1 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:05,040 Speaker 1: Reread the flick with Ben o'she man, good morning, Good morning, guys. 2 00:00:05,200 --> 00:00:08,800 Speaker 1: Prime video has been a really good spot for movies lately, 3 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:12,280 Speaker 1: soult Burn, and we were just discussing. I watched your 4 00:00:12,320 --> 00:00:15,800 Speaker 1: recommended American Fiction yesterday, which is the best movie I've 5 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:16,439 Speaker 1: seen this year. 6 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:18,360 Speaker 2: American Fiction just dropped on Prime Video. 7 00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:19,520 Speaker 3: Fantastic. 8 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:23,119 Speaker 1: And you've got another Prime Video movie to talk about now. 9 00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:26,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. Once upon a time you looked at all 10 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:29,800 Speaker 2: the streaming platforms and go are they worth signing up to? 11 00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:33,200 Speaker 2: Is it worth paying the money every month? And Prime Video, 12 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:35,640 Speaker 2: all of a sudden is really emerged as a major 13 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:38,440 Speaker 2: contender after I maybe had initially dismissed it as well, 14 00:00:38,440 --> 00:00:41,040 Speaker 2: that's probably the one that I don't need. No, it's 15 00:00:41,120 --> 00:00:43,519 Speaker 2: up there, and it's up there now. Like as you say, Sultburn, 16 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:46,680 Speaker 2: American Fiction. Lots of good stuff on there at the moment. 17 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:50,239 Speaker 2: And this this film, Ricky Sinicky, maybe it was initially 18 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:53,000 Speaker 2: meant to be released in the theaters, but Prime snapped 19 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:56,120 Speaker 2: it up. It comes from Peter Farrelly, who was one 20 00:00:56,160 --> 00:00:59,840 Speaker 2: half of the Farley brothers, Peter and Bobby Farrelly, who 21 00:01:00,040 --> 00:01:02,360 Speaker 2: back in the day were responsible for all of the 22 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:07,440 Speaker 2: biggest comedies. So dumb and dummer. There's something about Mary Shallow, 23 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:11,640 Speaker 2: how Me Myself and Irene. The list goes on and 24 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:14,760 Speaker 2: on and on, and it was. It was that period 25 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:18,520 Speaker 2: and kind of like the late nineties early noughties, there 26 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:21,240 Speaker 2: were so many of those comedies coming out all the time. 27 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:24,760 Speaker 2: Don't really see too many of them in the cinemas anymore. 28 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:29,319 Speaker 2: You get big, you know, big blockbusters, but that's about it, really. 29 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:32,440 Speaker 2: You don't get those comedies so often these days. This 30 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:36,160 Speaker 2: is a classic example of that style of comedy. It 31 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:40,720 Speaker 2: stars Zach Efron, who is who plays this character Dean. 32 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:43,160 Speaker 2: He and his mates grew up together and the film 33 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:46,560 Speaker 2: opens with them as kids running around the neighborhood at 34 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:49,080 Speaker 2: night and they're going to do that classic American prank 35 00:01:49,080 --> 00:01:52,400 Speaker 2: where you get the little paper bag of doggy doodoo 36 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:54,880 Speaker 2: and you put it on someone's doorstep. You set it 37 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:56,720 Speaker 2: on fire, and you light it on and you can 38 00:01:56,920 --> 00:01:58,960 Speaker 2: knock on the door. Basically, this is a type of 39 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:03,520 Speaker 2: humor that fairly exactly the problem is in this opening scene, 40 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:06,000 Speaker 2: they knock on the door, no one comes to the door, 41 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:10,080 Speaker 2: the bag catches the doormatter, catches the house on fire, 42 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:14,680 Speaker 2: and the house begins to burn down, and they realize 43 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:17,440 Speaker 2: that they're going to be busted for this, and so 44 00:02:17,480 --> 00:02:19,400 Speaker 2: they decide the only way to get out of this 45 00:02:19,639 --> 00:02:22,480 Speaker 2: is to find a patsy find escape gok. And so 46 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:25,280 Speaker 2: one of the boys takes off their like flannel shirt 47 00:02:25,639 --> 00:02:28,440 Speaker 2: and gets gets their sharpie out and writes on the tag, 48 00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:30,760 