 Yep This is real It's I'm Corbin. I'm Rick, and I'm like this all the time. It's true And today they're not gonna believe it. No, I'm sure you don't believe it. Uh, we are reviewing Rockstar couldn't be the actually psych we're doing a reaction to a trailer. That's true That would be so great. That would be hilarious if you thumb nailed it Rockstar, but we just didn't do it. Yeah, that'd be funny You should we do that? No, we're not gonna do that to you. But I mean, this is the most requested review Also the most divisive Yes, most people have said they love it most people like half the other people have said they absolutely despise it So we'll see if you see some of that here. Yeah, and spoiler alert We're gonna talk about things in the film and if you haven't seen it because it did just come out eight years ago It's all spoilers. Yeah, but all spoilers now Jenner didn't Jenner didn't just car Jenner didn't a car and JJ. Okay, Jordan JJ chase this is dream to become a big rock star during which which he falls into love with her Here here here here. It's directed by say it Directed by MTS Ali a he directed jab we met and I'm sure other stuff and AR ramen was the composer. Who's that? He really likes ramen And for those of you watching for the first time, we know who he is And obviously starring Ranbir Kapoor. Who's that? Oh alien number three. Yes So Sorry headphone users. Sorry. I needed a stretch there Let's talk about what let's talk about. No, let's talk about what we liked Okay, a lot because I know we both have things we didn't like correct in this film Yeah, we haven't talked about it But I haven't talked but we shared some because we do that if we're watching something It'll be like we'll send a message if we're not watching it together because we typically if it's in a theater We watch it together. Yeah, but the ones that we watch that are either streaming or a DVD we watch. Yeah separately So so schedules obviously the biggest draw and big best part of this film is obviously ran be a render I think he did a phenomenal job He did he was completely Different than he was in our last thing up with him, which was Barfi Yeah, you know what this this showed me that he now that we've seen enough of his work to get a feel for the guy Yeah, that he can do good work with anything. He's good. I he's the kind of actor that I think Doesn't just won't turn in He may do a bad film But I he's the kind of actor you give him a bad film a bad script and bad anything else I think he's just still going to work hard and present something like a strong Tom Hardy I yeah, I've never seen that man give up Tom Hardy's never done He's done bad films, but he's never I've never seen him give a bad performance. Yeah, that's a great comparison in a film I'm not saying those same type. They're nowhere near the same kind of an actor by any stretch of the imagination They both at least from what I see you could tell us if we're completely and utterly wrong because I know he's done a lot of films But if from what I've seen and what I garner he's a solid actor all around He usually always does really good work. Yeah, and yeah, he's never he's very honest especially in His portrayals of everything. Yes 100% and he never there's there were a lot of opportunities here Where he could have by reason of the script or by reason of anything else He could have just found it in or just done a lot of indicating and he I just don't see that in the guys So I have a lot of respect for the guys an actor huge respect for him And I love the transformation. He went through Into becoming the rock star which is hard in film because most films are not filmed sequentially So the the actor has to have in the majority of films that you do an Understanding of the breadth of the work and have fully fleshed out the character so that you can on any given day You know your character's got a particular trajectory in an arc and then a climax and a resolution in terms of its growth And if you're filming the end of a film on day one And then you're filming the beginning of the film at the end and you mix them all up It's very difficult to make sure that you are exactly where that character needs to be at any given moment He has very honest eyes very honest eyes. I know that's a weird statement, but it's like Anytime he's on screen. You just he he like to peek up That's exactly very I mean very different eyes. Obviously. Yeah, hers are much bigger But like his eyes are one of his drawing factors as an actor. Yes He is very expressive eyes. Yes, one of my favorite scenes and this was when After he became big and he was going through a bunch of stuff, right? In his friend who I forget his name to pick your guy who's constantly motivated He they're talking in the street and he's like, what are you doing? You're all your fans. Yeah with the fans around the But then yeah, like he's trying to tell him all stuff They're like you're gonna lose your popularity, but he's like getting screamed at yeah And like people are wanting to get to him. Yeah, and so it was a funny dynamic But they also just the he just he just was he just looked at him The whole time he didn't really say anything. He was like, what do you say? Yeah? Yeah, he was just I was like I thought that was a fantastic scene. I thought he did a really good job expressing that with his eyes and he didn't do I mean he did obviously a talking but he did more just listening and In that type of acting and which I which I really appreciate. Yeah, like most actors He