means wild boar
Starting point is 00:31:46 Or strong as a boar Or brave It can also mean granite So there's so many things You're an animal, you're a mineral I guess like a law man Damn it, you so win I guess kind of
Starting point is 00:32:04 A law man is brave They're not all people who just beat black people That's true Some law men are brave Some law men are brave There used to be a time when being lawmen was a good thing. That was a thing that instilled confidence in your township. And you're like, I don't know if I should trust you.
Starting point is 00:32:21 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Should I have called or not? And also, granted, you know, a lot of lawmen have stepped on a lot of granite. That's true. By association, I have clearly won. We need another good cop movie. We need another. To change our opinion about the Los Angeles police.
Starting point is 00:32:38 Copaganda has a rich history in the conference. conversation about police and society. Some people are good. Serpico, baby. Serpico, baby. Sericco. But yes. A guy from heat.
Starting point is 00:32:50 Anyway, Carlito's Way. Happy law day. Happy law day.

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