Speaker 2: let's write someone else's name on the tag and then 49 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:34,320 Speaker 2: they'll blame some fictitious kid instead of us. And they're like, okay, well, 50 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:38,280 Speaker 2: well what name Ricky? Okay, perfect Ricky. And then and 51 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:40,480 Speaker 2: then the guy goes to write his own last name 52 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:42,679 Speaker 2: after Ricky. He's like, no, no, it's not can't write 53 00:02:42,720 --> 00:02:44,919 Speaker 2: Ricky Stanley, that's your last name. And they're like, okay, 54 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:49,960 Speaker 2: Ricky Ricky. And so they create this fictitious person, Ricky 55 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:51,840 Speaker 2: Stanicky who gets blamed for this house. 56 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:54,880 Speaker 1: Are these like, are they are they adults when they're 57 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:55,160 Speaker 1: doing this? 58 00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:55,760 Speaker 2: Are these kids? 59 00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:56,079 Speaker 1: The kids? 60 00:02:56,840 --> 00:03:00,000 Speaker 2: So the kids? So they're like, so it's not the reals. 61 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:04,320 Speaker 2: This is a younger version setup, just the setup making sure. 62 00:03:05,639 --> 00:03:09,000 Speaker 3: To make the aged him. I'm just making sure this 63 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:10,840 Speaker 3: is a setup for setup. 64 00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:12,280 Speaker 2: So I had to make sure the shirt didn't burn 65 00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:16,280 Speaker 2: and so the shirt gets found. This fictitious Ricky Stanicky 66 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:18,760 Speaker 2: gets blamed for this house fire, and then they realize 67 00:03:18,880 --> 00:03:21,720 Speaker 2: this is actually a genius idea. We can blame Ricky 68 00:03:21,720 --> 00:03:24,720 Speaker 2: Stinicky and for everything. And so as they grow up 69 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:28,480 Speaker 2: into adulthood, Ricky Stinicky becomes the person that they use 70 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:31,320 Speaker 2: to get out of stuff as well. So now they're married, 71 00:03:31,320 --> 00:03:33,880 Speaker 2: they've got kids, and in the start of the film, 72 00:03:33,919 --> 00:03:35,760 Speaker 2: you know, they have to go and you know, go 73 00:03:35,800 --> 00:03:38,440 Speaker 2: to some baby shower and they're like, oh, oh, to 74 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:41,600 Speaker 2: their WiFi. You know, Ricky Stinicky he's got cancer, Like 75 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:43,320 Speaker 2: we have to go and visit him in hospital. And 76 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:45,360 Speaker 2: they're like, okay, but that's really an excuse for a 77 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:48,520 Speaker 2: boy's trip to Atlantic City. And so Ricky Sinicky that's 78 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:50,640 Speaker 2: kind of who he is. He's a made up figure. 79 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:53,360 Speaker 2: He gets them out of trouble. And then when they're 80 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:55,840 Speaker 2: in Atlantic City on this boy's trip, they meet John 81 00:03:55,880 --> 00:03:59,920 Speaker 2: Cena's character, who is a loser. Basically, he's an alcoholic 82 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:04,760 Speaker 2: actor out of work. He does an off Broadway kind 83 00:04:04,760 --> 00:04:08,400 Speaker 2: of like after Midnight Show where he sings cover versions 84 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:13,320 Speaker 2: of famous rock songs, but it's about he changes the 85 00:04:13,320 --> 00:04:15,880 Speaker 2: words to be kind of sex acts, I guess, and 86 00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:18,160 Speaker 2: I won't give you any examples because they're extremely colorful 87 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:21,120 Speaker 2: in something about Mary, you know, fix your hair kind 88 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:21,480 Speaker 2: of way. 89 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:25,640 Speaker 3: Yeah, right, yeah, there's always one that apparently brother. 90 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:29,040 Speaker 2: And so they have their weekend Atlantic City and get 91 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:32,640 Speaker 2: back to where they're from in Providence, and their wives 92 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:35,320 Speaker 2: are kind of a bit over it. They're like, come on, like, seriously, 93 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:38,719 Speaker 2: what is going on. We need to meet Ricky Stinicky. 