 Most excellent. Most excellent. MWAH-HAH-HAH-HAH-HAH-HAH! Hey, welcome back to our sleepy day or extra b'lluckey, I'm Rick. It's been a while since we've done that. Yeah, follow us on Instagram, Twitter for more GZ content, thank you guys for some Patreon, follow us to the account and subscribe for our like button. We used to do it all the time. We did used to do that all the time. Bring me great joy to... Yes, blow out the ears. ... blow out the ear drums... Yep. ... while we did our intros. It's true. So, gotcha! Welcome back, today we're doing another movie review. And for the reason you're like, why are you in this dark void? You know why. We're inside an enormous, yes, that's what I call it, the Dark Void. Is that what you call her or it? A film about the patriarch. I scraped last night the Dark Void. Anyway, we just got out of the 2013 film, just came out. Thank you for coming. Yes. And what's weird is this film may actually get out for your orgasms. It was really nice. I did it at least twice. Yeah, it was very interesting. Why you did that with your shoes, though? Well, I am a pointer. You're going to need new shoes, pointer. Off the rails already. Wow. Directed by Karan Bulani, written by, forgive me if I mispronounced that, to Radhika Anand and Prashanti Singh, yes. And Pradeepha Anand Kapoor, I guess a lot of Kapoor's. Starring Bhoomi, in a couple, obviously other people. But this is a Bhoomi star, in my opinion. But this will be, we'll talk about non-spoiler stuff since it just came out. Obviously, it's a smaller film. Obviously, it won't do juwan numbers or anything like that. But we'll do start with that. And if we want to get into some spoils, we will let you know before we spoil the film for you. But Rick, your initial non-spoiler thoughts, please. Initial non-spoiler thoughts. I went in with high expectations, obviously, if you saw our reaction to the trailer. We were really excited about the trailer. And my ultimate takeaway from this is I really liked it. All you need to know going in is it has flaws. But I think ultimately if you go in with the understanding that it does have some flaws and you're just there to enjoy Bhoomi Carry the Film and a story that's important, I think you will enjoy it. It wouldn't surprise me if there's some people who walk away from it and didn't like it. I wouldn't have a bone to pick with them. But for me, it's one that I enjoyed watching and for some reason one of the kids wanted to watch it. I would watch it with them and I would just give them a heads up and say, hey, just be forgiving of the flaws because if you do that, I think you'll have a good time. Yeah, I overall liked it as well. I didn't love it. I love parts of it. Parts of it I did love. Yeah, there's some parts I loved for sure. But the overall aspect, I didn't love everything about the film. Like you said, I think it definitely does have flaws. But one flaw is not the first thing I wanna talk about which is Bhoomi. Correct. She is why the film, if there was a lesser actress carrying it, it could have been a big train wreck, but she's so good and so enjoyable to watch on screen. And there's moments we can talk about her acting when we're going into spoilers that convey what a good actor, she's a good actor, everybody. This actress can, I'm looking forward to watching her do meaty stuff. Yeah, and we've seen her many times, including famously in one of the films that did, I think, this kind of subject matter very, very well, which is in Lost Stories. Yes. She was in the Karen Johor one, correct? Yeah. Which is, I think that that almost is a perfect representation on a short film. Oh, wait a minute. Was she? She was in, she was the lead. And I wonder was she somebody else? I don't think she was. Or was it Kira? I thought you were gonna mention, but I do. It was definitely in that. Yeah. I don't think she was in Lost Stories. Hold on. We're looking. Oh yeah, I wanna get that right. No, she was in Lost Stories too. I mean, Lost Stories. She was in the first, with Vicki. It was. Hold on, wait, no, maybe I'm, you've lost your mind. She was in it, hold on. Cause Kira was, so it might, she was in it for sure. I'm trying to remember if she was in Karen Johor's though. How do you find that out? Talk amongst yourselves, everybody. Let me see here. We're looking at her. Okay. She wasn't in Karen Johor's. Okay. She was in one of the other ones though. Okay. She was 100% in it. Okay. But yeah, she was not the one in the story. No, no, no, I apologize. That was Kira. Don who was in Shade Kapoor's, he plays a bad guy. Another film you're talking about? Of Shade Kapoor's. Yes. That she's in. Not Bumi. The one that, it doesn't matter. The one that I was thinking. Going on for real. That was in Karen Johor's, Lost Stories. That had the orgasms in that one. Yes, I remember that