did more when he wasn't saying anything. Yeah Other part of this film that I really loved obviously the music Yeah, the music is fun at every level every song and the score was and that's important for a film like the first film That comes to my mind when I talk about when I think about a movie that Got it right where the music matched the story. They were telling yeah was that thing you do That thing you do is a film that stars Tom Hanks if you haven't seen it And it's about a rock band from the 1950s who become this one-hit wonder Well, if you're gonna be a band from the 1960s It's the 1960s I think who are gonna be a one-hit wonder and they've got a feel it's like the Beatles then the hit better sound like a frickin hit It and it and the song is done over and over and over again in the film and it's one of those songs It's like love me do or any of the other Beatles songs that when they first came out You're like I want to keep hearing that song the song that thing you do is Actually great song and it got some radio play So that's important when you're portraying somebody who's a big rock star that has hit singles the music better be good Obviously, and it was it's not a shock a raman. Yeah, the guy knows how to make music. No really really good Rock oh my favorite type of music is classic rock Yeah, that is what I love Led Zeppelin all those all those bands from back in the 40s. That's right Back in World War two. That's what the guys were listening to over there in Norman Led Zeppelin. Yeah But yeah, I loved all the music in this it was it was deceiving because when we reacted to you start a hawk Yeah, like I thought this was gonna be like this was a political Singer and this is all like I'm sure that's why they were laughing in the comments. They're like, you know, this is not what this Yeah, I thought this was gonna be the story like I thought this was gonna be more like she hit the porn with a pun job Yeah, that's what I thought right like a very political like a Bob Dylan type exactly This guy who's artistry is being kicked against by the establishment and they're trying to hold him down But his fans are getting him up and he does concerts that throw him in gym That's I was expecting that central story. Yeah, that's what and obviously it wasn't no and it was much more about the love story and This is where we can go into some of the stuff that bothered us I was actually enjoying Not all the film but most of the film for for a while because I thought it was going in a certain direction Right, I thought it was going to be about and it was very intriguing because I was like This is actually a true story that happens to artists. I thought it was gonna be an artist who's Been told that in order to make art you need to have gone through Stuff right like you need to have had a heartbreak. You need to have you know had some Trials right all this kind of stuff. So and that happens to every artist regardless of if you're a painter if you're an actor If you're a musician, yes, that's what you're told as a young artist Well when he had that moment with his friend and he's saying to him you really can't be an artist yet Yeah, I said the word when he said when he said there's one thing you have to have to be an artist And I said pain. Yeah, and he said pain. Yeah. Yeah, so and I thought okay So we're gonna watch the trajectory of this man as he goes through some things that are gonna Transcendently impact him with suffering and pain. Well, I was actually hoping it was going in a different direction I thought it was him trying to manufacture These events well he was yeah, I know right and that's where that's why I was I was really hoping this was going and I was and I was hoping like in the end like he was gonna find out that he was like I don't really love her I was just trying to manufacture these events and then he got everything he wanted and then he was just sad in the end Which was kind of how it ended a little bit But it was a lot more of just it moved into the love story, which was fine. The part that lost me was Like that his touch can heal cancer Okay, I Once that happened, I was like I I can't do this That does not happen. Let me ask you a question. Mm-hmm. You were in up until that point I was not all the points. There was like I think we've discussed the actor who played her Not a fan. I'm she might have done good work in something else. Do me a favor I would like to see her resume on IMDB and find out spot. Yeah, well go ahead and click it I want to see in the scope of what she's done. How much she's done and Where this fell in line of it was look at her first film and it shows. Yeah bless her heart I Don't mean this with any personal disdain I just had an extraordinarily hard time watching her. Yeah. No, I she was a hundred percent of Not great. Yeah I and I don't want to harp on her too much. No, I don't either I don't want to harp on a lot of things too much But I do want you guys to know that this one off the rails for me. Yeah pretty burly Mm-hmm. It it was I would fall into the category of people who don't understand the appeal of this movie in any way shape or form My beer. Yeah, but for me It was it was hard to sit through even with him For a lot of reasons For and and first of all Yes, I had a really hard time watching Somebody who I knew was an untrained unexperienced actor trying to carry a role where she's the lead actress opposite someone as good as he is And then add to it. I did not understand why he liked her because she was