The Reel Rejects - SOUTHPAW (2015) MOVIE REVIEW - THIS JAKE GYLLENHAAL FILM DESTROYED US! - FIRST TIME WATCHING

Episode Date: May 14, 2026

PHENOMENAL!! With Jake Gyllenhaal returning to action alongside Henry Cavill in Guy Ritchie’s In the Grey, we’re looking back at one of Gyllenhaal’s most intense physical and emotional performan...ces ever: Southpaw, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Rachel McAdams, 50 Cent, and featuring the Eminem Southpaw Phenomenal soundtrack. Directed By Antoine Fuqua (Michael Movie) Southpaw Full Movie Watch Along & Early Access:   / thereelrejects   Limited Time Offer – You Need Fiber. Yes you! Boost your fiber with Huel today using my exclusive offer of 15% OFF online with my code REJECTS at https://www.huel.com/REJECTS. New Customers Only. Thank you to Huel for partnering and supporting our show Gift Someone (Or Yourself) An RR Tee! https://shorturl.at/hekk2 In this Southpaw movie reaction, Greg & Jackie watch the gritty boxing drama for the first time and break down Jake Gyllenhaal’s Southpaw transformation, the brutal boxing scenes, Billy Hope’s rage, grief, father-daughter heartbreak, the emotional ending, and how the movie uses boxing as a way to explore anger, discipline, loss, and redemption. Jackie had never even heard of the movie going in, which makes the emotional gut-punches hit even harder. Follow Jackie Bonsignore:   / jackiebonsignore   Intense Suspense by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Follow Us On Socials:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/  Tik-Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@reelrejects?lang=en Twitter: https://x.com/reelrejects Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ Music Used In Ad:  Hat the Jazz by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Happy Alley by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... 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 00:01:22 phenomenal. And here today, I'm Greg, and this is Jackie Bonsignor. Bonsignor. Bon senore. Bon seigneur. Bon seigneur. Mutual friend of Michael Tesler from the channel. And we met and she's pretty cool. She's got a part of a cool band.
Starting point is 00:01:39 She's got a solo performance coming up in June, right? I got a little preview of it. She's saying right to my face. Yeah, I did. I was like, this is uncomfortable. You just play the audio. But no, man, she's a really cool gal. And how you doing, Jackie?
Starting point is 00:01:53 I'm doing great. You excited to watch Southpaw. You know nothing about this, right? I have never even heard of this movie. And it's Rachel McAdams, right? I know she's in it. She's in it. I don't know how.
Starting point is 00:02:01 I know it's Jake Gyllenhaal, but. Yeah. It's mainly a Jake Gyllenhaal movie, I think. Yeah, he's got to be. He's a star of the movie. And the director. He was in the photo that I just, yeah. Yeah, he's up there on the screen.
Starting point is 00:02:10 What I know was he's like, yeah, he's like, yeah. He looked like he was like sad. Yeah, sad and buff. Yeah, sad and buff. Yeah, sad and buff. Yeah, that is the ultimate masculine fantasy. Right. Right.
Starting point is 00:02:17 Yeah. Yeah. As a musician, you will find that one day. Don't you worry. Things gross. Taylor, uh, Travis. you know you know what yeah yeah he looks too happy he looks too happy he looks too happy he's
Starting point is 00:02:28 married to taylor swift anyway uh let's take this tone into south ball right now i'm excited hey you're a champ thanks for grabbing that you're a good you're a good person you're a good guy good gal you're okay hey you're okay are you okay are you okay yeah we're both fun let's just not make guy contact for like the next five minutes over solid that's how it works still getting know each other this is like I bonding with people in like Catholic school cried over God but don't look at each other anyway we can't want South people if you want to watch the full reaction watch along that's for our Royal Rejects
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Starting point is 00:03:41 So usually they can participate in our reviews and ask us some questions. Now, I think this is our first upload with Miss Bonfire over here. And, okay, so here's, Here's a, okay. I gotta do this. I don't ask this question.
Starting point is 00:04:00 I don't ask this question. I thought of it. Okay. Is your stroke coming back? Well, we shot men in black, but that goes up a few days from now, I think. So the way I was trying to map out, what can I put Jackie on? I found that she had a letter box account.
