 Preparing for when the wax figure is made of me and I have to sit very very still Do they really do that? Do they like sit still for that or do you just go off a photo? I think I'll go off a photo Great intro Welcome back to our studio directions. Yeah, it's of course. I'm Rick Paulson. It's the gravatruits of our choosing content Thanks for making the function. Yeah, drink it. We're in the bell department of case squad BANG! Calls home version of your channels in the description below. Whoa Wow Wow A hot start today hallucinetic again. Yes, always today. We're doing a movie review Just assumed you would do it. I was doing it. I just was a little slower today Malayalam movie uh 2014 Malayalam movie bang Bangalore. Bangalore I'm pronouncing that right. Yes, the place of Bangalore. Yes, Bangalore days That's why I pronounce it. A comedy drama romance Directed by and written by and yeah, say her name Uh, Anjuli Menon. K.K. Relation I don't know. I have no idea. You guys can let us know and then starring you could just say them Yeah, the first the names on the the list here Nazria Nazim Niven Pauly, Dalker Salman, Fahad Fasil and Parvati Firavothu. Forgive me if I pronounce anybody's name Yes, I really don't like to do that, but obviously it's been recommended for a while It's actually the patron regional movie of the month every month our patron members have any tier get to they they kind of vote on Four films to go in a poll and then we go off of whoever wins that poll of a regional and a hindi film every single month This was their regional of the month. I should you should make them pull dance. I should yeah You did that a lot. I know it's their turn. But anyway, so this would be a hundred spins for one of you It's 2014 film So if you haven't watched it go watch it come back. We saw it on amazon So rick your initial thoughts, please well I must preface my thoughts. Yes with other thoughts. Oh because that's a thought it is a thought because there has been a weird tendency recently that if I Negatively criticize a film. I'm accused of going on a rant um By just in the comments and then what happens is the salient points I was trying to make often get lost in the wind and all that we wind all that's the takeaway from the reviewer The critique is rick went on a rant when my Desire for all of this is to see artistry elevated. Yes. Um, I didn't like it. I have a lot of problems with it um I can point them out only if they're things that are going to be of merit in terms of the the artistic aspects that I think could have been elevated in the film Uh-huh because and some of them are understandably There's a you know a two-fold thing one is just my own subjective thing that no one has to agree with and then there's other things that I believe are definitively objective because this is the realm of theater when you go to a movie you go to a movie Theater there you go and theater is one of the fine arts. So it is fine artistry at a certain level Therefore that's my concern is that whenever I watch a movie now there's been this tendency toward me giving my critiques and it just is rick's going on a rant So if you just want to be entertained, I'm not your guy I and I I had a lot of problems with it and I I didn't like it. No I had problems with it as well. Uh, and overall, yeah, I definitely I probably wouldn't watch it again But there were Here's why it's weird for me because there were certain moments that I was like, oh I'm invested right now. I never got that far. No, no, no only in certain parts Okay, I'm not saying that the parts that I thought were no, I'm not talking the overall thing But there were certain moments in either a couple of their relationships And then and a couple of the and it was mostly because of the actors Um that I was like, oh that's nice and then the film would just do something just been weird And it would take me all the way out and I'd be like, what are you? This is so strange. It could have been an hour and 30 minutes as opposed to two hours 40 which Which that isn't necessarily the you know, the the bell tolling for disaster because no debora has a comparable runtime But debora doesn't have the problems that that this one. Yeah, uh, so But overall I want to talk about a lot of stuff. I I I did Mostly enjoyed there. There was probably more I didn't enjoy than I I enjoyed though Um, but I enjoyed most of the performances. Obviously faha fasil I thought did well with what what he was what he was giving was given Uh, I thought most of uh for the most part Most of the time all of the other three did really well as well For the most part, uh, there were I think a lot of the issues though that I've had was a lot with the writing It was it was it's kind of similar to death in the gunge a little bit Like interesting comparison. Yeah, because the problem I have with that film Even though I enjoyed that from way more than I enjoyed this one Was it was the the writing was a very weird non realistic dialogue writing. Yeah, and that was a lot of this True there's there's a principle of writing guys that is a differentiation between good writing and bad writing We've talked about certain things about context Showing more versus saying more and one of the things for both television and film writing that screenwriters will teach Is the difference between and then Versus therefore because and when you have a script or