 Want to have some of my nuts? No. Only if they're big bees. Not talking about the twins. Hey, we'll go back to our stupid direction. See if it's a Corbin. I'm nuts. See what I did there? What did we just see that in? That was our watch along. Oh yeah, that's right, that's what it was. I was like, welcome. How did I see that? Anyways, hey, we'll go back to our stupid direction? No. Hey, we'll go back to our stupid direction. Actually, you did. I'm just fucking with you. Today, we're doing a movie review. I couldn't do it because of the nuts in my mouth. Yeah, we're used to it. Fitting for lust stories. If I could get my own nuts in my mouth. Today, we're doing a movie review of lust stories. Oh crap, really? I watched the wrong movie. Ah, man. But if you haven't seen our reviews of lust stories one, just watch that just a couple of days ago. We did. Loved lust stories one. This was true. And we also saw Bombay Talkies. So if you haven't seen that, we actually did a little watch along with that one. So you can go check those out. But the way it's going to be just like the last list of stories review, we're going to review each of the four short stories individually. And then we will go over like our rankings of which ones we like best and what we didn't like as much. But the directors are bulky who we've seen quite a lot. Not English fingers. What did we see? It was not. He'd produced that. It was. And we've seen the trailers for several of his things too. Like Mission Mongol, Padman. I know you. Hold on. That he helmed? Chini Koum. Oh, that he was a director of Chini Koum. I was like, we've seen something he's directed before. Sujoy Josh. Dost or Bondu. Bondu. Yup. Amit. Ravinderanath Sharma. Who did he direct, Badai Ho? Marvel. Yes. Yeah. He directed Badai Ho. And Konkona Sanchama, who I don't think we've seen anything she's directed, but we have seen quite a bit of her as a actress. Yes. Obviously. And then it's starring, including multiple Dosts. Yes. And it's not a Dost, but Kajal. Future Dost. Future Dost and Kajal. Dost. Tilla Tama. Tilla Tama and Vijay Varma. Yes. Are the Dosts that round out these films. But we're going to go over the, I think it was Bulkies first, right? Yeah. The Grandma one, essentially. The Grandma one. So this is going to be a full spoiler review. If you'd like to see non-spoiler ones, just go watch those. It's hard to do short films that just, in that way. That's true. So if you just want to do short, go watch it. Come back and you can hear about it. But we're going to go over his first. Rick, what did you think of Bulkies short? I thought it was okay. I thought it, like, and you'll hear this about pretty much all of them as a whole, that I felt that this was, I wrote down that none of them really came close to matching the quality for me of the first four. Yeah. Definitely not as anywhere near as good. Yeah. I mean, there were a couple of good performances from through the actors, but other than those four, I felt that a lot of it, and this one was particularly that way as it led off, that a lot of it felt formulaic, forced, that had flaws to use to continue the Fs. I felt like they missed the beautiful human complexity of the first four. I didn't find the grandma to be particularly believable. I also didn't think it was a particularly good lesson to make a marriage sex and orgasmic centric to happiness, even if it's a thought. I just really felt it was pretty simplistic and was far more for the shock value of having a grandma talking about sex and orgasms than anything necessarily a good moral to take away from. Yeah. I liked the concept in terms of having a sex positive grandma because you don't get that a lot. No, especially in Indian culture and cinema. But yeah, I ended it as I was like, that was it? Exactly. We couldn't go any deeper than that in terms of like either her relationship or like why she's feeling this way, like why she has this thought process or also just like go just, it just felt very surface level to me. Yep. Absolutely. It felt like the takeaway as well. Did you see the story with the grandma who talks about sex? Yeah. I was like, sure, if you want that to be your initial concept, I'm cool with that because I don't mind a sex positive grandma. Yeah. But I need more. It just felt like, I don't say a student film, but in terms of like the concept. The concept. In terms of going deeper. Yeah, yeah, the writing concept. It was shallow. It was shallow. Yeah. I wanted more from this concept because right when it started, I was like, oh cool. We're going to have a grandma that's kind of defying the odds of what tradition, family tradition is and all that. I was