 So I saw a Tom Cruise movie I've never seen before. A popular one for the first time. Which Tom Cruise film was that? Minority Report. You've seen that one? Many times. Steven Spielberg, obviously. Exactly. But it's also one of my, it would be in my, it would be in my top 10 for sure of Tom Cruise films. Oh well. Did you like it? No, yeah, it was fun. It's a cool concept. Yeah, yeah, the concept's great. I love it. It's very dated in terms of- It is, you gotta take the, I was hoping you, obviously you take that into consideration. The VFX and how far we've come. And then also, it's so, we did this a lot in the early 2000s. Everything has like this soap opera lighting behind it. It's so strange, I don't know why that was a thing. And it's very interesting, that's not a, when you watch that film, you would not think it's Steven Spielberg. No, yeah. It's very different for him. Great concept though. I'm gonna enjoy it. Good. Josh! Hey, welcome back to our TV Direct, excuse the cord. I'm Rick. I mean, Tom Cruise was the same Tom Cruise he's always in and everything, which is one of the biggest problems I have with him. Ugh. I did watch also Seven for the first time. I'd never seen Seven. You'd never seen Seven. I'd never seen Seven. Isn't that a fun movie? Loved Seven. Although I did figure out what was in the box. Yeah, of course. But I was kind of disappointed. If you don't know, don't spoil it, but- I was expecting something, cause I mean, the hype, it's hard to build up to what, you know, I've heard what's in the box. It's hard to live up to the hype, and it was just like, I thought something cooler would have been in the box. Yeah, and I don't think it's in, I think it's supposed to be, cause when he's saying what's in the box, you can hear in his voice and his voice. He's afraid of what's in there. He knows what's in there. Yeah, I just thought of, I'll tell you what. It's a great- I don't want to spoil anything cause if you haven't seen it, go watch it. Have you seen, oh, Doug got it. It's the, dang it, what's the name of the movie? Now that you said seven, it's the really famous Bruce Willis movie with the kid who says, I see dead people. Don't give any spoilers away if you know that film. I'm breakable? No. Doug got it. You've already put it in the comments. Anyways. But- Have you seen that film? Yes, I've seen that one. Yeah. That's a great film. Another man who, I'm not a huge fan of. Did you see- Acting work. Speaking of Tom Cruise- More guy though, right now. So sad. I know. Have you seen, you've seen Jerry Maguire? No. Okay. Have you seen Born on the Fourth of July? No. Okay. You've seen Rain Man? Yes. Okay. The color of money? No. Oh, okay. I'm not naming off the ones where he is his best. Did you see MI3? I've seen the MI1. That's all I've ever seen. That's the only MI you've ever seen. I've told you this. I, for some reason- You told me the skip's two. Yeah, I don't watch two. Mission Impossible 2 is like Rocky V. Philip Seymour Hoffman. MI3 is where it all begins. That's really the beginning of the Mission Impossible franchise for me. Yeah. MI3. Honestly. Okay. Anyways, so today we have a, this is a, say this. Budo Tolai, if that's right. Part one, making video. You've, we saw the trailer for this. This is the one with Vijay Saragathy. It's out, but it's supposed to be really amazing. It's, it did not get a United States release. At least not here in Los Angeles, anywhere. So if it's not in Los Angeles, it's probably nowhere. Yeah. Didn't Rajamooli post something about this? On Your All Kids talked about it. Rajamooli has talked about it. Like, and I really want to see it. I mean, so I guess we're gonna have to wait for, cause it's getting rave reviews. It's getting all that kind of stuff. I really wanted to see it. It's not available here in the United States. If anybody knows the producer, I director doesn't have social, so I can't reach out to him via that way, or I would for a screener. Could you ask On Your All, if he knows anybody? No, I haven't yet. But if anybody does, let me know, cause I would love to get a screener. We would love to review this. I was excited for this. Me too. And I was really hoping that we could see it in theaters, but it's not available. But this is kind of like the Leo behind the scenes making stuff, doesn't give away spoilers or anything. Great. Kind of behind the scenes making of kind of stuff. Got it. Let's just get into this. Really sad that it's not available here. Did you see The Last Samurai? I did when I was like really young. Okay. Yeah, you probably should revisit that. Really young. Yeah. Like 10 or something like that. That's one of my favorite Tom Cruise films. Here we go. Shouts out to camera work. Oh, nice. Nice. The world of the cinematographer, man. Camera people are so fun. Nice. I've never seen cinematographer on roller blades, have you? I can't think of the time I've ever seen a cinematographer on roller blades. It's probably just budgetary or because of the terrain. Or the terrain, gotta be. They couldn't use a... Nice stunt work, buddy. He hit his head there too. You're not doing what I want. Great music. Yeah. Nice. That's a stunt I would definitely do. What? Like the torturing? Oh yeah, the hanging upside down? Yeah, you and I are the same, ill to do. As many of our own stunts as is feasible. If I can, I would like to. Absolutely, would love to do. That was fun. I love stuff like this. One, I... Hold on, what did that say? It said worldwide release March 31st. Incorrect. Yeah, no. That was not a worldwide release. Hold on. I wonder why distribution didn't do it. Money, probably. It's like a small budget film. What's the reason behind that? Let's see. I mean, digital distribution's not nearly as expensive as it was when you did Reels. Fandango, let me change the radius. Nope, mine says, biggest I can do it. Not even down in Orange County? Yeah, that sucks. I really wanna see it. Does Lemele show up in Fandango or are they independent and don't show up in Fandango? Cause they had it. If anyone had it. They show up. Right. Yeah, I love stuff like this. One, I like that it's more of a... Cause sometimes you'll see behind the scenes and it's more star, they wanna let the audience see the star oftentimes. And lately we've seen a lot of Leo just shouting out the crew and what they do, which is great because the crew is the unsung hero of filmmaking. Always. Cause they're not the ones that you see on screen. They're not the... Or the director or the writer or the ones with the name that flashed up on the screen until the very end. As are the stunt people. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. But I just... Cause the crew is who you oftentimes like really... I mean, obviously, depending on your department, if you're an actor, a lot of times you'll be around other actors all the time because the crew sets up the shots and that kind of stuff and the actors will be with each other or in makeup or a wardrobe, which is why they're pretty close oftentimes. You get pretty close to the crew if they're... Especially the production assistants and the ADs. A lot of the time, and I would say maybe even more of the time actors will become more connected and spend way more time with crew than cast. A lot of times, yeah, it just depends on the cast. It depends on the casting situation. Cause sometimes you're not even in the shots so you don't have to be off to the side. I was just on a short film I did and the crew was great, but it was funny cause the entire crew was Chinese and they all spoke to... Unless they were speaking to me. Oh, the other actor who was also a white man, they were speaking Mandarin. That's awesome. And so it was, I was just trying to... It's hard language to pick up. Oh my, there's nothing to pick up. Cause they make sounds that we don't make here in England at all. At all, it's not even... On What Dictators Dream About, our producer was Chinese but another person there was Chinese. So they occasionally spoke, but the majority of the rest of the crew were Russian-American or Ukrainian and they were all speaking Russian. But in Russian, you can pick up a couple of things. Not in Mandarin, man. So I kept trying to... Did you learn anything? Did they teach you any words? They did, I've forgotten it already. But it's just like Indian in terms of like, everybody knows English, they know their... Mother of course. They probably know one of the major other languages in India. Did I ever tell you the story about my dad and I getting caught doing our fake Mandarin at a clothing store? Yes. We were in the clothing store and my dad and I would do this just to be silly. So he would get the clothes and he would do this. He'd grab the clothes and he'd go, We did it, we're joking around. Now no one's around. So he's just doing it to make me laugh. We walk up, as we're buying the clothes I look and I see the girl behind the counter, she looks Chinese and I'm immediately thinking, oh my goodness, I hope she didn't hear us. We get up, she says, can I ask you guys a question? My heart starts racing. She said, I was 17, 16, maybe younger. She says, what language were you guys speaking? And my dad apologizes and goes to great lengthener. I start to widen and she said, you weren't speaking a Chinese language? He said, oh no, that was just gibberish. She said, I speak Mandarin. I wasn't wondering whether you were speaking Chinese or not, I was trying to figure out which dialect you were using because he had so many sounds that were phonetically similar. But boy, phew, that was a, he never did that in front of anybody else. That was just my dad and I together and he would do it just to make me laugh because he sounded legitimately Chinese. But on these, the camera people and the DP's and the cinematographers with the length they go to to get certain shots is amazing. Like the guy that was on the pulley or the guy that was on the roller blades which is great, dangerous. Does that look like it was on a slow? Yep. But they're so committed because they're like, oh, I have to get this shot. And so they go to such great lengths. Yeah, and you've got to, there's times where, as an actor, you've got to be so patient, not just the waiting in between shots, but you'll be in a shot that's getting set up and you think it's ready to go and you're in the moment and then something happens and they need to change the battery on the camera. They don't like what they see in the monitor so the cinematographer is gonna change a lens so someone has to bring them the lens to change it out and maybe that person wasn't there to get the lens. The director and the DP are arguing. Arguing with each other and then they don't like a particular light that's flaring and they've asked the guy, the grip to come and change and he didn't do it right and then you're still sitting there waiting for them to say action. It's always one of my favorite things I always look forward to for some reason on set is when will the director and the DP like start arguing. Cause even if they get along, they're just gonna inevitably, cause they're both kind of, I mean the director's final say but they're both like in charge of how shots are looking and the DP could have one opinion about. Always. So much better than the, no, that's not my vision. That happened multiple times on the shoot I was on. I remember one time that it always happens. The cinematographer, he wanted a particular look on the shot and Christian, who's the writer director, he said, we are running out of time. We're already behind schedule. We are three scenes behind schedule and the cinematographer said, I understand that but my name is going to be in the credits as the cinematographer and the shot isn't the best thing it's going to be. Well then how are you going to do that? We can't reset the shot. We need to move on. It's great. Every set I've ever been on. Oh, always a DP director squall. And attentions are always particularly high on TV versus film because you have a bit more time crunch that you've got to get stuff done. So tensions tend to be high for pretty much everybody on TV set. Anyways, that was great. Once again, if anybody knows anybody that's been on this production that I can talk to to talk about a screener. If not, I guess we're just going to wait for OTT. But I'm looking forward to this. If you've seen it, let us know how it was. Obviously without any spoilers in the comments below.