 I'm not used to doing the car ones, we're in it's sunny outside. I know, we usually have to deal with light issues. Hey, well, go back to our Steve Baderacks of Corbin. Hi, I'm Rick. And you can follow us on Instagram, Twitter, from what you seek content. Thank you to every sports on Patreon. Follow us on our official Twitter account, subscribe, and hit that like button. And today, we're doing another car review. From a little farther away than we normally do. Yep, we drove to Chicago. Basically, Anaheim. Felt like it. Anaheim is basically the Chicago of Los Angeles. Yeah, it's right. I think it's... It's actually the Texas of Los Angeles. Yeah, it is actually. It's down in Orange County. Yeah. It's about 84 kilometers from where we normally stay. But don't let that fool you. Don't let that fool you. And this is the second time we've done it. The first time was another Malayalam film, and that was an LJP's film, but I think two years ago? Was it two years ago? Yeah, it was two years ago. Wow. How time flies. I know. Good Lord. We just saw, and we came down for the highly anticipated Malayalam film. No, it was a year ago. It was a year ago. It was January of 2023. Mammuts? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, okay. So it was just you. Yeah, okay. Anyway. The highly anticipated Malayalam film, The Goat Life, or it has a different name that I can't pronounce in Malayalam. I think it starts with like an AAD kind of thing. The directed and screenplay written by Blesi, stories by Benjamin, produced by Blesi, composed by Anandbhai Raman, and starring Prithiraj. And it's based off of the true story of the, I forget who his name is, Nejab I believe. Yeah, and I think he wrote a book. Yeah. And I think this is an adaption of the book. Correct. I believe. So since it just came out, obviously we're going to do mostly non-spoilish, since it just came out, and if we want to get into the spoilers, we will tell you before we do that. Correct. Just to respect the film. Let the movie tell the story. And all that kind of stuff. So if you haven't seen it and you don't want to hear anything, go watch it, come back, and Rick, your initial thoughts of The Goat Life. Yeah. I don't know what the length of the review is going to be. I'll be interested in our conversations, but I was disappointed. And I'm sorry for those of you who have already seen it and were sending me messages and praising the film, you'll be disappointed in my disappointment, but I will never be dishonest. I have to give you all of my honest feelings and yeah, this one, I had high expectations for this, and I just was, I was, I will talk about it, but I was disappointed. Yeah, I think I was, I was disappointed too, not in the same way that like we have with other films in terms of like where I 100% think though, like whatever film you can talk about, Joanne or whatever, I don't think those are good films at all. I think this does have some good stuff. I think the biggest issue for me was it wasn't as engaging as I was hoping it was going to be. I agree. That's one of the, one of the things. Yeah, there's obviously other stuff, but the difference is what I'm talking about in terms of I think there's some commendable stuff in this in terms of visual effects and there's some parts that were really engaging, but then they'd also followed it with parts that I'm like that was not engaging as I was hoping it was going to be in certain parts like that. So yeah, I think overall I would be disappointed in this film just because my expectations were I was like, I hope this is a film that India can send to the Oscars. Yeah, you know, right. And I know a lot of people have, I've already seen opinions about it and they might think that and so who knows, maybe they'll do it. Well, there's people that thought the film about the floods was deserving of Oscars and so you can't, you can't change people's opinions. But yeah, overall, I think my biggest gripe was one. I think it's even though maybe it was on purpose, they wanted to give you the length to kind of make you feel the dread and how long he was there and kind of stuff like that. But I think it was definitely too long and it was definitely not as engaging. I wanted to, I wanted to feel what this man was going through. And I felt a lot of times I was just kind of shown it. And I don't know if that makes sense to some of you. But that's what we're talking about when I say it's not as engaging. When like, survivor stories like this, and maybe it was just us, who knows? Because obviously I've already seen a bunch of people's comments as you have about this film, you should really feel the agony and the disgust of certain things happening. The tragedy of certain things happening. And like I said, at times I did. But then it was also followed by many times that I just didn't. So, yeah. Yes, no, you don't need a run time to be long to make people feel like his struggle was long at all. I mean, you want to see a playbook on how to properly present cinematically what happened. Just scooching it. Oh, how to, you know, if you want to look at something that shows you how to properly portray cinematically isolation and duration and things of that nature, watch Castaway. And there's, spoiler alert, if you haven't seen Castaway, run away for the next 30 seconds. But when Wilson goes floating away, every time, including the first time, obviously, I cry. I am heartbroken over his loss of Wilson. A freaking inanimate object, a volleyball. I felt no connection to him in the goats. I didn't understand why it was