like, cool, cool, cool. And it just didn't go any farther. I agree. I agree. And I also felt that some of the humor moments between her and her granddaughter, the laughter felt forced. It didn't feel like it was genuinely funny in the moment. Yeah. I mean, I know they were trying to go with the uncomfortableness of the nature of was like, you're my grandma. Why are you talking about sex? Ha ha. Yeah. She did it a lot. A lot. And so it did seem a little overboard, even though I know in Indian culture it is different obviously. Yeah. And yes, there definitely should be, we talked about this in the last one, there should be a discussion made in regard, again, nothing new was said. We already saw a story in which it was important in the last one, it was the last of the four, the Karan and Johar piece to be specific, where Vicki gives her the ice cream. We already got the message in the storytelling prior that it is important to make sure that you take care of the other person, that you're not selfish in your sexual expression, that it isn't just about your orgasm. But also I really didn't like, you know, you can have sex without orgasms guys and still have a healthy sexual life. I mean, yes, orgasm should be included, but just because someone doesn't have an orgasm doesn't mean the sexual expression wasn't a good one or it was unhealthy in some way. It becomes orgasmic centric, which is pretty shallow like the short story. And the final thought on that is I felt like, you know, if you're going into a relationship and you're treating it with the analogy of you got to test drive your car. Well, if you're going to keep the car analogy, then you're going to probably want a new car after a hundred thousand miles. And that's a pretty sucky analogy to have for a marriage. And if your sex centric, what are you going to do if you get married and on your honeymoon, someone has an accident, now you have to love a paraplegic. Sex isn't going to be what you expected. You're going to leave them. I just, it just didn't work. This didn't work for me at all as far because it's storytelling. And the first four had these beautiful complex morals to their stories that aren't so easily surmised. And this one just felt like it was going for shock value. Yeah, I just wanted, I just wanted more. And I don't feel like I have the exact same opinion that you have of that. Even though I understand, and I think with better writing, it could have been handled better. I think they were trying to go for the fact that since India, sex is such a taboo that you need to know if you are compatible in that aspect. And so I just think if there was better writing as a whole, it could have gone even farther, you know, and had more impact. Corbin, are you daring to say that theater, whether it's stage or screen, needs good writers? Yeah. Wow. It's probably the most... What a concept. You mean to say... It's probably the most important part of filmmaking and then theater. You mean to tell me that without the writers, everything's reality television, even though that's scripted too? Yeah. Yeah, wow. Isn't that wild? Yeah, it's crazy. Anyway, so yeah, that, let us know your opinion of that one, obviously. Yeah. Now we're going to go on to Konkona Sen Sharma's with Telotama and the other actress is... Oh yeah. We've... Hold on. I'm going to find her here. It's bothering me that her name is bothering me. This one right here. Amruta. Thank you. We have seen her many times before. So sorry, Amruta. This was by far the best one, I think. 100%. This one was almost as good as the prior for. Absolutely. Konkona Sen Sharma, a phenomenal actress apparently also has a phenomenal eye for direction. Yep. And also, hiring great actresses and performers is, I think as an actor, it's probably, it was very important to her. She's like, I know I need good actors. The two best moments were the fight and then the fruit stand. Those were my favorite moments. I love this whole short. I love how, this one fit the theme better than any of the other ones in this. Yeah, like the first movie set, right? Yes. Yeah. Like, and I know there was like elements of lust in all of them, but I feel like the first one, there's like, oh, this overwhelming thing of different types of lust. This one just had a little lust element. A little lust element. Yeah, I wrote down, we all have our little picadillos. Yeah. Right? Our little things that are the turn-ons to us that we're embarrassed, but we ought not be. Yeah, this one was the most lusty, I guess. Yeah, well, they both got turned on by something that's taboo. She liked to watch. She liked to be watched. Yeah, both of them, it was like, questionable to not tell