 Huh? Oh, I thought you had a stupid intro. I do. You want to see one of the ones I have? Um... Let's see. Hello? Uh... Oh yeah, here it is. Hey, welcome back to our stupid drag today, it's Corbin. I'm Ray. And you can follow us on Instagram, Twitter, from our juicy content. Thanks on Patreon, follow us through the accounts, subscribe if you didn't like, button! Go at son of a bitch, I eager! You must die! Vijay has come back to life, you must die! You land on poop, you will not land on me. Stupid, gonna upstage us this whole thing. Dang it, Ega. Uh... I will kill... again. Today we're doing a movie review. Of the... Hold on, sorry for anybody watching this, who might be Jane. They don't kill things. Oh, okay. I genuinely mean that, I'm serious. Well, we haven't killed anything yet. No, we haven't. Except the internet. And that intro. And this review, the 2006 film, Dawn. Which is obviously the remake of the 1978 Amatuck Bakjhan film, which we just reviewed last week. So if you haven't watched that review, go watch that one. So we're doing them subsequently. And so obviously we're reviewing the Shahrukh Khan, Farhan Akhtar. And then after this, we will watch Dawn 2. Yes. And then whenever Dawn 3 comes out, we will watch that. And we will watch that as well. If that ever comes out, who knows. But yes, 2006, Dawn, directed by Farhan Akhtar. And also written by, right? I think partially written as well, and produced as well. Because his dad, I believe he, the director wrote the first one. I didn't know that. There's a little connection there, I forget which one it was. But obviously starring the one, the only Shahrukh Khan. And Prankachopra, and Bowman Irani, and Om Puri. Not a lot of Om Puri, but he's there. Yeah, he is there. He's the most iconic nose in Indian cinema, I think. I agree. I can tell that. And that voice is kind of iconic too. Yeah. Anyway, so obviously this is going to be 100 cents. One of you all seen this film. So if you haven't watched it, we saw it on Netflix. You can go watch it there and come back if you don't want to be spoiled. If you haven't seen it yet. But if you're Indian, you've probably seen this film. Yeah. Rick, your initial thoughts of Dawn. Dawn. But the second dawn that we've seen. The second dawn that we've seen, but not the second dawn of the SRK dawns. Yes. Yeah. Yeah, like, so I'm either, I'm either one of three things. I'm in, I'll pass, or I'm out. For this one, it was like, I'll pass. I mean, I didn't hate it. I would say pass, I would say more of a one-time watch. Yeah, I think it's one of those things that you should watch to here's the reasons I think you should watch it. Indian cinema history. Yeah. SRK history. Yeah. Priyanka history. Yeah. Early 2000s history. Yeah. But other than that, there wasn't much that it did. And I much prefer the original one. Yeah. I'm kind of the same way. This one, it didn't hit the same as even though obviously it's a newer film and they're both dated. Yeah. But that, the original Big B dated is a lot more charming and fun. Agreed. This one just felt like, oh, this is how films were in the early 2000s or the late 90s, and it feels very dated. And so, and like I said, I don't think it's maybe if you saw it like right when it came out, and obviously it's all new and it's different. But obviously now in 2022, it just, it was fine. And I think if I had never, like I think if someone had never seen Big B's version, you might have a, you might like it even more because there was so much that I thought, that I mean, there were many times where I thought, why'd you change that? Yeah. It worked the first time and it doesn't work this time. It happened quite a bit for me. Well, they did change some things obviously wise and I didn't, I didn't mind that, but yeah, we can get into it now. But yeah, the, I thought it was a fine. I thought it was fine. I'll probably never watch this Dawn again. I'm looking forward because I've heard a lot of good things about Dawn too, in terms of obviously, this also has downside obviously since it's like almost a strict remake. I know it's coming kind of similar to Jersey, even though I appreciate a lot more filmmaking in the Hindi version of Jersey. Even though they did try to do some things in here that weren't done, but like some of the things that they didn't replicate for me, I didn't know, why didn't you? So like, I liked, I liked the franchise creating ending. Yeah. I liked that. The fact that it was always Dawn. That it was always Dawn. I liked that twist, even though, like many of the things in here, the believability factor in the story as well as just spoken exposition, motivations that make no sense whatsoever. Yeah, but you knew that was coming, right? I did, I did. But even though I knew it was coming, it was still, OK, really. I liked, I liked the franchise creating twist, but for a scene as it's iconic now, but I would imagine it was pretty amazing prior. The fighting for the disc moment was pretty anti-climactic comparatively. Yeah. And there wasn't a ton of, maybe it's because, was this Farhan's first directorial debut? Don't know. Where was it? No, he was in which, by the way, on the technical side of things, I don't, I don't have a problem with the direction and the cinematography. In fact, there were a couple of things where I saw some nice shots. There were only one or two minor mistakes in the stunt work being missed