 Rationality, it doesn't mean a thing to me. I hate when people complicate things with logic. You're confusing me with reason and logic. It's much easier to just think what I want to think. Exactly, because I'm not- And ignore every other- ...challenged. My dodge. Hey, welcome back to our stupid directory, it's a Corbin. I'm Rick. You can follow us on Instagram, Twitter, or- You're ba-dab-dab-dab-dab-dab! And subscribe to the channel, you little hellions. What? That haven't yet, what? Why is SAG sending me an in-person event to go see being the Riccardo's and the SAG awards are over? You stupid idiot, stop it! Anyway. No one that's watching this can relate to what you just said. But today we're doing a movie review, Chidgen. It's a little vague. And today it's a- we watched the- 2015 Malayalam film Prima. Directed and written by Alfonso Puthrun. I think that's close enough for hand grenades. Alfonso Puthrun? Starring a whole bunch of people. If you're not familiar, it's a young man has three opportunities to find love. It's essentially a coming-of-age story. It is, and it gives a little too much away. But anyways, this will be 100 Cent's World Review. It came out 2015. You haven't watched it. We actually saw it on- What is that? It's a site that we can get some Indian films out. It's the last resort that we go to. That you guys have greater accessibility. So you might just have- Right. The excess is just search it. But anyways, so if you haven't watched it, go watch it and come back because it's going to be 100 Cent's spoiler review. Correct. Rick, your initial thoughts, please. 15th of the year, 222nd all-time. And interestingly, this is 222nd and from Malayalam it's 22. So it's 222- 222nd films? The 22nd Malayalam film are 222nd all-time in the year 2022. I feel like we need to get to 100 of everything. We should have planned this and did it on February 22nd. So before I read the paragraph, I'm going to say that depending upon what Corbin thought of the movie, I'll be offering you a giant lob to slam right back at me at the end of my paragraph, depending on what you thought of the movie. Okay. So here we go. Okay. At the two hour and six minute mark of this film, somebody asks, what's your opinion about love? Considering the film is literally called love, I'm happy to answer that question. But remember, it's an opinion. I do try to align my opinions with absolute truth and objective reality, but at the end of the day, a movie review is still just an opinion. And opinions are by nature subjective. Example, I have an opinion about Hajmola. You may love it. I do not. My opinion isn't wrong. Neither is yours. However, strongly, I may disagree with it or not understand it. So when I say Primama's not my cup of tea, and I'll explain why, as we discuss, you may disagree with that opinion, but my opinion is not wrong. I personally, it wasn't, it's really a tale of two halves for me. I liked the second half. But even still in liking the second half, for me, it just wasn't, it wasn't my cup of tea. But it's not one of those films where I see it and there's like these flaws that I can point to in the cinematic artistry level of things. I think this is just interpretive, a matter of how you particularly feel about a film. And for me, it just, I'm not in. It just wasn't my cup of tea. Yeah, I thought it was a nice film. I do agree, though. I think this one especially has a barrier of Maliali that others didn't, in multiple aspects in terms of like subtitles that are ridiculously fast. That was insane. Especially in the first half. It was almost like half a second. It was a lot of stuff in the first half that I just straight up didn't even get the chance to read. Yeah, you don't get a chance. And so I'm sure there was a lot of information there. And obviously I'm sure there's a lot of local dialects and jokes and stuff. And kind of stuff that normal Malialis would relate to in that aspect that we totally and utterly missed. Different than when we saw the Mohanbaugh film with the green face. That was just cultural, I feel. Extremely heavily cultural, old cultural stuff. Yeah, that was different. This is still probably had some cultural stuff that we didn't understand. But overall, I do agree that there were some, there was definitely some, I definitely liked the second half more than the second half. But I think the actors were definitely stronger in the second half as well. I thought everything was stronger. I don't know if the editing was when they were filming it as well. I felt like I could see so much of the hard work. I really felt bad saying I'm not in. Because I saw how hard stuff was done in cinematography and everything else. I don't know that I could say that I'm not in. I can say that obviously I think as a Maliali you'll definitely love this film. Would not surprise me. Would not surprise me. This film then somebody has who has to read subtitles. My Hajmola analogy is pretty good. And even Pan, there's just, there's some tastes