the other person, obviously. Yeah. She used to watch people without their permission and shouldn't have sex in somebody else's house without their permission. Exactly. But, you know, they ended up working it out. They worked it out. They worked it out. But the performance is, Tilo Tama is a phenomenal actress, obviously, adosed. She gave a really good nuanced performance in this one. And it was very complex. And you saw so much going on behind her eyes. I love the fact that it was directed by a woman so you could, like, she wasn't showing, you know, breasts to show breasts. She was showing it from the female gaze. And it was all on eyes a lot of times. And I really thought each of the moments we got to see where they were having sex with Tilo Tama's seeing, I thought they were awesome because they were graphic enough to really show us stuff that's going on and get you, for lack of a better term, as titillated as Tilo Tama would be watching it without it being gratuitous and over the top. Because in the wrong hands, a director could have done this and made it distasteful. Yeah, like whoever directed the idol. The what? The idol, you hear about that? No. It's the Lily Rose Deb HBO show. It's the director of Euphoria. Oh, it's Saino Moore. Yeah, he's... Saino Moore. He's getting, for doing like way too gratuitous graphic. Oh, what a shock. You seen Euphoria? No. Yeah. I stopped watching Euphoria because all it was about was gratuitous porn. Yeah, I think it's for different audience, for sure. Yeah, it's definitely a different audience. Somebody who wants to go to porn hub. Yeah, pretty much. Anyways, but yeah, Tilo Tama did a phenomenal job. And also, and don't forget her, Amruta. Yeah, magnificent performance. The moment she found out and then got this sense of power, the power and the turn on. Yeah, she's like, I never felt this power. Right. She's like, hmm, I kind of like that. Over my boss. Yeah, I don't know if it's the fact that, you know, that she was being watched, I was turning her on, but the fact that it was her boss who has been in charge of her for all these years, basically. Yeah. That's the, that was the turn on. The fact that somebody who was in authority over her. Sure. Or higher or rich or whatever. I also loved that she's been probably married to this husband for many, many years and they still have a really active sex life, man. They turn each other on. Yeah. It's a great example. The guy did a good job as well. He did. I loved their, the whole dynamic. I loved how complex it was. I love the fight scene. It was phenomenal. Oh yeah. Great fight scene. That was been a joy to act in and film. My, my, I have only one problem with this one. I felt it was a little long. I felt like it didn't need. Yeah, I wrote down a couple of times. I said, once we've established what's happening, it was enough. We didn't need to see it for as long as we did. It's fine. But then also I wanted it to end when she handed her the keys and they parted at that fruit stand. I wanted to fade to black. We didn't need to go back to the apartment and watch the door open. It was like, we, we know. Yeah. You already ended it there. It was a creative choice that she decided she wanted. And yeah, I agree. I'm always for the, even though it was a strong moment, opening the door is a strong moment. Sure. But yeah, I agree. The, the handoff of the key would have been a stronger moment for, for me as well. But yeah, this is definitely my favorite. Me too. Of the, the one, definitely the least amount of flaws, I guess. Yeah. Um, so let us know what you thought about this one. Obviously now we're going to go on to our Bondus Sujoy Josh. This is one that I, a lot of people have a lot of feelings about that I found. That doesn't surprise me. Um, some people said he thought he was in ghost stories. He thought he was making a ghost. I knew, you knew what was going on, didn't you? Oh, immediately. Well, it's kind of, yeah, it's like, why is it so picturesque? Yeah, it's because he's dead. Yeah. Or like he's a, I thought it was like almost in a, he was either dead or in a coma. I thought it was more of in like, he's in a purgatory. Yeah. Whatever happened, he didn't just have an accident. Now he's walking through a town. Yeah. It was very clear immediately. There was no Twilight Zone. Yeah. We're going to get a payoff. Clearly he was, he made that choice to have it that, because immediately upon the driving, I was like, why is it such bad green screen right now? Yeah. And then it continued. I'm like, who clue, this is a choice that we're making. Right, we're making, right. We're not being subtle. Yeah. The VJ of Arma, also a doster, so it's a double