in the fight sequences. No, it wasn't his, and again, I've watched this is where it's like, I'm not out. This is his third. Yeah, that's why I wouldn't say I don't think passes. Yeah, for me, for me, for me, I'll pass is one. That's synonymous with one and done. Yeah. And I wouldn't wreck like for me. It's like, if someone said to me, should I watch the SRK dawn? Well, that would also depend on the second one. It does. It depends on the second one. But since we have, we don't know anything about the second one. My feeling right now would be, you might like it. I, I didn't really was kind of like, I mean, I didn't dislike it, but I didn't like it. I was kind of like, OK, I'm not upset that I watched it, but I'm not going to watch it again. And you may like it, but I don't, I didn't particularly. This is his third director. So he did Dilche at the high, Lakshya and then Dawn in that order. I don't have any, I thought the directing was actually fine. Yeah, it was just direction and cinematography. I thought was fine. I think I wouldn't have minded it, because obviously they're not going to get the corkiness of the seventeenth and there's no way you're going to get that. But I was hoping for at least a better action. Sheryl Kahn, even though I think Sheryl Kahn is great at many things, doesn't have the same aura about him as a big B does in terms of no intimidation and that kind of stuff. And he also is not Tiger Shroff. So yeah, trying to put him in an action thing where he's doing stuff where he's doing martial arts. It was a stretch. Yeah, it was definitely different. Not that I think he should have tried to be big B, because I don't know. Of course. It's a different, you're a different kind of actor. Absolutely. SRK does that. That big B could never do. Of course, which I appreciated that. I felt like he was trying to make it his own character. I think the biggest, I don't even know what the biggest flaw in this film would be. I think it's more of just it felt so dated in all aspects. In a different way. In a different way than that. The original was like, oh, this is fun. In a lovely way. Dated. Correct. Quarky, stupid. I love it. And I love this style. This was just like, this just feels like an old film. Even though it was made a lot sooner than that one, that one has a lot more charm to it. I would say, because there really wasn't anything that like I have watched movies before and then and then like thought to myself, this is brutal. I want to stick forks in my eyes. So I've had that. This was nowhere near that. The only like my big gripe. And if you take this away, I wouldn't have a lot to gripe about, but I don't have a lot to jump up and down about. For me, it's the the a lot of the writing, a lot of the some of the changes that were done that I didn't think worked. Some of the exposition that was spoken that made no sense. People you could easily kill, but you don't. You do this the stereotypical. I'm going to tell you why I'm going to kill you before I kill you. A lot of that. You have to do that in a spy movie, especially. You do. I understand that. But they did it so and there were so many moments that someone could have died and just wasn't killed and you had the opportunity to kill them. Also, did I miss something? And I they may have written it out. But one of the things I liked in the original dawn was how Roma waited to kill him before he got his memory back. And I don't remember her remember her saying anything about that at all when he was in his state of. Not remembering anything. Yeah, he kind of flipped the remembering pretty fast in this one as opposed to. And I was I wanted, I mean, they foreshadowed it at the beginning of the film because the first time you see Roma in this one with Priyanka, she's doing martial arts. So I'm like wonder woman can't wait for the disc scene. She's nowhere to be found. Like she never has the Wonder Woman moment that that character has, which is one of my favorite things about the original dawn. How did you not include the empowered woman aspect of this that was in the movie that preceded you 30 years ago? I really missed that. Yeah, same. So it was just a lot of, it wasn't bad. This is not a bad film. I wouldn't say it's a bad film. I agree, I would call it a bad movie. I was just more maybe underwhelmed. Underwhelmed. Yeah, for me it was just like. I was hoping for either a little more cork or a little more action, fun action, or, and maybe we'll get in the second one. I feel like I've said, I've heard a lot of good stuff about the second one and we'll get to that one obviously next in and we'll be able to tell you if I needed to see this first dawn or if I could have just skipped this one, gone straight to dawn two, blah, blah, blah. Who knows, obviously we'll know in less than a week probably. But I do want to talk, I thought Bowman and Ronnie actually did a really good job. I did too. It's actually one of my favorite roles of his. I thought of everybody that was in there. I think they could have utilized him a little better. I think they could have utilized him a lot and forgive me for not knowing our actor's name who played a bullet up here. I did appreciate, I did appreciate the fact that the limp went away. Just like it did in the original one. I was like, I was assuming you're going to make the limp go away because that's like a tip of the cap. You have to. You have to. And