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Speaker 1: Good morning man. I feel that a lot of good

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Speaker 1: movies over the years have been set on a train. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's been so many murder on the Orange Express. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Train to Busan, which is a South Korean zombie movie,

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Speaker 1: which is amazing. People should check that one out. At

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Speaker 1: the end of Speed, yeah the first Speed. I know

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Speaker 1: Liam Neeson did one too, but we moved on Snow Piso,

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Speaker 1: which is another great one from Bong. So many training

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Speaker 1: murder on the Orange Express plas coorse. But Bullet Train

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Speaker 1: is the latest Trained movie to hit the screens. But

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Speaker 1: before we talk about that, we've got to talk about whitewashing.

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Speaker 1: Do you guys know about white washing? So whitewashing is

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Speaker 1: this phenomenon where non white actors get recast as white actors, right, So,

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Speaker 1: like you, you're basically casting ethnic characters as white people

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Speaker 1: because it's more suitable to a white audience. And this

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Speaker 1: film was criticized for that because it's a Japanese story.

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Speaker 1: It's said in Japan, written based on a book that

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Speaker 1: was written by a Japanese Doude best selling japan author,

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Speaker 1: and in the book all the characters Japanese. So to

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Speaker 1: have Brad Pitt as the main guy to have Aaron

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Speaker 1: Taylor Johnson, Brian Tyree, Henry, like a lot of people

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Speaker 1: who are American and English as Japanese characters. People on

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Speaker 1: Twitter were criticizing it. They saw the trailer and they're outraged, like,

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Speaker 1: what's going on? This is whitewashing, because there's been some

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Speaker 1: terrible examples in Hollywood over the years, Mickey Rooney and

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Speaker 1: Breakfast at Tiffany's playing a Japanese guy one of the worst, you'l.

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Speaker 1: Brenner in The King and I and Chris Lily, Chris

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Speaker 1: Lily in Summer Heights High. So there's a few examples.

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Speaker 1: Happened a lot with Native American Indians too, Yeah, all

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Speaker 1: the time, all the time. And then there are examples

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Speaker 1: like Scarlett Johansson in Ghost in the Shell like a

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Speaker 1: Japanese anime and she's playing the main character. Where Bullet

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Speaker 1: Train is different is the author, cootterro Osaka, actually came

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Speaker 1: out and said, this is exactly how I imagined it, Like,

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Speaker 1: I love this adaptation. I wrote these characters as not

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Speaker 1: specifically Japanese. And the film is produced by two Japanese

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Speaker 1: dudes who have made it their mission to take Japanese

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Speaker 1: stories and take them to Hollywood and say he go

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Speaker 1: make remake these stories with Hollywood stars. Critics take it out. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so everyone has to take a bit of a chill

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Speaker 1: pill on the whole whitewashing thing because they love to

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Speaker 1: react to people reacting. The amazing thing about it is

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Speaker 1: so there is no real history of Japanese live action

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Speaker 1: movies being successful overseas like Hong Kong blockbusters like Crouching Tiger, Massive,

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Speaker 1: Parasite from South Korea, Massive Trades of Bussan Massive. But

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Speaker 1: Japan doesn't have successful live action movies. They have animated

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Speaker 1: films that do pretty well, like you Know My Name,

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Speaker 1: but Totterow and all that sort of stuff, but there's

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Speaker 1: no live action movies. So they actually want their stories

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Speaker 1: to be told by Hollywood so people they can get

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Speaker 1: out there, right, And so this one is about an

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Speaker 1: assassin code named Ladybug played by Brad Pitt, who basically

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Speaker 1: all he has to do is survive a three hour train.

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Speaker 1: A three hour bullet train ride from Tokyo to Kyoto

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Speaker 1: sounds pretty easy. Unfortunately, the train is filled with the

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Speaker 1: world's deadliest killers who all have their own sort of

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Speaker 1: competing agendas. Right, and so his job on the train

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Speaker 1: is just to grab hold of this briefcase get off

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Speaker 1: of Kyoto. But the other sounds pretty straightforward. But then

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Speaker 1: you have other like a duo of hitmen played by

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Speaker 1: Aaron Taylor Johnson and Brian Tyree Henry who are sort

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Speaker 1: of English gangsters like you imagine Turkish and Tommy from Snatch,

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Speaker 1: that kind of a vibe, who are actually excellent in

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Speaker 1: these roles. So they're trying to, you know, shepherd this

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Speaker 1: gangster's son to Kyoto. There's another young girl played by