cinematically. Yeah, but Hajmola is just dog shit. No, I know. My analogy being there are just some things. Cinema is a lot like cuisine in that there are some principles you need to follow in order for things to work right. However, there are some culinary aspects in certain parts of the world that are so definitively enmeshed in culture and have particular flavorings that only people in that culture have been accustomed to it and like it. And it either is an acquired taste or you never get it. And I think this has that issue. I think that there's definitely a lot to like in this film and a lot that did really well, a lot that was really unique. There was a lot of story in terms of how it was filmed and what the director and cinematographers decided to do. They hate steady shots. Absolutely despise them. I think it was like two. I think in a lot of time it's Seinfeld. I think a lot of the time it's a movie just about nothing. People in moments. But yeah, I overall like the message of love and how long it takes some people to find love or multiple different love and the love you have with your friends that you grew up with and them always having your back. I thought there was some funny moments. I actually thought it was real funny at the end when they were beating them up. The one laugh out loud moment I had, the one that actually did make me laugh out loud and I went, okay, that's pretty funny was the coke sniffing fiance. The moment he slapped. Hard cut too. George and Celine wed. Yeah, so I really enjoyed that. That was very funny. I really enjoyed that part. I definitely think it could have been shorter for sure. Maybe that was just because the subtitle issue made it kind of drag in some parts. I think it did have a good pace often. A bunch of really good songs and a hand all that kind of stuff. Definitely maintained its pace. Yeah, and so it's not one that was like it's exhausting watching this. But I mean, let's go overall. Yeah, I do think the second half was definitely stronger but I think all the actors were pretty strong. Especially the females. I thought they did all really, really well. All of his love interest did a really good job. Agree. They were all very, very captivating. Agree. And that's not shocking from Malialam. I mean, outside of maybe that's just seem like a dick, the Coke sniff and fiance. He wasn't particularly strong. No. But maybe they just made that choice of making him just a gross asshole kind of thing. He was the one that kind of stood out the most in terms of acting. I think that Georgie's got stronger as they aged. I agree. That's not, I guess, shocking, right? Actors usually get stronger as they age. But not just in portrayal. But I felt like in the way it was scripted. Like, okay, so one of the things, the performance for sure, I just wanted to add this before I forget. And this is, again, part of my opinion and why I made my paragraph, mostly about my opinion in this regard. Because what I'm about to say, we ran into the same thing with Super Deluxe, where I was talking about fake crying and a lot of people, a lot of stupid babies were saying, this is the way this is in our culture. It's very common in all these films now too. Yeah. And I was like, okay, well, all I've ever been exposed to is that that's bad acting. Yeah. But they're saying, no, they're actually portraying what people really do. Yeah, that's pretty. The same thing happened here. What I'm about to talk about, I believe, is part of the culture. But for me, and I wrote it down, I don't enjoy watching what, for me, I perceived to be grown men, college-age guys, behaving like adolescent boys when they interact with women that they like. And I know that that's real, and I know that that happens, but it's something that I've personally never understood, admired, or been entertained by, unless it's like complete absurdist comedy. So that's one of the reasons why the first half being so loaded with that adolescent boyhood by men distances me from caring about characters and paying deep attention to them because I just can't relate to it. Yeah. It's not a fault of theirs, they're depicting reality, but it's why I don't get absorbed into the story. I thought all the, because I was actually sad a lot of times when they, because I think one of the strongest things of the film is actually the kind of, it's a really almost 96-style story. Great comparison. Except that one was one girl, which is his life, the different kinds of love. That's a good comparison. But I like that aspect of it, of it takes some people a long time to find the right one, and also apparently there might be multiple right ones, just not the right time, just there's a whole bunch of different stuff. And I like that, and then weaving the friend love end with it, I like that. And the butterflies throughout. Yeah, I like that. I like that. The flittiness of the butterflies. I like that a lot. And it was super, super, I thought, unique. Because I didn't see, I didn't know just, I