Speaker 1: All right, Next up, folks, we have number seven of
Speaker 1: our Oscar Best Picture nominees, Marty Supreme. We have a
Speaker 1: confession to make about this one that we'll get to
Speaker 1: in just a moment, but this is a highly nominated
Speaker 1: movie as well.
Speaker 2: It certainly is nine nominations including Best Picture, Best Actor,
Speaker 2: Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Costume Design,
Speaker 2: Best Casting, and Best Production Design. So yes, but think
Speaker 2: about it, Picture, Actor, Director, those are like the top three.
Speaker 3: I guess they're missing actress. But it's highly regarded.
Speaker 1: And of course we know who stars in this one.
Speaker 1: Of course, Timothy Shalomye was attached to this movie. Huge
Speaker 1: promotion that he was a part of, huge stunts they
Speaker 1: did to promote this thing. But the cast is pretty stellar. Uh,
Speaker 1: you have Gwyneth Paltrow in this movie, Fran Dresher is
Speaker 1: in this movie, Kevin O'Leary. Kevin O'Leary plays quite prominently
Speaker 1: in this movie. And Tyler the creator that's amazing in
Speaker 1: this movie as well. So it's they are actually fun
Speaker 1: to watch to see all these folks together.
Speaker 4: Agreed.
Speaker 3: I was so surprised to see Kevin O'Leary. I didn't
Speaker 3: know he acted.
Speaker 2: To be honest with you, I just know them from
Speaker 2: Shark Tank, right, I just didn't even know. But he
Speaker 2: did a phenomenal job pulling it all off. And look,
Speaker 2: folks did this is one of the few on the
Speaker 2: list up for Best Picture that did really well at
Speaker 2: the box office. This box office they gross two hundred
Speaker 2: and seventy four million dollars and the synopsis, Look, it's
Speaker 2: about a guy, Marty Mauser, a young man with a
Speaker 2: dream no one respects, goes to Helen back in pursuit
Speaker 2: of greatness.
Speaker 3: The dream no one respects is to be ile world
Speaker 3: champion in table.
Speaker 4: Tennis as an American as.
Speaker 3: That's a good point as an America and.
Speaker 1: Make it up as popular in the United States as
Speaker 1: it is in some Asian countries.
Speaker 4: I didn't know.
Speaker 1: Now that explains the movie there, But ahead of time,
Speaker 1: I don't think I really understood what the movie was about.
Speaker 1: During their promotional push, it was simply Timothy Shallomey is
Speaker 1: a ping pong player in this movie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's all I knew, and I loved that.
Speaker 2: You know what I really loved about watching this movie
Speaker 2: is just going right back in time to the seventies,
Speaker 2: and eighties, the music, the set design, the costumes like
Speaker 2: they really nail that. You really got you time traveled
Speaker 2: back into that area or that era, and it was
Speaker 2: cool to see this kid who was supposed to take
Speaker 2: over his dad's shoe shop basically and go on to
Speaker 2: greatness and to have this confidence, this moxie about him
Speaker 2: for something that no one respected.
Speaker 1: And maybe still don't here in the United States at least,
Speaker 1: but that was the centerpiece of this movie. Rated all,
Speaker 1: it does have a long run time here, This is
Speaker 1: a two and a half hour movie, two hours twenty
Speaker 1: nine minutes.
Speaker 4: What did you make?
Speaker 1: You end up looking at the reviews more than I
Speaker 1: just look at the number sometimes, But what did you
Speaker 1: make of and what did you see as far as
Speaker 1: what issue people took with the movie because the audience
Speaker 1: didn't like it as much.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think.
Speaker 2: I mean the reviews I'm reading, they all thought it
Speaker 2: was great and clever and interesting, unpredictable in terms of
Speaker 2: where the story went, and they really credit Timothy Shallome
Speaker 2: and his performance as carrying the entire show.
Speaker 3: This is funny.
Speaker 2: Roger Ebert said, He's the guy who thinks confidence is currency.
Speaker 2: He just refuses to take no for answers, so he
Speaker 2: just plays this kid who is a dream who follows it.
Speaker 2: And I think it's one of those It's almost like
Speaker 2: watching a Fort Forrest Gump esque where you're doing the
Speaker 2: impossible when everyone tells you you can't and you just
Speaker 2: keep doing it. People love cheering on the central careacters
Speaker 2: in those types of movies. However, Marty Supreme is not
Speaker 2: as likable.
Speaker 4: I would say, you know, you were setting me.
