1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:04,120 Speaker 1: Well, Ben, a lot of talk about Julia and George 2 00:00:04,240 --> 00:00:07,800 Speaker 1: together again. Yeah, everyone loves movies. Did they move together 3 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:11,200 Speaker 1: that many? Oh? They did The Ocean's eleven movies, The 4 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:15,760 Speaker 1: Oceans eleven Oceans too, those and Money Monster from twenty sixteen, 5 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:18,400 Speaker 1: which I think George Clooney might have directed as well. So, 6 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:22,639 Speaker 1: but they haven't been in a lot of films. But yeah, look, 7 00:00:22,880 --> 00:00:27,760 Speaker 1: Ticket to Paradise more like Ticket to Shitville. Really, yeah, 8 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:34,280 Speaker 1: you think, Ben, this film like, I'm not ideologically opposed 9 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:36,240 Speaker 1: to rom coms, like I like a rom com like 10 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:38,440 Speaker 1: I don't love the genre because most of them are 11 00:00:38,440 --> 00:00:41,199 Speaker 1: not great. But a rom com done well, I think 12 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:44,120 Speaker 1: is a really pleasant piece of entertainment that you can 13 00:00:44,159 --> 00:00:46,480 Speaker 1: go along and watch, you know, take the misses along. 14 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:49,280 Speaker 1: She'll love you for it. There's a lot of things 15 00:00:49,680 --> 00:00:52,319 Speaker 1: that are good about them. And then you have this movie, right, 16 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:55,400 Speaker 1: which it's kind of like the rom part doesn't make 17 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:57,360 Speaker 1: any sense and there is no compart. 18 00:00:57,560 --> 00:00:59,520 Speaker 2: Oh no, really, so when you. 19 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:02,320 Speaker 1: Take out them, when you take out the wrong it's. 20 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:03,920 Speaker 2: A wrong coma. 21 00:01:04,440 --> 00:01:07,240 Speaker 1: Yeah. And look, there's there's a few issues here to unpack, 22 00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:09,959 Speaker 1: and the first is they they've made the film during 23 00:01:09,959 --> 00:01:12,600 Speaker 1: the pandemic. Right, Initially they wanted to shoot it in 24 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:15,679 Speaker 1: Barley and they probably think of set in Bali and 25 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:18,240 Speaker 1: they're thinking, you know, Julia roberts E, pray love back 26 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:20,120 Speaker 1: to Bali. That's not going to be amazing. 27 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:21,480 Speaker 2: Barlie was struggling at the time. 28 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:23,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, and it would have been amazing if they'd been 29 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:25,280 Speaker 1: able to pull it off, but they couldn't because of 30 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:28,240 Speaker 1: the pandemic. They had to shoot it in North Queensland. Yeah, 31 00:01:28,280 --> 00:01:29,959 Speaker 1: and so shoot around the with Sunday it doesn't look 32 00:01:29,959 --> 00:01:33,040 Speaker 1: at all like not really and so people from Perth 33 00:01:33,080 --> 00:01:36,880 Speaker 1: who know Bali very well straight away just like, what 34 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:39,600 Speaker 1: is this? This is not Bali. I have heard people 35 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:41,280 Speaker 1: who saw the film that didn't realize that it was 36 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:43,520 Speaker 1: shot in Queensland thought, oh, okay, I haven't been to 37 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:47,200 Speaker 1: those parts of Ballei, but very forgiven. But it's like, 38 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:50,080 Speaker 1: I'll buy it. And so maybe maybe some people can 39 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:52,600 Speaker 1: kind of get their head around it. But for a lot, 40 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:54,240 Speaker 1: for a lot of Australians, I think it'll be a 41 00:01:54,320 --> 00:01:56,640 Speaker 1: real struggle. But that's but that's not even the bigger issue. Right. 42 00:01:56,640 --> 00:01:59,120 Speaker 1: So the film was written and directed by a British 43 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:01,920 Speaker 1: dude named Old Harker, whose name probably doesn't ring any bells, 44 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:05,520 Speaker 1: but he directed the Mama Mia sequel, Mama Mia. Here 45 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:08,040 Speaker 1: we Go Now It's Making Sense, which was actually better 46 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:11,000 Speaker 1: than the original Muma mea movie. It wasn't it wasn't terrible, right, 47 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:13,360 Speaker 1: and it made it like four hundred million dollars in 48 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:15,640 Speaker 1: the box office, so it was quite successful. And he 49 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:19,400 Speaker 1: also wrote the best Exotic Marigold Hotel movies, and so 50 