 I'm going to put one of those Rajna Kantha. Give us a cigar, I go... Hey, welcome back to our stupid direction with Corbin. I'm Rick. You can follow us on Instagram, Twitter from all Jews, sick, gone, tentative. Thank you very, very much. On Patreon, follow us on Twitter, subscribe to the like button. And welcome back. Today we're doing a movie review. And so, are we getting to it late? I was out of town. I didn't get in town until... Yesterday. Yeah, basically yesterday. Late yesterday. We didn't get to our house until after midnight on Saturday morning. Hit in the ground running. Hit in the ground running. So that's why we're getting to it now. We will be getting to OMG if you are watching this as well. Yeah. We will be also getting to OMG too tomorrow. Are we getting to a guitar? We haven't seen the first one. Yeah. I would like to. I know, because I've had some folks say, because they know we're seeing those two. And I'm like, what about guitar? I feel like you definitely need to see the first one. That's what I've been told. And I was hoping to get to it before, but we didn't. So, if we can, we will try. We will try. But yeah, we will definitely get to OMG too. Anyway, doing the movie review of the superstar, Roshna Khan film, the new 2023 film, Jailer. Highly anticipated. What has this been two years since he's had a film? What was his last one? I don't remember the last one. I just remember it's been a couple years. Regardless, it's directed by Nelson. Yes. Who wrote that as well. Composed by Ani and starring a whole bunch of people. Yeah. But it's a superstar, Roshna Khan film in all its celebration glory. But this will be, we'll do, show it in a few days, but we'll do mostly non-spoilers. Yeah, in case anybody hasn't seen it. But we will talk about some spoils, but we will tell you before we get to it. As always, because we let the movie tell the story. Yes. But if you haven't watched it, please go watch it. Come back. This will be a non-spoiler. Rick, your initial thoughts of Jailer. That was me doing Roshna Khan. That was you doing the sound effects. Very good. Well, he has his own sound. You know I will always be and just tell you my honest opinion for various reasons. And a lot of people really don't like me for that. I will tell you that if this is what to expect, if this is what seeing a Roshna Khan film is like, I want to see every Roshna Khan film ever made. This was way funnier than I was expecting it to be. This is one of the funniest movies I've seen this year. There's nothing but great. This is an entertaining, keeping you engaged the whole time, screaming funny, great action sequences. And John Wick just really needs to ask him how to not work so hard. You really don't have to work so hard, John. Just ask the superstar how to get it done. You can get it done in a fraction of the energy. And be way cooler doing it. Yeah. Right? Yeah. Come on. This is great. This is not our first Roshna Khan. I think this is our fourth maybe. This is our first in theater. In theater. Yes. And we went to a packed or showing packed for US. For the US. It was almost completely full. And there was an earlier showing, but it had like six people. And I was like, this is a Roshna Khan fan. I would rather the experience. Yeah. We sat in the second row in the tilt back seats because we wanted to be in a full house. But it kind of didn't matter because the sound is so dang loud. As we know, it's set for Indian cinemas where they're going to be screaming and going ballistic and the sound has to be louder than the fans. But you can't hear the house. Especially from where we were. It ended and I got up and turned around and I went, oh, there's about 200 folks in here. I had no idea. There wasn't. There's probably about 100, I think. Yeah. I think it's probably. It was full. It was full. But anyway, I really enjoyed the film as an experience. Just an entertaining thing. I want to say something about Roshna Khan because it's like, he's 70 fucking two, right? 72. So I'm trying to think of like an actor who if you were still, because this is his own style of cinema. Nowhere else can you do what Roshna Khan does in like a film and it work. No. No, because you're like, this is just, you're celebrating Roshna Khan right now. That's what we're doing. Yeah. We are in it for the experience and that's what we're in it for. The closest I can get to it in American cinema in my own personal experience was back in the 80s with Stallone and Schwarzenegger movies. Yeah. Where you were expecting the one-liners. You were expecting certain things, but that's still not even close to this. It's like if Clint Eastwood was still making big action films. Yeah. Back in the day at whatever how 100 years old he is. Or Tom Cruise 20 years from now. Yeah. Right. And like people are just in it for it. But Tom Cruise, he does his own stunts and that's what he loves, right? Right, right, right. But he doesn't have like cat. He doesn't just smile at the camera and people go berserk. Right. And in that scenario you're