What is up bros?
Welcome to the All Bros Podcast.
I'm Caleb.
And I'm Jonathan.
And we are a couple of aspiring filmmakers that love to watch and critique movies but
also enjoy a lot of bit of the nerd life.
This week on the podcast we have a couple new movies coming out in 4k spotlight.
Nothing in through the wall.
It's kind of been a slow news week.
Yeah.
I feel like there's been plenty of like rumors and like, Oh, check this out.
Like this might happen and stuff like that like when it in regards to like the MCU.
But yeah, I mean, the biggest thing if you guys really wanted to know is that turning
red the new Pixar film has been officially just given a Disney plus release, no extra
cost.
It's not going to theaters anymore.
So that will be coming out in March.
I feel really bad for Pixar because that's three for three was skipping the theaters
and going straight to Disney plus.
It must be working out for them in some way.
Otherwise they wouldn't do it.
Yeah.
I mean, people are saying that it's probably because they did it because Omnic was Omicron.
That's the name of the new variant, right?
Omicron.
Yeah.
So they're saying that's probably why that would make sense.
And so the animators are like, okay, we get it still sucks, but we get it.
That's rough.
Yeah.
But yeah, anyway, after all of that, we will be breaking down inheritance in Italian style,
which is an indie film sent to us by the I don't want to butcher this.
I have to look it up.
I have a pretty decent idea of what their production company is, but don't want to mess
it up.
Laughing Cow Productions.
I love it.
Hell yeah.
So we were sent this movie or we, yeah, we were sent this movie to break down and review.
So we've, I, we were sent it back in actually, let me see how far back it was.
Ooh, back in November.
Damn.
Yeah.
I had no idea it's been a long, holy shit.
Yeah.
It's, it's been, it's been a hot minute, but we finally got it.
We finally got it.
This is what happens when we plan in advance.
Like we have to put things off and put more things off and put more things off.
And yeah, so we're finally getting to it.
Dude, I feel that's how it was with like fricking Mulan.
Didn't we just keep pushing that movie back and back?
Dude, that was no joke.
That was ridiculous how much we pushed that one back.
Yeah.
That one was pushed back by months I felt.
Yeah.
But anyway, yeah, finally getting to this one sent to us by laughing cow productions.
I'm not sure who manages this social media.
Like I don't, I, is it the laughing cow cheese company?
I just got to know.
Yeah.
I don't know who handles their social media accounts.
So it could be the director could be some like eight, not HR, some PR person or whatever.
I guess we'll never know.
Yeah.
I mean, I guess we could just ask.
Yeah.
So anyway, you guys can look forward to that.
Um, but yeah, so without further ado, let's say we get into this.
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All righty.
Next up getting into 4k spotlight.
We have two new movies coming out.
Neither of them we've actually have you seen it?
Seen this second one?
No, I honestly was going to just because I'm like, you know what?
I kind of enjoyed the first one.
So I might as well see the second one.
But then I'm just like, do I really want to spend $10 on that shit?
So I decided against it.
Yeah.
So we have two new movies.
The first one is Last Night in Soho, which is kind of like a, I don't know how to describe
this, like a thriller?
Like a murder mystery thriller?
That's what it seems like.
Yeah.
It looks super interesting.
And it's just like, I've been dragging my feet on seeing this one.
I want to see how it did in the theaters.
I don't feel like it did very well.
It probably didn't.
I mean, it has a 75% on Rotten Tomatoes.
That's not bad.
So I mean, it's not rotten.
Oh, yeah.
We're aware because we don't give a shit about Rotten Tomatoes scores.
Yeah.
Freaking giving Eternals as low as it did.
Anyway, that was absolute bullshit.
Yeah, that was straight bullshit.
Yeah.
If you guys want to know where our where how we felt really about that movie, not only
check out our breakdown, but also check out mine and Caleb's top 10 of last year on last
week's episode.
Yeah, this movie did not do good.
Oh my God.
It literally only made back half of its budget.
Oh shit.
Budget was 43 million only made 23.1 million.
That's tough.
Yeah.
I feel bad.
Yeah, we'll have to give that movie some love sometime.
Yes.
Just when it's at least somewhat cheaper.
I'm sorry.
I'm not paying full price for this movie.
I hardly do that for blind buys nowadays.
I've learned my lesson.
What's what's the last movie you you bought full price?
Halloween on a blind buy.
Oh, on a blind buy.
I was like Halloween kills.
I was like, oh, that was, um, uh, shit, I can't remember, actually.
Oh, um, old.
I did pay full price for that still good.
That was no, no.
Yeah, I actually did like old.
So but I mean, you know, 35 bucks for a I only did that one just because it was a steel
book and it was, you know, whereas with last night in Soho, it's just like a bare bones
for K and blurry release.
So I can literally just go on eBay and probably find it for like five or 10 bucks off how
much it is in stores.
So that's probably the direction I'll go.
Well, cool.
Um, and then the other movie that we had in 4k spotlight was the Addams Family 2, which
I heard was just as bad as the first one for a lot of people.
I mean, is that like a super low bar?
What did we give the last one?
I feel like that one was forever go to.
Wasn't that back in 2019?
That was a while ago.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
That Addams Family was back when we did Joker and Rocket Man.
God damn.
That's a long time ago.
Yeah.
And it was, I mean, it was an average grade.
Like we ended up getting a C. Yeah.
Okay.
It deserved that.
Anyway, that's really weird that it doesn't list its budget on its Wikipedia.
Its box office was 110 million, but it doesn't list its budget.
That's really weird.
Um, but I, I'll pick this up when it's on sale because you know, I somewhat liked the
first one and I own the first one on Blu-ray.
So I want to see the sequel, but I don't really have that high hopes.
Um, like honestly, I've heard that Pugsley is more sidelined in this one than he was
in the first one.
I'm just like, really?
And then have you heard-
It's always your favorite characters too.
Yeah, dude.
Seriously.
I don't know what it is.
I don't get it.
