 Guess how many gallons? Five. We had to pump out and bucket out of the driveway and backyard so that there was no flooding. This is based on loading a trash can that holds 36 gallons of water. 37 gallons. 1,000. 1,000 what? Gallons. Crosse? Whoa. Gallons. That's a lot of crores. Hey, welcome back to our stupid creation show, Corbin. I'm Rick. You can follow us on Instagram and Twitter for more juicy content. Thanks to Patreon, follow us on Instagram and like button. You almost flooded? Oh wow. Yeah. Second time this winter that have had to bucket out that much water from the area. Damn. Yeah. It was approximately, no exaggeration. Approximately 1,000 gallons. Today. Have I said everything already? Welcome to our stupid reactions. Yeah, you did. Instagram, Twitter, algorithms, algorithms helps for all that kind of stuff. Today we're doing a movie review. And it is of the 2,000 drama romance film, Holy Shit. Yes. Kandukadaian, Kandukadaian. Yeah. The Tamil film. Yep. By Rajiv Menon, which is the Indian adaption of the Jane Austen's very famous work of Sense and Sensibility, which neither of us have read. That's a big drawback. And I have also partially seen scenes because my wife is a massive fan of the original, the original Ang Lee film. Right? Alan Rickman. Yeah. So there's no frame of reference for us, guys. But starring just one or two people. Yeah. Arjith Kumar, our first Arjith Kumar film. Yes. Tabu, Mamuti, Ashwarya Rai, Bakchan, and Abbas are your five main leads in this film. Along with, I find it funny that the poster has Ayer Rahman as the center. Obviously, our non-bar Ayer Rahman is the composer of this film and we react to most of the songs, I do believe. Yeah, watching it, I thought. Yep, seen that. Yep, seen that. Yep, seen that. Yep, seen that. Yes. Of course. Always, yes, give daddy a kiss. You are always more important. Always. Thank you so much. I love you. How much did you pay him to do that? In love. Only in love. Yeah, no, I think it's in cocaine. Anyways, obviously this will be a 100% spoiler review because it came out in 2000. If you haven't watched it, we saw it on... YouTube. Yeah, and there's multiple different versions as well in terms of where you can get it. We had to rent it from YouTube but you can get on Amazon and other platforms as well. Maybe, obviously, somewhere different in India. But Rick, your initial thoughts, please. I've whittled down real clearly. Whittled. Whittled. Show me how you whittle. I don't think it's whittling. That's whittling. Okay. I've whittled down and made it really simple about how I would rate a movie. And we've often said ABC and D, it's things of that nature. So if it's an A, I loved it, wanna see it over and over again and I wanna take people to see it. If it's a B, I would love to see it with other people but it doesn't matter if I do. If it's a C, I liked it, wouldn't watch it again. If it's a D, I didn't like it. I understand if some people like it. If it's an F, I don't like it and I don't know why you like it. Makes sense? Yeah, I get it. So for me, this one's kind of a C plus in that I liked it. I don't know that I'd watch it again but if someone was watching it and said, hey, you wanna watch this with me, I'd watch it with them but I wouldn't go out of my way to watch it again. And the main thing for me was the biggest takeaway was any time, my favorite three, which are our two ladies and Mamoudi, when they were on screen, I was loving every minute of it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And obviously that's the, I mean, the songs and music are off the charts. So good. The main part of Sensibility is about the sisters. Did she watch it with you, your wife? I've seen her watch that film many times. It's one of them. No, this one. She was with me a while ago. Yeah, she watched this with me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. So her take would be really important in terms of- Yes, yes, she enjoyed this film. How was it in terms of? Yeah, in terms of how it India-fied it, it stuck to the story pretty well. Okay, good. She said nobody lives up to what Alan Rickman can do. No, but as far as it coming from that story, she said, but they obviously, it, because it fits as well in terms of, the reason I think this film worked for me, even though obviously there were parts that were kind of dated in that kind of stuff. Sure. Like 2000s-ish. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And they modern, because obviously that, that Sense and Sensibility, the Ang Lee one, which is her favorite, was a period film, which is obviously, if you ask any girl in America, they love like Sensibility or what's the other, like big romance period piece. Pride and Prejudice. Pride and Prejudice style of films. And it's usually in a period, right? But it kind of fits with Indian society as well, with the arranged marriages and what happens if the husband dies in your societies. It's, so they're kind of similar in that aspect. They didn't make this a more modern times film. Yeah. Which my wife, when it started she was like, I'm lost. I was like, I thought, they didn't make it a period. Even though they made the songs, which was really interesting, flashbacks, well not flashbacks, but like they put them in stylized period, period romance style of films. But I ended up enjoying this film. I enjoyed a lot of the performances, the end, the big romance of it all, the, I was rooting for Mammoudi to be loved by her. I knew it would happen just cause I know the story cause my wife, once again, loves Alan Rickman. As one of her favorite actors ever. And Colonel Brandon, who is in the original Ang Lee version, that's like her creme de la creme version of Alan Rickman. So in other words, that's the version I need to watch. Well, it also helps, like if you have no frame of reference for what's going on. Oh, sure, yeah. It's obviously gonna be a lot more difficult. And I had somebody there who did, but we'll get into this. Start with our main two leads of the film is Taboo and Astoria, who I think are the movie, right? Yeah. And their relationship was really pretty and beautiful in their performances. And I will say the audio, even though the YouTube version was better than the Amazon version, but they both weren't up to what they should have been. Like you could, I don't know if it happened for you, like you could tell it was like a bad dubbing. We've watched worse. Yes. But, yeah. And dubbing, we always have to give it a pass because we know we're gonna get it, but we've said this a hundred times, we'll say it a hundred times more. There's a million reasons dubbing is awful. And the reason it's awful from the acting standpoint is that you're not getting the honest moment. It's being replicated. And anytime someone in the dubbing booth is trying to make their voice sound like what they see, they're not genuinely feeling the emotion that's being expressed in that moment, which is what's believable in an actor. What they're doing is trying to make it sound believable and it never works. It just never, it never works. Yeah, sometimes it did. But like the audio wasn't the best at times. But obviously Ashwarya and Taboo are just beautiful actresses. In my notes, I don't even need to look at it. I wrote down, I don't know, they may have to pass a law or something as to whether or not it's legally okay to put both of those women in one close-up frame. I mean, there was one close-up shot of both of them in the doorway and it just, I literally, I haven't been as aghast with the beauty of someone on screen as I was since last time we had seen Reka and something and this was double that. It was just, I don't know where to look. I don't know which of these two ladies that I should be watching. They're so captivating. Yeah, they are incredible. And obviously, and it's not a shock, I 100% believed both of them and their characters were very true to what the originals were. My wife said they're actually even, Ashwara's carries even more obnoxious in the original and she's really mean to Mammoudi's character. Even more so, obviously, in this one, I honestly didn't feel like she was that mean to him. Obviously, she was frustrated. Yeah, she was frustrated, but apparently in the original, she's really rude to him. There's a 20-year age difference is what it's supposed to be. But I thought they did a really, really, really good job and they were my favorite performances in the entire thing. Even though I enjoyed most of their performances, they were the best and the major standouts for me. For me, it was them and Mammoudi, as I had said earlier, and did the original have her falling into a manhole? She did hurt herself in some way. Probably fell off a horse. Yeah, something like that. I like her falling into a manhole. I was like, oh, she got sucked into the earth. Got sucked into a manhole. That's what her mom's pickup line to me was. The first time we met, she said, I want to get sucked into your manhole. And it worked. It's a good Wednesday. But it's a good Wednesday. Yeah, they were both, and I wasn't shocked that Mammoudi, I've been impressed with them every time we've watched him and I'm becoming more and more of a big fan. If he's in something, I feel the sense of, ah, good, I'm gonna get good acting. Yes, you know? Yeah, he's great. I thought he did a really good job. In the original, Cumberland doesn't have one leg. Oh, so that's a new, that's something they added. Which they did a great job at the time. I think what they probably had was a real amputee when they showed the leg. I was like, hey, good for you. That's 100% believable. And I liked the relationship. The end was great for me. I liked the ending. It was very sweet and