like, this works. Yeah. And I never understood like fully, I think, especially towards the beginning of the channel. When people would always, especially about Roshna Khan, but there's a couple others, but he's he especially when they're like, he has such style. Yeah. What does that mean? Acting. Right. He's an actor. Right. What are you talking about? But God damn does the guy have style. I get it. Again, again contextualizing it from our framework. You'd probably have to go back to the days of actors and stars in Hollywood here like James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart. Those are actors that, yes, they were really solid actors, but they were known for being who they were in every role and having a very particular Clark Gable. They had style. Nowhere near. Nowhere near. There's really, I was thinking about this when I was watching them. I was thinking, this is somebody who the day, because every human being has a day they do their last fill on the blank. It happens to every human being. This is somebody that you cannot replace. No. Don't even try. Yeah. There will not be the next Roshna Khan. No. We had just watched into the mass film. If you watch our movie reaction to Master, we really enjoyed that film. He has great style and it's similar like screen presence. You're doing stuff for the style of it. You're doing it for the cheers and all that kind of stuff. But it's also extremely different than what Roshna Khan brings to it. Even someone like Mahanlal in this who was fantastic and was great to see them both on screen together and doing what they're doing. And we'll talk about other people in the film. And that's just, it's in the credits. But yeah, there's really, we could spend 30 minutes talking about the uniqueness of what it means to be this particular actor in this particular kind of genre of film. Because no one else does it. No one else does it. And you can't, no one else can do it. No. I can't. It's capturing lightning in a bottle. It's kind of like people asking questions of anything that really went well at any given time for people like, example, the Beatles. Even Paul would tell you, we just wrote our music and it happened. There'll never be another John Paul, George and Ringo. There just won't. And there's so much else I enjoyed about this. Right. First of all, it's a Roshan Khan film. And he did so well. I really just enjoyed all the schticks, the style, this thing. I was not expecting how bloody it was. And it was glorious. And there was kids in our theater. There were. It is a family film, apparently. Not how we do family films. Oh, my word. You don't have people with shocking people. It was spectacular. We'll get into the spoilers. But if you haven't seen this thing, it's grotesquely violent. Yeah. And it's glorious. It's glorious. It's so good. I wasn't expecting that. I mean, I was like, there's good people die. I've seen the trailer. But I was like, holy shit. So summation before spoilers on my end of the things. Great stunt work. A great antagonist. Oh, yeah. He was really, really nice. Really, really good. A really intriguing story that kept going and had some nice twists and turns. I had one that I didn't enjoy. I fought sound design at one point. I just sat back and just there's a sequence where I was just enjoying how good sound design was. Some really nice cinematography moments that they didn't even need to do what they just did to let you know, hey, we know what we're doing on the cinematography side. Yes. All in all, I don't know how you can't. If you just go in saying, I'm looking forward to being entertained at the movies. Why you wouldn't walk out of this happy. Yeah. I don't understand how you could. It's so fun. And Ani's music. Even though ridiculously loud. Yeah. So, so good. I think Rick had his jacket on for a second. I had earplugs prepared, but they had gotten screwed up in our drawer and Andrani had tossed them. I was looking for some. So what I did was I brought my earphones that I wear because that'll do a partial block and that helped. And then when it got crazy loud, I just put my hoodie sleeves up over my ears so I could, I stayed comfortable. The music was one incredibly fitting for the style because that's, Amy will mention that a billion times because that's what you go in for the entertainment of it. And it added so much. So much to it. You know, like this is badass. In every way. He added, he added silly music that was as good as any comedy we've seen and he added great, wonderful action music. Yeah. There were great cameos, but some by people that we knew. So, all in all, guys. And this is, there was also. So good. Came up that we did not know who it was. And so you guys will have to, and this is who it is. Yeah. We're looking at the name here, but. Who is clearly. Massive, massive. Massive star. And there were things Corbin leaned over at one point and he said, the reason they're laughing because there were some points where we could, in lower just talking scenes, people would laugh and it was seemingly