The universe hates me.
That's what I've come to the conclusion of.
Universe just hates me.
Um.
I think that could be a fair assessment.
Yeah, right.
Um, but have you heard like the whole storyline, uh, uh, in this movie with Wednesday?
So apparently, spoiler alert guys, do you care about spoilers?
Not really.
Okay.
Apparently, um, Wednesday was switched at birth with, I think this is how it goes.
She was switched at birth with another kid.
She's actually not at Adams apparently.
And it's like the whole movie is her like truly not feeling like in Adams, but, um,
they try to make her know that she really is an Adam.
It's sounds like such a stupid plot.
Dumb.
That is so dumb.
Since when the hell does Wednesday feel like she does?
She's not an Adams.
That's even if they're, yeah.
Even if there was a mix up, Wednesday is truly an Adams.
That's so dumb.
Uh, be better writers.
That's so stupid.
Yeah.
So that's why they go on the road trip is to like show Wednesday how great of a family
they are together.
Good hell.
I don't even want to watch it anymore.
Oh shit.
Um, so yeah, so that, that's what's coming out this, uh, to tomorrow on 4k spotlight.
So if you want to pick up either of those, be sure to head out to your local place where
you buy movies.
I don't know.
So I would say, you know, go to best buy target or Walmart, but some people buy them from
their grocery stores, uh, dollar general, you know.
Well, all righty.
So I think that concludes 4k spotlight and concludes our new segment this week.
So let's get right into this week's headliner.
So we will be breaking down inheritance Italian style.
Alrighty inheritance Italian style.
Um, unfortunately we're, we've been super shitty with posting questions of the week.
Yeah.
Sorry guys.
Yeah.
Well, we'll, we'll try and get better with this.
I promise.
Just give us some leeway to screw up cause we are definitely going to.
Very, very, very much so.
You think after how long we've been doing this, that we would be so much better, but
you'd be wrong.
You're absolutely be wrong.
All right.
Well, if you are new to our breakdown system, we have split movies into eight different
categories that we individually score to come to a final all bros letter grade.
Uh, and the eight categories that we score are story writing, acting, character development,
effects, music, costumes, and then we give it our own personal grade at the very end.
All of those numbers get magically added up, thrown into our magic algorithm and then spits
out a letter grade for, for this movie.
Um, so without further ado, I don't, it's, it's been, it's really hard to do this with
any movies because they don't exactly have a, a super descriptive, uh, plot.
Yeah, literally this movie only has one sentence on IMDB for it.
Just one sentence of how to.
So I'd say with this, we try and get Rose to, uh, summarize the entire movie.
Oh, you asshole.
Okay.
So it starts off with the five.
So these five sisters landing back or coming to Sicily, um, to visit their mom and their
dad, um, because their parents are thinking, Hey, you know, we're not going to be around
for that much longer.
So it's time to divide like the furniture, the antiques, you know, like the paintings
and all that stuff and see which, um, which child gets what.
Um, so, you know, they, they all come it for the most part does not go great, um, because
they just bicker with each other and just, uh, it's just so, so great.
Um, I'm going to butcher these.
So like how, how much in detail do you want me to go with this?
I don't think you have to be like super descriptive.
Like I don't think you need to do like a full on walkthrough, but just give the general basis.
Okay.
Like as much as you can regarding like just the story.
Okay.
Um, so after, so yeah, so after they arrive, uh, there's just a lot of like family drama.
Um, one of the sister's husband's cheats on her or supposedly, yeah, he's cheating on
her like, right?
Yeah straight up.
Yeah.
I don't know what I'm saying here.
He's not even like upset about it.
Yeah.
He's not even trying to hide it.
Friggin asshole.
Like, um, dude, it's so, okay.
It's so weird when he comes in.
Cause first off, he starts off with this whole like, you didn't answer me or like, or like
he kind of wants to like air out everyone, like their dirty laundry in front of the entire
family.
I'm like, what the hell kind of person does that?
Um, let's see, this is, this is a character named Lucky and his wife, Seconda, who is
one of the parlasi sisters.
Yes.
Um, so basically she tells him to get out.
Uh, and then next up for, uh, messed up husbands, although like, I don't really know it cause
like I didn't hate this guy towards the end, but then like this part, I'm just like, dude,
like why, like why would you have this item shipped to this address?
Like someone might've, someone else could have answered the door.
I'm just saying like.
Dude, and how long were they there?
That was an international purchase.
Um, so the person that we're talking about here is a guy named Ari, who is Natasha's
husband, another sister.
Um, he, uh, decides to order, uh, what's her name?
Amber the Amish girl.
Yep.
Amber the Amish girl.
Annie.
Annie the Amish girls, uh, box of panties, uh, use panties, um, that he decides to have
delivered to the sister's parents' house.
And the, um, was he the uncle?
What was plan A?
So the, the, um, kind of, uh, I don't want to say arranged uncle or what, is he an uncle
or is he a grandma?
I don't know.
Uh, he is an uncle.
Oh.
Do you remember?
I don't remember his name that I don't.
Okay.
Let's just call him uncle.
Um, uncle answers the door to the post office, to the post office guy.
I don't know why, postal worker, whatever.
Um, and he, you know, he's like, Hey, package from America, hands it to him.
And uh, uh, God, what's his name?
Uh, Ari tries to intercept him.
Be like, Hey, no, no, no, no, let me see.
Let me see the box.
But, uh, the uncle gets it into the kitchen where Ari's wife opens it and finds like four
things of used panties.
And she's just like, get the hell out of this house.
And so he goes and stays where, uh, lucky and his, uh, I guess, uh, I don't know what
you say.
I don't even know what the hell to call the other girl that lucky is with, uh, his mistress,
mistress.
There we go.
So that happens.
And then, um, a buoyancy is, uh, God, what was his wife's name?
Uh, was that full via?
Yeah.
Okay.
So he cheats on full via sister, um, Natasha.
Um, and then he's kicked out.
No, he cheats with.
