 Um, this is, this is how we're going to have to do anything you want to say. It's a good thing actors don't have a problem with personal space. Hey welcome back to our Stupid Reaction, it's I'm Corbin. Well welcome back to what? Our Stupid Reaction. I thought you said welcome back to our, to our Stupid Reaction, it's... Oh yeah. Stupid Reaction, it's... Yeah, I'm Rick. Uh, you can follow us on Instagram and toot-toot! From all juicy content! Thank you to everybody's supports on Patreon. Follow us on official Twitter accounts, subscribe and hit the like button. Yes. And if you're wondering, uh, Corbin what stupid thing are you holding? Uh, it's our lapel mics that I tested out last night. They were working perfectly and now only one will connect to the camera. What are you gonna do? So, I'm gonna try to... Remind me if I forget. Yes, yes, I need to put this in front of you so the audio is better. Yeah, um, but... So, uh, maybe I'll just try to keep it right here and we can talk right in the middle. Sure. But anyways, we are doing a movie review, a car review. Yeah, a car review of... Salar! In the rain! In the rain. Um, and it's our first film of our double feature day. Yes. Uh, in about... A little less than an hour. 45 minutes. Well, we are gonna be watching, uh, Donkey as well. So, uh, these videos will probably be up a little late, as you're probably noticing, uh, since you're watching it now. Um, but, uh, we just watched Salar starring the Rebel Star. Our handshake-dose. Our handshake-dose. Sat at the same table with him. Yeah, he's a handshake-dose. He's a handshake-dose. Um, uh, the new 2023 Tolugu film, highly anticipated, uh, film, uh, directed and written by Prashanti Neet. Oh, Prashanti Neet. I hope that's the correct pronunciation of your name. He's also one of the writers. Yep. A team of writers are involved, and it's, um, he's the, he's the writer-director of KGF1 and KGF2. Um, and so obviously we saw both those. You guys know our feelings of both of those films. Um, so since this is new, and obviously highly, highly anticipated, this will be a non-spoiler, and then we will tell you before we get to the spoils, and we will want to get to some spoils. There's some stuff to talk about here. Um, but, non-spoilers, Rick, your initial non-spoiler thoughts, please. Well, you know, we always say this. We don't want a movie to be bad. We go in hoping for it, rooting for it, wanting the experience to be great, and, um, I love this movie. This movie exceeded my expectations. I have nothing but praise and good things to talk about. Every single aspect of this will get into it. So is this a see it? This is a absolutely see it. Don't miss it. I, in, please do yourself a favor and see this in theaters. It is a absolute blast. With obviously as many people as you possibly can. Just see it with a big of house as you possibly can, and just revel in what for me is a epic poem action banger that satisfies in so many ways, most especially, thank you, thank you, thank you for good story. Yeah. Yeah. Um, and this, we actually had a full theater. Yeah, it was very full. We have small theaters for Indian films that you guys know that, but we're normally the only two in the film, uh, in the, in the theaters, daytime, uh, at 11 o'clock weekday show. This was an 11 a.m. show. Yeah. Um, so this for me, Solar is what KGF2 wishes it could have been. And it's, it's what, it gave me everything and more of what I was hoping Animal was going to give me. Yes. Exactly. And it's like, if this was the sequel to KGF2, I'd be, oh, sweet, raving, that was fantastic. So yeah, I, I really enjoyed it. I think, um, so this is obviously non-spoilers, and so we'll get into some, some stuff. First and foremost, I actually want to talk about Rebel Star Prabhas. Yep. My favorite thing, we haven't seen a ton, obviously, I know that. Uh, we saw the two Bahubali's, and I think we probably saw those two soon to really appreciate. Style of film that they were, um, because we were looking for, like, you know, that's not believable. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, all that kind of bullshit, you know? Right. Right, right. We were, we were still very dumb, obviously. Doesn't mean we'll go back and still like them, but at the time they weren't our favorites. Right. Um, and the only other thing I saw with Prabhas was, um, the thing early, Adi Pradesh, right, which, um, obviously has a very famous reputation this year. Um, but I thought he did okay in that. This is my favorite thing he's ever done. He, man, his screen presence is beautiful. He has gorgeous screen presence. And this is what I think we've always had. I mean, that's why, obviously, I think as this Russian movie cast him as Bahubali, he has this warrior. He doesn't have to do anything to be intimidating. No, if you get action heroes, for example, the ones that I grew up with that were like the role models for everybody were Stallone and Schwarzenegger. And they had great screen presence, but they didn't. Stallone had it in first blood, because that's far more of a dramatic story than it is an action film. This depth of character that you see in the eyes, where he's not just standing on set. He's incarnating this character. And he's dealing with what they called an internal monologue that not everybody can have. You couldn't be a good action hero, but that doesn't mean you necessarily are going to be a good actor. And Prabhas is both. And he is everything that you want this hero to be. No one else, I think, would or should or could play this the way that he does. It really is a star vehicle that he's deserving of. Yeah. And it's like a superhero movie. And obviously, we've known that about, obviously, especially Telugu. But Tamil and Canada, they dabble in that as well. But their heroes are essentially Captain America or Iron Man or whatever. And that's definitely in this. He just, I loved, every single moment he was on screen, I was having a blast. As I was, the cast is uniformly wonderful. Prithee Raj is. We know him from Malayalam industry. He's just absolutely perfect. The kids who play them