 Some people think it's funny, some people think it's odd, but everybody thinks that Corbin smells just like a pod. Pod. It's Fart and Hindi and Bengali. Ha! Ha! Yeah. Hey, welcome back to our stupid reaction video. It's I'm Corbin. I'm Rick. He's also Instagram. Look at that. Look at that. Look at that. Look at that. Look at that. Look at that. It's become unintelligible. You saw the thumbnail. You're not hallucinating. Just kidding. Actually, this is a review for DOOM 3. Yes. I'm sure you'll be equally satisfied. Obviously, we are doing a movie review of the Hindi 2008 film Jodha Akbar. Which we actually have seen before, kind of because we've seen every musical number from it. So you really don't need to see the movie after you've seen the musical number. That's just what we'll tell everybody from now on. Directed by Thay's name. Ashutosh Gowarkar. Who also directed Swades and which for those of you who don't know that's Swadesh, we know. And Lagann. And starring and composer. Starring Rajesh Vivek and Shaji Chowdhury. It was so great to see those guys again. I love seeing him, don't you? I especially love seeing Rajesh. I don't know what it is. From Lagann, right? Yeah, man. He makes me happy to see him. Anyway, starring Rithik Roshan and Ashwaryarai Bhakchang. Yeah. Two terribly unfortunate people. Very, very unfortunate people. I mean, throughout the movie, you're not wanting just... Did you find yourself the whole time going, just make a baby already? You want to see what that baby looks like? I think we said that multiple times. Make a baby. Regardless, it's came out two days late. I'm sure most of you have seen this film. If you haven't, it's on Netflix for us. If you have three and a half hours, go watch it. In fact, if you fast forward the songs, it's probably a good two and a half. Yeah, you could knock out some time, but you're not going to want to fast forward those songs. You don't want to fast forward those songs, man. No. Regardless. So if you haven't seen it, go watch it and come back unless you want to be spoiled. And I think most of you have already seen the film. Rick, your initial thoughts, please. I'm wondering if we have another dev dose on our hands. Uh-huh. That was my thought when I was watching it. What do you think about it? Okay. So aside from the sword play and the fight scenes, which even then, for some reason, I was okay with it, I loved it. We've got another dev dose, don't we? No, I liked it, too. Oh, you did! No, I, okay. I did have problems. It's got some flaws. It's got some flaws. And I'm sure you can already know some of the things that I'm going to point out. But overall, even, I could have gotten through this entire thing in one sitting. How many sittings did you do? I did it in two. I started it, I watched an hour and a half of it last night and then finished the rest of it today. So I did it in two sittings. We watched it, I think, starting Friday night after Leland went down, because we have to watch stuff when Leland is asleep. There's no way we can watch anything while he's awake. He's too, too busy. So we started it, but we got, I think, two hours, 40 in, and I was into it, and I was like, I could finish it, but I started to get a little drowsy, and so I was like, I don't want to accidentally fall asleep or miss something. That's what was happening to me. The time I started it last night, it was late, and I was getting sleepy, and I thought, I'm not going to force myself. I don't want to miss. I want to enjoy this. So, poor Leland, he heard what you said about the fact that you can't watch movies when he's awake. That's true. That's true. So that says a lot about a three and a half hour film that I was like, I could watch this entire thing in one sitting. That's very few films that can do that. It gave me what I was wanting. From all we've seen with the numbers and expecting, it was the historic epic I was hoping it would be. Yes. And we'll get into the issues I have, but for the most part, I really enjoyed this film. This director just knows how to make a good movie. Yeah. He, like, Lagan, Swades, this, they all have flaws, but they're just all entertainers, man. They really are. They keep your attention. That says a lot. And one of my most favorite things about the direction of this film is a collaborative effort that's with him and his production design and art direction. Because I'm not a big fan of lighter pale colors like the light yellows and the oranges and the whites for that amount of time. For him to have created what he did and what the team did with basically majority of the shots were just plain daylight. He didn't, it wasn't Sanjay Lila Bansali lights and color and framings, but it was no less beautiful to me. In fact, in many ways, a different level of kind of beauty because that is a really difficult thing to pull off. For three hours worth of stimulation for you to be watching, it carried this, the element