Starting point is 00:04:15 I do not have a letter box account. You don't? I don't. No, you just want people to stream. But I want people. Yeah. But it gave me access to a lot, so it was able to, like, kind of chart. How did you view it if you don't have it, whatever?
Starting point is 00:04:28 I mean, you can still view it. I was able to, I just can't post anything, but I was trying to, like, figure out what she might like from that, you know, a little variety. I'm like, what can we try here? What psychoanalysis can I do here of the kind of movie she might like? And so if this was, if you were going to go on your letterbox, what would you rate this movie, first experience? Oh, okay.
Starting point is 00:04:50 Well, my bio on my letterbox is that I scale movies typically on whether or not I cry. Let's run back the takes. I think I cried like seven times. So I, you know, I'd give it like, I don't like to give out fives a lot. I'd give it like 4.5.5 out of five. What would you think you might write on your first like if you're just like imagine yourself writing? Imagine myself. Do you do on the phone or the computer? I have a phone. Okay, so are you doing on your phone? I do it on your phone. So imagine yourself's time. What would you be saying? I would probably say I would probably say that it actually
Starting point is 00:05:33 I think for me I was concerned that I wouldn't be into a movie about boxing but I honestly think that it's less a movie about boxing and it's more a movie about family dynamics and a man you know trying to persevere when he's dealt possibly the worst hand
Starting point is 00:05:51 that I've ever seen a cinema character get in life like possibly yeah um no I really oh my God I really enjoy it you you seem really affected primarily by so i always find it interesting what people might like be emotionally moved by you know like sometimes i had an experience recently i won't say what but that was i was watching a show where this character died and normal i have a weird thing where if i'm watching a
Starting point is 00:06:18 normally on a show if someone dies and i've been watching it for years or something i'm not I don't really cry. I usually go into shock. Oh. So I kind of go into like denial. I'm like, this isn't real. Do you do that in real life too?
Starting point is 00:06:32 Yeah. That's what first happens. I don't know. Yes. I think that's typical. Yeah, it takes me a moment to like, it takes me a few weeks.
Starting point is 00:06:38 I usually don't cry like day one. I don't cry. I just get shingles. Yeah, it just comes out to my pores. So yeah. And for this, I think like
Starting point is 00:06:50 are hurt and love kind of gets me. I noticed like with you with the, with the daughter primarily, so you'd really be kind of like effing you up a little bit. Is there reasons?
Starting point is 00:07:02 The dad and the, I feel like any, I am an eldest daughter and I feel like any dad and daughter stuff always makes me cry so, so hard. You know? I remember you tell me how close you are
Starting point is 00:07:16 with your mom. But, I mean, I'm not going to try to, like, divulge your fucking personal life. On video one. On video one? Yeah. Like, just, Just get to put everything out there right now.
Starting point is 00:07:26 That's for Patreon. Go against your own boundaries. Yeah, just for patrons. Yeah. But yeah, so like generally, is that the kind of thing that like? I think genuinely anything with, it doesn't even have to be specifically dad, daughter, but anything with parent-child relationships where one of them is, God, I mean, that scene where they're first back in their house and it's the like maybe first night without, you know, Rachel McAdams there. and she calls for her dad and he wants to, you could just feel it in his,
Starting point is 00:07:57 talk about his physical acting, you could feel it that he just wants to turn around so bad. Yeah. And then he takes just a millisecond too long and she goes, never mind. And it's just like, I wish that I could just go in there and say, you guys are gonna feel so much better if you just go to each other and help each other.
Starting point is 00:08:12 But it's just, it's so heartbreaking because I just think it's something that everyone has been there. Everyone has been there. Yeah, and if you haven't, Yeah, there'll be a time where if you're on this earth long enough, you're probably going to encounter it at some point. If you have any form of making connections with anybody, family, or friends, you'll encounter it in some capacity like that.
Starting point is 00:08:33 So you said you were surprised by, like, the boxing effect of it, but more like family dynamics that we're getting to you with Jake Gyllenhaal. Yeah. What would you think about, like, how would you describe your experience with his character in this movie? With his character? I mean, I love an underdog story. Mm-hmm. And I love the way that boxing was sort of used to, like, as a vehicle to show his progress
Starting point is 00:09:03 and, like, his ability to get his own anger and temper and his own emotions under control. And I liked that it was displayed in such a physical way, I think. Yeah. And, God, I mean, I'm just very impressed by Jake Dillon Hall in this movie. I usually like him, but this one is probably the best. role that I've seen him in. He tends to transform. And it's like a, it's a really compelling drama.
