The Reel Rejects - PRISONERS (2013) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

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Starting point is 00:01:36 this is the most appropriate film for us to watch Tara. I agree. We are here all of the time. Never leave. So I do feel like we're prisoners of the real rejects. And this is a perfect watch. Shall we start? We shall start. Let's do it. You are listening to us and Apple or Spotify, give us a five-star rating, like this, share a comment. Wow. Prisoners is an insane movie. All. Oh, Mark Wahlberg.

Starting point is 00:02:17 I didn't know he produced this. He executively produced this. Wow. Oh, he produces a lot, but I didn't know he. I had no idea. Okay. Wow. This, yeah, I didn't, sure. I made some good guesses in here, but I think the overall, my overall review of this movie, you can just cut into my face multiple times of me not saying any words and being in pure, absolute shock. I mean, this is an insane movie. It is brilliantly written. Every person that they cast. They did an excellent job.

Starting point is 00:03:01 I believed everybody. And this was just the way that it was shot to, obviously, it's added to the intensity and us second-guessing ourselves and wondering how the heck. Because normally we can call this stuff ahead of time. But we called some stuff, but this was a wild ride. I can't believe I haven't seen this yet. Yeah. Well, I mean, you're a much better guesser than I am, which you've made some fantastic educated guesses. And I think if you weren't doing this, you should be a detective. But also, by the way, we forgot to mention, make sure you get, check out teas like these, Reject Nation Shop.com. And don't forget to support Terran and Roxy with the Sheeject here. We got T-shirts soon.

Starting point is 00:03:46 I would say this is one of, and I'm not going with recency bias because I just watched this. This is one of the most intense films I've ever seen. I agree. From the music to the cinematography to the performances, to the storytelling, to the characters. Everything infused into that is, and it's a very visceral, intense experience. And, yeah, the whole, you know, the, it's a very sad circumstance, too. I mean, it's every parent's nightmare, obviously anything physically harming happening to their child or a child being abducted as every parent's nightmare come to light. And I think the way the film dealt with that is just done very methodically,

Starting point is 00:04:34 very, as I just mentioned intensely. And I liked seeing, you know, how also to with the, I mean, obviously we got two families here. So I thought the contrast was very interesting, how they were both handling the experience. Especially to, you know, focusing on Hugh Jackman's family. seeing how the mother and the father so you got Hugh Jackman like you know he's like he's not waiting for the authorities he's being very active and you know taking matters into his own hands where the mother is understandably just losing it um which I probably would as well so I can understand you know her thought process as well so I thought that that contrast was interesting um I like how

Starting point is 00:05:18 the film also just has a religious undertone as well in terms of of, at least with Hugh Jackman's character and also the, I mean, we hear literally the first couple lines when they were hunting the deer. I think it was a religious. Yeah, the Lord's Prayer. So, I mean, and then, you know, like about not losing faith through horrific and horrible times and also like what this situation does. Like, again, I understood Hugh Jackman where he was coming from. I probably would do the same thing. If I really suspected someone did this, even though I know legally we're not allowed to become vigilantes and take the law into our own hands

Starting point is 00:05:56 but it's interesting like what we can turn into when a situation like this arises and I thought the film dealt with that in an interesting and intense way again and I thought Hugh Jackman again all the performances Melissa Leo she scared the shit out of me

Starting point is 00:06:12 which I didn't see coming not only the twist but her performance like before that you know she's so nuanced and like she comes off so soft-hearted and soft-spoken that when the reveal happens you're like what? Yeah. You know what I mean? And those are the scariest

Starting point is 00:06:28 type of villains too, the ones you didn't even see coming. Totally. But I thought to Hugh Jackman's intensity was amazing and just like what he will like that he's willing to do anything for his family and I think like the fact that yes he's going to be found by

Starting point is 00:06:44 Jake Jalenhall and he's definitely going to go to jail because no I mean obviously even if Paul Dana was the guilty one he's still going to go to jail because you're not You're not allowed to do that. But the fact is, I think him going to jail knowing that his daughter is okay, he'll take that. Right. I also.