vividly. Yes, yes. She was in the Shade Kapoor film, the remake of the Telugu film. Could be her story. Yes, yes. She was in the Shade Kapoor film, the remake of the Telugu film. I was trying to remember the name of it. Got it. Nothing to do with this. Forget what I said. Any old who. So anyways, Bumi, who was not in Lost Stories, who knew she was. But not to rehash that. I thought she did a phenomenal, she carried the film for me. Every frame of film she's in, she brought the comedy, but she also brought the intensity, she brought the emotion, and she did it extremely well. Even though there were other actors that were goodness, she was far and away the best actors in this. Without question. She had the lead roles, obviously. She had the most lead to it, obviously. She's the kind of actress that you can see by her work that she, I don't think she takes any role lightly and she prepares and does what she needs to do for every role the same way. There's a tension to detail that she does. There's a tension to the believability factor. There are parts of this where she could have just defaulted to a phoning it in kind of a thing or even become really cheesy. And she's the reason I wanted to watch every frame. And I'm gonna give her a compliment right now based on two factors. The first one is just the physical resemblance. So often reminded me of Priyanka. But she also reminds me of the best of Priyanka I've seen when she's flexing her thespianatic muscles. I think she's better than Priyanka, in my opinion. That's fine. Because just what I've seen of her, in everything we've seen of her, she's knocked it out of the freaking ball. Well, I consider Priyanka to be a fantastic actress. So do I. So do I. But I just, she's already shown me, and I think we've probably maybe seen a little more of Priyanka just barely though. Yeah. But also she's done. In lead roles. Yeah, she's gotten much bigger properties. Yeah, she's for much longer of period of time. For sure. And I think she, I'm not taking anything away from her, but the little amount that we've seen, I think probably maybe four or five things so far of Boomi's. She's really shown me that she's a top notch actress, and she cares. She's not only fun to watch, she's the kind of actor that, when you see the work she's doing on screen, she's the kind of actor that I would want to work with as an actor. Absolutely. So she's the reason to see the film. Absolutely, see her. And then there was other aspects of it that I did really enjoy. It was fun, it was very playful. And the message is great. The message is good. You probably disliked some things that I liked, the nature of the kinds of films that we like. Maybe. I would suspect we could talk about in spoilers. Like the biggest drawback to the film is I think the writing. Not as a whole, it wasn't like the worst writing I've ever seen, but also a lot of it felt very like, this is what this character's supposed to say. They're supposed to have this argument here because it's gonna lead to this point right here. And so there was a lot of that. And I have no problem with, because I saw some reviews previous on Twitter. And people, if people call this film woke. What? Yeah, I know, it's absolutely. I can see why they would, but good grief, folks. Like they think anything that has to do with any. Anything that's progressive is woke. Anytime a woman is doing anything other than the ordinary, it's now woke. Which baffles the mind. But there was actually some common story threads of stuff that we've seen earlier this year, like in OMG2 without giving anything away. There's a very similar plot point in that film that is kind of common. And some of the characters have been rehashed in many films in Hollywood, India. One character rehashed we could talk about in spoilers. That one actually I liked. We loved it. I enjoyed the shout out there. But like in talk about the certain type of friends that then turned out to be blah, blah, blah. So like overall, like I said, I enjoyed the film, but there were definitely some sometimes meaty flaws in the writing for me that I'm like, I just, I wanted you to do better. Maybe it'll be a little more like creative. You know what it reminded me of? And I mean this solely complimentary. I feel like this was a genuinely strong, long attempt to make something commercially accessible that also touched upon very touchy subjects, pun intended, in terms of what the censor board would allow to be talked about in terms of what audiences would allow their family to go see together. And it gave me the analogy I could best give it would be a really great drawing that your kid draws for you that has some flaws if you were to grade it on artistic excellence per se, but because the attempt is so heartfelt and the meaning behind it is so heartfelt and you can see how much they cared about what