94 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:41,520 Speaker 2: Has been years we haven't met him. And so they 95 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:44,480 Speaker 2: realized that the jig is up unless they can produce 96 00:04:44,520 --> 00:04:47,640 Speaker 2: the real Ricky Stinicky so that you can see where 97 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:51,640 Speaker 2: this is going. Who do we know? Who? The out 98 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:54,719 Speaker 2: of work They bring in the alcoholic John Cena try 99 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:56,320 Speaker 2: and clean him up, and they go, okay, you've got 100 00:04:56,320 --> 00:04:59,279 Speaker 2: to be Ricky Sinicky. Here's here's a folder dossier of 101 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:02,800 Speaker 2: all of this stuff that we've done with rick and 102 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:05,359 Speaker 2: so away we go, and so, of course it doesn't 103 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:07,560 Speaker 2: take long before this whole thing gets out of control 104 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:11,960 Speaker 2: and John Cena's character, Ricky Stinicky starts to believe that 105 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:14,919 Speaker 2: he is Ricky Stanicky and starts to get more and 106 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:18,359 Speaker 2: more involved in their life. Has this big, deep and 107 00:05:18,440 --> 00:05:22,839 Speaker 2: meaningful conversation with the guy's boss played by William H. Macy, 108 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:26,359 Speaker 2: who promptly hires him and promotes him higher up the 109 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:30,560 Speaker 2: food chain than zac Efron and his mates. And it 110 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:33,640 Speaker 2: really does kind of spiral out of control from there. 111 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:37,440 Speaker 2: And it's the side that type of humor from those 112 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:39,600 Speaker 2: comedies like Dumb and Dumber. There's definitely a dumb and 113 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:43,400 Speaker 2: dumber vibe about it. John Cena as Ricky Stinicky is great. 114 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:47,080 Speaker 2: Zac Efron is really quite good as well. There's probably 115 00:05:47,080 --> 00:05:49,560 Speaker 2: a ceiling to how good a movie like this can 116 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:52,520 Speaker 2: possibly be. Like you mentioned American fiction, You're not really 117 00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:54,520 Speaker 2: going to trouble American fiction in terms of being a 118 00:05:54,600 --> 00:05:57,800 Speaker 2: quality movie, I don't think. But geez, for people who 119 00:05:57,880 --> 00:05:59,760 Speaker 2: love those comedies from back in the day, I think 120 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:01,920 Speaker 2: a lot to like about this one. 121 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:04,159 Speaker 3: Escapeism and do you know if the Fairly Brothers had 122 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:05,080 Speaker 3: a bust up from anything or. 123 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:06,919 Speaker 2: They just know they just go their way. And so 124 00:06:07,360 --> 00:06:10,719 Speaker 2: fun fact about Peter Farreley, So he also did one 125 00:06:10,839 --> 00:06:14,600 Speaker 2: really good quality movie as well. So he directed Green Book, 126 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:20,560 Speaker 2: which won the Oscar for Best British Yeah this crazy right, No, No, 127 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:22,719 Speaker 2: he did, He did Green book, which is way out 128 00:06:22,720 --> 00:06:25,920 Speaker 2: of left field for him, and now now he's gone 129 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:28,600 Speaker 2: back to the sort of comedies that he did back 130 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:31,200 Speaker 2: in the day. An interesting little side note is some 131 00:06:31,279 --> 00:06:33,200 Speaker 2: of those comedies you look back on now, like so 132 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:36,200 Speaker 2: many comedies, they haven't always aged well. There are some 133 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:38,600 Speaker 2: jokes in there that maybe are not so appropriate, and 134 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:41,200 Speaker 2: now both Bobby and Peter seem to be trying to 135 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:42,960 Speaker 2: make amends to that. And so like I think in 136 00:06:43,480 --> 00:06:46,000 Speaker 2: almost every scene in this movie, which was shot in Melbourne, 137 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:49,240 Speaker 2: there are people with different abilities, so they really make 138 00:06:49,279 --> 00:06:51,039 Speaker 2: a point of going, Okay, maybe in the past some 139 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:53,680 Speaker 2: of our jokes were not appropriate. Now we're gonna We're 140 00:06:53,720 --> 00:06:54,600 Speaker 2: gonna go the other way. 141 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:59,960 Speaker 3: The whole point. It's interesting world. Lip farts you're giving you. 142 00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:06,640 Speaker 2: Could be making a fairly brother's movie with jokes like that. 143 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:10,560 Speaker 3: I'm gonna give it three three okay, alright, perfect. I 144 00:07:10,640 --> 00:07:13,440 Speaker 3: can't believe it fairly my Green Book. I know you 145 00:07:13,520 --> 00:07:15,280 Speaker 3: don't one of these things.