funny, but they were laughing a little bit harder. And he pointed out wisely. So he's pretty sure those were references to other Rajna Khan films. Yeah. Little Easter eggs. It sucked. Like we've been doing this four plus years now. Right. And we still don't get all the references. No. We're just scratching the surface of Superstar Rajna Khan. I know. And VJ. And Shahrukh Khan, we're not even like, even though we have a lot more of his filmography, there's still stuff that we're never going to get because we didn't grow up with it. Yeah, you can. It's a lifetime of, it's not just for someone like him. It's not just lifetimes. Multiple lifetimes. It's three generations of lifetimes growing up with him. I mean, he's old enough to be my dad. Yeah, I guess. He is. Yeah. That's weird. Yeah. But yeah, that's like if Michael Cain was doing action stuff. Right. I think he's like a hundred or something. Ian McKellen. Yeah. Like they're just going doing it in every second. Badass. Badass. Well, you know, taking all that. Oh yeah, Liam Neeson. Liam Neeson's trying to do that. Yes, he is. Sorry, Liam. You'll never be Rajna Khan. No. But also the, you said it, but the villain in this did. So good. Liam Neeson. What a great face. Man, he was so intriguing. I loved watching and clearly the director knew and was, okay, we're going to just, we're going to keep locked in on that expressive, wonderful face. And there were, I think this is, that's him, right? I can't tell from that thumbnail. Okay. He's shape-shifting if that's him. Liam Neeson, I think it's his name. Yeah, that is because it's Varmin. My goodness, shape-shifting. He did. And I, another thing about this is that I think this was not only a celebration of the Tamil industry, but all the industries, they had like Malayalam references and they were talking about the Tamil Hindi. Yeah. They were talking and put it in the subtitles in so many different languages. I thought a lot of the comedy really worked. Absolutely, it did. In the first and the second half. Yep. The one element that I'll get into the spoil set, I was like, I don't think it was needed in the slightest actually. And the ladies, very few, but yeah, the mom who was from Bahubali, forgive me for not knowing your name right off the bat. Instantly though, you can tell. The minute I, it's her eyes. It's those expressive eyes in the Bahubali. And then who is the actress who is the love interest? I want to get her name right and pronounce it. Is it Tamana Bhatia? She's from Bahubali as well. Man, seeing the music number on the big screen, I appreciated her all the more. She's beautiful. She's a grounded actor. I wish she was in it even more than she was. Yeah, I agree. So overall, it's big, it's bombastic, it's mass, it's glorious. So just go in and have a great time. If you haven't watched it already, laugh. Look at the glory that is Superstar Rasha Kanth on the screen. And just, I think have a great time. I find it hard to believe if you go into this with those expectations, if you're not going to have a great time. Yeah. So we're going to get into some spoilers, some other stuff we're going to talk about, the cameos, the other elements. There's one element that I just didn't want. Okay, so this is for everybody who has seen it. So spoilers, go away if you haven't. We'll get into everything else. But the one element that I just, I was like, this isn't needed at all. It was the twist of the sun. Oh, really? You felt that wasn't needed? His sun turning? No. What? What? Dars. What would it have changed if he stayed the same? The moral core of Rajnikanth. Well, you would have still had the moral core of killing the bad guy. No, it's completely different to okay the offing of your son. He okays the offing of his own son. I know. Because Wright is more important to him. It was also a major downer at the end. We didn't say this at the end, but like, they immediately, spoilers once again, he's shot, Rajnikanth's walking away crying, and they're like, locked up! Oh, yeah. The theater didn't even like, slow fade him up. It was just like, hey, get out! That theater, we need to, they need to figure it out, because actually for Rocky or Ronnie, our lights went up 15 minutes prior. Shut the front door. Really? I told them at the end. I was like, yeah, I don't know if it's on the timer or what, but the lights came up 15 minutes, and I didn't want to leave. 