Oh yeah.
Sorry.
He cheats with Natasha.
And so full via kicks him out.
Um, and then he, sorry, I feel like I'm going too much into detail with this, but whatever.
Um, he goes to, you know, crash with lucky and Ari, but then Ari finds out that he cheated
with the, uh, she, he cheated or sorry, he had sex with his wife, Natasha.
So lucky is just like, Hey, no, no, no, no, no, you can't stay here and kicks him out.
What's with that holier than thou attitude?
Yeah.
He's like, Whoa, whoa, whoa.
I didn't sleep with her sister.
Like that's just crossing the line.
Like I could cheat on her all I, I want, but there's a line buddy.
Yeah.
That's just crossing it.
Dude.
There was like so many instances throughout this where I'm just like, where do you get
off?
Oh man.
Um, man, I'm just like, where do you get off?
Um, but, um, say, so that happens.
And then it turns out the, uh, the mother is, I don't, I, I don't think I'm like skipping
too far ahead with this.
It turns out the mother is in debt to the mafia.
Um, from this is where I start to have issues with the story.
Where the hell did this come from?
Yes, dude, when she was talking to the guy, so, so, uh, there, this gentleman that comes
to the door towards the beginning when they first get there and she's just like, Oh, I'll
talk to you later.
I have family here with, I thought it was like her landlord or something.
That's what I thought too.
I was just like that.
Okay.
I'll be real.
I, I kind of sat there for a second.
I was just like, this dude kind of looks like he's super in the mafia, but like this is
kind of a weird outfit for a landlord.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, it turns out he is in the mafia.
Well, wait.
I actually have a kind of rebuttal with that.
I don't know if I use that word right.
Mr. Um, Oh my God.
Have you seen Bob's burgers?
Uh, yes.
Yeah.
Uh, remember Bob and Linda's landlord, Mr. Fish order.
Yeah.
He wears a white suit.
Okay.
I'll give you that one.
I'll give you that.
But it's also like the super Italian, like part of it where I was just like, yeah, that's
kind of mafia ish.
Cause didn't he have his like hat tip too?
Yeah.
He went like full blown, like dude, come on.
Um, yeah.
So it turns out dead horse.
Yeah, dude.
Seriously though.
But so yeah, so it turns out she's in debt to the mafia and in order to like get the
money that she needs, uh, they decided to sell one of her, uh, old paintings.
That's worth, I forget how much, but it's like the exact amount that she would need
to pay them off.
But then convenience.
Yeah, right.
But then it turns out it's missing, but then it turns out, um, Oh, what the hell is his
name?
Oh, a buoyance, uh, decided to borrow it because he needs to, uh, save, uh, some, some, one,
one of his like buildings in his business or some shit like that.
Isn't that what that is?
More or less.
Yeah.
And then, and then, so once they find out that he's the one that stole it, he's arrested,
he goes to jail.
Um, and then no, because the mom didn't press charges.
Oh yeah, that's true.
So mine just kind of disappears.
Yeah.
So he just disappears and then, uh, they decide that, uh, Oh, we're going to wait to divide
up the, uh, assets, all the furniture and you know, all that fun stuff.
And then that's, that's, I feel like I skipped so much, but like literally the whole point
of the movie is that they all show up in Sicily.
They have like family arguments about who's going to get the stuff.
A, uh, um, it happens that, you know, like the, like a bunch of people are cheated on.
It's turns out, well, actually, no, I'm sorry.
I missed one plot convenience.
The, the, um, the daughter's father has a heart attack.
It turns out that one of the daughters isn't even his daughter.
And then it turns it, and then it goes to the mother, only the mafia.
Then it goes into them wanting to sell the painting.
Turns out the painting was stolen by a buoyance and then he's arrested, but you know, the
charges aren't pressed.
And then the daughters decide, Hey, we'll just wait to, um, disperse all the, uh, furniture
and all that fun stuff.
And then that, yeah, that, that, that's the end of the movie.
Dude, there was so, this, so overall, like the movie, it, it's an indie film.
Yes.
It's an, so I'm just going to come right out and say that firsthand because I cannot accurately
explain what this is like without making it sound like it's bad.
Because like, like any of the other movies that we've done, there's something to be taken
away from this movie that you can like watch and study.
And it does, like this movie does have like a ton of entertainment value, but I feel like
where this, the story suffered quite a bit was when it came to the busyness of the story.
Yeah, I, yeah, I would definitely agree.
Um, I don't know to me, I feel it was not the greatest idea to have it be five sisters.
I would have shrunk it down a little bit to maybe like three because like, honestly, when
it like first started and having, having them like jump between sister and sister, I was
getting confused.
Yeah.
I mean, you, you kind of catch on further down the road, but there's one sister, her
name is Tristana and she's like, she's depressed and trying to like kill herself in different
ways that are just kind of asinine.
Can we talk about though really quickly with that?
Um, I'm sorry, this mom does not know how to deal with suicidal children because there
is a part where she's just like, Oh, come on.
What's what's her name again?
Tristana.
Don't, don't be sad.
Let's just, you know, like forget all the sadness.
Let's be happy.
I'm just like, lady, have you ever had depression?
That's not how it works.
I think that's how Italians deal with depression though.
They just don't.
Okay.
But I'm just saying that's not how depression works.
You can't just like put on a smile and be like, Hey, all my sadness is gone.
Yeah, I think one of the issues I had with that was just like, like when she was sitting
underneath the car waiting for the brakes to give out, so the car would like run her
over and kill her.
Like that's, that's not, that's not what I thought was going to happen at all.
Yeah.
It's like, what'd she do?
Like, is she waiting for someone to get in their car and not realize she's under there
and then run her over?
And she's like, no, I'm waiting for the brakes to fail.
And I'm like, this is kind of an attention grab.
Yeah.
This isn't like, like I, that's what I thought this whole thing was going to be.
I thought her whole thing was like, she just does weird shit to get attention, but it seemed
like she was like actually depressed.
