 Jai Sri Ram. Jai Sri Ram. Jai Sri Ram. Jai Sri Ram. Jai Sri Ram. Okay, we'll go back to our stupid reactions, you idiots. I'm Corbin. And it's just me today, um, and, uh, for, for this video, and I'll tell you why in just a minute, but you can follow us on Instagram, Twitter for more juicy content. Thank you to you over the force on Patreon. Follow us through your Twitter account and subscribe to the like button. And today we're doing a movie, insert Rick going, which is what he likes to do. Today I'm doing a movie review of the just released. I saw it just, I just got home from seeing it from Adi Parush. If I'm pronouncing that correctly, I do apologize. The Pan India film, if you will. I saw it in Telugu. That's all they were really showing here. I know it was filmed in, believe Telugu in Hindi. I don't know if it was filmed in others obviously. You guys can let me know, but it was directed by Om Raut. If I'm once again mispronouncing that, I apologize. Starring Prabhas, Seif Ali Khan, and Kreeti. Your, your main leads in this obviously is a whole bunch of other people, but it's telling of the big Indian. I got in trouble for calling it mythology the last time I get it. It's y'all's history. I get it. That's in every comment. That depicts the triumph of good over evil of Ram, Sita, and Lakash. I'm bad with these names. So do forgive me when I inevitably either don't know the name or butch it. It is all because I'm an idiot. I do apologize. But I'm watching this. I watch this alone. A couple reasons. One, Rick wasn't available. Two, Rick wasn't able to watch, which me and my wife just did. If you'd like to go check out, we just watched and did a watch along of on the channel of the 1993 anime film Ramayana. And I, I'm actually glad he didn't, he didn't come because this film definitely makes it makes you feel that it thinks the audience already knows this story. And if you don't, you're going to be very confused by different characters about the stuff that's happening. And so he would have been very confused. I'm very glad me and my wife watched it. We really enjoyed it. Please go watch that, that watch along of it. But this is basically the modern adaptation of it, obviously infamous with the trailers and stuff that went wrong with the VFX and that kind of stuff. But and I struggle if I'm going to do a full spoiler or non-spoiler because everybody knows the story in India. I'm going to try to keep it mostly non-spoiler, but there's some stuff I want to talk about in spoilers section. But I'll try to keep it mostly non-spoiler even though obviously I know most of you know the story. And it doesn't really deviate from, at least in my opinion, what my knowledge of this. And so if there's stuff that is incorrect or that I say that is wrong or that I ask a stupid question and it's said in the much longer versions, I only know the anime and the somebody sent Lila in like a comic book of the story as well that has a little more detail than the anime had. So that's basically the knowledge that I have of this story. And it basically follows the bullet points of that story into this story. But so I'm going to do mostly non-spoiler. I'll get into it and then I'll let you know before I get into some spoils. But did I like it? Yeah. Yeah, I did. I enjoyed myself in this film. Believe it or not, because I know a lot of people crucified this film, including us, especially with the VFX. And we will get into the VFX. But overall, I was entertained for a very fast, it felt like a very fast three-hour movie. And so that you know is a goal of a movie is to be entertaining. And I was entertained. And I thought it did a good job at trying to adapt the story that I knew from the anime version into a, in 2023, in a very difficult film. And I said on Twitter, I said after the opening of Probus, when Probus came on, I said that was a cool opening. God, I wish they had a Marvel budget, meaning a $200, $300 million budget. Because this story, and I know they had a huge budget. I know that for India, right? But a movie that is 99% VFX, it's almost all on green screen, I feel like, requires to look Marvel level. And this is a Marvel level story, if not bigger, to get correct. Now, getting to the VFX before we get into that. Because that's the most infamous part. Yes, I enjoyed this, right? And actually, it was very overblown. Because for the most part, a lot of times, you're sitting there and you're like, this is really good. This is great. There is a 10% still, maybe 10% of, I don't want to call it laughably bad VFX, but majorly subpar. That makes you go, God, I wish we could have done better. And a lot of that has to do with action, whenever the VFX had to be in motion. There's a part, and this isn't giving anything away. It's actually in the intro. I saw a lot of people commenting on it on Twitter, where you meet Prabhas and in all the, I don't know the name, so I do apologize. It felt like Dementors from Harry Potter, right? I know they're not Dementors. That's my reference, because I don't know. I'm still stupid in this area, right? But when they all, they sent the legion of people to go get Prabhas, right? Or Ram. The guy that was instructing them felt like a early 2000s video game character that cut like the lead guy from all the flying characters. It was like Prabhas fighting a cartoon, essentially what it was. And that happened a few other times in the movie, where you're like, God, I wish it was better, because that's like the biggest thing you can gripe about this film is at certain times, it's like, oh man, if you had a Marvel level budget, what this could be worldwide would be incredible. But yeah, so if you saw it in the trailer, you're still going to see it in the thing. And there's some characters like there's trolls that don't really look that good. At times, there's some, once again, I apologize. I don't know these characters, because I called them monkeys in the Ramayana thing, and somebody said it was a different thing. And I apologize. I don't know what that thing is. I'm just, I'm meaning no offense. The gorilla characters sometimes look real bad in their animation, especially when they were in action. You saw some of that in the trailer, but a lot of other times it's actually really, really good. Some of the VFX I thought was actually really good was, once again, I don't know what it's called, but it felt like the Bat Dragon that Seif was writing. I felt they spent a lot of money on that VFX there. And Hanuman, if I apologize if I'm not saying his name correctly, I thought his VFX around his face was actually very, very good. I liked it a lot. And there was some cool VFX, kind of like Bra Mastur with lighting and stuff that was really, really cool. They helped