 Hi, welcome back to Rick and Corbin's black void take a whiff. Hey, welcome back to our Steve the director of Corbin I'm Rick you can follow the Instagram Twitter for more juicy content Thank you to everybody's for son patreon follows official Twitter account subscribe and hit the like button. Yeah, and Today we're doing a movie review We just came out of our second film of the day. We've been in the movie theaters all day long. It's true. Our families hate us But we just came out of the movie don't key our second film of the day We obviously we saw Salar first the Tolugu film and the new 2023 SRK Rajkumar Hrani Venture obviously the highly anticipated film very much a third film of the year. Yep And also starring obviously Tapsi Panu Boman Hrani Vickie's in there Many tickets basically the the known names there But obviously this just came out So we are going to do a non-spoiler and then if we want to get to some spoils We will tell you before we get to those spoils. You little naughty little babies Rick your initial thoughts of Donkey bottom line is see it or skip it for me. It's a skip it It's see it. You know you can't I always want the movies to do well But this one misses on a whole bunch of levels for me. We'll talk about it in a minute But yeah, this one this one did not come anywhere close to Meeting the expectations I had for it Yeah, I'm disappointed as well It's not like it's not like kgf2. It's not that that was a colossal Does that which is funny because we just came out of Salar, which we loved which is by the director as kgf2 It's not on that epic scale But it is a disappointment Absolutely, and if you were to ask me which one I was like which one do you think is going to be good and I would have told you I'm hoping they're both gonna be good, but I'm pretty sure donkey is getting a time Yeah, the betting odds for us going in just on past experiences would have been with that Expectation and it was completely the opposite which is No, I don't want to say fun. Yeah, but different Yeah, so though it was a and Yeah, there's a lot to unpack. There is we just came It was I feel like there was just too much. It's kind of it's kind of a hot mess with the messaging. Yeah, and also just Maybe he needs to go back to simpler stories Like the simple story of moon a by it's I mean the complex issue is that they think they have a hospital, right? I mean, that's the complexity of it, but then it's simple humans You know at that relation pk same thing with complex topics, right? But simple story right and three idiots similar thing. Yeah complex topic Simplish story and then you start getting into like Sanju and then I'm like, okay I was on you was fine. It was not our favorite right, but and then now this is just like I feel like you're trying to go So big when what people love you for is your small intimate Like I I think the biggest issue is that the screenplay I I didn't care about anybody. No, I mean Vicki Vicki was probably the main one that I cared about but he's a small supporting role in this as well I thought he did a phenomenal job in his small role But he was probably the extent of like I care for this character Other than that, I'm like and it's not I don't really think the actors fall either. It's just the story in the way they set it up I was like I don't This is like a awful situation that these people are supposed to going through but I'm not caring and it wasn't as awful as a Lot of people who have to go through the kinds of experiences They're trying to get to like this is they're going through an awful, right? It just it just didn't it didn't register and the other thing for me and I will I will Play this one note Banjo forever I Really would love I'm gonna keep wishing for the day that I get to watch Shahrukh Khan Bite into something as hefty as my name is Khan again He has what those in the acting world and who train actors and have been trained He hasn't he has a really good tool belt that he uses all the time And people who aren't trained in acting wouldn't notice it because his tool belts that good, but yeah He knows what we're talking about in that regard and and it's disappointing to watch an actor refer Just use what works rather than work on the incarnation of a character that is real flesh and blood And that that was disappointing for me as well. The biggest disappointment for me was the story I just the story is all over the place. It has some messaging. That's kind of infuriating And and it just it just it just didn't work and the comedy sections of it didn't work There was no laughter There's a maybe we had half a house I think I could count on one hand the number of times I heard some chuckles Well, no, I did hear people laugh more than we did there's a lady to the right of me That was well, she she was she was on cocaine. She was on cocaine And so I think some of the humor in this one and it wasn't like an insane amount of laughter But there was more people did laugh more than we laughed in certain circumstances So I think a lot of it was either cultural or Dialogue that that translation was just a lot of a lot of the humor for me was kind of like Three stooge's humor without the hilarity. Yeah. Yeah, and that was one of my concerns It was like does rush tomorrow Ronnie's humor work now, right? Because obviously a lot of times with old comedies you're like, okay, that's a dated joke We don't make those jokes in a joke. Yeah, just straight up insulting. Yeah, there's a really bad Like there's people are up in arms obviously we have our own opinions of animal But people open arms because of misogyny and we've talked about like that wasn't the issue for that film You know, we're fine with misogynistic characters give that's the character. Yeah, some of these jokes are way more insulting Than any then any joke I heard and well and some of the messaging we'll get into in spoilers Some of the messaging about immigration, which that's not a hit, you know, that's not a spoiler You know the film has to do with that. There's some messaging in there about immigration That's just that's just very problematic for me By reason of just it's a really important issue anywhere in the world. It's a really important issue here in America It's a really important issue for me who I am married to an immigrant and the process We have had to go through and the process. I know others have gone through we'll talk about that in the spoiler section But ultimately this is one of those no if you're gonna go to a movie this weekend I wish I could recommend both because you never want a movie to not do well I care about the people who make this film. We love the folks in the cast We don't ever want to wish a filmmaker to not do well But at the end of the day, I care more about as do you we care more about the art form and Cinema and this is just not one that I Unfortunately recommend. Yeah, I I just don't know if Rajkumar Hirani is the right person to make this film, you know, like It'd be interesting to see because I would love to know a story about the actual donkey like I'd like to see a real Like a real depiction of an actual story Yeah, because obviously people that immigrate to whatever country for whatever reason there's a lot of reasons, right? And obviously immigration is a really complex subject But it's like You know, it's almost like His style of filmmaking is almost making light of it at some point And it doesn't work in the way we've said this