I thought he, it was very strange because I felt like he and Bowman. He looked like John Abraham a little bit didn't he? He did look like John Abraham and quite a bit a few times. R.Jun Ram Paul I think is the name. Yes, but I got to say. Oh he's in Rome's front too. It's almost like he wasn't at the table read or at the rehearsals because his approach to the character of the story was far more serious than everybody else. I felt like he approached it like a legit drama. I'm like, this guy is like, did this guy get the notes that this isn't this? I mean, he's doing a great job. And I felt the same way for like a lot of the times with Bowman. Yeah. He was bringing some thespianatic heaviness to it. I don't think you can tell Bowman out of time. I mean, I guess you can because three idiots I had a big problem with Bowman. Oh, he could. Yes. He could be stupid. He could be stupid. He sure can. Is Cyrus or whatever his stupid name was in three idiots. What was it? Silas or Cyrus? That's a good question. Now that you've said both names. It was one of them. Yeah. I just had such a, such an issue with that. Maybe I need to watch that film again. I don't know. But I actually enjoyed his performance. Yeah. I was like, he's doing, he's knocking it out of the park as I would expect to Bowman. And I don't know if he'll be back in the second one. I kind of actually hope he is. They set that up pretty well. I'm hoping for more action. I thought Shahrukh Khan did well. It was just, it was a very different take, which is good. I didn't want him to try to be Big B at all. No. But it was just, it was almost jarring at times because he was trying to be romance SRK at times. Yeah. And it's like, you just can't hide it, can you? You pushed Shahrukh Khan through and through. Exactly. And I think also he didn't want to go like the real dawn darkness because he didn't want the character to be negative. The main thing is this, this guy's got to be kind of the anti-hero so that when this franchise comes out, you're rooting for him the whole time. And I think that was probably one of the reasons. And I don't know whose idea it was to do this. If it was Farhans, if it was SRKs, if it was both of them. But my suspicion was that they were uniform in their desire to make this character like the SRK that everybody knows and loves with a little bad boy in them. Yeah. Just a little. And that's what, you got it. And I thought, I actually- And I'm wondering if you're gonna get more in the second since that we know that it's Dawn now. Right. And we know that he is the bad guy, which justifies his, I mean, there's so many stuff that I was willing to throw out. It's like when he's full on martial artists and knows how to handle the weapons, I'm like, yeah, VJ learned that in two hours. Yeah. But that- Even if it had been that, I was like, okay, you get a pass. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a dumb entertainment. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So yeah, that's why like I felt like there wasn't anybody that did an outstanding job. Everybody did a good job. And there's nothing to point at and go, well, that's a blaring problem. That's a blaring problem. The only blaring problem I had was in the writing. And even that, like I said, if someone said, did you like Dawn, my response is gonna be eh. I mean, there were parts that I like. It moved. I wasn't watching it, waiting for it to end. I'm actually- I was mostly having an okay time while I watched. As opposed to like films where we'd see something and there's a sequel and we're like, I don't wanna go. Well, I'm actually excited for Dawn II. No, exactly. Why would you do that? I get it. I'm looking forward to Dawn II. Me too. One, especially since I don't know what's gonna happen now. This one, I was like, this is a strict remake. I can tell the steps you're making. It was fun to kind of see the little variants they took on, oh, they're doing this scene now. They're doing this, oh, they're doing a song now. Right. Which actually all the songs, I thought they did well. Yeah, I did too. We reacted to one of the, or I think- None of them were like, knock down, drag out, incredible, but they were fine. That's why I have Karina and her dancing. I enjoyed them. Yeah, I really liked, I really liked Karina having to fill those pretty big shoes to fill the helmet. I actually wish we had to see a little more of her in the beginning. I did too. I wanted to see a little, and also- I wanted more Priyanka. I wanted more violence. Yeah, I wanted more, like I said, I wanted Priyanka to be Wonder Woman like Roma is in the original. It might just be because obviously since it was early 2000s, right? Where we're projecting what action films are now. We're true. An action film, which I don't think the best time for cinema was late 90s to early 2000s, anywhere. Anywhere. I mean, obviously there's gems that have come out in that time, but especially in terms of like action films, even Matrix, if you go back and watch Matrix, you're gonna see a very dated Matrix that was revolutionary when it first came out. But you watch it now, you're like, huh. This was good? And I really do wonder, I wonder how many revisions they made on the story and the script because they may have had the conversation that said, you know, while he was conceptualizing it and creating the story, he very old may have said, you know, as iconic as that ending is, everyone's expecting it, so we're gonna give him a twist. And I'm concerned that if we have Priyanka doing a lot of action, SRK fans are gonna be like, why aren't we seeing SRK? Why aren't we seeing SRK? We, I mean, we like Priyanka, but she's new. Why isn't SRK getting the screen time fighter? Yeah. So, I, okay. So, it looks like Dawn II came out in 2011, so that's a decent gap. A good, what, five years? They made Dawn probably in what, 2005? 