Starting point is 00:09:31 He really transforms. And I was like, I had that moment. I think it would like DeCaprio sometimes. He was like with his daughter. And I'm going, this guy doesn't have like a wife or like a daughter child in real life, right? No, no, no, no, no. They're like sort of like single man kind of for life. I also, I just found that cinematography, specifically the shots from his POV when he was
Starting point is 00:09:53 boxing. Mm-hmm. I just love the use of, I don't know, the steady cam and how blurry it got. So we really got to be inside of his head of like, I don't know, it felt like I was looking at the POV of a very concussed person. Yeah. Which sort of really raised the stakes for me. Yeah, those boxing matches did a really good job at pulling back to be like a master's shot
Starting point is 00:10:17 of what it would look like when you're watching an HBO pay-per-view thing. And then they would know how to go like a variety of intimacy shots with this like, shutter speed that was like ramping up the frame rate or then doing those POVs and sometimes changing like the exposure filter on it. So that way it's showing kind of the haziness of what's happening as you're getting more fucked up in a fight, you know. I know. I want to Google how long it took them to how many days or weeks it took them to film each one of the fights now. So bad. Yeah, because it's like what kind of sometimes they choreographed the shit out of it.
Starting point is 00:10:49 And other times they it's like half choreography, half just go in there and actually. box each other and then they like interspice it it looks like an editing nightmare oh it looks like a huge editing nightmare yeah like i mean i also would imagine that the editor would have to provide like a few different cuts of each fight oh yeah like different kinds of shots inter spliced in different orders oh my god oh yeah and you're pointing out too like how the movie really kept capturing his isolation throughout and then you said that i was like oh it must be like kind of what the if you think about like the way the movie starts where it's just in his own head like he's listening to the music he's getting his gloves wrapped up he's in his own world even though he's
Starting point is 00:11:28 like surrounded by people and then at the very end he's not on music he's he's actually connected with someone it's like it's him and his daughter there so it's he's not alone anymore so even like when he's preparing for a fight he's still kind of alone but at the end he's not alone anymore and i think there's like something so beautiful about the way this is told i like it a lot because especially for i mean when this is coming on 2015 now now it days there's a lot more emphasis on men being able to dive into their emotions and stress. There's more of an encouragement in that. And I like that they took it from the angle of like one of the most masculine things you can do.
Starting point is 00:12:08 Fucking kill each other in the ring, but also make it really a heavy emphasis on dealing with your grief and dealing with your emotions and really healing internally instead of just putting it all external, you know? Yeah. See men, it's okay to deal with you. your emotions. You could just do it in a manly way. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:12:29 It's cool, man. That's cool. Is there any, Rachel McAdams, dude, was great. Oh, my God. She's phenomenal. She's good in everything. She's good in everything. And Forrest Whitaker, another, like, legendary actor, just like the constant chemistry
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Starting point is 00:13:59 That's Shopify. com slash rejects. Thank you, Shopify for sponsoring this video. Also, so sorry, I can't. What was the name of the woman that played the social, the social worker? I think her name is Naomi Harris. Naomi Harris? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:14:14 She was phenomenal in her role, especially given how, Exactly. Especially given how little dialogue she had, but just the things that she was able to do with her looks. I mean, it really was, I think, a standout supporting role for me in the film. That first scene where she first interacts with him and she's kind of playing like tit for tat. And I noticed there was a when she mirrors him, because she's not, because he swears, but then when she mirrors him with the, I forgot what the line was. She says the word fucking as well. And when she said it in the middle of the sentence, like it really stood out. I'm like, damn, this character really knows what they're doing.
Starting point is 00:14:48 to try, like, she deals with guys like this all the time, you know? So, yeah, you're absolutely right about her. Everything's so well illustrated. Like, there's, does it kind of have like a formula that it follows? Yes. Does it execute that formula well? Most definitely. I know you're not, it's like familiar with like the sports genre.