Starting point is 00:07:00 He also needed to take him to get to Melissa Leo's character. Right, right, right. And, yeah. That just shows, like, a parent's instincts are right. He had the right instinct, and it got him closer to finding where his daughter was. For sure. Having said that, also, me as well, because I thought it was Paul Dano and I thought it was the other David, however you say his name, the one who.

Starting point is 00:07:22 ended up eating the bullet. I thought it was both of them, per your theory, that sounded completely plausible. And obviously, we know they were both abducted by Melissa Leo as children. Right. And also that twist with him being the kid from 1987, just, again, brilliant writing. And I should have seen that one coming. But again, I love that I didn't. I wasn't able to see that coming.

Starting point is 00:07:42 I love twists like that in films. Having said that, like, don't judge a book by its cover because I thought, like, oh, my God, these guys are giving me the, or these guys are giving me. the eke and this gross creepy factor, but it's because of the environment that they were tormented, they were abducted, so it's understandable why they're giving... The tournament is sociopath. Yeah, exactly, and then that's why they had this whole,

Starting point is 00:08:04 oh, the maze, the maze type of thing, because that's what they were stuck into. So also, too, I got to mention, I really, really, really loved Jake Gyllenhaal's character. I love how he had this sense of duty, and he was so... Gonna look up trivia. Yeah, and I love that he was just, like, so dedicated to his job, and, like,

Starting point is 00:08:22 he was not going to let this thing go. And he's like, I will never, you know, let a case go. As I just mentioned, never let a case go. And I just, I love, I just really resonate with characters like that who will like go beyond and above, you know, in the sense of duty like that. So I really loved his performance as well as his character. And, you know, he's just a very intelligent character and just in general to the way he was solving things. And like when all hope was lost, I love how it was kind of painted right in front of his face. like that too. So he's just a really

Starting point is 00:08:54 wonderfully crafted character and just again the film itself just from everything from the direction to the acting to the cinematography, the music just everything is just it's film. And it's just an incredible visceral intense ride

Starting point is 00:09:10 that like from the get-go like I mean we got the I think it's a true cinematic thriller that if you watch it you don't walk away from it not having been in the tensest that you've ever been kind of in your life and that's what a movie is supposed to do it is supposed to when you sit in a movie theater and it shows you a story it wants

Starting point is 00:09:38 to take you into that it I mean it takes you it whisks you away that's why people love the movies takes you out of your life and whisk you away on a different adventure this is a shit one but you better believe that when you are here and you are watching you're watching that movie, you are not thinking about anything else. And that is truly the goal to get you wrapped up in it. And there's plenty of movies that I've watched where you can kind of be half in, half out. This movie is not that. Right. And also to the point you were making earlier, like when we do these reactions, like a lot of times we do talk, but it's also, it's not just for commentary, but it's for entertaining purposes as well. And we're just laying out our thoughts. Like this is one of those

Starting point is 00:10:16 films where it's not that we're not talking because we're not invested in what we're watching. It's just because it's such it's such an intense and crazy psychotic ride with what the you know with what we're watching that it's it's kind of just laid out again in our faces.

Starting point is 00:10:34 You can't. There's sometimes when you're watching this there are no words right like I just that's why I said you know just zoom in on my face multiple times at any point during this movie and I am in shocked and thoroughly engaged. And that's why

Starting point is 00:10:51 said like this is one of the most intense like films when you're in a film that's that intense it's like hard to come up with the words to yeah to talk about just um you just from everything like even the scenes where like Hugh Jackman is interrogate and again I felt so like in the moment I was like okay if he really did abduct him I'm like I'm glad he's doing this even though again you're not supposed to take as I mentioned but now I feel so bad for him and if you ever do a rewatch I don't know if I would rewatch this film just because it's such hard material to watch yeah it's a it's a very difficult film, though it's fantastically made. But, like, I feel

Starting point is 00:11:24 so bad for Paul Dano. And now I feel bad for that other guy who ate the bullet. Like, because, again, he technically didn't really, I mean, because it was Melissa Leo, who was the abductor and all that. I know. I'm still feeling bad for the dog, but I know Paul Dano

Starting point is 00:11:40 was messed up, and they made him a sociopath. I get it, but hopefully he goes to a lot of counseling. Reject Nation, some of you guys have been so kind of point out. Greg, you look like you've been getting better shaped lately. And Greg, you look like you've been pointing that out a lot more than we've been pointing that out lately. That's because I've been getting products that have allowed me to casually mention that. But with all that exercise comes a lot of sweat and let's be honest.