don't think we've ever acted to the trailer for this. Got recommended obviously a lot, and that's why we watched it. But the, I didn't see a lot of the stuff coming. So I didn't know like, the original is just going to get married off, and you're like, oh, okay. And then you get attached to the second one, and then she's gone, and you're like, okay, she's going to come back. This is really, I like the relationship, and then she's gone, I think it was really something. I mean, and why the terror, it was the weird feeling, and if you feel like that's something. And then I was like, okay, we have 40 minutes left in the film and then we're going to have another love interest. Assuming he's going to get her in the end, because that's film, you know, they kind of have to have a happy ending usually. And then so it's, I thought that was really unique. I think it could have been tighter for sure. In terms of like, I think a two hour film might have been better than a two and a half part of the Lowe's for me Probably for a Molly alum audience would not be a Lowe in any way shape or form It was the fly on the wall aspect of like when they're playing cards or they're just basically doing anything Yeah, like Seinfeld, which is about nothing with the friends. Yeah great. Let me give you great example But that's what friends do also. So I think comparatively I think of a Molly alum person were to just jump into American cinema and watch for example Or even after a couple years and watch the Florida project They would appreciate how well it was done But culturally they wouldn't get what it means to be living in an apartment like that in Miami and Getting ice cream and and some of the things that are done culturally that I could just sit and watch all day because I grew up that way Yeah, so that's why I say it's my opinion about it. I'm not saying this is bad movie making in any way ship or form I see most of the attempt of it being good, but I agree. Yeah, that was part of the pacing problem Yeah, for sure And I think that's probably it was probably definitely on purpose of because that's what friends do They sit around the talk about nothing They just do they were very very believable in that regard. Absolutely. Um, and I thought The cinematographer and the director Like for this style of film it was almost shot sometimes like an action film like in terms of how much he didn't like Just and it's not a fault It's just it's so different and I actually enjoyed the difference that they decided to go with because it was like There was one shot. They're just talking and they're circling like it there It's like this like a stick up or something like that. I'm like, whoa Did that a lot even like when his dad shows up at the principal's office and slaps him with his words and he gets up And they're like bum bum bum bum bum. He's tired. He's doing great. I thought that was funny I liked the the bring back of obviously when they were younger and to go beat up those people Obviously, they've got the big music, which is great. Oh, yeah The great soundtrack but then when they brought it back at the end one last time when his friends are gonna go Beat up that guy and I thought it was hilarious what they did. They were like you the petrol prices are too high And he's like, is this a mistake and then they're like, oh, yeah, I'm so sorry, man And they just left. Yeah, I thought that was very funny, but I like the bring back of that It had this weird mixture. I mean, well before I get into that Let's just stick to the quirkiness of the direction and cinematography Because they also made some really pretty choices in terms of very cinematography some of the effects things they did Rain going backwards. Uh, I loved the moment when they're doing. Oh, it was also the editor as well. Oh, he might be an editor I wonder explains why a lot of that was very very good I'm wondering if he is an editor and then he became a director because could be That I was definitely a stick out the editing choices were as a major noticing point I agree. I wouldn't shock me if like he's just like I want to have fun Yeah, I agree Yeah, the other thing it was weird to me because I'll point out two things that just were incongruent for me That was one of the other reasons I wasn't in So one of my favorite things and I'll point one of my least favorite things. This is about story One of my favorite things is how in the end We find out that the teacher has had her memory restored. Yeah, but she doesn't tell him. Yeah That was an interesting. I didn't see it coming. Yeah, I thought that was a really nice thing to add Yeah, I was I was wondering I was like, why did they bring her back? Right? What's the I know me too. What's the point here? Just and then When it came out that she was Remembered again and she remembered who he was and how and she loved him and that's what was going on One of my favorite parts is the story of it of you might have Your the love might not have worked out or it might not