a storyline That's just and then It doesn't require much forethought forethought and it doesn't continue the story forward or the arcs of the characters forward It's just an and then so we had this happened and then this happened and then this happened and then this happened Versus this happened Therefore it caused this to happen or because it caused this to happen And I found with the screenwriting for the story there was far more and then Then therefore because yeah, and I did look out the director This is not only for It's technically her second, but her first one was in 2000 Like eight and then this was in 2014. So this was really her second and I don't know if you wrote your different Yeah, so I And so I saw a lot of that with directing and writing of that It was it felt very like this person was very new with this It felt the word I felt throughout both in the storyline script writing and everything was juvenile Yeah, and I don't mean that Insultingly per se as much as I mean that I I would think that people who don't have A care or a knowledge about certain things with cinema As well as being engaged at certain levels because I didn't think any of the conflicts that the folks were dealing with for the most part Were anything that I found to be problematic where if I was in those situations or the people in the situations and like Uh, there's a lot worse things you could be going through right now It felt for some reason like they were trying to make five films It did kind of feel that way And I was like because I probably could have gotten on board with a bunch of the story lines being a film Like uh, the guy and the girl in the wheelchair Especially doing the song moments. They had their moments that I was like, this could be a story The whole Fahat Fasil and the girl that could have been an entire film the first time I the first and only time I felt myself starting to get drawn in And had a cute moment was when he gets on the plane and he meets I forgot her name Maki the the stewardess And they did a really funny thing with the score where it's this lovely, you know Love song and he hits his head and immediately stops That was cute and I liked their dynamic. I liked his font But it kind of just never went anywhere Then she just made out with another guy Which I was like what the fuck is going on That fight scene Everything about that scene from the way it was executed to the fact that they were kissing And it was one of those weird they're kissing but they're not kissing moments And then they just forget he's there after she was getting him tea and they were having a lovely night Yeah, very strange Uh, and then there was a bunch of those types of moments that would happen It'd be take you out of any momentum that you had And here's another thing and I I push really hard for the next thing Also, we were we went into this. I had known that this was more of a deborah style film, right? We did that going in a uh, then obviously a artsy. So we weren't looking for oscar No way anyway shape or we knew going in Corbin told me. Hey, this is think debora think rom com fun Yeah, and so that's that's where we were coming in from and in all sincerity without giving anything away Corbin typically will do that For for me if I don't remember it from the trailer he'll say hey remember. This is what we're seeing Yeah, um a couple of things first of all Whenever someone's doing English subtitles It's going to help if they have a better a better understanding of English grammar Because too many of the English subtitles and when you're dealing with Malayalam the language is going so freaking fast That I knew what they meant but having to look at the grammar and decipher it was Pulling me out as well as another thing that I try to be as gracious as I can Because I know it's been a constant throughout a lot of Indian film industry is the dubbing and Foley work I it's just it always my suspension of disbelief is always gone when every single scene has the same room tone And all audio foreground and background is mixed at the exact same level And I know that when they pour the coffee the sound of the coffee going in is going to be the same sound as her sigh It it just doesn't do service to the to the film. You could definitely tell that this was probably a lower budget film for a lot of reasons But yeah, I I might have even enjoyed the film if they could have I I could probably I could probably take this film And cut it down to an hour and a half and I could probably make a good film out of this I can almost guarantee you I probably could but there was just so much thrown in that probably didn't need to be there The dumb ass ending He falls they apparently all stop He was able to come back I was dying. I was like, this is so stupid. I know. Oh my god. I was hoping like for for a different type of ending, but um That's that's kind of well and that's getting to a I don't know if you know about the controversy I didn't with the score Because I felt like the score had some moments right some moments some moments that I enjoyed Yeah, but there were other moments that were I was like, okay Come on really and so here's the controversy. I don't know if you knew this But there is a controversy and it's a legitimate controversy about one of the main songs in there where they're when they're in Bangalore Being in the exact same key with the exact same