even called goat life necessarily, other than he just was held captive like the goats. I understand that the book goes into great detail about some things. I was wondering a lot, and we'll get into some spoilers of just, there's just so much about it that just did not, did not work. There were too many continuity errors to even enumerate. The score was really beautiful in some spots. There were a couple of really beautiful transitions cinematically, but nothing else really worked for me. And again, I don't like to wax on about everything that didn't work, unless I feel a really deep personal affront, as if somebody just didn't give a crap about what they were doing. And I don't feel like that was the case here. So that's why it's more of a disappointment than just, wow, you really don't care about cinema. I didn't feel that at all. I just felt like there was a lot of stuff that I don't understand why they went about it the way they did, or permitted it to end in the final project that way. And it's also my understanding that a lot of it, it isn't really, a lot of what is in the book is not in the film. Anything else I have to say would be in spoilers. Um, yeah. Yeah, I thought the score was really nice. Obviously, they cut a lot of the songs in terms of, they cut down a lot of the songs. A couple we reacted to, they didn't have the full-fledged thing outside of the main theme that we've heard as well. But I thought that was really nice. I thought a lot of the stuff that I thought was really commendable was hair and makeup and VFX in terms of some of the grossness. That did make me feel really gross. And then hair and makeup, I thought did nice. Then the cinematography, a lot of times, especially in the desert, they made it look really, really pretty. It's a beautiful desert and then Kerala. So they made those look really, really nice. I thought Preeti Raj did a good job. I was hoping for, I'd be like, oh, they should nominate him for an Oscar. I don't think I would go that far. I would say he did a good job, which is probably as far as I would go with that. And I don't know, I definitely think he definitely was cared about this role a lot. You could tell he put a lot of his heart into it. I think a lot of it was more the filmmaking aspect than maybe some of the stuff that the writing that should have. And I was connected to his character at times. Like I said, at times throughout the film, him and his wife and that kind of stuff. But then other times I'd be like, oh, I was hoping we would be in a more engaging place right now than we are. But like I said, it wasn't, this is a toughie because were my expectations through the roof? Yeah, they were. Just like they are for whenever Vikram's film comes out in terms of that, whatever that one's called. Yeah, you should have high expectations for films you're excited for. Like I had, the movie I was most excited for last year was Poor Things and it exceeded my expectations. So you should have high expectations from collaborators and creatives that you have respect for and high anticipation for. And sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. I had a thought. Oh yeah, this is something I wanted to say. I felt at times that I wanted them to, that obviously this took them a long time to make. Obviously, it's one of those, I think 14 or something years. Sure, right off from beginning to end. And they have big, big stoppage because of COVID. Yeah, and all that. I know all that. Filmmaking is the most collaborative art form. It's really difficult to get projects done. A lot of projects take a long time obviously. Yeah, so that's very commendable. I felt at times they were trying to make it too big though. Like obviously this is the Malayalam industry and so obviously their thing is more niche and smaller, intimate things. And I was actually hoping more of that. I agree with you. I felt missing that. 100%. I was like, I wanted a personal journey. I wanted to feel like I had been side by side with this man in the simplest of the most mundane and the most torturing moments of his life on a small scale. So that I could feel them with him. And I felt like they were trying to make it bigger. I agree. And great if that works. But I felt it almost took away sometimes from what I wanted in the film. I agree. I wanted the smallness of that I love in Malayalam. I mean the smallness to show you what didn't work. Spoiler. Can I give you a spoiler? Yeah, that was our non-spoiler view. So if you haven't seen it yet, please go watch it. And then come back to get our spoilers. Yeah, so now. Spoil time. Spoil, spoil, spoil, spoil, spoil. When he said goodbye to the goats, he's crying. I had zero connection to the goats. And it's like all of a sudden you're gonna try and cash in on an emotional investment you didn't make. He didn't even name one of them. He didn't, he had no relationship to the goats other than he walked around with them. If he got head butted like that, that's strange credulity. There were a lot of things that strained credulity for me in terms of what I think was done cinematically for dramatic effect instead of what actually took place in the events of the man's life. The buzzards. Yeah, that's one of the biggest things I was talking about. Yeah, and I, it just, too many things didn't work. Yeah, just too many things didn't work. Yeah, yeah, I definitely felt some of those, like when I was just before the spoilers talking about the big moat, like they were trying to make it too big, the VFX with the buzzards. And I was like, you could have had the