because we've recently seen what Nelson can do with a very serious subject matter Yeah, and actually make it work. I don't even know that Nelson I don't know that anybody should try to take this subject matter and weave it through in the context of this kind of Attempt at a comedy and then try some of the other things with the dramatic that just don't they just don't work Dramatologically and that means that it there's just no justification for some of the things that happen on the dramatic side other than We're going to do this for dramatic effect And that's never a good way to tell a story and I feel like there wasn't Even on that though, if he even if he did obviously he made this film I feel like there wasn't any Rajkumar Hirani magic. No, I agree and I missed it like it made me sad PK three idiots moonabai. Yeah, even there was some magic in in Sanju Like he has this element that was like, this is just I feel I feel good Correct, and I never got there with this and it was and I wanted to I'm looking for it It's like you're not expecting him to feed you the gold. I'm looking all over for it And it just it's just not there. Yeah It's sad But I mean we got one really good film and if you haven't seen our Salar review, please go watch our Salar Please go watch that movie if you like a big Actually with really good story actually Go see that film. But yeah, so that'll be the end of our non spoilers. We're gonna get to some spoils now And talk about certain things if you've seen it or you're just you've decided never gonna see it Yeah, you're gonna see it. Don't watch this till you've seen it. Yes so Go watch it come back and then they're now we're gonna start spoilers. So what were you gonna say about the non spoilers? We're in Africa now. No, yeah, that was there was actually a few of those. Yeah, there were yeah That one was just I sank down in my seat. That's what oh my goodness. Yeah, that was one of those Like if you put that in like moonabai back in the day, I'm like, okay. Yeah, it's a dated joke, right? I get it not like at the year of our Lord 2023 Shah Rukh Khan That's a strange one to make and then like that there was fat jokes and then there was like maybe he was thinking Okay, we're depicting this back in that time It didn't work. Yeah, that's just a strange one to put in there. Yeah, I was also also to put at the end after all of all of this the The notes and the statistics some of the US Census Bureau about immigration. No, I'm very very sorry There's a there's a fact that was put up there that didn't have anything on there It was just a statement and one of the statements was that the only people who have problems with immigration are the poor that is not true at all and that that there are so many things in this that did a disservice one of the things that was really hard for me to Wrap my head around was how a man like Shah Rukh Khan's character could have such a moral compass that he refuses to lie in front of the Magistrate to say he's doesn't need asylum, but he has no problem trafficking illegal immigrants The rationale behind that just was really weird for me to try to wrap My head around and and the the concept of illegal immigration. It's almost as if the film is saying You know, it's hard but do it because the system sucks So do if you need to get somewhere find a way to do it illegally if you need to and and no Because what that happens is take it from somebody who's going through the process with my wife now for the better part of four Frickin years the people who go about it illegally screw it up for those of us who are going about it legally And I personally know of people who have done it illegally and it's it really boggles my mind that people would Marry for money and do other various things and and there are parts of this that I could see people seeing Oh, they're the takeaway from this is if the system's not right rather than try to fix the system Which is complex like you said. Yeah, just do it illegally In certain instances like if you're actually in danger, that's what we're refugees and this island for them Like here in America We have a lot of people that want to get here from Mexico and from South America who come through Mexico Who they're dealing with cartels? They're dealing with horrific And I know this Experientially with people that I personally know as well as documentaries and things that I've seen living here in America and in LA You live this you're surrounded by illegal immigrants and and There are a lot of really bad players who take advantage of the system and they always will they always will I think the point about they the poor is is not so much about it It was just poor is that it it's more of that it only helps rich In terms of like them. I don't know another European one about if you donate a million dollars or whatever Whatever it was obviously the system everywhere set up for rich I think that that is what they were trying to say. I understand what you're saying. Yeah, and it and it does I mean, I've there are There's a reason why and Shahrukh Khan said this in the interview He said there that they did the round table kind of thing. He did with Tassi and And there are people that you know, they may not have a visa right now But I promise you if Tom Cruise wants them in a film here in America, they're gonna get their visa really damn fast. Yep Yeah, and that is not fair. Yeah And so obviously that so like that's why I don't know he's I was like I don't know if Rajkumar Ronnie's and his style of filmmaking if he wants to stick to his style And they were going for a family his normal styles Kind of film, right? But it also never got to his normal style. I feel like no it didn't and his other films don't include things that just for me We're like really She's she's gonna be dead in a month, and she's okay to just go take the donkey trail And then when when she she you know she does That that last moment there wasn't anything everything was really predictable in a bad way I knew she was gonna die and when he turned around I thought okay, really she's just she's showing No signs I mean she's on an IV in the hospital where she's gonna be dead in a month But now she can go and do all these other things she can pretend wrestle She's showing no signs of impending death, and then she's just sitting there talking with him and Those kinds of things just were like she died in love Yeah, so very problematic My the standout if I if I Vicki obviously is a standout for him, but he's always he's amazing He's an amazing actor. I'm very sad. We didn't get to see Sam that that same phone by the way No Because he's he's a very good actor The songs we heard a couple of them were we're not like the one there's one hook that I that I do really enjoy the Is it their love their love song? Yeah, I like that one a lot and then So but like It's a one-time watch at minimum, you know most I would not I wouldn't recommend it to anybody Yeah, it definitely this weekend. There's one. I would definitely recommend 100% I'd go see it again. Yeah Exactly, but anyways obviously we should hear obviously. I hope you've seen obviously or do you spoil everything for you? Oh, not everything, but Let us know what you thought about the film if you liked the film if you didn't like the film Why were idiots? Yeah, why you liked your opinions while you hated us. Why we're the white devils of YouTube? 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