Yeah.
I mean, hell, we actually got to see her attempt suicide.
Well, twice technically, but like, I feel the second one was very, very much so close.
Yeah.
And it's just like, I feel like there were just too many like stories out there to track.
Yes.
Like you said, it probably would have eliminated a couple of the sisters.
I would have gotten rid of Tristana and Seconda.
Yes.
And then kind of thrown in Seconda's story into Fulvia.
Yeah.
Because I actually would have been okay.
Well, you know what?
Actually no, because they, the two I'm talking about don't even end up together at the end
of the movie, which that, dude, you know what?
Kudos to the writers of this.
Cause you actually surprised me.
I really thought that Ari and Seconda were going to kiss at the end of the movie and
live happily ever after, but no, they just went their separate ways.
And just like, literally when the credits started rolling, I'm like, I hate this movie.
I hate this movie just for the fact that it actually, it didn't go the way that I wanted
it to.
I love when a movie can like disperse your expectations of it.
I'm totally kidding when I say that I hated this movie.
I did not hate this movie.
No.
Like, I mean, we'll get into it.
There are some issues with it, but overall, like the story, I feel like the story was
there.
Like it was a good, like a super solid story was there.
It just had a lot of fluff to it that could have been cut out.
Yeah.
I'll give them this.
One of the things, dude, sorry.
Oh, sorry.
Like one of the things that kind of like threw me off a lot was whenever they went to go
look at that painting, the one that was worth like the exact amount that she owed the mafia.
Yeah.
What threw me off is like when she, when, what's it, Aboyance, who's like an art curator
person was looking at it.
They're just like, what do you think it's worth?
And he's like, probably nothing.
And then it just kind of kept increasing in value.
They're like, oh, it's like worth 5,000.
Oh, I bet we can get like this much for it.
Oh, it's suddenly worth 2 million.
Like it was just, pick a lane.
Well, I mean, he does say when he is talking to when, oh my God, what is her name?
Natasha finds him in that room.
He's just like, well, you know, we plan to tell the family that it was barely worth anything
next to nothing.
So that's why it kind of kept going up in value.
Barely.
Okay.
That was kind of really hard to track then.
Yeah, no, no, it was.
I just remember him saying that.
Okay.
Yeah.
So yeah, that's definitely one thing that I would have removed.
Oh, no, I actually completely forgot about Duplicia.
I probably would have taken her story out too.
Yeah, considering that, you know, it was just her main story was her love interest with
was it was his name, the gardener's son, Albonzo.
Yeah.
And I mean, he really didn't have a lot to do anyway.
Guy was going to freaking hang himself because he couldn't be with her.
I'm like, damn, dude.
He was just so willy nilly about it too.
Yeah.
And like, it was it was kind of hard to like figure out what direction this this movie
was going to go.
I'm like, okay, do we take this guy serious?
Like do we take any of the serious?
Yeah, no, like, seriously.
Yeah.
Because I mean, I don't even know if the knot he tied would even be strong enough.
Probably not.
Like definitely not.
I'm no not expert, but.
Yeah.
So I think I would have just completely eliminated De Plessis story, taking out Tristana, put
Sukunda story into full views.
And then that's probably where I would have left it.
You know, it's the only thing that I got that I really liked about Tristana is one, I really
wanted her to end up with Ari and two, the actress was like really hot.
So you mean Sukunda?
Oh, yeah, Sukunda.
Sorry.
I was like, Tristana was never going to end up with Ari.
Yeah, no.
Yeah, Sukunda.
But other than that, yeah, you could just cut her.
I'll give you that.
Yeah, I think they'll.
I'm trying to think of like what you what else you could have done, because if you eliminated
Tristana completely, it doesn't really change the story.
If you take out Sukunda, Sukunda was married to Lucky and Lucky was cheating on her with
with his mistress, who apparently can't cook eggs.
It's one of the first things that you learn how to cook.
But, you know, whatever.
Yeah, true.
So if you take out like I'm trying to think you take out Lucky, then what happens?
Ari doesn't have a place to go.
Yeah, I guess.
Yeah.
So, like if we have like our the like the plan, the only two men that would be left
would be Ari and Aboyance.
So I don't know, they really they literally had no communication whatsoever.
Yeah.
Other than like Ari finding out that Aboyance was sleeping with Natasha.
Yeah.
OK, maybe I would have included Duplicia had her been the one that was sleeping around
with El Bonzo, but married to Lucky and Lucky's also cheating on her.
There we go.
So just kind of like, I don't know, I think it kind of gets convoluted after too many
people, but still, like I think it works.
No, I agree.
I like that.
Anyway.
Trying to think any other story.
Things that like stood out to you?
What are the kids names?
Because I just want to talk about the ending with those kids.
Oh, OK.
So there's.
Do you want the boy and the girl?
Like the ones that were talking the most?
Yes.
OK, so the first one was Morris Glitzke, who was Ari's son, and Isabella, who is Aboyance's
daughter.
OK, so.
So Morris and Isabella.
So Morris and Isabella, I don't know what it was, but the way that they like looked
at each other towards the ending, I'm just like, y'all, dude, no.
Your cousins, your cousins.
It's incest.
Like, you just have that little alarm going off.
Do you honestly?
I felt I kind of felt bad like when it cuts to this is I think like when there's like
30 minutes left in the movie and it cuts to them like playing cards on the bed.
I'm like, oh, shit, I forgot.
Well, wait, no, it wasn't that.
I think it happened like later.
Or maybe it was.
I don't know, it was like 30 minutes before the movie ended and it cuts to like the kids
doing something like, oh, my God, I forgot there were kids in this movie.
Yeah, right.
I think you could have.
I think you could have taken the kids out completely.
Yeah, you could have.
Yeah, it felt unnecessary to have the children there.
Yeah.
I don't quite know where to put this because I feel like it could be an acting issue.
I don't feel it was an acting issue.
It might have been like part of writing.
But when they asked Morris how old he was and he's like, I'm 14.
