 I'm so ready for this. I put my phone on airplane mode. You also put your earrings in. I did. Ha ha ha! Who reacts to idiots? I'm Corbin. I'm an American fanboy. I think that's safe to say that we're American fanboys. Big time. I think he's the most that we've seen. Yeah, we're gonna talk a lot about him. Yeah, anyways, but uh... You can follow us on Instagram! Thank you for supporting us on Patreon. And follow us on official Twitter account. But today we are doing a movie review! Ha! That's it from the start of the World Cup. From way back, I think after we watched three idiots or what it was like... You could have watched this too. But we saved it. I think we actually started watching it then. And it took us this long to get to it. To film. Yeah, we watched five minutes a day. But yeah, we had to watch this one in parts. It's kind of like a mini-series. Anyways, but yes, we watched Lagann. Lagann, I think it's how it's written. Lagann, yes, there's no corporalization on that one. I think that originally I said Lagann. You did. I think I said Lagann. You did. But yes. Which means tax. Which means... It's a Amir Khan film. You wanna read the Psalms real quick? I do. The people of a small village in Victorian India stake their future on a game of cricket against their ruthless British rulers. Ruthless British rulers? Those ruthless British rulers! It's directed by... You wanna say his name for me? Ashutash Gowaragar. And he's a renowned director. Ashutash Gowaragar. He directed Swades, Joda Akbar, Lagann, I'm sure, many more. Yes. So he's a very renowned director. Composer was A.R. Rahman. Which is... Of course. We'll talk about that. And also it starred... Say her name for me. Gracie Singh. Gracie Singh. Yes. We'll talk more about her. We will talk about more. But anyway, Blackthorne, and we're gonna talk about my favorite character in the film. Yes. But this is obviously a spoiler review. Yes. It came out in 2001. Assuming most of you have seen this. Most of you. If you haven't, go watch it. We asked people, because there's a couple different cricket films, which one we should watch first to get into know the sport better. Right. And this is the one that everybody said and I agree with them. And I'm glad we waited a little bit and did like our cricket video where we actually learned some cricket before and we've seen some highlights of matches. Yeah. It was actually quite funny. I watched it with Shishu, and she was actually asking what was going on in the game. And I was able to explain not all of it, there's still some point. We're not gonna pretend we know the sport well yet. No, but I was like, I know the point systems. Like you get six, you get four. Yeah. And so it was interesting. But anyways, this film obviously a four hour film. Yes. But... Which was longer than the tour that Gilligan and his crew took. But you know what's funny? I watched this in two parts. I watched I think an hour and 15 hour 30 first. Right. And basically I stopped right before they started training. Yeah. Gotcha. And then right after that, which was another two and a half hours left in the film. Man, that thing flew by. The second half? Yeah. Yeah, the second half is very... Oh, it's captivating. Very. It's very quick. I love this film. I mean, there were parts I despised. Okay. There were parts I despised. And there may be the parts that I love. But even still, I was like on the edge of my seat, especially the second half, because obviously I figured they would win. And I don't know how much of this is 100% accurate. I know they... It was a little cinematic, obviously. Of course. Of course it has to be. It's a film. But I knew they'd probably won, but you don't know the whole story. So you're like, what's going to happen? Right. What's all this? So that was very interesting to me. And my wife was like, that was a good film at the end. Yeah. She actually only started my second viewing. So she caught the second half. So I caught her up with the first part. Which you can do pretty quick. Yeah. And then we watched the second half, which is basically an entire film itself. True. But yes, I thoroughly enjoyed this film. We could talk about every aspect of it, of course. Starting with Amir Khan. Yeah. So for me, I don't know that I would have enjoyed this as much if I hadn't already seen a bunch of his movies. Yeah, I'd probably say so. Like if there's an American going through stuff, I would recommend them other Amir Khan stuff. 100%. Well, one, because this is old Bollywood. Right. And so you need to understand Bollywood Correct. And like current Bollywood, which is more similar to Hollywood. 100%. To understand old Bollywood. Right. Right. And old Bollywood and Indian culture. You don't need to know as much like Devdas's like PhD level Indian understanding. There was stuff we didn't even capture all over the place. Yeah. This one, you need to understand at least some of the history of Indian cinema and old Bollywood, the transition. You obviously, you don't need to know cricket because they teach it to you. Yes. But I discovered in this one. And it's why I think he's perfect for this version. He's going to do a forest gump because I very much felt when he came on screen and I was watching him the way I do the kind of affinity I have for Tom Hanks. Oh yeah. No, I think that's probably not talking about that. Yeah. It's a perfect casting. It's just, it's a tough role and a tough film. It'll do. Remake. Really tough. But it helps so much that I cared immediately. Yeah. It's a great character because it's American. It's