guitar riff and pretty much the same song structure to the point where there was a Lawsuit it's brian adam's is summer of 69. Oh really? Yeah Now that one didn't bother me as much. I mean it's bothersome But there's two other songs that were used one of them repeatedly the other one a couple times and I thought Guys, this is straight up plagiarism. One was the motif for rock-a-bye, baby. That was constant Yeah, that was a constant and A straight ripoff of the love theme in Franco Zephyrally's Romeo and Juliet It was done a couple times and I went, how did they get away with that? It is But And I was like that is like straight-up copy So, uh, I didn't know that. Yeah I I heard those and it just it really threw me because it's just straight up the exact. Yeah, so copies It like I said, it was it was strange because there were certain moments like especially The song numbers not not the background scores so much that even though that had some moments that Especially when they were getting in either whatever their relationships that they were going through at the time because obviously this was a multi person multi Well, what am I looking for it's three stories. Yeah three stars It didn't it didn't weave itself the way Debra did no it didn't I cared about all three stories And I felt like all three stories in the Debra film all made a particular progression and all saw the characters go through Some particular change so that when they came out the other end of it There was a moral to the story and there was a lesson learned and the relationship between the three of them deep And even though they had deep conflict throughout I never really got the only the only ones I really felt like kind of got there Were for hot to seal and his wife. Yeah, I got there a few times Just a few times though with the the guy and the girl in the wheelchair And only a few times a few times could then some of the riding kind of kind of threw me off And then I liked the beginning of that other guys relationship at the on the airplane That was great other than that I didn't much care like you could have thrown out most of his story And I I don't I think you could have got to the same place in the film. I agree So there's a bunch of stuff that I would have just liked to have changed I always I always want to really enjoy this enjoy a film all Especially obviously with foxy. We did see a person we have yet to be introduced. So but we've heard a lot about is a pavathi She's supposed to be a really good actress of malayalam. We haven't really seen her But she played the dead the guy who the girl who died. Yeah, essentially. Obviously she was in here for two seconds Yeah, but apparently she's supposed to be this really really good malayalam actress So you can let us know what of her stuff that I know she's in takeoff and other stuff I think she works with fafa a lot. Okay. Um, but anyways In case because I I've seen comments like this come up in the past as well In case there's anybody, you know, you maybe you put in a comment already about You guys don't know what you're talking about this thing won all of these awards Number one, that's fine. Number two Um, I've looked at where this was released and I looked at who reviewed it and I looked at the awards And it's all regional So It's you know, to me that's like having your little league in the san fernando valley Your team in the san fernando valley win and telling everybody that you are like the best team in the world and you that wasn't the world series a little league So I'm not I'm not I'm not saying that to frown on it It's just my desire for the elevation of artistry if you're because I see it all the time You don't know what you're talking about because it got awards and reviews That is not the barometer. Just like box office isn't the barometer. There's there's films that have won oscars That were pieces of crap. Yeah, so also just once again, we weren't looking for Gumbala G nice. No, we really weren't Deborah. They'll chat the high. We were looking for those vibes silly And I got some vibes with Diltra to hide certain because I was like, it's three friends and all that kind of stuff And I was like, okay, so we're going but it obviously never got to those points even for me Which obviously even though I have problems with those films overall, they're enjoyable films Yeah, obviously they still have some writing and some acting issues that I that I think I addressed in the reviews But it's you overall enjoyed the film. It's just this one never Never hit that mark fully. Yeah. Um, and so that's and it's not like I didn't I also This isn't a film where I'm like angry about it when I was watching it. I'm like, let's get this over with just I was rooting for this While I was watching it. I was like, please let's get on the right track move and get it there and it ended with me going All right, I saw it. I don't want you to get it So let us know Yeah, and it just be nice. Uh, that's you wanted our opinion and we're gonna give it to you I'm gonna lie to you. Uh, but anyways, let us know what the next Malayalam film is And uh, next Pravati, Pravati, we haven't been introduced to her outside of this and obviously she's in this for 0.2 seconds So she can't really judge her off of this Band obviously Fafa has 10,000 films coming out exactly so let us know what's the next Malayalam film Which you watch down below