just have been the right time Right circumstance. It might have been the right time, but obviously she had an accident Right, so I'm longer the right and my wife was kind of mad that he just didn't stick around and try to remember She was like you could have waited If you will it felt quite selfish in that regard, but he was young He was young and that's usually what happens in that regard, which is which is why it's great to see it in those three stages But then for justification points in the story where some of the things lacked believability for me and credibility I notated were um How quickly we just went from she Is had the accident has lost her memory and boom edit. She's getting married. Oh Okay, uh that that was a dead up to the culture thing quick jump to me as was the I felt like it was way too easy Just on the day of the engagement that the coke sniffing horrible person. Yeah that that is our That's our reason for her to not marry him and go back to be with george That to me was just from a writing standpoint was like that was that was a sentence of writing to Do something and I think more time could have been used in that rather than some of the flying on the wall early stuff especially when it was I It was laborious for me Like I said earlier to watch what I saw as grown men being adolescent boys A lot of the first half was spent just with that That's if I were to change anything in the script in the time the runtime It would have been let's let's do a lot less of the adolescent boy stuff. Yeah. Yeah Um, and I I did get comparison some people said to like Bangalore days, but I think this is a much better film than Bangalore days Overall, it didn't make me think about Bangalore. Yeah. No, I didn't remind me of that. No people maybe Maybe people would just talk about the coming of age Malayalam stories. Probably maybe but I this I think there's a much better film overall I like your comparison. Yeah, I think 96 to 96 But that maybe they were just comparing it to a Malayalam film. I don't know Well, and it's different time on film and it's obviously different from 96 Because that was one love that he had that he's never laid well, and it's not anywhere remotely close to the quirkiness that this Yes, this thing is almost Napoleon dynamite. Yeah, culturally quirkiness to me. Um, But yeah, I think overall I that's why I can't say I'm out because I think there was I think there's Much more to praise even though I think As a American who speaks English I'm sure I can't relate to this film as much as a Malayali Obviously can and I talked that to mostly but I think cinematic wise and um certain how artistic things were done That's why I can't say I'm out. I I I think it's it's um I thought it was good to say B-minus, but I gave you know the alia film of B-minus, but I feel much better about this B-minus than I do that My mind is maybe just had a higher expectations Yeah I'd probably say around that grade I just wish I could have I think tighter for sure two hours tighter would have helped a lot No, I I personally and then just subtitles going slower for me If I'm just if I'm just stepping back and looking at the the artistry cinematically and not my own personal assessments of story And things of that nature. I I think this is uh A b-plus comparatively to the b-minus that we would have given to to Gung-a-bye. Yeah, but The best way I could describe it would be like having somebody cook me a dish I've never had before from a region of the world that everybody loves And I see the amount of work that went into it And I can't deny the expertise and the passion that went into it and other people love it But for me when I took a bite, I was like, oh, yeah, no, I'm good. I thank you, but no That's that's that's what I Have different opinions on films. That's why we're here guys to opinions friends to talk about those opinions But please let us know what you thought about this film and what should be our next malayalam film that we should watch Obviously, we've seen 22 music 22 unless our count was wrong. Yeah, I think it's accurate I updated it right at the end of the year. So we should be at he's old. So you might have messed up It's true. Who knows it could be 47 But let us know what the next malayalam film we should watch is down Oh, also what happened a subin. I didn't know he was in this. Oh, yeah I did. Thank you. I'm glad you said that we love him. That was one of my favorite actually parts I like the the the break dancing It's scenes. I thought those were fun and and the sound effects of the mirror Subin with his friend who also liked the girl. I thought they were corky and subin's whistle Uh, I'd sue, but I didn't know he was in this and also I for a second. I was like, is that really him? He looked young and he was like, I'm glad you brought that up and he was like Anyway, I just wanted to bring that up because I love subin. I think he was a fantastic actor Anyways, let us know what the next malayalam film should be down below