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Starting point is 00:13:38 And I am glad too, one other thing, too. I'm very glad that with that whole Paldano twist that he is the kid that got abducted, that that woman will get reunited once he gets a little, uh, you know, after he gets healed up from all the wounds and torment that Hugh Jackman gave him, that he's going to be reunited with his mother after 19 years or whatever it was. Yeah. Well, it said he already was in the newspaper. That was, he was reunited with them. Yeah, yeah, I'm just saying I'm glad that that finally is going to get to happen.

Starting point is 00:14:05 Oh, I see what I mean. Yeah. Yes, exactly. Okay. Ryan Gosling auditioned for the role of Detective Loki, which later went to Jake Gyllenhaal, frequent collaborator of Dennis Villeneuve. How do you say his name? Villanoo.

Starting point is 00:14:19 It's like this. I'm going to say. Deni Villeneu, I believe. Deni Villeneu. And a friendly professional rival of Gosslings being that they often auditioned for the same roles. I wouldn't. That's funny. So Villanue, Villanue.

Starting point is 00:14:35 Deni Vernu. Villeneu. Villene would finally get their chance to work together in Blade Runner, 249. That's right. Paul Dano admits to being attracted to the roles of this nature, learning difficulty, screaming, nonsensical, ranting. and says he draws on his own personal and private experiences to perfect these recurring roles. I will say that's odd, but I do think that Paul Dano is perfect for these kinds of roles. And it's funny to watch this, and I just watched dumb money earlier, and he just plays, you know, like a good dad YouTuber who knows about stocks.

Starting point is 00:15:12 So it's quite the difference in Paul, but we've known since the Sunshine movie that Paul Dano is a great. in that litmus actor. There you go. Exactly. Let's see. The first time it was submitted to the MPA8 received an NC17 rating due to its tone and subject matter. Yeah, I can see that. The film's torture scenes were later cut by a couple of frames along with scenes suggesting, oh, pitophilia, and then it received the R rating.

Starting point is 00:15:45 Okay. I'm kind of glad that some of that got cut for sure. Yeah, and some, I mean, like we said, though, those interrogation scenes with Hugh Jackman, with Paul Dana, like, even though you're happy to see it if you think he's the one who abducted the children or did something in them, like, they're hard to watch. Right. I agree. It's very hard. Just like the dog, I, I, I'm like, and the dog too. The dog part, y'all, that was very difficult.

Starting point is 00:16:07 I was raging inside. You could see it all over my face. I was like, you better run him over or kill him immediately, which I know it couldn't happen. If I ever saw that, I would hurt someone. And I am not joking. I would have to go up and punch that person. And I know he wasn't, he or she was not squirming at the beginning, but that dear scene was also hard for me as well.

Starting point is 00:16:27 Yes, that was tough. The moment where Holly asked Keller to drink a little more was improvised by Melissa Leo, who thought Hugh Jackman wasn't drinking enough to make the situation believable. Oh. So that is very interesting. They use that take. I really like that, where she's like, a little more. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:16:45 I bet after when they called cut, he's like, I need to use the restroom. Oh, yeah. Okay. I like the way that it ended. And my head did, our head did, mine went there like he's going to blow the whistle. But originally Kelly Dover was never discovered by police at the end. He would have remained a missing person and died. Oh, no. I, how do you feel about that? Do you feel like I like the ending the way it was? I don't know if I would have liked an ambiguous ending. Like, does he find him or not? I think it was like this debt, for me personally, this is. dad had suffered enough throughout the entirety of this film. Way more than enough. Yeah, so I think like, I don't know, I like the ending the way it is. I like it the way it is, too.

Starting point is 00:17:29 I'm glad they chose not to go with that end personally. I agree. And he's blowing his daughter's whistle that I know Melissa Leo went. She's saying that she helped her find it before on Thanksgiving Day. But I know she's probably just, she's imagining that. You're like, nope, they did. They found it together. and Melissa Leo found them and dumped them in a hole.