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Speaker 1: Joe and King. Any reason why they're all on the

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Speaker 1: same train. Coincidence funny? Well maybe, and maybe it's more

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Speaker 1: than coincidence, but to give you that would be a

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Speaker 1: bit of a spot. So there's this young girl who

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Speaker 1: wants to kill the crime boss. So there's a whole

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Speaker 1: bunch of people. They all have their own jobs to

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Speaker 1: do on the train, but of course they intersect, and

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Speaker 1: what they're doing on the train is told in this

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Speaker 1: kind of series of really quite graphically violent flashbacks, which

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Speaker 1: gives the whole thing kind of a kill Bill vibe,

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Speaker 1: if you can imagine. It's kind of like a poor

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Speaker 1: man's Tarantino crossed with Snatch crossed with Thomas the Tank Engine.

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Speaker 1: So because there is at least a dozen Thomas the

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Speaker 1: Tank Engine references. Yeah, yeah, a lot of like real

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Speaker 1: in depth Thomas analysis. Probably not what you're going to

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Speaker 1: this movie to expect, but it kind of works, right,

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Speaker 1: Like it kind of works. Brian Tyree Henry's character character

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Speaker 1: is obsessed with Thomas the Tank Engine and thinks it

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Speaker 1: has like this ultimate wisdom on how to tell what

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Speaker 1: sort of a person you are if you like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: you're a Thomas, you're a Henry, you're a God. Oh

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Speaker 1: you're a Diesel. So it's kind of like throughout the film,

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Speaker 1: and it's pretty hilarious cameo from Ringo start. Yeah, But

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Speaker 1: the main reason to see this film, of course is

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Speaker 1: Brad Pitt. You know, like, at this stage in his career,

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Speaker 1: he's so self assured and confident that he can do

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Speaker 1: a kind of a what is really a brainless action

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Speaker 1: movie and take the mickey out of himself as this

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Speaker 1: unlucky kind of dude. Everything goes wrong for him and

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Speaker 1: he looks like he's having so much fun, which is

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Speaker 1: just great to watch, Like, it is absolute joy to

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Speaker 1: watch Brad Pitt in this movie. Sandra Bullock makes a

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Speaker 1: very small little cameo as well. Michael Shannon is in it.

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Speaker 1: He's a great actor. So there's actually a ton of

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Speaker 1: really good actors in this. Unfortunately, like you know, it's

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Speaker 1: not perfect. It's pretty much as you would expect. You know,

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Speaker 1: you've got to check your brain at the door with

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Speaker 1: this one. The plot quite often veers very deeply into

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Speaker 1: silly silly transactly exactly added to a bullertrain, So it's

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Speaker 1: going a million miles an hour in the wrong direction sometimes,

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Speaker 1: and so that you know, like with a few changes,

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Speaker 1: it could have been like a really phenomenal action movie.

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Speaker 1: Because it comes from David Leach, who directed Deadpool two.

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Speaker 1: He also did a Tomic Blonde, which was, you know,

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Speaker 1: not amazing, but it was kind of fun. He's a

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Speaker 1: former stunt man, so the action sequences are bonkers, like oh,

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Speaker 1: the fight scenes are just incredible. Storyline questionable, some of

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Speaker 1: the performances a bit hammy, but you know, it's one

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Speaker 1: of those films that if you like Fast and the

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Speaker 1: Furious movies, if you like Deadpool, you're gonna love this film.

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Speaker 1: But if you know, if you're a fan of adult cinema, yeah,

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Speaker 1: probably probably going to be a struggle. Okay, all right,

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Speaker 1: so what are you giving so for the fast and

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Speaker 1: the furious? People like this is a three and a

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Speaker 1: half star movie, you're going to dig it, just don't

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Speaker 1: even think about it. But if run by the ticket

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Speaker 1: by a popcorn, strap yourselves in. And for me, this

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Speaker 1: is going to be a middle of the road two

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Speaker 1: and a half stars. Okay, very enjoyable. And we've had

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Speaker 1: so much focus on Maverick lately with Tom. If people

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Speaker 1: are comparing with how Brad looks at his age, similarly,

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Speaker 1: is he still looking at I'll tell you what I

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Speaker 1: think most people, if they saw Tom and Brad in

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Speaker 1: a bar, they're going to go up to Brad after

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Speaker 1: this he is looking pretty good, just ridiculously good looking. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: all right, thank you for that. Thank you guys. The

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Speaker 1: best