I'm like, bullshit.
Like you could have said anything else other than 14 and I probably would have bought it.
But 14.
Yeah, nobody.
I'm sorry.
No.
I'm like, come on.
That is, dude, when he said that, I got flashbacks to when remember the Strangers pray at night.
No.
Yeah, the guy that plays the sun.
And he's just like, yeah, he's like a kid in high school playing baseball.
My bullshit, dude.
The guy looks like he's in his early 30s, maybe late 30s, actually.
Oh my gosh, dude.
I that got me laughing hard.
I'm like, there's no way that kid is 14.
Like the actor himself is probably in his late teens, early 20s.
I would put him at like 19 or 20.
That's what I would put him at.
Yeah.
So you should have gone for like 16, 17, bro.
Yeah.
Wouldn't have made any difference.
You know, yeah, they're still underage.
It wouldn't have made the dynamic any weirder.
Yeah.
So that was like my biggest issue.
And like I said, I didn't know where to put that.
That I definitely got something with writing for him.
But I have to be plenty of things with writing for him.
But speaking of which, I know this is probably the worst time to bring this up.
This was written and directed by Doug Bremner.
So any issues that we have with anything kind of going through him.
But I mean, like you can make complaints all day long.
But if you go into this movie knowing and like just fully understanding that this is
an indie movie, you can still have like a pretty good time.
Like I feel like you can get kind of caught up with the with the story a little bit like
I said, when you hear Lucky talking about like or when he freaking ran away with his
mistress and his mistress was calling him a bitch or calling his wife a bitch.
I'm just like, excuse you.
Yeah, seriously.
You're the one that yeah, you're the one that when went ahead with him cheating, you're
the one that came along.
You knew it was.
Yeah, you knew what was happening.
So if anything, you're the bitch here.
Yeah, she absolutely is.
And it's just like, first off, where does she think that she gets a week being the mistress?
Like I thought this is our week.
Like, excuse you.
Yeah, sir.
Yeah, exactly.
And I'm kind of confused.
Did she fly herself to Sicily?
It looked that way.
Yeah, that was confusing as hell.
Or maybe well, or no, maybe he flew.
They flew together.
He left her at that house that he rented in Sicily.
And so then he came to the house and then she's like, but wait, we were supposed to
have the whole week together.
And so that's why she went to the house.
I'm not sure how I feel about that.
Me neither.
But that's that's all I got.
That's kind of a lot of hoops to jump through for a for a side.
That's true.
Yeah.
Um, I love how his big romantic gesture was putting a paper sign that says I love you
in the yard.
Yeah, dude.
Like when he was talking about like, oh, I'm going to spell I love you in this in the hills
on the side of the house.
I'm just like, OK, like, I could see how that could work.
And then when he pulls out this stupid paper sign, I'm just like, what?
Like it's a paper sign with three candles.
And somehow you guys caught it on fire.
Yeah.
Like, it was so weird because he's just like, whoa, it's on fire.
And then I'm like, wait, what?
And like when they pan out and like show the sign on fire, it's like barely on fire.
Yeah.
And the and the sign was so far away from the candles.
Like how did you guys screw that up?
Yeah.
But it was like his attitude towards Sukona was so weird.
He's just like, I can't lose her.
I can't lose her.
But he's still like, but I mean, this chick's of good lay.
Well because he's just like, I can't lose the house.
I can't lose the house.
You know, like I still want that house.
But yeah, I can't lose my side, bitch.
Yeah.
Like what?
Yeah.
Like how the hell does that make like he had like he had like completely zero character
development.
Yeah.
He didn't like see the error of his ways.
He didn't start feeling different about Sukona or anything.
He just kind of like, yeah, I'm a cheater, but I don't want to lose the house.
Are you crazy?
Yeah.
He's he's the definition of a piece.
Oh yeah, for sure.
So where are you sitting at with the with the story?
Honestly, I'd say in like the 70s.
What do you give you that?
I'm in the low 70s though.
As am I.
I'm I'll go 71.
I'll go a little bit lower.
I'm going to go to it like it's just a solid 70.
All right.
Which that averages us out to a 70.5.
All right.
Moving on over to writing.
OK, I got I got to reenact the one kid's way he says one word.
Morris, his mom, while they're at the dinner table when they first get to Sicily at her
parents' house is just like, hey, can you can you please put that way?
And the way he the way he says this, I think it's like, fuck you.
Like that was perfection.
Yes, that's what I was hoping for.
I feel it was very unwarranted.
I get it because, you know, like he's a, you know, a teen.
I don't know why, just I don't know.
I'm not trying to beat up on the actor, but just the way that he delivered it, couldn't
he have just said, you know, F you.
I try to say only one F word per episode.
Dude, you know what?
Like what vibe I got after seeing that scene or like the mental image I got, like I kind
of got a picture of like Jonah Hill being like, I hate it here and running away.
Like not comparing the the the actor.
What was his name?
Dylan Bremner.
Yeah, yeah.
Not comparing Dylan Bremner to Jonah Hill.
It was just kind of like that vibe.
Honestly, I don't think that you I hate it here and then runs away.
And honestly, it's not like I don't think it's the actor's fault at all.
This is just the way that they told him to deliver the way you say F you.
And I feel that it should have just been a normal, like not a normal F you, but like
more of a like, like maybe like a yelling F you because honestly, I don't feel like
it was more it was really a yelling F you.
It was kind of like a sarcastic F you a little bit.
Personally, I would have I would have had it like whisper it.
And then when she's like, what?
And then have him say it like exactly like that.
Yes, that would have been a lot better.
I think that would have just helped it a little bit.
Like literally, good way, good example I can think of is have you ever seen Rob Zombie's
Halloween?
No.
OK.
So there's a part in it where young Michael, the principal breaks up him and this other
kid fighting and he tells the principal F you, but kind of like quieter.
And the principal is just like, what did you just say, son?
And he shouts out, I said F you.
It should have been something like that.