American. Yeah. So he was phenomenal. One of my favorite roles. I still think my favorite role of his is the ragged debausty. Yeah. Yeah. That's just, I love that. My favorite role of his because it's just my, I'm so far. I love, I just love the message of PK. Yeah. Yeah. But also we could talk about somebody I'd never heard of but who adored was Gracie Singh. Come on. Who played Gary. How did you pronounce it? Gary. Gary. Yeah. Okay. She was, I kept saying through, I think she's adorable. Adorable. She is adorable. Yeah. And also she should not be named. Was smitten over the Indian head nod that kept happening throughout the thing. Come on. That is so adorable. The Indian head nod is just one of the most adorable things I've ever seen a human being do. It is absolutely so endearing and so sweet and so indicative of India and only India. Right. Absolutely. That's great. I don't know what else she's been in. So you can let us know if she's a big star. If this was like one of her biggest things she's ever done. Bells will be ringing. But I thought she was phenomenal in her role. Me too. 100%. 100%. I believe she loved him. She was passionate. And I was in a relationship between them. I didn't love, and we can go into this a little bit. Some of the things I didn't love was the, it almost seemed forced. The British girl loved him. Yeah. Maybe it happened. Maybe that was like a real thing that happened between these two characters. But in this it felt like really forced. I thought she was just being like a nice person, helping them out. And then she was like, I'm falling in love with you. Okay. What the? Yeah. That was kind of out of left field. It was. You didn't build that up at all. Not particularly. And I would have been fine that he didn't really need it either. Because she could have been jealous just because he was talking to this other girl that he was infatuated with. Yeah. It really could have been left alone. Yeah. I mean she could have, what's her name? Guri. Could have just been jealous of this other woman that he's infatuated with. Right. Because she's from a different country and she's teaching this sport. Right. And she's pretty. Yeah. And so she could have just been jealous. There didn't need to be a whole. No. We didn't need to love each other. But it could have been real. The storyline could have been real in the actual story of Lagun. The cricket thing. Is this based on an actual event? Yes. It is? Yes. I thought this was just simply a story. No. This actually took place? Yes. Really? Yes. There was this place that did this and they fought the British and they didn't have to pay taxes for three years? Yes. Are you 100% positive? I've looked it up. Yes. Wow. This is so cool. Wow. This is the place. Yes. This is a based on obviously. Sure. Not every little thing. You can let us know. But he was annexed. They said Africa. But he was annexed to Australia. Oh, okay. The main British guy. Yeah. He was annexed to Australia. Okay. Wow. Cool. Some gay people in it. Might have been the first gay people in India. Weird. I looked up like what was true, what was not true. Basically. Cool. I watched it. I didn't even look it up because for some reason I had heard or thought I had heard that it was fiction. So that's great. Yeah. But I didn't love what he was doing a lot of times. Bob Blackhorn? Yeah. In terms of the captain. There was a lot of stuff with the British. Well, there always is. But let's say first of all, you know that's his first role ever. Was this? Yeah. Well, that makes sense. And he's gone on to do a lot of work. That makes sense. A lot of work. But this was his breakthrough role. Because he was really over-inflecting like certain British. Yes. But. So at the start of the movie, I thought, oh dear gus, great. I'm going to have to sit through another movie with a bad white actor being a Brit. Yeah. And then I'm watching the guy and I'm thinking, you know what? He's annoying me. And it's not his acting, especially the second half. I didn't think his acting was bad at all. It wasn't really his acting. It was some of the mannerisms he decided to do that were over the top and you knew that they were acting. Yeah. But it made me dislike him so much. And I think that was great. It made me like that. When I think about it in retrospect, I could see someone else doing the role. But I kind of liked it. It was him because I got sick of his face. Yeah. You know? Not the actor, but that character. Every time his face got on screen and he made that little snotty face of his. Yeah. And I just wanted to slap him. You know? Which is exactly how I think they wanted you to feel about it. Yeah, maybe. But the most laughable part of the whole film, and I still haven't, we haven't touched on my favorite character by far. And I'm going to make a weird comparison to this film in another fear. But the most laughable part was with the British girl. What was her name? Elizabeth Russ, the sister? Yes. Yeah. Her song? Yes. It was like, I felt like a Camelot. It felt like a mixture of a Disney film and Camelot. She's swinging on leafy, broke mind, leafy things. All white girls sing about boys with animals. I love it. I love it. That was a terrible part of the film. Awful. And I could tell. I was like, why are they doing white people like this? That actress was struggling so hard to find her motivation. I could really see in the back of her eyes going, why am I doing this thing right now? I just don't feel this at all. You don't have to talk about that one, but that was a terrible part of the film. Okay, so