Starting point is 00:15:07 No, I'm really, I'm really not. I think when we checked off the box of the movies, you said you hadn't seen the Rocky movies and stuff. No. No, yeah. So I've seen a fair amount of sports drama. So I'm like, I mean, nothing. where it's like this guy has a freaking, you know, loses his wife and then has to go through this,
Starting point is 00:15:22 like rebuilding himself back up. But there's enough of the script structure stuff where I was starting to see like, okay, I can see where this is going. But even though like it's not about that, it's about the journey and how they execute the characters and the emotional experience. And I thought they executed it phenomenally. Honestly, yeah, my, my, the journey for me of this film
Starting point is 00:15:41 was watching him learn how to open his heart back up after dealing with the loss that he dealt with and sort of isolating from his friends, from everyone having his daughter taken away. And just it felt so that end scene with him and his daughter just felt so gratifyingly earned because we saw how much he struggled to get there. Yeah, it's really cathartic. Well, on that note, let's answer some questions here. And maybe we, hopefully we didn't go into too much of the shit that we already said.
Starting point is 00:16:15 It's always the hard part. Once like, oh, do we already answered that? All right, here we go. I want you to do the first one. That has his name. All right. Kev B. asks, could Billy have ever found his way back without Tick?
Starting point is 00:16:28 Or was he pretty much past the point of no return? Tick is the force winner of character, right? Tick wills? I'm going to go ahead and take a strong guess that that has to be in. Right? You know, but you know, you just never know. I felt like they didn't say the character names in the movie a lot. Or maybe I am tired.
Starting point is 00:16:45 Or, yeah, I just go, Jillenhawn, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jake. I just go, Rachel McAnum's. Rachel McAdam, Rachel McAdam, Jake, yeah, Tick Willis. Tick. Tick Wills. Tick Wills, not Willis. Willis. Or was he pretty much past the point in no return?
Starting point is 00:16:59 No, I mean, I think a big part of healing is there's a lot of like, especially in, I mean, I know a woman who can be this way too, but I think like part of the stereotype of men is like, you've got to do it on your own, you know, fucking handle your shit. And I think a big part of this is him learning to lean on other people. and know that it's okay to ask for help and support. Yeah. And so I do think he needed a support to help pick him back up. So, no, yeah, I don't, I feel like it wouldn't have worked as well if he just was on his own.
Starting point is 00:17:29 Yeah, I completely agree. I don't know if it's, I mean, Tick, obviously, amazing person, amazing character. I feel like he really needed someone like that in his life. Do I think that it could have been anyone, though, anyone that was a good person, I just do think that he, like Greg said, he just needed someone to lean on and support. Oh man, that lie when he's like, my wife would have liked you. Oh, my God. So touching. God is watching you. Your wife is watching you. And I like how in a lot of ways a relationship was healing for, you know, the way the character Tick is introduced is like he is the one who will help guide and heal Billy, but also he needed some healing as well. They show that he is also
Starting point is 00:18:09 a flawed individual and has some stuff in his own belief system that he needs to work on. Yes, and I think one of my favorite scenes between them, besides the bar scene, because that was hilarious when he flipped the chair and then he comes back, but was when we find out that Hoppy, unfortunately, you know, passed. And they're sitting on the floor against the boxing ring and just so almost hysterical with grief that they're just losing their minds laughing with each other. It's so, so sweet. So sweet. So sweet. So sweet. Jane Gwin, the fighting is a highlight. But I think the real gem of this movie is Una Lauren.
Starting point is 00:18:48 What a unique name. You know, it's beautiful. Una Lawrence's performance as Billy's daughter, Layla, her begging him to take her home and hitting him out of frustration gets me every time. It's such an amazing showing of a kid being angry and confused. Do you think I'm nuts for considering this as one of the best child performances? No, you're not nuts. You're not nuts.