15 minutes prior to the end. That sucks. That's refundable right there. No, I did not like that moment of it. I did. I think it could have been much better if it ended on the big acts, big fun, and also I was just like, it seemed like a weird twist to just have a twist, and I was like, he didn't end up doing it, and in the end, in terms of, well, he obviously was about to shoot Superstar. Oh, he was going to kill his dad. But he didn't go through with what he was originally planning to go through. He just decided it didn't work, I'm going to kill my dad now so I can continue doing what I'm doing. I just didn't find it needed at all. I think you would have had just as big of an impact that you could probably cut 10 minutes off the film, 15 minutes off the film, and it would have been two hours 30. No, it adds a deeper level of understanding Raj Nakanta as a hero and that even flesh and blood are not as important as the universal truth of right and wrong and that even his own flesh and blood were they to betray what is good and right, he will stand on the side of good and right. I loved it. Yeah, I didn't like that element of it. Other things I did love though, Mohanlal's entrance. Fucking badass. Dude, we already know he's a badass. That was badass. But to hold your own when the screen has been owned for what at that point? An hour and a half at least? Two hours. Two hours? Here's Raj Nakanta owning the screen, owning the style. Yeah. And you come in and you can hold your own? Yeah. But yeah, they made him look really cool. They gave his entrance scene once again, bloody violence and it was glorious. I can't count and there's got to be 50 moments that were laugh out loud funny. Oh yeah. And then superstars at the end when he went into his like the first time actually we've seen it. Oh, first time the cigar throw. That's the first time I think because all of his films that we've seen up to this point were older before he became larger than life Raj Nakanta. Right. And so this is the first time we saw the cigar flip. We've seen the sunglasses. Yeah, we've seen the sunglasses. But when he did the cigar flip, Corbin and I threw our hands up. Yes, we started applauding and then he looked to the other side. It makes the sound. He defied gravity and logic and he came up and it was like this spectacular. Super hero moment. I love the moment. It was glorious. I love the moment when he's prepping his wife and the daughter saying, just stay seated. And then they land on his lap. He goes, push him off. So good. Yeah. There was so many of those. And I think Nelson is known for dark comedies, I believe. Like in terms of like this fits the like violent and comedic. Yeah. I believe is what he's known for. So you guys can let us know more from him, which we watch obviously and Superstar Raj as well. But the other ones that Jackie Shroff look badass. Very small part. He too. I would have loved more. It was kind of like when we saw him in RRR. It was like, where is he? He was so badass in this. And then the one that we didn't know of, but I could tell he was this big Superstar as well that we just, that we, I wish we would have known was. But yeah, forgive me for mispronouncing this. Shiva Raj Kumar. Have we seen him? Why did I think that was, I'm being an idiot. What? It was AJ Devgun and Triple R. It was Jackie. You weren't even paying attention. No. Erase your comments. I know I was being an idiot. Yeah, I just, I kind of just blew past what you just said, but yeah, you're right. Oh man. I'm trying to see if like we've seen him in like something older at all, in like a supporting role and we just didn't recognize him. And we lost him. Yeah. But obviously. Oh, you pointed out the sun being rocky. Yes. So the sun, it shows how dumb we are. Like it took me like two and a half hours because I was like, I recognize. I just don't know where. That happens all the time. I just don't know where. And then he looks exactly the same as he did in Rocky. Yeah. It looks exact. That's the guy from Rocky. Yeah. That happens all the time. As you know, if you've been here for any length of time. Shiva Raj Kumar. That's a hard name for me to say. Yeah. Shiva Raj Kumar. He did really well. He had a lot of style as well. Yeah. I liked, they handled all the cameos. Shout outs also to the two, their supporting roles, but they're the consistent comic relief. The guy who's with Raj Dekanth all the time. Yeah. And no, no, no. Well, of course him, but the other guy. Oh, the Raheem and the other guy that killed himself. No, no, no. The, the, the one, the one after they did the thing with the squibs and he's pointing the gun at him and he goes to do, to do, to do. Oh, gotcha. Him, that guy. Gotcha. And then on the other side of the coin, the actor who plays the movie stars buddy who he tells him to get out of the bath and leave. Yeah. He's screaming funny. Yeah. I also thought the, the, the actor that was the, the villain's right hand man. Yeah. Who wanted to kill himself. Yeah. I thought he did really had a lot of good comic moments as well. I thought it was funny that he was consistently saying, I believed he would kill himself, but nobody really seemed to give a damn. No. But he was, he was a hundred percent going to do it every time. Another element I wanted to talk about was a post interval. When, I don't know if it was, I'm assuming it was CGI. Oh yeah. It was well done. In terms of like how they did it in the most recent Star Wars movie of the general that they brought back, right? They did that and they also did it, apparently, which I haven't seen in the last Indiana Jones film with Harrison Ford. Okay. But yeah, Roger De Conte is, is de-aged. Yeah. They