themselves a lot with a lot of this guide, almost all of it, right, being at night time. And that's a VFX trick to kind of help out if you don't have the budget to make your VFX better. And I've heard complaints saying like, in this time in history, no one ever fought at night, because you can't see they didn't have the technology, they don't like, like it would be stupid to fight at night because you can't see anything. I get that. But since this is a movie and the choices were either see even worse VFX or darken everything, I'm okay with them darkening it because then you can't see some of the bad VFX as much. So I was fine with that. So there are VFX problems, 100%. There are VFX problems. Wasn't as distracting as the trailer would make it out to be though. So that is a positive, right? So I feel like and maybe in the first teaser before they spent the second 100 grors that they did to help it even more, maybe it was even worse. But I think like I said, the best comic I get it definitely wasn't as distracting and as prevalent, like the bad VFX wasn't as prevalent as they would have made it out to be. So I thought they did a good job there. Let's talk about the three main leads, right? Saif actually was I thought really casted really well. I thought he plays a villain so cool. I love his when he plays villains because he has such an evil demeanor at times and that kind of stuff. I watched him to Lugu. It looked like he was speaking Hindi and they dubbed him into Lugu, right? So that was kind of disappointing for me. But it is what it is. His character was really cool though. And I thought he embodied Lakesh really, really well. They actually I feel like went a lot more into his character than anybody else's character from the anime version that I saw. I thought you got a lot more of Lakesh in this and him brooding or behind the scenes of him than any other character. So I thought he did a really good job. Prabhas I thought did a very good job as well. I liked his performance when I after I watched the anime version and then I went back to watch trailer. Prabhas struck me as a odd choice for Ram and once again the only reference I have for Ram is from the anime. Prabhas even though he has an extremely warrior presence and that's part of Ram. I was wondering you know I got from the anime I got this extremely compassionate caring like really loving presence from Ram character in that, right? Which I felt Prabhas even though he's an epic warrior and he feels like an epic warrior didn't convey that. I still felt that in the movie even though there were some times that the script writing helped show his compassion for everyone. That was the only downside to that is that I just feel like he just has such a dominating presence that I would have liked to see the kind of gentle side come out of him a little even though like I know they showed it sometimes it just I would have liked to feel it more coming from him you know. So that's finally great but I liked his performance he was epic he kicked ass he's great his screen presence is amazing and he did a really good job kind of a Bahubali style of warrior at times and so I believed him 100% and so that was great. Creedie I thought she definitely captured what I thought Sita or in this one it was called Jannaki and I apologize is it just because it's in Tolugu is that why the names are changed? I don't know but she's playing the seated character so I apologize if I'm just being dumb. I thought she did a great job. One character I really love is the guy who played Hanuma which it's a different name here and so I can't find it so I do apologize but the guy who plays Hanuma I love that character I loved him in the anime and I liked him in this I thought the VFX was like I said was very good on him and I god I just it felt like in three hours it's another downside I had to him I felt like in three hours I didn't figure out any more about these characters than I did in the two-hour anime movie. I felt like I actually learned more in the anime in terms of about them in their character than I did in this and I still liked it it's just man I thought in you get an hour more of movie I thought they'd get a little more into it um but maybe they once again they just assume you know about these guys and so they weren't trying to introduce you to them at all I don't know I just god I would love a Hanuma movie cast that actor make an entire Hanuma movie live action movie it would be epic because I love that character I love how how funny is I love how epic he is he's he's a really insanely cool and I know he's not just character but I loved his character and I would love to actually see more from his character I would love to know more about all of them because that's one of the downsides of this as I thought it was I wanted to know more which is I guess good you you want a movie to come away from a movie wanting to know wanting more right you don't want them to give you anything and they because they did give you stuff but yeah so that that was one of my other gripes I love the background score insanely epic beautiful you you're mumbling it in the beginning and I apologize if I butchered it um it just it just moved you it kept the story going it it complimented the emotion that needed to be carried it complimented the the insane battles that were happening in this beautiful songs between Ram and Sita um so I thought the the score was was very good in this um another thing I was a little let down though I can't get into that because it's a little spoilers there's stuff that just was a little disappointing in terms of anticlimactic of some battles that I was anticipating from the anime series it's not series that movie um that I was like oh I thought that would be longer and better um there were some some really good fight scenes you still have to kind of you still have to overlook a lot of the the vfx but there's some stuff that happened in that wasn't in the anime that I was like holy shit um I was like how they killed people uh I was like oh that's I was kind of insane um so I I thought the uh the direction was very good from from omrout I apologize once again if I'm saying that wrong um but I I was like I said I was thoroughly entertained through this through this thing I was excited for what was coming I'm glad I knew what was coming next because it was um the people that would show up and you they wouldn't explain and so if I hadn't already been to nerdustum I'd be like what the heck is going on who's this character um they there was very little that was changed from um the the story that I saw in the anime and so that was good I'd say overall though I I enjoyed it and I would watch it again um is it like a perfect movie