romantic. Both of their characters coming, but especially, obviously, when Mammoudi and Ashwarya, when she was trying to tell him she loves him and he was trying to deflect. No, no, you can get so much better than me. And I thought that was a beautiful moment for both of them. I liked it a lot. And Arjith, I thought, this is our first, we've seen a lot more of his action stuff in terms of fight scenes and more recent stuff. This is our first thing with him. I thought he did well. And there were certain times that I think, the certain things that the director told him to do that was very dated in terms of what they wanted him to do at certain moments in this film. It happened a few times in this film, but it's 2000, it's almost 25 years ago. Yeah, that's insane. Wow. It's almost a quarter century ago. And so you got that, but I thought he did well and I liked most of their relationship together. Me too. And I liked, even though his song was at, even though we had reacted to it, the one on the boat. It was like jarring right at first. And I was like, what is that? And then I was like, oh, I remember the song. It's a good song. It's a fun song. And Tabu's gonna come in and out. Yeah, which makes a lot more sense now than I think it made when we originally saw it. But I thought he did a good job and I'm looking forward to seeing more of his work because he doesn't seem like, even though like in the stuff we've seen, he seems more of like just like an action star. I can see him that he has some acting chops in him. Yeah, and I agree with you. There's been times where you watch a movie and you say, okay, I love these people, but these other people were just rough to watch. I was never at a place watching him where I was wishing I wasn't, where I've had that experience in the past. And there were many times, more often than not, where I was enjoying him. There were a couple. It'd be interesting to know. And I think you're probably right where it was, please do that. And he may not have really wanted to because it felt a little over the top, but for the most part, yeah. I still enjoyed him and I'm intrigued and I have to want to know more. I enjoyed their chemistry together. Yeah, me too. Him and Tabu, their moment at the end was really beautiful. That was my favorite moment. Was that final fight and proposal. The end of him, Shwari and Mamudi and Tabu and Arjith was just, it was a beautiful moment for her. It was very typical of the Jane Austen romance. So I think they did justice to that. Because her dialogue from what my wife says is extremely poetic. A lot of what she writes is just like a poem. She said they did a good job a lot of times especially between the sisters and the lovers, the caring of the romantic LL poetry. So that was good. Abbas, I thought did well. He was probably in terms of the leads, the one that I cared about the least. But I don't think he was supposed to, I mean, he wasn't the one she ended up with. I don't think he was supposed to care about him. Exactly. He didn't do awful. I don't think he did bad, but he just, he wasn't as strong as the other performers. Agree. So, and then there was just the three, five main people that I would talk about. But I will talk about our nunbar, A.R. Ramon. Who made a cameo? He sure did. You can see that with the baby face with the long hair. No, which is great. This is one of his strongest compositions. I agree in every way. Songs and score, man. It was gorgeous. Like I said, we've seen most of them, but they were just as good, if not better, in obviously the context of the film. Yep. Like the beginning song with Ashwarya, where I think she's, Arjun's character looks at- In the water or? No, when Arjun's character looks at Taboo, and she says these eyes, something about the eyes, the hidden eyes or something like that. Hmm. Come down. I'm trying to remember. They were like in a ballroom, kind of. She was wearing green. No, okay. I'm trying to remember the lyric. I liked that song a lot. The one in the water was great. Yeah, that wasn't a bad song. No, it was, it was, I mean, it'd be extremely difficult to put like Ehrman's top 10 albums, I think. Well, and equally impressive is sometimes you get films where the songs themselves are just fantastic, but the score is kind of lackluster. The score was as good as the songs. There were moments when the score was going on, and I was just enamored at how beautiful it was. Yeah, yeah. And there's elements that I think, like the didn't weren't as strong for me as I think they probably were maybe in the original was like when they lost the house, and it was the family, the auntie and uncle that get the house because of whatever. It wasn't as, it didn't feel like as important as I think it in the original. It probably was. Agree. And it happened in the original. They lost the house and that's why they, because it's women