2005 or six. And then obviously editing and everything took some time. And so that's, I'm hoping at least, had more money. Yeah. Because obviously this was a success at the time. Yeah. The Yukon is a bigger star at this time. Right. And I don't know who came back for the cast. So I think you could, one, now that we know the kind of style to expect, right? I'm just hoping for better action, more fun action. And we actually, we saw it. Actually we've seen a clip from Dawn II. We did. We've seen a fight scene that we loved. Which was a good, that was a good fight scene. Yep. Better than every fight scene in this film. Agreed. So. Agreed. That's, that's cool. Obviously that was just one scene. And none of the fight scenes were bad. They just were okay. That was like, okay, nice fight scene. Yeah. I wish you were a little more violent. Yeah. I wish you were a little more interesting, a little more creative, you know. My, I think my synopsis for this would just be dated spy film. Yeah. It's kind of like, if I could sum everything up. Yeah. It's just that would, that's my like biggest thing. It's like. And what I think, one of the things that really carries it, I think if nobody, so let's say somebody in the world, particularly in America, does not know SRK, does not know Ompori, does not know Bowman, does not know Priyanka, does not know Farhan. And just watched this. I think they'd be, have a hard time saying engaged. The fact, I mean, sincerely, these are people, if Bowman's on screen, if Ompori's on screen, if SRK's on screen, if Priyanka's on screen, give me my popcorn. Yeah, I'm gonna. I'll watch them do whatever they're gonna do. Cause I love watching them on screen. So that's a huge factor that causes me to not dislike the film. Yeah. Because they're in it. Yeah. Right? And I bet at the time, I mean, in the history and the trajectory of SRK and the evolution. He was at peak SRK. But was this possibly promoted as like a different side to SRK, because he had been the romance guy and now he's playing a bit of a darker edged character? No, cause at the beginning of his career, he played at least in three films that I know of, darker villains or negative characters. Already? But since, I mean like DDLJ on. Yeah, maybe. Yeah, this would be different. Yeah, this I guess would be a little different for him. And but also it had Farhan was coming off of two hits. And you got the brand new, fresh, beautiful Priyanka Chopra. Is this introducing? No, but it's early. It's early in her career. Yeah, it's early in her career. Is this her first SRK film? I don't know. Well, it's in that possibility. If it's not the first, it's one of the first. Anyways. Anyway. I'm glad we watched it. I am too. And I'm hopeful for Dawn II. Me too. And I'm looking forward to it. That's the review you will get next as we are watching Dawn II. We're not gonna do what we did at the beginning of the channel. I'm looking forward to Dawn II because that fight scene was so good. And I think what we have felt is probably true. I think from the get go, the thought was we're gonna create a franchise that we can do what we want with. So we're gonna tell the original story. We're gonna do something new with it. And then it's all bets are off. And I think it's actually a great tie if Farhan ever decides to actually do, which is obviously the rumor right now, that he's working on a script for Dawn III. It's a great time for it. Yeah. Shover Khan's coming back, but also VFX and where it is. And choreography and fights, choreography and all that. You can make a massive film. I would, internationally, it would be wise to finish that script. And if SRK's free to start filming so that you could, I have a strong sense that Mission Impossible is going to be spectacularly big in the, because that's gonna be the first film that Cruz does after Top Gun Maverick. So there's already Mission Impossible fans. The success of Maverick is going to cause a lot of people to go see it just cause they loved Maverick and they wanna watch Tom Cruise again. And it would be really smart. There will be people jumping on that bandwagon, I think, of doing some spy films. I think by that time we'll have a new James Bond. So it would be wise, if you're gonna roll out Dawn III, especially, you know, while SRK can continue to do action films, the way he can, he's got maybe another decade in him doing those, get it done. Anyways, let us know what you thought about Dawn, the 2006 shovel to the con version. And let us know. Yeah. Do you prefer Dawn I or do you prefer Dawn II? Or do you prefer Dawn I? Oh, down to you. Yeah. But yeah, let us know if you prefer Dawn I or Dawn II. Don't give any spoilers. Please, thank you. But by the time this is out, I don't know if I've seen it, but I won't be looking at the comments probably for this one. And in case you're wondering, yeah, the fly is still here. Yeah, it is, it's awful. Anyways, let us know down below.