Speaker 1: I was following, you know, like, Okay, I'm with him
Speaker 1: or I'm with her, and I'm like, oh, did I
Speaker 1: not read this movie right? And there you go. You
Speaker 1: got to the end and you didn't want to root
Speaker 1: for this guy, yeah, because he was a bit of
Speaker 1: a He was a swindler, right, he was, And that's fine,
Speaker 1: that's okay to be and some can be a little
Speaker 1: more charming. But there was something about him though, you
Speaker 1: know what that was a meanness to him that and
Speaker 1: sure that's what his character was supposed to be, but
Speaker 1: it made it difficult to have somebody you were rooting for.
Speaker 2: Yes, he was described as an American, He's not only
Speaker 2: is he a ping pong prodigy, but an American businessman,
Speaker 2: a fast talker who's not content just to dominate.
Speaker 3: His corner of the world. He needs the whole planet.
Speaker 2: And to what you were just saying, this character will
Speaker 2: do whatever it takes to.
Speaker 3: Vanquish his enemies, and that's what it was.
Speaker 2: It wasn't about winning, it was about destroying the enemies.
Speaker 3: And winning at the same time.
Speaker 2: So I think you were conflicted with the main character,
Speaker 2: which is an interesting way to tell a story.
Speaker 1: And I guess that's what the character was supposed to be.
Speaker 1: That's fine, and it was effective, but it made you.
Speaker 4: Not root for him.
Speaker 1: And I think the scene I remember he was very
Speaker 1: mean to Gwyneth Palshaw yes in a scene, and I
Speaker 1: think I was done with him after that. So it
Speaker 1: wasn't just his opponents, it was almost everybody in his
Speaker 1: orbit was usually treated a certain way.
Speaker 2: You know. It reminded me. This is one of my
Speaker 2: favorite movies. Broadcast News and what's her name? The fast
Speaker 2: talker with the Southern accent. She goes up to her
Speaker 2: boss and he.
Speaker 4: Says, Helen, Helen Hunt'm thinking about Helen Hunt.
Speaker 1: No, Helen Hunt with the raspy voice from she was
Speaker 1: in the firm.
Speaker 3: Two ages, Holly Hunter, Holly hunter.
Speaker 2: Someone says to her, isn't it exhausting being the smartest person.
Speaker 3: In the room, And she's like, you have no idea.
Speaker 3: So that's kind of to me what Marty Supreme was like.
Speaker 2: He he's this guy who has to deal with the
Speaker 2: fact that everyone thinks he's so great like he's it's
Speaker 2: there was nothing like once. Even if he was successful,
Speaker 2: he was annoying about it, and he wanted people to
Speaker 2: think he was better and greater. He didn't think he
Speaker 2: was getting enough of what he deserved. It was never enough.
Speaker 2: It was never good enough.
Speaker 1: Now, before we give you our recommendations about whether you
Speaker 1: should watch it or skip it, let's go full disclosure here.
Speaker 1: Rope and I have a long history of me refusing
Speaker 1: I think it's the right word, robes refusing to allow
Speaker 1: us to rent movies.
Speaker 3: Correct. So it's really really annoying.
Speaker 2: Because we'll go to the movies and get the extra
Speaker 2: wide reclining seats with delivery to your seat, and pay
Speaker 2: stupid amounts of money for one seat.
Speaker 4: Right, Sure, it's whole experience.
Speaker 2: But if you buy a movie yeah and say it's
Speaker 2: nineteen ninety nine, sometimes it's nine ninety nine. Now you
Speaker 2: have it in your library. It's one time, a one
Speaker 2: price point, and then you have it forever, okay.
Speaker 1: And my only response to that is, there are we
Speaker 1: have all these streaming services we are paying for that,
Speaker 1: we have so many things available to us for free.
Speaker 1: Why are we paying twenty dollars to rent a movie?
Speaker 4: Rent?
Speaker 2: Well movie, yes, so to buy it is usually twenty
Speaker 2: four to ninety nine, and that makes you even more angry. Right,
Speaker 2: So yes, for Marty Supreme, Yes, and we knew we
Speaker 2: were doing this.
Speaker 3: There were only I think two or three movies we
Speaker 3: had to buy. The rest of them were available without
Speaker 3: or rent without. They were all free on our streaming services.
Speaker 2: So Marty Supreme, you kept kicking the cam like, we'll
Speaker 2: watch it later, maybe it'll be free. It's not going
Speaker 2: to be free before the Oscars. So we finally decided.
Speaker 3: To rent it, not buy it, because you didn't want
Speaker 3: to spend the extra five dollars to own it, okay, correct.
Speaker 4: So here's the thing.
Speaker 1: When you rent, you don't get unlimited time to watch
Speaker 1: said rental. So we started Marty Supreme, and let's be honest,
Speaker 1: we we we fell asleep on it, and we kind
Speaker 1: of gave up on a Sabine was with us. She's like,
Speaker 1: all right, I'm out right.