Yeah.
I mean, after I think after you get like the permission to say it again, then you can say
it however the hell you want and it will work.
Yeah.
And then some I'm trying to think of like other dialogue issues.
Anything between Morris and Isabella was just kind of really cringe inducing.
Trying to remember who got them ordered for any of these characters.
That was the kids.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, that definitely needed some work.
Like the way that they were talking about their parents and.
And all that fun stuff, it was just it was very cringe inducing.
Like, it's just like, OK.
Once again, you could have made these kids a little bit older, but it's like a what?
A nine year old and a 14 year old having these deep conversations about their parents and
like they should just separated by now.
At least they wouldn't fight.
Yeah.
That's like a conversation like 16, 17, sometimes 18 year olds have.
Yeah, especially considering that towards the ending, they bring up with like the furniture
and stuff and them, you know, like wanting to like take it and like bring it into their
homes or sell it off.
And they're just like, yeah, but you're you know, what about when we grew up and we don't
get to keep this like family heirloom alive?
Sicily, everything that we have in Sicily is just going to, you know, be gone.
We're not going to be able to keep the family name alive.
And I'm just like, what nine year old is thinking of this shit?
None of nine years old.
You should be thinking about what frickin what do you want to do with Barbie's dream
dollhouse next?
Yeah, no shit.
It's just like most of their dialogue was just very oddly written.
Very like I think I would have done something just a little bit more age appropriate for
them.
Like, like if you want to like have them sit there and bitch and complain about their parents,
like the entire movie, like I probably would have been less upset by what we got.
Yeah, that makes sense.
You know, honestly, I feel when you hit like eight or like seven and above, maybe that's
like when you really start to either like or dislike your parents.
I wouldn't say that young.
I'd say maybe like 11 and up.
OK, yeah.
When you hit like a little bit more like restricting on like who you're hanging out with, your
friends and whatnot.
Yeah.
OK, so yeah, so preteen phase.
That's when you really decide if you love or hate your parents.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, but then always eventually come back to loving your parents.
Oh, yeah, no.
But everyone goes through that phase like, oh, my God, I hate you guys.
You guys won't let me do anything.
I can't wait to move out on my own.
Like you're so suffocating.
Yeah.
Now, we yeah, like Caleb said, we all know we all come back around.
Most of us do.
I'm just like, yeah, you guys were right.
I know I was wrong.
Thanks for always being here.
Yeah.
But like we said in the story category, I feel like you could have re we reworked some
of the characters to kind of disappear and go away.
Yeah.
Like one of them, I feel like you could have completely just gotten rid of the uncle.
Yeah, he felt so.
Can we just talk about how the frickin whoever he was looking for throughout the whole movie
was a frickin cat.
The cat was cute, but I had no idea it was going to be a frickin cat that he was looking
for.
I knew damn well it was going to be a cat.
Really?
Oh, I thought it was actually a person.
I know that it just seems too weird for like I thought it was I thought it was going to
be a small animal if I'm getting like super specific on what I thought.
Okay, you're way better at this than I am because I still thought it was a human being.
I thought maybe it's like like what he didn't serve any purpose to the story.
Like usually characters like that kind of give them some clue or some instance of like
just something that helps progress the story.
He gave them nothing.
Honestly, think okay.
I think I know why I thought it was a human is because I thought it was maybe his like
wife had died years ago, but maybe like the dementia had set in so he still thinks that
she's alive.
Okay.
My only issue with that is that none of the other none of the family members would like
acknowledge that.
That's true.
Like it kind of like seemed like they were just as confused about who Chi Chi was as
he was.
I mean I would say that Tris, not her, Fovia was kind of the only one that was just like
oh you know no I don't know I'm sorry.
She's just like oh have you checked upstairs?
No.
I think it was upstairs or downstairs.
I can't remember.
It was one of those.
Yeah.
Like I think one like the issues with the writing was in most movies you have the A
story and the B story.
Every once in a while you can throw in a C story just depending on how well you can work
it in and make it feel like a natural thing.
This felt like it had like four or five different stories going on at once.
Yeah.
And it just was like it just hit you with a lot.
Like for one it didn't seem like anyone really wanted to do the whole like distributing the
the furniture.
No.
Like what would like one of the I forget which sister it was.
I think it might have been Deplica talking about how her therapist said that she should
collect her inheritance.
I'm just like cool you collect your inheritance once someone dies.
That's how this works.
Can we talk about and this isn't the actress.
This is how she was written.
I feel up until the ending of her deciding oh you know what I'm not going to choose you
over you know like my family's heritage you know like you're not getting this painting.
I hated Natasha's character.
Her writing was so bad.
She just came across as such a bitch.
Dude like all the time.
Yeah she like it seemed like she didn't.
Yeah she didn't want to be there.
She was such a bitch to all of her sisters.
Like anything like happy they said she had to come back with a sarcastic remark or snarky
remark.
Bitch if you don't want to be here just get the hell out.
Yeah dude and like what I think what really freaking sucked was when when Lucky came in
and she or when Lucky's mistress came in and start like kind of blew up dinner with Secunda
like and then she's like get out get out and then he like leaves like it pans over to Natasha
and Natasha's freaking laughing.
Yeah.
Freaking wicked witch of the West.
If they wanted us to hate her and I'm assuming they probably did kudos to them because mission
accomplished.
Yeah and I think it was just so weird that she just randomly disappeared at the end.
Yeah like she yeah didn't they say oh she decided to take a early flight because that's
what her therapist said or something like that.
Yeah.
Like like doesn't say goodbye nothing.
I'm like okay.
Dude it was so funky like she was just like and they set it up early I guess so like that
she's going to be like a huge pain in the ass because like you remember at the airport
when she's going to that lady about lost luggage and they're like oh well unfortunately this
is a pretty common occurrence on international flights and then she's like oh well I guess
that's that and then leaves and they're like wait we can mail it to you.
Wait I thought she said uncommon.
Did they say uncommon.