non-stop mind gaming him and Doing stuff that just was like dude. Why are you so? Enabbered with somebody. I just I did not I didn't connect with them either Mm-hmm. I didn't I kept looking at it thinking first of all on his his wanting to be a rock star and him being such a Negative ugly person to people because he's not around this girl. He loves who treats him like crap. It's like Dude, this isn't suffering and pain. You're going through man Unrequited love or not being able to be with the person that you love Yeah, that can be a torture But She's not someone that I think you should even be with I think that's why I was in it longer than you were It's because I that's not how I was thinking about it really I was thinking about it Like he was like I was almost hoping like he didn't actually love her and All everything he was doing was that would have been better. Well, that's what I was hoping for yeah Was then that's how I was viewing it at that time So I was like I was watching him and I was like I'm enjoying his performance And this is where I'm hoping this is going because it's it's a story like as a young artist I'd like you're told that I went through that as a young artist You're like I have to go through some stuff in order to in order to be a good actor I have to I have to go through stuff and then you realize that no, that's stupid. You're gonna go through stuff just in life You don't have to try to manufacture anything, right? But I was hoping that's where this was going was him trying to manufacture love pain Heartbreak going to jail right, right, right? I was hoping that like and it looked for a while That's where it was going and then it didn't it did not it didn't go that way And I like I said once basically he was like I have the magic touch and I can cure cancer So you have to be with me that That's that aspect of it. Here's what bothered me about that aspect of it I wasn't so put off by the fact that when he was gone She was getting sick and when he was near her She was getting better because there are cases in which that does happen because of the Positivity that another person being with the person brings doesn't cure cancer It didn't cure her it put her into a place that would have been a level of remission as a she wasn't able to get up And then he was there she was able that's the part I How did she go? From being almost unable to talk To when he's going to kiss her she can now fight him off and get out of bed and push him away And I know what they tried to justify in the script by saying she got up because he was around The level of believability in that regard was transcendently off the charts that I couldn't believe that in any way shit That was my like I said once that happened It was hard for me outside of watching Ranbeer to stay in the film Oh, because of course like I didn't I didn't like her acting and bless her heart It was her first film and it's a tough thing to carry when you're opposite an actor like Ranbeer Yeah, but then my question is this my question is sincerely this Why did you cast her? Is she related to somebody? Yeah, because here we go It's not fair to her and it's not fair to the art form And here's where I'm gonna really get picky because I know a lot of people a lot of you stupid babies We're like dying for us to watch this and review it. Oh every single Yeah single reaction you do and I'm wanting to know what it is about the film on an artistic level You like because apart from Ranbeer's capacity to take any material and turn it into something in the music good and the music And there were some moments especially the opening there were some things with the cinematography and direction that I liked but ultimately and as a whole I I Don't understand why people like the film or want to watch it It was painful and that word for me is to to struggle through a script and a story and some acting from pretty much everybody but Ranbeer that Was so below the level of what it should be for a film I'm trying to understand what it is about the film that you guys like Well, I'm sure the lows know and they'll be funny memes Yeah And I will say this because some of you will act will bring it up You know what I'm gonna say the guitar playing or something. Yeah, it wasn't perfect But they sure did a much better job and he clearly did his homework and was working hard A couple of small moments that for me were a little irritating But for the most part it wasn't like monstrously bad for the most part was it was really really good And it's very very hard But it's required for musicianship like anything if you're doing a movie about sports like when we watch the gun Yeah, everybody there was believable in what they were doing There wasn't you know world cup level cricket, but they could play cricket if you watch the Rudy everybody there can play football So when you're doing like that thing you do the whip lashes And so is Lala lamp. Yeah great in that on that level so no bones to pick a couple little small spots But on the technical aspect that but I just I had a I had a very it was I had to force myself To push through watching it it was incredibly difficult for me to continue to push watching it because I Didn't care about the people in the story. I didn't understand why I understand if you were looking at the way You were looking at the beginning especially because that's the part that I enjoyed the most because I was hoping it was going in a certain direction but if you were looking at like Like if you were looking at