when they're young that you see in the trailers do a great job. And I want to sing loudly for the writing and the portrayal of all of the women characters. The women are sexy. They're strong. It's an epic poem. There was some stupid babies we saw afterwards. And that's what I said was, this feels like, to me, all of the best things that you would find if you were to take elements of George R. Romero and Mad Max Fury Road and then add some elements of the epic storytelling and the Lord of the Rings with multiple characters and places and things going on that you're interested in and want to know what's going on. It's just, from start to finish, a really enjoyable, and some of the visuals, man, shout out, not just to the direction, production design. The cinematography that's done in this thing by Ravi Basra, it's just stellar, and the score, stellar. Yeah, the cinematography is actually very similar to what it was in KGF2, which is obviously not the issues we had with KGF2. The cinematography and the world building that they did was great. I think if I could give you a little warning, I'd say the first hour, just note, it might be a little slow if you're expecting action right off the bat. But what keeps the pace up is it's great story. This is a 1,000% of story-driven film, which is wonderful. The fact, you know, because we go in and we're like, okay, probably it's a big action, looking forward to that. And I did, there was, we'll talk about some moments. There was moments where we were cheering more than I've ever cheered in a theater. And it was a beautiful, cinematography moment and just a beautiful moment in the film with an epic moment with Prabhas, multiple of those. But yeah, the first hour, it's building the story. So you know that these characters and that kind of thing. So know that you'd be like, okay, where's the action coming? And it does come, but obviously I still don't think that is the primary focus of this film at all. Not at all. But there's really, really, really good action. The action scene is really good action. And lots of it. With Prabhas, the action scenes are impeccable. Yeah. Like I said, this is everything KGF2 wishes. How many times did something happen in the action sequences and we just went, oh! Yeah. Damn! So good. We had a pretty good crowd, too. There's some people that were, they're struggling with whistling. They didn't have the strongest whistle. No, they were trying. They were trying. But it was a good time. But yeah, the score I loved, some epic score moments, visually wise as well. The score in the most bombastic and epic portions of it, it's exactly what you're wanting. It's this just raging, warring awesomeness. And then in the tender emotional parts, you feel what's going on. And it's an attribute as well to all of the actors. Whoever was helping in that regard, I'm giving all of the credit to our director, but also in the casting, there wasn't any of this emoting for emoting sake. Everybody felt like they were being very grounded in what they were doing and you cared about even the smallest characters going through something because they were believable examples when you see a mother crying for a child and maybe that's not a main character at all. The actress that was cast as that mother doing the crying, you believe it's a mother crying for her child. It's just uniformly across the board and we'll talk about it in the spoilers, but all the ladies did great. Shria Reddy, frickin', I'm surprised parts of the screen didn't just catch on fire and smolder because she's, all of the ladies particularly had this hugely sexy gravitas about them and this power where their... I have nothing but praises to say about the movie. She actually reminded me a lot of who we just saw in Manot's film, right? I actually thought of it for a second. I was like, is that her? Me too. If you haven't seen Joram, I'll be a very different film, but please go watch Joram. It's a really good film. Yeah, the only gripe I might have and it's barely even a gripe and I wouldn't even be mad if anybody was like, yeah, I don't agree with that at all, but sometimes it felt like they were repeating themselves like with the build up a little bit and I was like, okay, you've established that. Let's move on. So you could have made it a little quicker. That would be my biggest gripe. The justification for that is there's so much going on for me. There's a ton going on. Yeah, there's so much going on that I thought, okay, that's kind of cool. I know something we'll talk about in the spoilers that hints at that, so yeah, that didn't bother me at all. But yeah, I guess that'll be it for the non-spoilers. Go see it in a packed theater as fast as you can. Support it. I'm so happy. Our first film of the day and our double feature day was one that we're very happy with and the fact that this director, we have a tumultuous relationship. Not him personally. No, no, with his work. With his work. And Kate would love KGF1. He hated KGF2 famously. I think we got trolled for a long time. For not liking KGF2 because, you know, it's a box office success. I hope this one's just as big of a box office. This is where you want, this is where you start to pay attention to box office because you want a film like this to do well at the box office. You want these people celebrated. You want the producers who poured money into this, making money back, and you want them to make more films like this, so please go support it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Epic, epic, epic. So if you haven't seen it, please go away and then... Yeah, spoiler time. Come back. I probably should have brought another battery. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. It's gonna be a big failure on Corbin's part. Anyway, so yeah. Spoilers, spoilers, spoilers, spoilers. So, yeah, in the... One, after the first hour, I said it was a little slow because it was building up. Obviously, the 30 minutes, basically, I think it was the interval when the title card came up, I guess. Right. Which was about an hour, 20 hour, 30 in. That 30 minutes in between the first hour and that were really epic when they finally unleashed Pravas. So that's what you've been waiting for the entire film. And that's one of my favorite things about this character. He's everything that I was anticipating we might get from Animal. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's this... He's got such a deep core of right and wrong and he will only do what he's permitted to do by reason of his honoring of his mom and his honoring of his friendship with Prithee Raj. And he... I mean, I was thinking so many times, poor John Wick. Yeah. John wishes he didn't have to exert as much energy because that's one of the great things about Keanu's... John Wick is he's so human. He's exerting energy. He's panting. He's sweating. You're wondering how many bones he's broken. He barely pants. Yeah. Everybody... I love the moment where he's killing everybody with just the one hand and he grabs the second sword and I turned to Corbin and I said, nah, he's gonna get him with two hands. Yes. My favorite moment in the entire film. Okay. Once again, spoilers first, please go away because this is the probably most epic moment in the entire film. Was obviously when the guy was about to pick that girl and he was gonna rape that girl. Yep. And Provost was going ham on everybody and he speared everybody and then it went into... I don't know what it is. It's the demon. Right? Yes. It's the Hindu demon. It's who he is spiritually representative of in that moment while the line is being said by the little girl mom she didn't send us. Yes. She didn't come to us, she sent her son. Yeah. The theater howled. I got the chills. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was phenomenal. As was the next moment when he says, let's treat you like you're supposed to be treated and he had just, the explanation had just been done about how you sacrifice to the God and he does exactly to him what he said, this is what the go get a goat and do this to the goat or the ram. And we've seen that moment like it in many, many films and it's always a cool moment when obviously all the hands come out like that. Yeah, this one was special. It was a mass moment that was so beautiful. And I think if you don't like mass films you still might not like this film if this is not your cup of tea but if you're like in to that world I think you're gonna like it a lot, right? Absolutely. And I just, the big takeaway because we were going in my expectations, I said this before I'm just gonna let myself enjoy action and even if I don't, for example, slow motion stuff that we didn't like in KGF2 that felt like it was just a long commercial ad all of the slow motion in this it reminded me, this is not a comparison to say it reminded me of 300 like it was copying I don't mean that but there were moments of 300 that are in slow motion that you want in slow motion because they're so epically poetic every moment of slow motion for this it didn't feel like we were dragging or doing something for commercial usage it felt really intentional it felt story and character driven and it only enhanced everything about this world everything about these characters and I just, I loved watching Prithee Raj and Prabhas team up and the thought of what they have set up for part two is fricking glorious Hopefully it's not let down like KGF2 I hope not just stick to story man do what you did stick with story actually at the end when the epic moment of Prabhas and Prithee Raj were teaming up it was almost like a zombie movie a little bit which was cool it's a cool little fun little element that they involved there but so many great kills oh yeah it was almost like a reminiscent of like when Cap and Iron Man teamed up right I was thinking it felt like a superhero movie nope, really I was thinking to myself Marvel and DC people need to come see this and be reminded of what made those especially Marvel with the Avengers stories because what they stuck with was character driven and story centered movies and that's what this is and this is like you know it's like they're telling Marvel okay great hold my beer you want to see how you make an action movie you guys clearly have forgotten this is how you make a great action epic film that creates a world you want to be in has justification for everybody's behaviors has ties to it that you care about I loved the shot when the guy is coming to threaten Prithiraj and he's walking at him and Prabhas is begging him don't do anything there's this one moment among many where he chops his hand off and the shot from behind has it coming up in frame just above his shoulder just so many little details like that and again production design everyone involved in production design you did a spectacular job the lighting crew the stunt coordination everybody involved with post production you just made as good as an action film can get it really is just fun from start to finish yeah it's a great time and I know a lot of people were expecting and I was as well there's a moment that I thought somebody was coming but I thought it was Yash did you? yeah cause it was rumored that this is in the KGF universe and so I was like oh we're gonna get Yash it's gonna be epic and then it wasn't it was just the king that had come and so I thought and there was a lot of rumors that he was gonna make up the lend maybe that's cause Yash will be in part two yeah who knows I don't know but that would have been epic obviously regardless it was epic all in and of itself the only gripes I really have are I think it could have been a little snappier but that's a nitpick and then white actors of course but that goes without saying that's always when it goes without saying it's just pathetic it's really pathetic when they show up man but I loved it I'm so happy I hope we get to finish off today happy as well it's obviously gonna be a very different film so we're going into a very different vibe into Dunkey but let us know what you thought about the film hopefully you're not here if you haven't seen it yet if you liked it, if you didn't like it and what your thoughts are down below