Starting point is 00:19:11 You should be locked away. Yeah, that's great, but she was great. I mean, want to talk about her more? Yeah, she was phenomenal, and I almost feel like, it's a bird call. I studied a child and adolescent psychopathology in college, and I feel like those scenes with her should have been shown in my classes. Like, especially the one where she comes in and she sits down near the library,
Starting point is 00:19:37 or near the bookshelves, and she just waits for him. him to come. Yeah. It's just, I don't know, it's so, it feels, it feels like she runs through all of the most stereotypical, like, attachment styles with a parental figure, you know, I don't know. Yeah, and she also was the right, I don't know, like kids nowadays especially, I think, because of internet too, like they grow up way faster now. So there's the, a lot of times in movies, you have to find that right line of what is too precocious of a child, you know? And now, she still felt like a little girl than me while also being the one who could guide her dad yeah like she was just the right balance i think of a of writing and acting yeah she was also just written so two-dimensional you know like we like
Starting point is 00:20:21 do you mean three-dimensional sorry yes three-dimensional yeah who I'm tired um so three-dimensional yeah and we really had to watch billy try to earn her trust and her respect back and she did not give it over easy whatsoever. True. Tro. True. Good points. Good points. Want to take the next one? Dante Woodback asks, what are your thoughts on the way the boxing was shot and what's your opinion on fighting movies
Starting point is 00:20:49 overall? Damn, Snickety. We already answered that question. I know, yeah, we did. Fighting movies overall? My favorite one? Does he mean specifically boxing movies? Or fight it? You're like... Yeah, that's a good question. I mean, I saw like the movie Warrior. Oh, you love that movie.
Starting point is 00:21:04 Do you think I would? I think you would. that one's way more like family drama oh really oh yeah oh shit yeah oh my god i do not watch that video back with me way too way too like i'm a i'm a i'm a i'm a mess you're a mess i'm a mess i was kind of a mess in this one i'm worried i'm so worried that one was oh that was a that was a hard one but uh yeah i mean i think the i think fighting movies are are the best when they have a they know there's heart to them Like, it's always, it's always a psychology underneath. And then you cap it off with a cherry on top is the fighting.
Starting point is 00:21:42 Well, yeah, because the, the fighting is, like, the physical manifestation of what's boiling underneath, I would say. Absolutely. And if I think, I think if that was missing from a fighting movie, I, you know, wouldn't really do it for me. Yeah, it would be boring. I think the next question is for you. Really? Because I have nothing to base anything off of. Jaden wrote
Starting point is 00:22:05 My memory of this movie Is that one of the better modern day Boxing movies? I'm curious How do you all compare this to other boxing movies And you all like the soundtrack by Eminem? So you've never seen any other boxing movie? I can't think of any other ones outside of Rocky. Yeah, can you name any other ones?
Starting point is 00:22:20 I guess I guess I watched What's the show with Betty Gilpin? The wrestling one? I watched the lesbian wrestling show. I watched some of glow. I mean, I guess, I don't know. It doesn't.
Starting point is 00:22:37 I don't think so. I mean, I like the soundtrack by Eminem. That is a good soundtrack. The only Voxy movies I can think of are the Rocky movies. And that's a giant, there's like nine movies in that franchise. The one, the first one won Oscars for a reason. It's a pretty great movie. A lot of them are great.
Starting point is 00:23:00 I got into push-ups because of that movie. Really? And then I stopped doing push-ups for many years. And then I got back into push-ins. Yeah. And it's a really hard question to answer because that's only I have one franchise too. But the soundtrack by Eminem, I think it was a dope. I've heard that song for many years.
Starting point is 00:23:20 I really like that song. I've always thought the hook was a little weird. It works in the context of seeing the movie. You know, like, I don't feel, yeah. But when I first heard it, I'm like, like this sounds a little weird it's just Eminem shot I am phenomenal but when you see the movie with the visuals I like I like yeah I like I like the bars more than the hug I think yeah yeah I'd meet you there I'd meet you there but it is fucking catchy whenever we say that we're phenomenal I just want to shab phenomenal that's how we will call to each other from now yes of course See each other at the Glendale Mall.
Starting point is 00:23:57 Getting sorted out of the Glendale Mall. All right. The last one. Gabriel asks. You got this. Sorry. Gabriel asks. You got it.
Starting point is 00:24:13 Fist pumping action where the sport slash games themselves are the focal point of the movie. Is that a question? I'm sorry. Am I reading? Sometimes. Yeah, we don't know what the language is. His... Fist pumping action.