of what the art direction and the production team had put together. I really can't say enough about their use of color and their use of natural lighting that a lot of other directors, you'd be just bored, spitless and go, this is so nothing. But it was everything. I think the direction was really, really, that's obviously what we'll talk about first. He once again knows how to make a really entertaining film and I'm glad they focused more on the relationship than the battles, which was one of the things we'll get into later because obviously to make, I don't want to get into it now, we'll get into the, that's one of the issues I had and I'm sure you did as well, it was any of the action scenes, but we'll get into that later. But he focused on the love story between, which I think at the end, I'm going to talk back to you and said, there was nothing really written about these two. Apparently so. Yeah, and there's lots of stories. I loved how at the very beginning, they gave the disclaimer that said, you know, we're not saying that this is the story. There's probably a bunch of different stories. Yeah. Also, I'm going to sneeze. The grass pollen has been really brutal today. So if I sneeze 47 times, it isn't coronavirus. It's the grass pollen around. But yeah, there it is gross. But yeah, so I thought he did a really good job building that relationship with the two. And so let's talk. This is one of my favorite, if not my favorite performance from Rithik. There were certain aspects of the way it was directed that I sometimes had an issue with in terms of I'll get into that. But in terms of his performance, I thought for the most part he gave a really subtle, really good performance. I agree. And I liked it a lot like this. And then I'd say probably Super 30. Yeah, I have a I have a much more entertaining film than Super 30. Yeah, I don't know what it is about his. I don't know what it is about the Deborah film that that I love so much. But that that for me is probably I would put it Deborah Joe to Akbar. Super deluxe. I mean, Super 30, Super deluxe. Rithik was in Super deluxe. He was the alien. He was so good. They didn't even know he was the alien. So I agree with you. I felt, yeah, the other thing I love, which is a which is a credit to the direction. I loved how everybody carried themselves, particularly since the majority of the story is told within the regality of the court, everybody carried themselves and delivered their dialogue with what would be not an affectation to convey the the the dramaturgy, but but an affectation of what regal status you would imagine carried in the 16th century. Yeah, yeah. And Ashwarya. Come on, Tom, I work. She's always wonderful, but she was especially wonderful in this. She she she gave a really great performance equal to I think Gershnach, which was also Rithik. Exactly. I don't know. Sorry. But I think she gave a really good, powerful performance and you genuinely really cared for these characters. Yeah, I want them to be together. Yep, so did. And so that that was really, really good, because obviously this huge conflict of, you know, different religions at the at the same time. Yeah, and a bunch of different factors. And I thought they did a really, really good job of building that. I missed her eyes. I know we were being historical. Yeah, but when you when you have and she was crying sometimes, I know, I know when you when you have two of the arguably most beautiful people that ever be on screen, gorgeous people and not just their faces, but their eyes. Yeah, they are arguably the most beautiful male and female eyes to ever be on screen. They're gorgeous. The whole time you're like, OK, make babies. Just make the babies. We want to see what your babies look like. And I geeked out on OK, when we reacted to the song where it's the consummation of them sharing their love for each other, it was beautiful to watch. But to see it in the context of the film and build to it. Yeah, I was great. I geeked. I loved it. I actually when we post this review on my Instagram, I'm going to post because I recorded myself geeking out to the moment and I sent it. I sent it to Andrani because it was everything I wanted it to be. And one of my favorite lines in the whole film. And I really hope this was a word for word translation from the Hindi when she said, I love you. And then she said, do you feel the same? His words were, I love you a lot. It was perfect. I loved it. And A.R. Ramon's music, man. He's going to go. He's going to play. I hope you got more work after this. The score. Yeah, but that song in particular, all the songs on the twirling dervish is a love saying it again. That's such a great one. The song praising him as the emperor is great with the drums. And so, yeah, yeah, it was all great. This cinematography, the set design, gorgeous, really, really gorgeous. Let's start with some of the supporting actors. It was a bunch. But your