another musical number that did the exact opposite for me. There were several. There was a couple that were beautiful. The first big one, in fact, just doing it right now, and this is more than just this film. This is, what I'm about to share about this musical number is it encapsulates everything about what's happened since Gully Boy and Stupid Babies in India. Because the musical number where he has several, where he's trying to convince people to believe, and they're singing a song about, and then the thunder starts to come at the beginning and they think it's going to rain. Every single person doing that number and smiling and a head nod or doing a thing with the hand and him smiling, I got the feels the whole time. I thought it was a beautiful number and it depicts everything I love about India and Bollywood and musical numbers they put in films. I did have a problem with some of the songs being a little too long. Did they work? Not all of them. My favorite song was the one, Why Is She Jealous or whatever that one was. I love that one. I also love the one where he's trying to convince them, the older guy who's saying, why are you doing this? And the song lyric, it's midway, I think, is the song. I have it on my playlist where basically the saying is the one who has hope is really the one you should be following and is the courageous one and he's trying to get them to believe we can do this because everyone's pissed at him for having said what he said. It's like, we're not going to beat them at this game and he's like, no, you can believe and have a dream. I love it. Also, my favorite entire scene, we can go back to Mir Khan. I mean, obviously the end was amazing, the whole cricket playing. The whole, yeah. Activating. One of the better sports. I mean, right up there with other sport movies. Oh, yeah. Yeah. This was a fantastic sport movie. I loved it. But when he told the undesirable to join. Oh, absolutely. That whole scene and monologue of his. Yes. When he was getting in everybody's face about being hypocrites and all that kind of stuff about the whole cast system. And I love that we learned more about it from Article 15 and who the entrepreneurs are. Great timing. It was really impactful and I love that he did a phenomenal job. I thought the whole scene was well written. Me too. And I loved that whole. And I got, by the time the game started, I had become emotionally invested in most of the characters that were involved. And this is the weird comparison I was referencing a minute ago. I found myself becoming attached to these characters in the same way I became attached and I'm still attached to the characters. Weird comparison in Greece. I don't understand. The individual specific unique idiosync because each person was so individually interesting. You had a little sunny. Yeah, they all had their unique traits. Even the way that they played, you know, each one. And it was interesting because each one's seemingly, you know, the fact that he could do his slingshot became his strength. And even the other guy who had his hand and he threw the ball, you would look at him and think you can't throw a ball. And actually because of his hand, it could spin a certain way. And Amir Khan is the one who saw that. He saw each little individual difference. And so it was like this band of outcasts. That's kind of like Greece. They were the guys that the rest of the school kind of, you know, they thought they were cool, but everybody else kind of like, you know, the athletes and the jocks, Shundum and Zuko was cool. Everybody thought Danny Zuko was cool. He was the Amir Khan of the thing. Yeah. So I saw a lot of comparison, but my favorite character. It was the scene guy. Who? The guy who could tell the future or whatever. Come on. Yeah. Go around with the beard. Oh my. When he yells, I wrote it down when he did it. I was dying. When he's screaming during the game, he screams, come on, white man, I'll make you wine for your mother. Rot in hell. I love that character. And sadly that actor has since, he's not around anymore. Yeah. But I love that guy. I wasn't a fan. Oh, Corbin Miles. I disgusted with him. He got, I think I just more accepted his character. Oh, I endured him. It's just the, it's clearly overacting. Yeah. In the best way. No, it's not. But I understand whatever. And I love some of the stuff he said. I thought it was funny. Like they brought up the, teach that white man a lesson. Yeah. And he backed me up. Me too. I loved his pattern. He was the one guy aside from Amir Khan, Kovan, who was optimistic the whole time. Just like, you want to do it. It can be done. We can do this. We can beat them. They suck. We're great. We have God on our side. And I just, I want that guy on my team. Yeah. Yeah. I love that character. I even love the fact that his beard didn't look too great. And I'm a big, I'm a nitpicky guy. When it comes to bad and makeup and bad hair, like it's unacceptable to me. But there was something pretty awesome about the fact that I was like, I don't think that beard's real and I don't care. Because it fits this character. I love, absolutely. Every time he was on screen, I couldn't, I was thrilled. I wasn't as a big of a fan, obviously. But that's, that's, that's fine. But my favorite thing about this film was the amount. One, I think I knew a lot of the stuff that they were teaching already because we had really good teachers. We really did. Regardless of if you think they were not, they were good. But it kind of helped to reinforce the stuff that we had already been