Starting point is 00:24:25 Then read the next part. Maybe it'll put into perspective for us. Oh, okay. I think I understand what he's asking. Okay. Gabriel asks if we consider the film more of a fist pumping action where the sport and games themselves are the focal point of the movie or a tear-jurker drama where the sport is a context vehicle for complex character development.
Starting point is 00:24:46 I think the latter. The latter. I mean, I'm not going to lie when he was winning. I was like, oh shit, this is awesome. I think in that last, like, boxing scene, I didn't say anything for, like, three minutes. I was just like. Raptured, yeah.
Starting point is 00:25:01 Whoa. Yeah. Yeah. But I still have to lean more on, too, because I don't think I would be as raptured in it if it weren't for the context. Yeah. With all the stakes involved
Starting point is 00:25:14 and what it meant for him and his daughter and his whole life and future. I do wish we saw, like, what is the aftermath of it a little bit? Yes. Like is there There's really room for a sequel She's kidding
Starting point is 00:25:25 Yeah Where she does come back She takes her death the whole time So she can feel She's coming back I think it was Well it's like what happens With the Will's gym
Starting point is 00:25:38 You know all the kids there I thought there might be There some like ending I felt like some stuff was cut out Honestly there was some stuff That felt was cut out Like they said like There's gonna be a lot of this thing
Starting point is 00:25:47 And like hyping up the revenge match And all the shit talking They're gonna do But they didn't like normally what these movies what happens before it matches there's a lot of like promos and then they do the press conferences and they should talk each other and I thought that's what we were going to go
Starting point is 00:26:00 into and it seems like they removed all that with the decision to have that one hard moment where he does say something about his wife in the in the almost final round so they seems like I think they cut that stuff out I imagine there was in there because I actually will say I was a bit surprised that at the very first
Starting point is 00:26:16 mention of his wife he just almost lost his temper immediately you know I mean, it's pretty fucked up. Did they cut? Yes. Whoa. Tyrese Gibson was a whole character in this movie.
Starting point is 00:26:29 Not anymore. Yeah, so apparently there was a lot of scenes that were cut out. Wow. Wow. There's like over eight minutes of deleted scenes. Oh, look at why it says the cuts were made. Lame. It says the cuts were made to keep the film's pacing, ensuring the intense real-time fight scenes
Starting point is 00:26:46 remain the focus. Boo. I mean, it's an accomplished job. But I still feel like we would have. had some good, yeah, some good drama in there. Anyway,
Starting point is 00:26:56 oh, it is a real last question here. Okay. Question, are there any lefty users in the rejects? The word Southpaw literally means left fist.
Starting point is 00:27:07 Uh, yeah, say, I learned that from the Rocky franchise. Okay. So, heck, like I know boxing.
Starting point is 00:27:13 It's like, you mean, that thing I learned in the Rocky? Uh, yeah, the, I'm not left-hand. Are you left-handed?
Starting point is 00:27:19 No. I don't know anybody. No. No. No. What is this? How do, I don't know. I don't know who's left-handed here.
Starting point is 00:27:30 I don't know any left-handed people. Is Michael left-handed? I feel like he's ambidextrous. I might be making that up. Like he can go either way. Yeah. Yeah, he is. No, not by.
Starting point is 00:27:40 Well, I mean, isn't he? Did he like, say a whole thing on social media about that? It's not like I'm outing you or something. You said like a whole thing. Maybe that's how we realized it. Whoa, I can go both of me. I'm bisexual. That's how I realized.
Starting point is 00:28:00 Just for you, Michael, since you brought Jackie into this reject world. Anyway, Jackie, second video, you shot, first video up on the internet. How are you feeling? I'm feeling good as of today. Let's see how I feel on Tuesday. Yeah. Please be nice to me. Just read.
Starting point is 00:28:17 Or like a little mean, I don't know. The advice I give is read every single comment. That was actually my plan. So I, yeah, I've blocked out. I'm in my schedule. You guys can at me. I'll reply in the comments. Link.
Starting point is 00:28:31 Oh, and as a woman. There you go. And as a woman on the internet, you definitely want to read all the comments. Yeah, yeah. Neck is high. Morals are higher. There you go. Moral.
Starting point is 00:28:43 Something there. Not moral. All right. We're doing good. We're done now. Bye, everyone.

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