guy with his name. Yeah, the two the two guys. My guy from Lagann, who I just, I just love his face, man, is Rajesh Vivek. Rajesh Vivek. From Lagann, right? From Lagann, where we first saw him. And I wanted, I was like, where is he? I want to see him some more. I just, I love his screen presence. I love his face. And then obviously, you know who Shaji Chaudhary is, right? Hmm, hold on. Which one was he? Well, he had an even smaller role in this. Was that Big Bull? No. No. No, it's Merzoper. Our guy we love, who's the right-hand man bodyguard of... McBool. He was... Yes, yes, that's right, McBool. Yes, his name is... I thought you, when you said McBool... He wasn't in it very much, though. I thought you meant the movie McBool. No, no, no. No. Yeah, the character... He wasn't in this very much. No, he wasn't, but he was there. Yeah, yeah. It was cool to see him. It was cool to see him. So yeah, I thought that. I thought the girl who wasn't his mother, but played the mother... The nurse, the nurse maid? Yeah. I thought she did a really good job. I did too. I liked her character. I mean, I didn't like her character, but I liked what she did. She was very, very believable. Yeah, I also thought... The brother? The brother. I thought he was really... He looked very... He looked almost like a bokchon. I kept looking at him thinking, okay, I know it's not Abyshek bokchon, but man, he looks like a bokchon, especially around the eyes. Is that Sonu... Yeah, Sonu So... Yeah, Barry bokchon-yich. He could play Abyshek bokchon's brother. Yeah, like that's... My wife was like, is that Bigby's son? And I had to look it up. I was like, I don't think so. I knew it wasn't, but it was enough that I thought, that's not Abyshek bokchon. Man, he looks like a bokchon. Yeah, I thought he did a great job. He did a really good job. Everybody as a whole did a really good job. Some of the issues I took were the action I think you mentioned at the beginning. Obviously that's just not where they put their money. And when you don't put enough money on a battle scene or in a fight scene, it just looks not as good as it should. And I liked the fact that... It didn't look bad. No, like the big fight sequence where you got a battle with a lot of soldiers in the beginning of the end. I love, they had a lot of background people and they had a lot of costuming and horses and it was epic and I love that. Closer stuff. It was the closer one-on-one stuff. Okay, so his fight with the elephant, his breaking the elephant, the sword play that Ashwarya had both with the guy she was fighting with and then with him. And then the final fight he had at the end. I just, the sword play and the stunt work was very lacking. They were doing their ample best, I think, but... But like I said, that's why I'm glad they... I was right when they opened it, it was a big battle. I was like, I'm hoping they're gonna... That's what I thought the movie was more about the relationship than any of the big battles. Yeah, I wasn't expecting a battle. So I was like, okay. So I'm assuming this is just gonna be a little part and that's what, that was the case. And so I didn't obviously knock it that much. There was some other melodramatic stuff that, you know, it just gets me, especially when anything was revealed. Like, any like big shock and Rithik is watching. Dun dun dun! Yeah, I'm like, why? Okay, you don't do that! So you need to know something. That is so cliched and has been cliched for so long in American cinema that in the film High Anxiety, Mel Brooks's film, which came out in 1977, ladies and gentlemen, they specifically, when a moment like that happens, there's moments where Mel Brooks is in the elevator with his buddy and they say something revelatory and the orchestra goes, ba-ra! And the two guys go like this. 1977. So having melodramatic music accentuate something has been so cliche and funny for us for so long that to see it in the 2008 film, your inclination is to go, oh, good grief. But it didn't bother me as much as other films. And it wasn't in most of the film. It only happened three or four times. Yeah, so like, there were times and, you know, that's the one thing that always gets me, no matter which film, which region, anything, I don't care if it's Hollywood, Bollywood, Mollywood, I don't care. If there is melodramaticness, I'm not going to like it. Yeah. Not the film, but that part. In some films, like what we said in Injury M2, it was all throughout the film and that's what got us. It's one thing for it to happen two or three times. It's another for every revelatory statement to have it, like it did in Injury M2. And as far as the, I felt this way about the fight sequences that were the one-on-one kind of thing that just didn't work well. So if you know if you watch a show at Disneyland or any of the live shows that they do and there's a fight sequence on the stage, and it doesn't look really good, but you don't care