at that time, they had to get status via their husbands and all that kind of stuff. And so I saw what they were doing. I don't think that part didn't work for me as well. Yeah, I do. And I think it has to do with, this happens a lot of the time. Sometimes things happen so quickly that you very rarely get to understand the importance of them, because you don't get to sit with them for a while, and you just suddenly discover, oh, there's this, oh, there's that, oh, there's that. I don't know if that's the reason, but I absolutely agree with you. It didn't carry the weight with it that I think it ought to. Yeah, I agree with you. And the cinematography, by the way, there were a couple of really nice, there was a great green screen shot. Oh, it was so bad, I was like, I don't even think that, and I said rightly it was like a 10 second thing, because it was celebrating, like they were trying to emphasize that there was a giant celebration festival or something going on. And it's just awful green screen work. It's really good. Which over 10, it was like 10 or 15 seconds. And I was like, I don't think you needed that. No, and time is not kind to old school green screen. No, it's not. You look at the old Star Wars films and you see that over time, it just gets worse and worse and worse and worse. But you were saying about cinematography. Yeah, there were some really nice instances. There was one instance where the girls are talking to each other and the POV is over their shoulder while they're here, but it's framed in such a way that in the mirror, you can see taboo. And the camera's obviously not revealed. And that's an easy thing to miss. And I probably missed a lot of them because I think there were a lot of moments like that where the cinematography was incredibly good but it was really understated so as to not overshadow the performances and the personal. That's the other thing I like about the movie is that it very much stayed connected to the people's stories throughout. And with the runtime that it has, it felt like they trimmed the fat. It didn't feel long. And a lot of that has to do with the, I think those performances and probably the original context. It's just a good story of a love story, right? So that's, that's. It's the most important. Yeah, story. It's one of the most important parts of filmmaking, if not the most important. But it was so wonderful to watch. I mean, anytime I can watch taboo and ashwarya. And it's so interesting because they have such different styles of beauty. As we've said, she is like the quintessential like Barbie doll, Miss World, right? Yep. Kind of beauty pageant beauty. And one of the most gorgeous women, right? I think it's not objective. Like she's one of the most just, if you're just like, what is beautiful? You probably look at ashwarya, this is beautiful. And I think everybody was like, yeah, she's beautiful. She might not be your specific type, but she is. I don't think it's not objective. Like she is beautiful. And then taboo has this more eloquent kind of unique. It's hard to describe the word because she is really beautiful. But it's just in such a different way, more elegance. I think, I don't know if elegance is the right word because obviously I don't. It's the word I always go to for her. It's the regality. She has a queenliness. If I were to describe the two, especially in this film, ashwarya gives Disney Princess vibes. And taboo gives a queen for me. She always has. And she's... She backs it up with a performance. She really does. And there is something about taboo and a captivatingness to her beauty that you just can't pinpoint. It's not necessarily this. It's not necessarily this. It's just this. And it's so original and so unique. But again, having them both in frame was just overwhelming. Just the two of the most beautiful women to ever grace the screen. And then obviously Mamoudi did a great job. So overall, I did really enjoy the film. And it definitely grew on me as the film went on, which is great. Obviously, I think this film could benefit from people that know the source material a lot better. Unfortunately, my wife can't. We have three other kids. And two of them are sleep-the-twins, but Leland's up. He wouldn't let us review a film if he was in here. But it would probably benefit from like, I know your kids probably know the story. Oh my goodness, they love the story. They would be just like her. And my wife as well, it'd probably benefit from people that know that story even a lot better. Yeah. See how well they did in adapting the original material. Exactly. And my wife said, she said they did well. And she enjoyed the film. Anyways, let us know what you thought about this film and what should be our next film for all of you. Everybody in here, man. There's so many people in here. But what should be our next and let us know down below.