de-aged him. As the jailer. And he looked great. And I was like, this is a, I love that whole scene once again, incredibly violent. They cut off a dude's ear. Oh man. I love the first beheading also earlier on. It caught me off guard. And they just, they let him stand there, bleed out, standing. I assumed that he was going to kill him, but just beheading. So good. I was like, oh my word. So, so good. But anyway, yes, the de-aging was, I thought he did a great job. Great job. I mean, we're on the second row. Easy to spot a flaw. Yeah. It was really well done. I think you, I think it was his body and they de-aged his face. I do too. I'm sure it was him. His current old man arms. Pretty sure it was him. But I thought that was a lot of fun. And then. The musical number when they say, hey, put that guy in the back. Yeah, there was just a very enjoyable film outside of that. One element didn't ruin it at all. It was just, I was like, I didn't feel like it was needed at all. You clearly did. Yeah. There's something on that element of it. I would love to watch every Superstar Rossigan film. And by the way, Patreon knows this, but Jujube is one of my favorite songs of the year. It's right up there with. He was jamming. With Patan. Yeah. It's in my workout list. It's one of my favorite, favorite songs in a film. It's a great song. Exciting. Different director. But he's known for Mass. I'm hoping we get Mass. South Indian film. Shabu Khan. Me too. That would be a lot of fun. It would be. To get like Superstar. Yeah. SRK. Yeah. I think that'd be a lot of fun. My last thought about what we started with at the beginning, which is just the aura and Roger. Obviously, for people who know more about him and have been around him, it's even bigger, right? I want so many people to enjoy. I think so many people would enjoy the film. But what do you think it would be like for someone, for example, who's never seen any Indian film? How well do you think they could receive? It's tough. Right? And it sucks, doesn't it? Yeah. Because you don't know if they'll get it. Right. You might be able to prep them, but also if they're not, they're like, if they've never seen an Indian film, they're like, what the hell is going on? Why does he keep doing this with glasses? I think you could a film lover like, say, a Valerie, if you just let her know in advance, this is unlike anything we've got. Think action, comedy, but there's an aura about this guy, the likes of which we've never seen. Think old school, the most cliche kinds of things that say a Stallone or a Clint Eastwood or a Schwarzenegger did or go back, like I said, the earlier references, and then magnify them a hundred-fold with as cool as you could possibly be. I just don't know that you can prep anybody. We also need to see so many more of his, like superstar Rajnikanth films. I can't imagine you still wouldn't like the movie, though. You may miss the enigmatic aura that's him. The way others can. Maybe not. I'd like to know. I'd love to know. You might have somebody in the group that, when you recommend films, recommend it and see what happens. Yeah, it would be interesting. There's so many of his films that I wanted to get to for so long, including more recent ones, like there's Pata and then there's I'm glad we got to see this one in theaters. Me too. Darbar. And Kala is another one. Kala B. But then he has like older ones. And the intro, I'm guessing that intro, that is unchanged. Oh yeah, that's his intro. That's unchanged since the 70s. And I think there's one of the old school ones that people always recommend. I think it was in the 90s. If I see the name, I'll know it. I think it's a... Oh, Muthu. Isn't that his character name in this? Doesn't his grandson call him that? Does he? Yeah. That might be like... Yeah, that must be a little... I don't know, you guys can let us know. But this is... Muthu is one I've heard a lot about in terms of like, this is one of his... I think the... Remember that Asian guy who was a big superstar Rajasthananth fan? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I think he dressed like this guy. Which? Most iconic. This is a good closing note. We understand now from this film that it's very, very important to give as people on YouTube that you really do need to give good reviews. Otherwise you're in dire... That moment was so funny. It was. It was very funny. It was so good. Thanks for the 10 crores. That's why this is a positive review, everybody. We can't be called just Bollywood bootlookers anymore. No. No. Rajasthananth bootlookers now too. I don't know. What a glorious boot. Oh, we'll look those boots any day. Anyways, let us know what you thought about the film. What should be our next superstar film? Please. Film. Which one would be good for a watch along maybe? Obviously, I think his films lend well to a watch along. And yes, Yogi, we didn't talk much about Yogi Babu. He's always great. What can we tell you? He's always great. He's always great. So let us know what you thought about the film down below.