because you're at Disneyland. That's how I felt with this. Yeah, absolutely. I would 100% watch this again and I can see why people, I think that's what was said to us in any song reactions, all the song reactions we did, and the trailers that like, it's a good film. It's long, but it's good. Yeah. And that, I would say that as well. I would definitely, if this was on I would absolutely sit and I would love to be in that world again. And watch it. I would absolutely do that. The length, this director is just good because Lagann, Swet, Swadesh, and this, all almost three and a half hours, all of them, but all are engaged and good films. So the dude likes long films, but at least he does it well. Absolutely. So that's an impressive feat. It's a very impressive feat to get you to want to just sit in a world like that for hours on end and be okay with it. Normal films here in Hollywood, you have to be Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Marvel. Yeah. In order to be that length. Because I'll give you an example. The last really long film that came out was, well, no, it was Scorsese's. The Irishman. The Irishman. That everybody pretty much across the board was like, okay, shoot me now, stop at Marty. And he did the same thing with, what was the one that takes place in Japan? Oh, silence. Yeah. We love that film. But again, it was like come to an end with the film, Marty. I mean, you're just, what are you doing? And you never get that with this director. No. At least in these three films. Nope. So I absolutely thank you guys for being patient. Yeah, really. And I got to say this too. I was so, after the climactic love song, right? I looked at the time on the film. Didn't Johnny like this film too much? Yeah, she liked this film a lot. She said, this film is about the love story and you're gonna love the chemistry with the Shwarya and Rithne. That's what it's gonna be about. So yeah, she loves this film. But I saw there was like 30 minutes left in the film and I started getting really bothered by the prospect of, if you kill one of these two people, I'm gonna be really mad. I probably would've loved that. You would've loved it. I was like, if either Joda or Akbar die. I didn't so much like the scene where her prayers got him back to life. I loved it. I loved it. I will tell you, I let out a, ugh. Another thing I did like and I felt this way throughout the film and it was kind of a through message that was happening without being a heavy handed thing was everybody could really take a lesson from one of the lines that Rithik has toward the end as we're bringing an end to the story and he's talking about what you guys say anything bad about my wife. We built a temple for her. We're gonna respect it. The level of empathy and inclusion and respect where his line, this isn't verbatim but he basically says in my kingdom there's gonna be respect for all beliefs. Just because someone has a different religious belief than you doesn't mean that we're gonna be antagonistic toward each other. Yeah. That's a message that can still resonate today. It's needed today all over the world. All over the world. In every different religion. Yeah. So I think they definitely had a really good message behind it and you just gotta love watching Rithik and Ashwarya, they have perfect chemistry. They were made, there's a saying about, the camera loves certain people. Oh it definitely loves them. Yeah, and then there's a whole other level of love. There's, that's sincerely, there, I would tell anybody, one of the reasons you wanna watch stuff from India among the millions of reasons is because Rithik Roshan and Ashwarya Rai Vakchand are two of the, if not arguably, the most cinematically beautiful people to ever grace the screen. They just were made to be on screen. And I really applaud, we've said this and we've noticed it about Ashwarya. I've called her the hardest working woman in Bollywood with the stuff that she does. But I really felt, I'd love to know what Rithik put into this because I feel like from what we saw, I feel like he poured everything of his heart and soul into trying to get this right. I think so too. Right? I really felt. That's why I say it might be my favorite performance of his. Yeah, when all is said and done, I would probably point to this because there's something about his effort in every way, the physicality of the character, the regality, the way he carried himself, the emotion in his eyes that was always genuine. In fact, we loved her in Gersnatch. I had moments of questioning where he was. Yeah, absolutely. I felt that he really applauded. This is probably my favorite Rithik performance. After you get down to it, obviously we need to see a lot more of Rithik. But thank you guys once again for being patient with us. Hope you are satisfied. Even though if we didn't like it, we still would have told you. And those of you waiting for Bahubali too, don't give up.