00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:22,519 Speaker 1: that was so it kind of brings like a decent 51 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:24,560 Speaker 1: resume to this project, so I could see why they 52 00:02:24,639 --> 00:02:27,800 Speaker 1: hired him. And he wrote this script with George and 53 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:31,000 Speaker 1: Julia in Mine. They play this divorced couple. They've been 54 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:34,360 Speaker 1: divorced for twenty years and only married for five, during 55 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:36,800 Speaker 1: which time they had a daughter, and pretty much after 56 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:39,000 Speaker 1: she was born they split and then kind of, you know, 57 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:42,760 Speaker 1: increasingly started to hate each other some divorced couples tend 58 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:46,000 Speaker 1: to do. And so the daughter has gone to college, 59 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:48,680 Speaker 1: she's just graduated, and she's about to go into this 60 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:51,799 Speaker 1: high powered job at a top Chicago law firm. Before 61 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:53,520 Speaker 1: she does that and kind of, you know, gets into 62 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:56,000 Speaker 1: the kind of corporate lifestyle, she's going to have one 63 00:02:56,080 --> 00:02:58,960 Speaker 1: last knees up and go to Bali with her best 64 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:01,360 Speaker 1: with her bestie to pseudo Ballei. Yeah yeah, and the 65 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:03,440 Speaker 1: daughters played by Caitlyn Diva who we just saw in 66 00:03:03,480 --> 00:03:06,320 Speaker 1: Dope Sick, but she was the young Betsy who was 67 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:09,240 Speaker 1: the miner who got addicted to Opberek. Really really good actor, 68 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:11,760 Speaker 1: just nominated for an Emmy. And so they go to 69 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:14,040 Speaker 1: these two girls go to Bali, you know, like a 70 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:17,400 Speaker 1: spring break kind of deal. They get involved in this 71 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:19,840 Speaker 1: kind of snorkeling incident where the boat leaves them in 72 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:21,799 Speaker 1: the ocean, which is something that actually happens in North 73 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:27,160 Speaker 1: Queensland a little bit so. And then along comes this 74 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:30,320 Speaker 1: strapping young Indonesian lad in a boat who rescues them, 75 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:35,800 Speaker 1: and Lily, the Caitlyn Diva's character, immediately falls for him. 76 00:03:35,800 --> 00:03:39,000 Speaker 1: It's love at first sight. And so within the space 77 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:40,720 Speaker 1: of a couple of days of you know sort of 78 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:45,200 Speaker 1: sunset walks down the beach and cocktails by the beach, 79 00:03:45,480 --> 00:03:48,320 Speaker 1: they decide to get hitched so that he pops the question. 80 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:51,360 Speaker 1: She says yes, and so invites are sent to George 81 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:54,040 Speaker 1: and Julia and say, hey, come to Bali for my wedding. 82 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:57,120 Speaker 1: They have not seen idaway on anything for twenty years, 83 00:03:57,240 --> 00:04:00,280 Speaker 1: but realize we've got to put outside our differences and 84 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:03,480 Speaker 1: stop this wedding. So that becomes the mission. We're not 85 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:05,280 Speaker 1: happy with this. We don't want our daughter throwing our 86 00:04:05,320 --> 00:04:07,600 Speaker 1: life away like we did when we were kids, when 87 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:12,240 Speaker 1: we had no prom wedding. Yeah, and so and so 88 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:14,720 Speaker 1: that's the goal, right to go in there and subtly 89 00:04:15,160 --> 00:04:19,000 Speaker 1: sabotage the wedding by all means necessary, which is, you know, 90 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:21,000 Speaker 1: it's not a bad setup for a film, like I 91 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:22,039 Speaker 1: think it's it's. 92 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:24,799 Speaker 2: Okay, I'm waiting for a butt here, but it's. 93 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:27,840 Speaker 1: Just not funny. It's just like you can you can 94 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:31,120 Speaker 1: kind of live with some setups that, Okay, it's not reality, 95 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:33,719 Speaker 1: it's a movie. You get that. But at one point, 96 00:04:33,839 --> 00:04:38,120 Speaker 1: the four of them, so that the Indonesian kid, the daughter, 97 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:40,839 Speaker 1: and George and Julia end up stranded on this part 98 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:43,000 Speaker 1: of Bali where they're not going to get rescued for 99 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:45,400 Speaker 1: maybe a couple of hours. So it's like, okay, we're 100 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:48,080 Speaker 1: stuck here, no transports coming back for a couple of hours. 