I thought they said uncommon.
I thought I heard uncommon.
Oh.
That kind of seems like a weird thing.
You're probably right but yeah either or she's just like oh that's just perfect.
I'm like lady take a deep breath and like she said she'll get your address and they'll
mail it to you.
Do you want to just go without your bag.
Like it's just lost forever.
Okay.
Yeah like when she's just like throwing a fit leaves I'm just like okay first off you
don't have any clothes now.
I feel bad for the husband.
Dude freaking like Ari never got a straight answer on why Natasha married him.
He yeah.
Like that was one of the things that they said that they were supposed to be working
on in like couples therapy which was super weird for him to bring up at the dinner table.
Yeah.
I feel like a lot of the conversations that they had out in public they could have had
behind closed doors.
Very very much so.
They should have had behind closed doors.
Very much so.
Like Ari was like throwing a big old fit.
He's like have you even done the homework that the therapist suggested that you do.
Like writing why you even bothered marrying me.
And I'm like that seems like a private topic.
Yeah.
It really does.
I think you could have gotten like a similar effect to what happened because first off
all the private in major quotes conversations were had in front of everyone.
You could have easily just had people listening in or just overhearing conversations like
go up into the bedrooms have Ari and Natasha fight and have whoever is in the room next
to her over here or have someone outside the door hearing or having like everyone sitting
quietly in the family room like listening to them fight just just something where it
doesn't seem so blatantly obvious that you're trying to give put a plot point in our face.
Yeah.
Exactly.
It's just like OK.
There's just there's a certain level of realism that you need to follow when it comes to stuff
like this and it's just rework it rewrite it like the content itself was fine.
Yeah.
Like location.
I think that would have been like I feel like that would have been way funny had they like
made that a running gag of the movie where it's like oh they're having this private conversation
very loudly everyone's hearing.
And so when they come out of the room you just see like one or two people at the beginning
and then like everyone at the very end like just make it so it's just like OK now it's
just more and more obvious that everyone's just going to listen in on you.
Yeah.
That's what what what forces Natasha out.
Yeah that would have been really good.
Yeah.
There's something along those lines.
But other than that.
Like we said the story it's itself is is pretty well done.
Like it it it's just very busy is the.
Main critique here.
Yeah just take out a couple plot points or not plot points.
Remove a couple characters merge some of their stories together.
Honestly take Tristana out completely and you you have a pretty kick ass story.
Yeah.
So it's it's tough because it's just it's it's a kick ass story hidden in some weeds.
Yes.
So where are you sitting now with with writing.
I'd probably go a touch below my act not my acting.
Wow.
My story score.
So I'd probably go 70.
I actually agree with you on that.
I'm going to go a little bit lower.
I think we're going to go to 68 because I think there were quite a bit of issues for
me.
No that's fair.
All right.
So that averages us out to a 69 for writing.
Nice.
You do that on purpose.
No I did.
I'm supposed to be the dirty one here man.
Don't steal my thunder.
Dude I'm pretty sure.
No one thinks that you're the dirty one of the two of us.
Yeah I know I'm kidding.
I'm kidding.
All right.
Moving on over to acting.
We got a pretty decent list so we're going to focus on the family and their husbands
and then the two kids that we thought were significant enough role.
Yeah.
So first we got Don Campion and I'm so sorry if I butcher your guys' names if you guys
are even going to listen to this.
We have Don Campion who played Malata Parlazi.
We have Caroline Avery Granger who played Natasha Parlazi.
TJ Sanson who played Tristana.
Zoe Myers who played Seconda.
Maggie Quinn who played Fulvia.
Then Concetta DeLuco who played Duplicia.
So that is all the sisters and the mom.
Getting into the husbands we have Ismael Ibn Connor who played Lucky who was Seconda's
husband.
Rob Maniscalco who played Ari who was Natasha's husband.
We have Bill Neenan who played Aboyance who was Fulvia's husband.
We have Timothy Perez Ross who played Albonzo who was Duplicia's lover slash stalker.
Yes seriously though.
I had mixed feelings about him.
Same.
Let's see we had Michael Semeca who played Professor Rigortortis Parlazi who was the
daughter's father.
Then we have Dylan Bremner who played Morris Glitzke who was Ari's son.
And then we have Diane Shepherd who played Isabella Rattar who was Aboyance's daughter.
Alright thoughts?
Overall I feel it had more so stronger people than it had weak ones.
I'll give you that.
Definitely I feel two that really stuck out to me that I feel were really good were Maggie
Quinn who played Fulvia and Rob Maniscalco who played Ari.
They weren't married or anything but I feel the performances from these two actors were
really really good actually.
Especially how Maggie Quinn portrayed her character being affected by her husband cheating
on her with her sister.
I thought she did a great job in that regard.
And then with Ari's actor I'm still bitter that him and Seconda didn't end up together
at the end because that's just some bullshit.
Like come on.
It was right there.
I'm just like freaking kiss her.
Just freaking kiss her already.
And it never happened.
But I digress.
If I have to go with a top three I think my number one would definitely go to actually
now that I'm thinking about it it's a little bit harder to do.
I think just because she was supposed to play such an unlikable character I'd have to go
with Caroline Granger who is Natasha as my number one.
Because if the goal was to make her unlikable you freaking killed it.
Yeah you did a tremendous job.
Like I hated Natasha.
Yeah.
I'm like gosh why are you such a bitch all the time to everyone.
Like even the dude you're cheating on like it's your husband's or it's your sister's
husband and while he's like scurrying out in the nude you freaking call him an idiot.
Yes.
You wicked witch.
Oh man.
Oh good hell.
My number two I would give to Seconda who was played by Zoe Myers.
I feel like she really killed it with the emotional scenes.
Like the conversation that she had with Lucky which I do have my issues with Lucky.
I do think he was portrayed a little bit too open and loud.
Just for the type of discussions that they were having.
I feel like Seconda's reactions and everything were very grounded and realistic where Lucky's
were just a little bit too enthusiastic.