like a true love story That's I I don't was never had looked at it like that until the very end and that's when it lost me is when they actually I was like, okay. They're actually in love. That's not as interesting to me Yeah, because I like I said I was hoping it was all Like it was gonna be almost like an unda hun da hun twist, right? None of this is real. This is all just an artist. Oh, yeah, that's where I was hoping it was going Yeah, and I really I really didn't put presuppositions on it that stuck for example When I realized it wasn't gonna be the story of this guy and his rock star trajectory Yeah, I thought okay, let it be what it's gonna be But what I didn't understand were the two fold lines of this was the one His story as the artist and what he wanted to achieve that got really blurry for me And I didn't I didn't see him Taking the journey that it was just all of a sudden he was the rock star and yeah, he's yeah He's in jail for for for what? I mean he was mean to reporters. Okay Really that's suffering. He went to jail for being mean to reporters Okay, yeah, he that's not Lenny Bruce, you know what I mean? This isn't a guy who's breaking boundaries and pushing the system and getting imprisoned in the middle of a show Yeah, I thought he was just trying to be like in the beginning Who's that guy said that gave him the finger He said something in the beginning. He was like you want to be like Jim Morrison Jim Morrison, thank you Yeah, and so that's where like I said, that's why I was hoping it was going him trying to me to basically Be Jim Morrison. Yeah, that life and because I know people like that that yeah I'm a favorite artist and they try to emulate their life even in bad stuff Right try to come up with a similar life as the person they see admire that would have been for me Which is why it was in it for a while because I was hoping that's where it was going I would have loved to have seen a story about an artist who's just like that who doesn't know who he is He's told by somebody respect you've got to suffer and he's like I gotta be like Jim Morrison So he pours himself into being just like Jim Morrison does everything Jim Morrison did this girl falls in love with him He falls in love with her, but she sees he doesn't know who he is He's and she wants him to just be himself and in the end whatever that outcome is going to be he has to come to terms with I know you'd love for him to OD. Yes A place of recognizing you can't be a true artist by manufacturing someone else's suffering You have to be yourself and the suffering in and of itself isn't the point Yeah, it's being in touch with whatever you've experienced. That's where I was hoping it was going and it didn't even come close They turned into this weird wonky Love story could have gone there, which is like I said why I was in it for so long outside of her acting She was the biggest one that kept taking me out of it, of course Yes, I don't know too much But it didn't go that way and so that was that was quite disappointing Yeah, and and and here's that here's a thing in regard to for example We don't I think you've watched this long enough You know that we don't think every film has to be Cinema and fine artistry an award-winning level. We love films that deli-belly would fall into that category Deborah would fall into that category if you don't know what that is look back at some of our film but This was neither. This was neither one of those films that you just want to watch to enjoy nor it Wasn't anything remotely close to fine artistry. Yeah, and so that's why outside of Ran beer outside of Ran beer And and and that's our romance in the songs. Yeah The songs are phenomenal and there's a couple of them are my and Ran beer is the kind of guy who can take something off Well, like I said and turn it into something wonderful, but I'm trying to comprehend the the appreciation of this on a number of levels and Because I don't I didn't relate to what was going on. I didn't know why he loved her I didn't know why she was playing mind games with him if she really loved him why she was doing the things that she did I definitely didn't understand There's just so much that I didn't understand the justification for I didn't see an arc for him or for her that mattered to me And I also didn't see the level of his discontent with his fame being commiserate to I Just I just didn't get it on so many levels and don't understand the appeal. You can't win them all You can't win them all. That's what you'll get better said you can't win the ones you'll lose But I do want to see more Ran beer Cuz absolutely love him Your your justice for Ran beer hashtag worked. Good job. Yeah Yeah, that was your main goal was watch Rockstar so you can watch Ran beer done good deal But everything else about this. Yeah, this would fall at the bottom of the list for me I would not recommend this to anybody to see At all but let us know what other I know there's a bunch that you've recommended or what other films we should watch in review next because there's a lot There's a lot There's a lot. There's a lot and we really wanted we're trying to get to like last week We were busy and that's why we couldn't get to any we had that 300k video that we had to sorry So we're trying to get at least two a week if not more we'd love to get more but let us know if You can tell us Certain things about the film that we missed. Yeah, let us know in the comments. Yeah, but other than that You're welcome. We did it. We finally got to it