doster. But yeah, this one, a lot of people either didn't get or just didn't like it, obviously. And this is. It definitely feels like the odd wheel in all eight stories. Even though it does have elements of the lust, and I think I got what he was trying to say, it's probably still my least favorite of them all. I think it has the weakest message. Between this one and the grandma one. It's just, I don't know if it all, that he was trying to convey worked. I agree, right? Yeah. Had I'm not fully convinced that I know what he was trying to convey other than maybe the pathway of lust is death, I don't know. Well, I think. I don't know if that's it. And there wasn't a payoff. When he came to look at the dead body, I had already known that 15, 20 minutes earlier. I knew it was going to be him on the ground. So I did like, has nothing to do with the moral of the story or the lust aspect of it, I did like the Western music with the, this town isn't big enough for the two of us when the cop gets with him. But I didn't. I didn't understand where all of these this far have a very clear moral to the story. The only takeaway I got from this was, you know, don't have phone sex while you're driving. Don't lust after people that you're not married. I don't know. It was weak. Yeah. It definitely had a convoluted message for sure. And also just choices that were strange for us to judge us from what we've seen at least of his that, you know, he obviously decided to make those choices and it was just, they didn't work for a lot of people. I looked on IMDB and I also looked elsewhere. I can't find specific writing credits for each segment. Can you? I think they were all written. Just like the last one. All of them wrote all four. I believe so. Collaboratively. No. No, no, no. They wrote their piece. Just like the last one. Okay. The last one, Anurag wrote his. Yeah. Well, that was clear in the credits on IMDB. I believe it's the same. I mean, there's no writing credits on IMDB Pro. Yeah. Hello. Yeah. I believe it's the exact same thing. They wrote their specific. And this one again, like the first one, though they're very different, this one felt like we have an idea we want to play versus a message we want to share. Yeah. It definitely seemed like he had this concept. It was a concept. And tried to, and I'm all about, you know, directors, you know, thinking of something and trying to do it, but it doesn't always work. Yeah. Not that I think this was like awful or anything. It's just, I don't think it was, I think his, the concept he had in his head probably just didn't come to fruition the way maybe he wanted it to. Yeah. I think. Because it was definitely the weakest. I feel like, even though I thought VJ, he's a great actor. I thought he did a good job, but there was nothing like amazing in this. And it was, when I was watching, I knew my wife immediately upon seeing the stuff. I was like, they're in purgatory or they're in a different realm or something like that. And I saw some people on Twitter said, Suju and Josh thought he was in ghost stories, not lost stories. Yeah, that's true. So, oops, sorry, missed the memo. It was very much. And it just, it also pacing-wise, it just dragged. Yeah. Yeah. But, you know, let us know what you thought about this episode and then now we're going to go on to, who's the director? The last one is Amit Rabindranath Sharma. Sharma. This would be my second favorite of the two, of the four. Yeah. But still, far behind Konkanas. Konkanas is up here. Yeah. And then this one's way down here and then the first one's way below it and then they're kind of equal. Yeah, I just, the only one for me that was a take away to watch was Konkanas. The other three for me were all kind of equally flat and just, and I have reasons for it with this one. And it's a shame because I felt of these three other than the Konkanas one, I felt this one had the greatest potential and it just didn't hit the potential based on the story that was outlined for us and the payoff at the end. I felt it had a lot of potential and it just felt really short for me. Well, where did it fall short for you? It fell short in a couple of respects. There were some things, for example, it's very rare for someone with that level of alcohol addiction to have that high of libido. It's just not that this doesn't happen. Secondarily, it seemed completely incongruent with the character we'd been shown of the husband to withhold a slap. When he went to slap her and didn't, it made no sense to me. He should have made us uncomfortable. I should have been just, you just hit Kajal? He did multiple times. All the more reason why, when he had the opportunity