they were doing. It adds a level of appreciation for it that you're not necessarily gonna go tout it to everybody, but you're for sure putting it in on your fridge. That's how I feel about this movie. This is one of those that I understand that a lot of people wouldn't like it. But for me, I think it's a really sweet movie that has an important message with Boomi just being the star that carries it. Yeah, and the, what were you just saying? So I had a point based off of that. I was making the analogy about it having particular aspects of it where the initial thing I said about it. Oh yeah, I remember. You got it? Okay. Yeah, I was at times wishing and maybe it was just they didn't have as big of a budget as let's say in a Yushman because a Yushman would do a lot of these style of films in terms of like, for sure. Great message. With a social message. Something that's not normally talked about. Right. That the way his format is, obviously I know he's not the director of it, but the films he decides to choose with the directors, it's a little more like concise and a little more polished and a little more. With the story? With the kind of filmmaking and story. Because at times it felt like it was almost, not everything and it's probably not the right word, but sometimes it felt almost like amateurish in terms of like this story, like the writing of the, especially some of the dialogue. Yeah. It was never cringy or bothersome to me at the point it was like, oh God. There was a few times that got to me with that because I'm like, I just, you know people don't talk like that. Come on. Was that more toward the end? No. Oh, okay. It was sprinkled in a little everywhere. Okay. Like, I've seen way worse it happens like, I'm not trying to dig on the film at all. I've seen it happen way worse in films we've watched from India, from in Hollywood as well. It's just, there was times that, because I wanted this to be like this. I wanted this to be one of my favorites of the year. It wouldn't surprise me if it was because they had the certain constraints. I mean granted it's gonna stream on Netflix so that's a great thing. But I wouldn't surprise me if there was a lot of conversations about what we can and can't say versus just we're telling our story and screw all of you. I wish they, I wish more screenwriters and filmmakers in Indian cinema could, this is a spoiler, I'll save it. This is something that, I'm gonna reference something in the film, I'll save it for the spoilers. Well, I think you should go watch it. Yeah, I do too. Support it. Go in for Boomi's performance because I think that's the stand out of this film. That and the message is the stand out. Just know that it's not gonna be a perfect film. And you will probably walk away with like, I wish this was better, I wish that was better. But I think it's definitely worth your time. And there might be some moments in story where you're thinking to yourself, okay, that's filler, let's get back on track. But it's worth going to see. But so if you haven't watched it, please go watch it, come back. We're gonna get into some spoilers. Spoiler time. A couple other things you wanted to talk about. So what I was gonna say was I wish they can't because too often, no matter what they say or what they do, unless it goes to a streaming platform, if they want a theatrical release, the censor board's gonna have their hand all over it. And I wish, I wish, I wish that climactic scene, I wish more writers and filmmakers could just say to censorship what she says to the audience. Fuck you all. You know? And I think that it wouldn't surprise me if we spoke with the writers that was probably a consideration. And it may have been even something that Anil Kapoor had said, we wanna make this accessible and we wanna get this past the censor board and keep our message intact. So if we have to forfeit with some of the believability and the reality and keep it a bit more saccharine and Disney-fied, and when I say Disney-fied, I mean like Disney Channel, right? This feels more Disney Channel than it does at Disney film per se. Yeah, for sure. But I particularly liked for all of the flaws because there's some continuity errors, there's some things with cinematography, things that are just pretty standard. There were also some things that were really neat that I, that's the thing that was endearing to me where I found they paid attention to some details like, you pointed out, there's, it's not a coincidence that the Lightning McQueen sheets are on the web. Yeah, that was very fun. Right? I also loved when she sat up at the beginning, she had the crown of lights behind her that they framed perfectly on top of her head. I also loved the fact that there was a, there's several shots like that throughout as well as sound design. There's a moment where a clock is ticking and when the score kicks in, it kicks in at the tempo of the clock tick. Those little things of detail showed me that they really were doing their utmost to try to make a film that was quality. And at times it missed, but I loved, again, using that analogy of the picture you put on your refrigerator, I could see the attempt at making it as good as they could. Yeah, yeah. And there was many aspects of that I did really, like in the, I liked the whole, basically, and I figured it would come to this, obviously of, it was basically about self love. I was hoping the end was gonna be her masturbating. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what was my thought. And I actually thought that sequence of her mastering was actually quite well done. Which is great, yes. Cause it can come off sometimes as like a way too cliche, or- Either cliche or just, it's provocative, just to be provocative, and it didn't, it was beautiful. I thought that sequence was really nice. I thought a lot of supporting actors did a good job, some better than others. Agreed. And a lot of it was stereotypical, like, okay, she fell in love, obviously her high school sweetheart, or not sweetheart, but the high school guy that she liked. And then she found another guy who was perfect, but he turned out to be gay. Yes. And then like, it's very simple. Anoka poor, 55, dying in 15 years. Yeah, whoa. Hey, everybody. Wow. I hope we get a lot more than 15 years from Anoka poor. Kidding. And also, I think he's older than 55, right? He is older than 55. Yeah. But yeah, come on. Yo, if y'all are expecting at 55, you're only gonna have 10 or 50 more years. You need to start taking better care of yourselves. Just public announcement there. And then the whole, it happened at OMG too as well. All these people that had this video of these two, whatever they were doing, sexual-wise. There were parents that had it on their phone. You should all be tried for child pornography. Exactly. Like what the fuck are you doing? Exactly. Making the girl who did not film it, and didn't even know it was being filmed, you're gonna shame her. So she should sue, and he should go to jail. Like, I don't, it's happened twice. It's happened twice. It's happened twice. Why is this just normal that in films, you're like, yeah, she should apologize. That's supposed to, all of you should go to jail. By the way, before I forget, I loved all the kids shouting out their stuff at the end. You know, smash patriarchy, I'm not wearing a bra. My heart goes out to the kid who said, I'm not doing math. I'm with you, buddy. I am with you, particularly algebra. And then there's a highbrow's girl there at the end too. Yeah, I'm giving them my eyebrows done. Yeah, so there's a lot of like cute, because it did have a rom-com-y feel to it. So I expected that. Very rom-com-y, very Disney-feel. I can appreciate. And then there was a lot of stuff at party things that I'm like, that's not how people talk. Of course. You're a 30-year-old. Of course. You're not gonna talk like that. And the first half had a lot of music and dancing to the point I thought, just make it 90 minutes. You don't have to make it two hours. There was a lot of music and dancing in the first half that took me away from story and I wanted to get back on track with story. In the second half, I did appreciate the fact that kind of weaved it and I didn't see her sleeping with her, obviously she didn't. No, I the whole time thought it was gonna get back to her. Yeah, so did I. I was like, they didn't show, so I'm assuming, but also I didn't see the element of- I was hoping it would. Him coming in and that for being for a while. Because then there's a whole conflict of she, her friend of 25 years came in and punched her in the face. You're saying you didn't see that. I didn't see that one coming. Me too. Obviously she didn't. But I also thought it was hilarious that she came in and then in the exact same moment, the friend's mom came in that exact same moment. It was very Disney in terms of like everything crescendoing and everything came in at one time. And so like there was some of those elements or some of the stuff I'm talking about in terms of, I just, I was hoping for a little bit better in terms of the writing being a little bit more mature. Like a bedidoo. Yeah, exactly. Bedidoo was perfect in how they, it was commercial, strong message. It just, it didn't, but I do didn't have any of those moments of how that was a cringy dialogue that you just said or blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I have no issues with the messaging because I think the messaging is important and true. Yeah. About sexuality, women's sexuality, women's self-pleasure, women's happiness in themselves. Yeah, and as much as, we said this in the trailer reaction too, as much as a woman should feel empowered for sure and be able to feel like, everybody should be able to feel completely whole sexually and that they can pleasure themselves and there's nothing wrong with that or to be ashamed about that. However, that being said, guys, please do your utmost. And why it even needs to be said, if you care about the person you're with, why wouldn't you want them? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, that can be learned this day and age quite easily, but the biggest thing of the female empowerment and also... Sex is an all penetration. Correct. It's interesting that for a mom who was so progressive and independent and a gynecologist and they seemed to be so close, but even still, her grown adult woman daughter had never had an orgasm, which conveyed, even in the closest of relationships, that's a taboo subject that ought not be taboo. Yeah, why wasn't mom, this really progressive, independent mom who's empowering of women, how did she, how did they not have a close enough relationship? That was the taboo subject that they couldn't talk about apparently. The gynecologist. Yeah, the gynecologist mom with raising the daughter, it's astonishing. I don't think it's a mistake in the writing. I think it's an intentional thing to convey that we need to get better at being able to talk to our kids about all things, because oh, you know, shock everybody, your kids are gonna have sex. They're sexual beings. I never had sex. Yeah, no. Just dreamt about it. Just dreamt about it and then I had twins. That's it. That's how it came from. That's where they came from, his dreams. Wet dreams. Yes. And then my wife fell over. That was great, that scene. Yeah. Happens to the best of us. And that was really great. That was one of my favorite moments. They didn't say anything to each other, just he gives her the look of, and she goes, and he looks at her again, and says, and then it's just to get the tissue please. Yeah. I thought he did a good job. I did too. I thought you could have, with a lesser actor, I think you could have really made it a cheesy character. Yeah. I thought he brought a lot of heart to it. I did too. Even though he's like an eccentric, nerdy, kind of a kind of uppity character. It's also the quality of Buhumi is, I'd like to see those actors with lesser actors and see what happens, because sometimes weak actors, tell you what, they work with a strong actor, it elevates their performances because you're working with somebody that's so good. Exactly. And it wouldn't surprise me if that was the case for folks. Because just, there's some moments, there's a little moment where she's walking with her friends just before our poo shows up. Oh yeah. Which we loved. Yeah, I did enjoy that little shout out. Really loved that shout out. She looked like her. She did. It was intentional. They clearly cast her. Clearly. Or maybe she's a relative and someone I have no idea. But she looked like her, man. 100%. So right in that moment, she's walking Buhumi's walking with her friends and she hears the voice behind her. But just before that, they're walking and there's some background people walking behind her that she makes eye contact with and she does what anyone would do in that situation. Just as a natural, quick, high, nice to see a moment that wasn't indicated or fake. It was just a generic moment that I promise you. Probably wasn't in the take prior to that. I don't know. But there's just these natural things that Buhumi does as an actress where she's incorporating everything that's going on. She's the kind of actress I think that whatever you were to give her is another actor, she would receive it and volley it back to you in a fresh way and no two scenes would ever be the same. And she's just really enjoyable to watch. And in every aspect, when she's having fun, when she's doing comedy, when she's doing really emotional scenes, there's this same groundedness and approach where she's clearly a very serious actress. I'm a big fan. Really enjoyed her. Not me. I thought she was terrible. You lie. That's true. I am lying. Anyways, let us know what you thought about the film. If you, let us know what you thought about the film. If you've seen it, if you liked it, if you didn't like it, what didn't you like about it? What did you like about it? What should be our next Buhumi? Yes. So am I saying that name correctly? Cause I feel like I'm not. I feel like it's, I feel like there's an H and we're probably butchering it that it's not just Buhumi, but it's Buhumi. Buhumi? Correct us if we're wrong. I'm probably wrong. Miss Buhumi. But yes, please let us know for that and- Well, we know she's got something coming up. That's a big fricking- Oh, Tarte or whatever. Yeah. If y'all don't know about that, everybody's in that. Everybody's in that. Anyways, let us know what you thought about this down below.