taught. Yeah. And so you can see it almost in slow motion, what the rules are. Yeah. And why you can't play in the rain, basically. Well, even. And also the pitch changes. The climactic ending, too. Why his ball wasn't spinning. Correct. Because the pitch changed. Right. And that's one of the things that I learned because I made fun of the fact that they canceled one of the cricket games on Twitter. Right. It's just rain guys. Right. And then everybody was like, you have no idea what you're talking about. Idiot. Right. Yeah. You can't play. Because it's even the pitch. It's even worse than what happens in baseball. Yeah. I mean, the rain affects cricket even more than baseball. Well, yeah. They have to use the pitch. Exactly. But yeah. And so, like, that was really cool to learn. And then also the, I learned a bunch of stuff, obviously. The fact that when somebody pitches, you have to, in order for this guy to hit again, you need to get one run. No, two run. Not two. Yeah. You want to score less, actually. Yeah. So that you have another shot at more. If you want this guy to hit. Because of the number of pitches you have. And the, like a lead off, if you get off base, I didn't realize this. When he comes off. It's like baseball. Yeah. He was tagged out. Yeah. And even if we hadn't been exposed to cricket, the ending wouldn't have, we wouldn't have understood the ending. Because the fact that he catches it, and I, for a split second, I bought it. For a split second, I thought, wow, they're actually going to make him lose the game. And part of me was like, that sucks. But that's kind of cool that they, wow, the underdog, Rocky doesn't win the championship. And then they show you where he's standing. Yeah. If we didn't know that it was past the boundary and it was a six. Yeah. It wouldn't have meant anything for us as a sport movie. So I was fully, it for me is right up there with my other favorite sport films. And it's the only cricket film we've seen thus far. Yeah. There's others. Yeah. Okay. Let's, the music. A hour woman. I guess you don't need to say anything else. No. Some of the, obviously the, like I said, the jealous one. The only one I hated was the British girl. The love triangle song. It also sounded weird having like the song sung in English. Yeah. In a Bollywood movie. In a Bollywood movie. It was like, it just didn't sound right. No. I much preferred and wanted to see Bavan and Guari's love story. And his, you know, his playing with her and her not knowing. And, but just, and besides the songs, just the score. He's, it's A.R. Roman. He is, he is, he is brilliant at conveying emotion and also being small, which is, I don't know how much he and the director were collaborating. Okay. That's got a huge, but for example, the score didn't stand out to me during the cricket match, which is exactly what should happen. Yeah. It should have just enhanced my emotional state of being and not really made me think about the music. It didn't. The songs I remembered, but from the moment the game starts. And even the, so much of the shots were so well done. Let's just give a big shout out. Just going to be weird, but the background actors, man, whatever they were doing to stay focused as a crowd and be believable that they were, I don't know how many days they all stood around. That was a lot of background work. That was. And the musical numbers had a lot of human beings in there without CGI put in people with costumes and a lot of work put into this film. Yeah. Yeah. A lot of work. I loved this. I did too. Actually, when it got going finally, after the first hour, 15, whatever, when they actually started training and they were finding different people. Yeah. I loved, I think one of the best actors in this whole thing was the Sikh. Yeah. Yeah. I loved his character. One, he was a strong actor. Strong actor. But I liked his character a lot. I liked that we knew that about the Sikh people already. Yeah. They were very proud. Again, warriors. So helps. And so the background of that helps. And the minute I saw him, my whole impression of the Sikh people is because of our understanding of it and being educated through it and seeing Kassari. It was Kassari, right? Yes, it was. When I see them instantly, whereas before we saw them in our thought was, oh, peaceful, kind, quiet, keep to themselves. When I think Rambo, Braveheart, that's what I think now when I see them. So when I saw that guy, I was like, oh, warrior. You want him on the team. Yeah. Now, also, I wonder how many rules were changed from this time. Obviously, this was way back in the day when this story happened. Yeah. So I think one of the jokes they were making, I did this and they were like, I think they said we have to write some, but it can't be done until half of this. I'm wondering if that is now a rule. Right. Yeah. Because I know the game has changed just like any sport. We're timed. Also, if you hit people with the ball, you do get a penalty. I don't know. At least now. Yeah, I don't know. Because nothing happened. You can just peg each other with the ball as much as you want, no matter where you're standing. Hit them in the ear. Why wouldn't you just peg each other? I know. All the time. It just hurt the other player and you're going to win the game. So I'm assuming a lot of these rules changed and now you see, you get penalties now. But I didn't know how many of those rules changed and how much of this was changed for cinematic reasons. Right. Yeah, for those of you, which is most of you who know cricket better than we do, you would