to do it, when he turned her around, why he withheld it made no sense in light of the way the character had been displayed. I also thought it was really dumb for her to just bring Reika in. Did she not keep in mind the fact that he's going to rape her so she's going to get it too? I mean, bringing Reika to sleep with her husband, she's just going to get it too. Was it a murder or suicide by way of an infected prostitute? Do you think she knew she was eventually going to die too? I think she was probably hoping to leave with her son. I think it was probably that. I think she was just trying to find a way to have more revenge. And if she died in this time, she basically already seemed like a walking corpse almost at time. To a certain extent so that she could have stuff for her son? Yeah. So I think that was the intent there. I also felt that with what it was given, you have someone of the caliber of a cajol. I just felt like they didn't give her enough to work within a story that could have been powerful. It felt real short for me. It did fall that short for me in terms of how short it felt for you. I enjoyed cajol's performance. I enjoyed the thing because it's not like a fun story. No, it's not. But I did enjoy the payoff of the... Not of the twist at the end. I liked that. That she basically killed her son. Right. Morbid. Love it. I did really enjoy that twist there. Do I think it could have been even better? Yeah, I do think it could have been better with some more intensity at times. Sure. And maybe a little faster in terms of progressing the story. Yeah. It did pace-wise. Got boring. But I enjoyed it in terms of... I mean, if this one was in the last one, yeah, sure, it'd probably still been the last. The least of the... And the last four. I might have enjoyed it. All of them have actually been under... Oh, yeah. They're all under the first. I might have also enjoyed this a little bit more. Had it been upfront, because by the time I reached it, I already had had three that fell short of Lost Stories 1, so I kind of was already in a state of disappointment, which I'm sure helped shape some of my disappointment in this segment. Yeah. Well, yeah, it definitely... This Lost Stories does not even hold a candle. Nah. Even the... Con Conna's is fantastic. Hers is worth watching. Could have fit in the first Lost Stories, even though it would have still been the weakest if you had all the other Lost Stories in there. It fell cut from the same cloth. But I thought that one was definitely the best. I'm looking forward to seeing more of her. But this one, for this four, I thought was the second best. And I enjoyed a lot of elements of it. Sadly, I think it fell victim to... In the first one, they had a very clear vision of what they wanted to portray and a very clear idea of a message they wanted to get across in their storytelling. And it felt like this was, hey, Netflix has greenlit a part two. Let's do it. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I could definitely see that. But, you know, it's... So how would you... You said your ranking would be... Con Conna's is at the top. This one, way below that one, and the other two basically... Yeah, because the story for this one, I felt could have... Same ranking. This would be my second favorite. And then, as shallow as it was, the grandma would be three, and then the weird ghost story one would be last. Yeah, I think... I don't think this one would be as far as you had for two for me, but I think I would have the exact same ranking. But points, and this is maybe what attracted Sujo Ghosh to the project, tip of the cap for doing something different outside the box. Definitely get it... Get it originally. You get a tip of the cap for that. He usually does. Yeah. I'd rather do that and fail than be predictable and boring. He was definitely trying for something. Yeah, absolutely. So let us know what your ranking of these ones would be. And... I bet this isn't a 40-minute review, is it? Like, love stories. No. Love stories one was a 39-minute review. I bet it's 25. Yeah, yeah. Just because you have to talk about it. You can always tell from the length. Oh, yeah. How much you enjoy it. Exactly. And we really enjoyed our stories one. Thank you very much. So if you let us know your rankings of the short stories and how you enjoyed them, we will probably get to go stories, but it will probably be in October. Just we're going to save that for... Spooky times. For spooky times, just so we have some spooky stuff to watch. We love spooky times. And if there's other anthologies that we should watch from any language, please let us know what those anthologies should be down below.