101 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:50,120 Speaker 1: We're just going to have to sit tight and wait. 102 00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:54,640 Speaker 1: So and so, within probably twenty minutes of making that decision. 103 00:04:54,839 --> 00:04:59,640 Speaker 1: They're hunting wild pigs with makeshift weapons. It just doesn't 104 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:00,320 Speaker 1: make any sense. 105 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:01,720 Speaker 2: They missed dinner. 106 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:05,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just like, I have no explanation for it. 107 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:08,600 Speaker 2: But what's going on? 108 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:11,680 Speaker 1: I know. So, But the good thing is, you know, 109 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:14,960 Speaker 1: George and Julia are amazing. You know, George Clooney has 110 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:18,120 Speaker 1: just got that screen magnetism. Julie Robertson's fantastic seeing her 111 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:21,040 Speaker 1: doing comedy, and the two together have have a really 112 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:23,839 Speaker 1: nice chemistry. You can see they're just having a great time. Unfortunately, 113 00:05:23,839 --> 00:05:26,320 Speaker 1: the best bit of that chemistry is in the outtakes 114 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:29,280 Speaker 1: at the end of the movie where they're sitting in 115 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:32,560 Speaker 1: the plane for one scene and the and the air 116 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:36,040 Speaker 1: stewardess accidentally spills a glass of champagne like on George 117 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:39,279 Speaker 1: Clooney without kind of meaning to, and Julia roberts is like, oh, 118 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:42,400 Speaker 1: don't worry, it's only George Clooney, and George is like, yeah, 119 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:45,200 Speaker 1: we've got a few more spare one eight hundred Brad Pitt. 120 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:48,800 Speaker 1: So they let's make some good gags off the cuff. 121 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:50,680 Speaker 1: The ones they do in the film that are scripted 122 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:54,039 Speaker 1: just not funny look great like it's a short, but 123 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:55,919 Speaker 1: you know, I don't like chick flicks. Is it a 124 00:05:55,960 --> 00:06:00,560 Speaker 1: chick flick? Yeah, only if you desperate, like you know, 125 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:03,080 Speaker 1: I'm so desperate. You never And someone who saw it 126 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:04,760 Speaker 1: that talked to me said, you know what, I enjoyed 127 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:06,479 Speaker 1: it because I had the worst day, Like I just 128 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:09,320 Speaker 1: had stinker of work and I went along to this 129 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:11,520 Speaker 1: and I could shut my brain off and I had 130 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:12,080 Speaker 1: a fine time. 131 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:14,200 Speaker 2: So you said that you quite like those two in 132 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:18,960 Speaker 2: this right, because they are they're okay. 133 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:21,560 Speaker 1: It's never good when you're watching a rom com and 134 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:24,400 Speaker 1: you're asking yourself in some scenes, is that a bit racist? 135 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:27,200 Speaker 1: And so some of the some of the way that 136 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:30,880 Speaker 1: they deal with Indonesian culture is like cringe worthy. 137 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:32,279 Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, when you see a big star like 138 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:33,680 Speaker 2: Robert de Niro and some of the lame things he's 139 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:36,640 Speaker 2: done in the last ten years, this is the same. 140 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:39,120 Speaker 1: And they were producers on the film as well, so 141 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:41,440 Speaker 1: they have no one to blame but themselves. No one's 142 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:43,840 Speaker 1: going to say to them, all, right, what are you 143 00:06:43,880 --> 00:06:44,320 Speaker 1: giving it? 144 00:06:45,360 --> 00:06:46,320 Speaker 2: How many turns out of five? 145 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:48,479 Speaker 1: One and a half? 146 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:53,880 Speaker 2: Flush them away? Thanks man, Thanks guys.