Starting point is 00:17:52 I know they have a lot to be thankful for now that they've found their children, but I don't know if they're going to want to celebrate Thanksgiving again. Oh, right. Yeah. Or at least just keep a tight leash on the children now from now on. Yeah, maybe we just change up the memory. But overall, this movie is brilliant. Cinematography is great.

Starting point is 00:18:12 The direction was great. I think probably in this movie, what the director mostly had to do was just tell Roger, even though he has great ideas, which is why I think it made this movie phenomenal, is what sort of shot he was looking for. And if he wanted to be on sticks or a dolly or handheld, because I don't think that these actors that he chose, because they did phenomenal casting, these are the types of players that you choose when you don't need to give direction. you just trust them to do their job when you get a script, you read it, you know the intentions,

Starting point is 00:18:52 you know the tone, you go in, you do your job. And I think that that's exactly what happened here, which is why I think this movie is elevated in a lot of ways. I think that probably the director and Roger, I mean, obviously they made something really phenomenal. And I think that if there was any trivia, I guarantee you, he said I didn't have to give a lot of notes. So that's what happens when you combine, which is why I think that obviously good writing, but especially good acting is at the top of my list. Yes, I'm an actor, but I think there's stuff that I've been in that I don't really respect other people, you know, all the way that I'm working with because if they're not

Starting point is 00:19:36 believable and I'm going against them, I'm like, it's all lost. I can only try so hard. But I think here my point why I will always bring up the actors, and I think this is a perfect example, is because it elevates everything when you can just throw people in and trust them to do their job. Everyone's believable. Nobody's out of step. There's not a mixed tone anywhere. They just know. And professional actors, when you get paid to do the job, you get a script and you just know what to do. and I think everyone showed up and did that job and I think that the director and the cinematographer came together and made a gorgeous film

Starting point is 00:20:19 so I very much appreciate it you got any last words just last thing I think also too I know I've used the word in tense quite a few times rightfully so I just think like every shot is just done in a way where I really felt this like the suspense building up the tension and just everything is a

Starting point is 00:20:39 intense from like just Jake Gyllenhaal taking Anna to the to the hospital and with his face all bleeding and is he going to hit these cars and make it in time Zana going to be okay and then him like finding the snakes and every shot is again just done so meticulously suspenseful and like it was just brilliantly done and also like the POV shots from Roger Deacons at the beginning in the RV and like just everything is so elevated in this film and those shots are you have to think through those to make that like cutting from in between. the car as you fell like you were in the car and you're like, oh my God, we're going to crash. That's why I think this movie is so great is because he had time to think about the shots with Roger because you don't have to worry about actors when you hire those types of people that are in here. We love you guys.

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Starting point is 00:21:39 Bye. Tyler Haig. If there's anyone we'd kidnap. If there's anyone we'd kidnap. And a old prisoner. Oh yeah. It would be you. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:21:51 Oh my God. You'd be the best prisoner. I feel like you'd like it. You would find the good in this situation. This is what I've always dreamed of. I don't have to work. I'm just going to hang out with John and Greg. Food is brought to me a few times a day.

Starting point is 00:22:03 I have all the screens I want. This is amazing. It would be the perfect life for you to be held captive by us. Absolutely. Would it be good captors to you? I think the Stockholm syndrome would be well justified in this situation. Oh, take place in hours. Yeah, dude.

Starting point is 00:22:17 I mean, like, it's probably already happening. Like, the second we show up to kidnap you, you probably won't even make it that hard for us. Probably just, like, hop in the... You'll probably come out in your own blindfold or head sack or whatever. I mean, that's... You know, I bet you've got a bunch of them. And we're flattered, but you make us work for it, man. I want to work for it a little bit.

Starting point is 00:22:37 Come on, you know. I want to get... I want to feel the rush. I want to feel the danger, all right, Tyler Hague. I want to feel like you might be able to beat the crap out of me, but then I get one over on you until later on in the movie when the detective shows up and, you know, finally the tension is relieved. And then you're like, I don't want to go home.

Starting point is 00:22:57 I like it here. That sounds like Tyler. That sounds like Tyler. Sounds like Tyler Hague. So, you know, come live in our prison. Would you? All right. You know.

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The Reel Rejects - PRISONERS (2013) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

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