no you definitely need to work on the vfx I would like to know it could you could I think what they should do and maybe they're doing it for the hindi one that they've casted alia and and rent beer and which I love those castings I think those are great um make it into a three part series man this there is too much in this story to tell in two to three hours there's too much and you want to know you want to feel with you want to um care for these characters even more and I know a lot of you like they're they're religious characters uh or people right uh and so you're already attached to them but in a movie setting I want to you want to really feel when somebody dies you want to really uh emphasize those characters and you can get more in depth if you make it into a either a series which probably for the budget you probably can do right but for like like they're doing Brahmastra make it into a three part series and then you could go really in depth really in depth and then the last one is like the last order of the rings that helms deep or not helms deep the wherever that last battle was it could be that kind of an epic thing I I think that's what they should do because I like this story I think it's a very entertaining story and if you kept the vfx up I think um a lot of people in the west could have even appreciate I think this is going to be hard for one it's not a story that they know and they're they don't really explain these characters a lot to you so I think you kind of have to be familiar with it but the vfx at times like I said probably 10 to 15 percent um but the other like there's other times with their cinematography is just so beautiful when their seat to unrom on the river when there's like there's so many beautiful things that they created that I loved but then there's also the just um oh god you could have done that better right moments but overall I really enjoyed it um let me know what you thought about it uh I do want to get into some spoilers so if you haven't seen it um please go away because I just want to talk about a few things but let me know what you thought about it down below and we're going to get some spoils here um so I was there was some stuff that I wanted to talk about um like they said that they're just kind of confusing and I actually asked my wife this one I got home the first one was in the movie once again the spoilers when when rom's brother dies or or is insanely injured by the by the snake biting right um and they they tell hanuma to go get the stuff the only person that was hurt at least to my knowledge on screen was rom's brother and hanuma went and picked up the entire mountain and I was confused I was like why do you need an entire mountain of the stuff if it's just one guy because I thought that was the motivation because there was so many people hurt in the anime version uh and so you need a lot I asked my wife and she says well in the in the comic book thing they said he doesn't he didn't know which one was which and so to be safe he took the entire mountain and so I guess that that answers that question because that would that actually makes more sense so I she I think answered my questions and once again she's incredibly smart go watch the watch along she's a very smart person um the other things that kind of disappointed me a little bit though um were the the battle so of of lakesh's lakesh right his sons the those battles which I thought were going to be a lot more epic and the big sleeping giant warrior guy I apologize for not knowing his name that was that was a pretty epic battle in the anime it it lasted like a minute and it was like a and it was gone I was so disappointed I was so looking forward to that fight uh so that was very disappointing um the end battle with with syphes and and provis was was better uh so that's good uh there was another funny thing that I that I was wondering why they did this and maybe guy rum I don't think he has super speed but you guys can tell me if he does I didn't look like he did but when sita got captured and and syphes character was taking her away on the bat thing and then the eagle came which I think it was like a a vulture in the anime but I don't know when he came and tried to save her right and they were going all through the air it's hundreds of miles an hour through these mountains and rom and his brother were running on the ground looking up like they could see what was happening but they were like they were long gone but they were running like they were keeping up with them that didn't make any sense to me I was like unless you guys tell me that I but it didn't look like because because then he could have done in the battle and hanama was the one that had to carry him in the battle so if you could explain that to me or if it was just like a they probably shouldn't have done that because if they were as fast as the eagle and the bat were traveling there's no way they they could have kept up with them if I'm wrong please explain to me I'm just stupid but that struck me as strange right um and then the other thing I'm talking about in the beginning which was a really bad vfx but a cool sequence I like the introduction of prowess under the water and then he coming up and kicking ass right I like that whole sequence I thought that was a lot of fun but the guy that was instructing him the cgi was laughably bad on that guy like the the main bad guy and when all those other things were flying around profits he was really bad and then the battle between the two the gorilla that was trying to win back his thing the it was it was computer animated vfx like 2002 vfx so that whole sequence wasn't that great um not all like I said 10 to 15 percent was probably not really really not good um all the other stuff actually it wasn't like I said I'm just happy it wasn't as distracting as I was fearing it was going to be because I was really interested in how they were going to do this story and I actually thought they did a good job uh in making a entertainer uh for for the family right um I'm hoping the next one with Ranbir and alia goes even more in depth and maybe even a little farther in terms of some of the violent and I'm hoping much better vfx all the time but uh those are basically my thoughts um I enjoyed it uh I'm very happy that I enjoyed it because you know with all the trailers even though I was interested you were still nervous going in because of some of the stuff so you guys let me know what you thought about this movie did you like it did you hate it were you happy with what they did do you think I'm an idiot doesn't matter uh please let me know what you thought about this movie down below and I can't do it any justice and I apologize for what I just did