buzzards there and eating the body, but then like to have them fight you like that and trying to make it like almost like this, almost epic at times. Right. I'm like, I don't, I don't want that. I want, I want gross. Yeah, and just small things like, I don't want to, I don't want to harp on them. It's just, because all I will talk about are the things that didn't work and they confound me because they were, they were, they didn't, they were, they're fixable. So many things that didn't work didn't have to be that way because they, they, they, they could have been fixed. So that's, that's my largest disappointment is the fact that there's so many things in this that I saw, whether it was continuity errors or it was taking something and making it bigger than it needed to be or trying to cash in on an emotional investment you never made, that I just, just did not, didn't work. Yeah. Yeah. Um, I would be interested in reading the book because I would very much like to read the book. Um, this is an awful thing that happened to this man. That's just terrible. Yeah. Um, to obviously whether he was trying to, I don't know if it's kind of like one of those donkey things where I see more like a job opportunity he was hoping to get. Yeah, my understanding is the book is he got a legitimate job opportunity and there was miscommunication when he landed and he was, he was kidnapped. Yeah. And then kept and it's my understanding that the book goes into great detail on extraordinary physical torture, goes into great detail of how he became one with the goats. So much so that he had given names to them that he was there for the birth of a goat that made him flash back to his wife and is his baby being born and how that devastated him to him suddenly having mentality of a goat and suddenly becoming going through a munchausen syndrome where he's suddenly caring about his captors. All of those psychological things that happened to somebody in that are non-existent in the film. So I would like to read the book and find, it's sad, I'd like to read the book and find out what actually happened to the man. Yeah, um, yeah. And there were a ton of continuity errors, just a ton of continuity errors. I wonder if some of that had to do with how long it took them to take and if something was done a few years ago and I don't know, I'm just speculating here. Yeah, um, but yeah, that's all. I don't like having. I feel bad for it because it makes it sound like it's like the worst film ever. No, no, no. It's not, but that's how it's going to be taken. If we have a negative review, that's how it's going to be taken of something that a lot of people love. That's fine. That's fine. And the majority of you hate Law Seng Chata and I'm never going to stop loving that book. But like, like doing these like, just it looks like I absolutely hate the film and it's more of like, I wanted more, so much more for it. You know what it's like, you know? It's like watching a friend or a family member compete in something athletically and you're rooting for them and they just don't pull it off. And you just feel so bad for them because you knew that it could have been so much more, but they just, it didn't work this time. That's exactly how I feel. And you know, we love the Malayalam, even though I'm sure in this comments like never watch Malayalam again. It always happens, not just Malayalam, but like any language is like, never watch Indy again. You don't get it. I'm like, maybe I don't. Okay. That's such an old, useless excuse that requires zero intelligence or intellect to be able to say, oh, you just don't get us. No, there are things that transcend region and culture and they fall onto the category of cinematic excellence. And we are the first to admit when we don't get something culturally. This has, I, this has nothing to do with that. You know what did? The film that we, the LJP's last film, that's the one where I walked out of it and said, I didn't like it, but I don't, it's probably me. Yeah. That one was legitimately, you know, I don't know what to tell you. I just didn't get that. Yeah, like I said, I was hoping, I was hoping that we could have to be like, send this to the Oscars now. That was my expectation for this film, whether right or wrong with having that expectation. That's what I had, right? But currently I'd much rather send Mammoudi's film of the year. Or even the, this is not a, this is not, if it qualifies, although. This is not a submission to the Oscars. Although, I don't think, I don't want it to be submitted. I would submit it over 2018 last year. Just if, like if you had to pick one. This is, yeah. No, you don't want to. Yeah. No, but I'm saying if this is a better film than 2018. If I had to, I would. But it is, by no stretch, what you should submit. It should, like currently, it should be Mammoudi's film. Or if the 12th fail, or one of those from last year is a. Well. Currently. The one they should submit, because I think it's going to get a release this year, even though we saw it last year, is Berlin. Berlin, who knows? Yeah. Who knows? And we're still waiting for, Kennedy's getting distribution this year. We're just still waiting on Anurag's Kennedy. Anyways, you guys can let us know, you thought about the film. Why we're dumb. Why we're dumb. Why you hate us now, and why we should never watch Malayom send him again. Let us know with the next Malayom film we should watch it. Down below and anything else, any other insults that you want to just. It all helps. Hate us. It all helps the algorithm. Control us all you want.