pick up on things like if I watched a baseball movie, I could tell you instantly if it was accurate or not. Yeah. You know, whether holding the baseball bat to everything, every little nuance. And I know you guys are like that with cricket. But I assume, I mean we've got, everybody was saying watch this, watch this, watch this, watch this, when are you watching this, when are you watching this. And I would definitely say, I would recommend this to people if they've already seen a bunch of Bollywood films or films from India. Not their first one. No. I don't, if you, this is how we look at it. We're trying to get other people here in America to catch on. But you don't want it to be this abrupt and this long. Because if you're coming from an American film, which is an hour and a half is a film. Right. And if it's longer, it's sometimes people think it's way too long. Yeah. Anything over two hours, most Americans are like, well, unless it's Avengers. Yeah. I'm not interested. Yeah. So it's going to be tough for me to stay focused. And so you need to build up the tolerance basically. Yes. It's very much like introducing people who've never had anything to drink in their life. They've never had an alcoholic beverage before in their life. You're not going to just instantly start making them drink three year old scotch. You're going to have them be introduced to some of the lighter things and begin this build up process so that they are understanding, you know, the nuances and what to enjoy. And like most cinema, but particularly with Indian cinema, because it is as complicated and complex and culturally diverse that you will miss. And I'm sure we're still missing stuff. Oh, yeah. So we're gaining ground, but I agree with you. This one, I would put a dev dose for me so far as the one that's like, you've got to be as immersed as you possibly can. And then this would be right up there, which I imagine is going to be the base for any of the older Bollywood films, but they're going to be pretty rich in Indian culture and history and Bollywood cinema style that I mean, even like watching the Sri Devi video of her dance, the snake dance helps inform the video of the songs in this in a certain way. You know what I mean? Yeah. So I love this movie. I love this film. Especially once I like, like I said, I was captivated. I didn't notice like, especially from when I started the second time right when she started training and basically that's when I restarted it. Yeah. And like, I didn't, I couldn't tell you that it was two and a half hours after that because it kind of just flew by. It does. The second half flies. I was just captivated the whole time. Yeah. And I understand why you guys love this film so much. And it's a groundbreaking film. I would love to see this on a big screen. Oh, yeah. Because I bet it feels like, like I remember the first time I saw Lawrence of Arabia on the big screen. And I remember it intermission because that one has an intermission. I remember it intermission being thirsty because I felt like I'd been in the desert the whole time. You know, so I would imagine after, you know, watching this seem to dive in the dirt and play in the stuff. I just would have been more immersed. Maybe you want to play cricket too. It did. Me too. A lot. We'll play when we come to India. Yeah. But yeah. And we're well aware that cricket's coming here. We've actually talked about that reality. It's August 4th. They're not coming to the west coast. No. It's about six hour flight. Yeah. We're still, we're thinking. Yeah. We'll let you know. We're tempted. But I would give this, I'd give this, I mean, in terms of just knowing Bollywood as a whole, I'd give this an A. Solid. That's my solid A. Like they would, like I said, I told you the thing. I had problems with it. But most of them weren't in terms of the film. It was just little things. Very little. A song here. Very little. That and into some of the other things that are beautiful, which would take just too long, all the technical aspects of it that we would get into. Yeah. Cinematography and set design and continuity. I just love that. It's really solid. Well done. I love that I do understand cricket more now. Yeah. And I can appreciate India going to a World Cup. One other thing. Yes. One other thing for me. This was beautifully, for the translation that we got. I'd love to know for those of you who speak both Hindi and English, if you've seen the subtitles, how close the English came to the Hindi, because some of the lyrics and the songs in the English were so gorgeous lyrically. I immediately, there were songs I wanted to have and listen to. And just the poetic beauty, it made me kind of ache to know Hindi even more. Because I know that even when you, it's like any language, but particularly with Hindi, there's so many plays on words that thankfully they could translate with English. But I know it's, I know there's a lot of missing in translation. But this was probably the most beautiful English translation of words that I felt like I was capturing how gorgeous the lyrics were in the song. I did love the subtitles. Yeah. I thought it was beautiful. As was that, I thought the script was really well written. Yeah. Really well written. It's all around. I could totally watch it again. Yeah. Because it's just so captivating. It's like when you're in the mood to watch a sports movie. Yep. It captivates you just like that. Yep. That was great. Let us know. We should watch a review next. And go India. Win. Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!