Speaker 2: She said she was out, she took out, she took off,
Speaker 2: and then we fell asleep.
Speaker 1: And then we fell Okay, so we got did we
Speaker 1: try one more time to watch it?
Speaker 2: When I went to go try to watch it one
Speaker 2: more time, we had just missed the forty eight hour
Speaker 2: window that the rental agreement allowed.
Speaker 1: So what we're saying, folks here in full disclosure, we
Speaker 1: did not get to see the end of Marty Supreme
Speaker 1: because we missed the rental deadline and we weren't willing
Speaker 1: to spend an extra twenty dollars just a week could
Speaker 1: watch till last thirty five minutes? Me, you mean you
Speaker 1: we're not going to So now we gotta spend forty
Speaker 1: dollars rent So that's oldestlope. We can only give you
Speaker 1: a limited review. Only take us at our word for
Speaker 1: three quarters three quarters of the movie, because we saw
Speaker 1: three quarters of the movie, but what we saw didn't
Speaker 1: have us running back necessarily to continue watching it again.
Speaker 1: Not wanting to be mean to movie makers, this wasn't
Speaker 1: necessarily our thing. But does that mean we'll tell you
Speaker 1: to skip it? Not necessarily stay here. All right, We
Speaker 1: continue here with our Mariti Supreme Confessional. We did not
Speaker 1: get to see the last thirty five minutes or so
Speaker 1: of this movie because we missed our rental deadline on
Speaker 1: our streaming service, and Robes refused to let us spend
Speaker 1: the money to watch a little bit of it. But
Speaker 1: maybe we'll get around to it. But rose from what
Speaker 1: you did see, would you tell somebody watch it?
Speaker 4: Skip it?
Speaker 2: You know what?
Speaker 3: I would say that you should.
Speaker 4: You can skip it.
Speaker 2: If you really really are a table tennis fan, or
Speaker 2: if you're a super duper Timothy Schallomey fan, then then
Speaker 2: that would be a movie I would say you'll probably enjoy.
Speaker 2: But if you're not one of those two things, I
Speaker 2: think you can skip it. I just I thought the
Speaker 2: movie was kind of annoying. It was okay enough, but
Speaker 2: it wouldn't be something i'd say, Wow, you really need
Speaker 2: to see this movie.
Speaker 3: It was so good for X, Y and Z.
Speaker 2: I couldn't give you a reason to watch it other
Speaker 2: than if you're a Timothy Shalomey fan or you love
Speaker 2: table tennis.
Speaker 1: You know what. That's what I was looking for as
Speaker 1: you were talking. I was looking for something even some
Speaker 1: of the other movies, even if I wasn't crazy about it,
Speaker 1: I say, you need to watch it to see her performance,
Speaker 1: his performance, this, or that. It's hard to find something
Speaker 1: to direct people too in this movie. Even the table
Speaker 1: tennis and some of those scenes.
Speaker 4: I mean, they were cool, but it did fun to watch.
Speaker 1: Then Fully Qualified didn't feel like as a sports movie.
Speaker 3: It's isn't it being dubbed a so though? Like a
Speaker 3: sports action thriller? I think is what they called it
Speaker 3: something like that.
Speaker 4: Did you sense that?
Speaker 3: I really wasn't sure what it was to me?
Speaker 2: That's why it felt more like a Forrest Gump ish
Speaker 2: with a twist, like a darker Forrest Gump.
Speaker 4: What is the genre? It's you know what.
Speaker 3: I need to look that up.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but this would be hard to tell
Speaker 1: someone to. Yeah, you need to check this one out.
Speaker 1: Yeah you need to see this one and direct somebody
Speaker 1: towards it. I guess the thing you would say is
Speaker 1: see what everybody's talking about with Timothy chala May's performance.
Speaker 1: I mean, it is an OSCAR nominated performance, so that's
Speaker 1: always worth checking out.
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, I think if you're a Timothy Shallome fan,
Speaker 2: you should run to go see this.
Speaker 3: This is under the category of mystery and thriller.
Speaker 2: Slash drama, so they don't call it a sports action film, mister,
Speaker 2: A mystery and thriller slash drama.
Speaker 3: That's what they're calling.
Speaker 1: Put those three together and make it a new genre.
Speaker 1: Is it called mystery thriller.
Speaker 2: And uh.
Speaker 3: A thrilled?
Speaker 4: Okay? I just thought it was the worth of shot.
Speaker 3: I tried.
Speaker 4: This was movie number seven for us.
Speaker 1: Number eight is going to be a surprising one that
Speaker 1: actually Robes and I do not agree about the secret agent.
Speaker 1: Look for that one. It's the next in line on
Speaker 1: the feed.