Yeah I would definitely agree with that.
My number three I would probably give to Maggie Quinn who played Fulvia.
She was all like with this one I did have very few issues with her performance.
Everyone else I kind of had problems with unfortunately.
Yeah.
No.
Yeah same.
I have to knock it out of the way and I am so sorry if depending on how hard you worked
on this but the mom Malata her accent was so bad.
Yeah.
Like you could tell that she was working really really hard on it but there were times where
she went just a little bit too stereotypically Italian and then there were times where I
felt like she was going a little like Swedish.
Like it's just an Italian accent is like really hard to do correctly.
Yes that's what I've heard.
And there were a lot of times where like I didn't have any issues with it but then there
was just those those hints here and there and I'm like that's that's not great.
Yeah.
I get it you're trying here but it's not coming off as that good.
Yeah one of the things that I forgot to mention in writing they used their names a lot.
Yes they did.
Like almost excessively so.
Like it was it was nice because I was able to like kind of figure out who is who.
Yeah that was the biggest positive.
But when it comes to like the performances like I feel like it was just enough to affect
the performances because Malata she was like the way that she would just put the emphasis
like if I were to like go to anyone and say say Tristana in the most stereotypical Italian
accent that you can.
Like that's exactly how she said it every single time.
Like it was always just like Tristana.
That was incredible Caleb.
Like it was just like so much emphasis on the end like nah nah.
Like it was just drawing it out.
Yeah.
And like she like she did it with everyone.
She's like Natasha.
I'm like stop.
Like you do not have to use the name every other sentence.
Which again I know that could be a writing issue but it's just you could have said it
a little bit without so much emphasis.
Gosh I can't talk today.
I think that's where my problems lied with her performance in particular.
No and honestly I can absolutely agree with that.
Tristana also was just a little too much enthusiasm behind like everything that she was doing.
Like she was supposed to be playing someone who was suicidal.
It came off as someone who was very attention seeking.
Yeah and you know someone that is suicidal can be very attention seeking but I feel she
came off a little too much.
They're usually supposed to be like a balance between it.
Whereas sometimes it felt like you kind of forgot that she was suicidal and that she
was just attention seeking.
That's mostly what you got from it.
It was like it was just too performance based.
Like laying underneath the car.
Like very just very dramatic.
And then the way that she took was trying to like make herself overdose on those pills
in front of everyone.
Yeah most people they do that in secret.
They do that behind closed doors.
Yeah so it's just like everything that she did was just very performance based and just
didn't for someone that you wanted to be suicidal and I'm not sure if we were supposed to take
her seriously or not.
But I think I think there were ways that you could like I don't want to say make a joke
of suicide but if you wanted to make that funny there were ways to go about it that
weren't that.
Yeah no no I absolutely agree.
Yeah my I think the one that the one character I had the biggest problems with were was lucky.
Yeah I don't know I feel they should have chosen a different actor for the role.
I'll give you that like he just needed it I think his problem was he just needed to
downplay it a little bit.
He was just his energy was just so high.
Yeah the entire time and like he was just excessive.
Very like if there was a stereotypical side character that's who lucky was.
Yes very much so.
The way that he was able like he asked Ari he's just like he didn't take anything seriously.
It felt like like any any time he was talking to to Ari he's just like being really gross
and just like like I like I need both of them like talking about his his mistress and his
wife he's like I need both of them like one has a really nice house one's a really good
lay and then when when Ari's talking about like not having sex with Natasha for like
years and he's just like yeah but is she good in bed.
It's been a couple years I don't know.
Yeah yeah exactly exactly.
So I think that was just one of the big problems with that character.
I think they just he just needed to reduce his energy just just a hair and also the same
could be said with the kids.
Morris and Isabella their energy was way too high.
Yeah.
Like when they were talking about putting on like an award show for their parents like
that was just the most cringe inducing thing ever.
I'm like seriously it feels like I'm watching something that should be on stage like the
super just like loud talking the loud body movements like everything was just so loud
and I'm just it didn't work for me.
Not yeah dude didn't work for me either.
I would have honestly found a way to just eliminate the kids all together.
Yeah nothing against those actors just it just felt very unnecessary to bring the children
well very unnecessary.
I'm sure there's someone you could have gotten to watch them for a couple of days.
Yeah like send them out like if you if you wanted to use like the young kid what was
his name Justin or whatever his name.
Yeah I forget his name.
He actually was Justin.
Appoints his son that one that kind of like ends up ratting him out.
Jason Jason.
Yeah yeah.
If you wanted to like just eliminate or if you just wanted to get rid of the kids and
solely use Jason just for the the reveal that a boy is the one stealing the painting.
I would have been fine with that.
Had you just like hidden him away for a while like remind us of him every once in a while
but just like just get rid of him.
Yeah I agree.
Any other thoughts on on acting.
Well I think of what grade I'm going to give this.
No no honestly like I said there were definitely a lot more like big hitters than big losses
I guess this acting but the big losses definitely did bring it down.
Yeah for me they brought it down pretty hard.
Yeah.
Where are you at.
I would definitely say I'm in the 60s.
Honestly I'd probably go 68.
I'm actually a little bit lower than you.
I'm actually I'm actually pretty low.
I think I'm going down to 63.
No that's understandable.
It's completely understandable.
It was just like I said the good people if I were to like average out all of like the
best people I'd probably be up in like the mid 70s but they're not going to be able to
pull like they're just not able to pull up all of the poor performances for me.
Yeah.
Which which sucks because like I mean this is just critically speaking here I did really
enjoy everyone's performances but there were just issues here and there.
Yeah.
So yeah I'm going to a 63 which averages us out to a 65.5.
Fair enough.
Alright next up we got character development.
Yeah who the okay I can't talk today wow.
Who had who who had character development in the film.
That's an excellent question Rose.
I I could not tell you honestly everyone stayed so stationary.
Yeah.
Like Natasha didn't really have any like she was just like the entire time just very resentful
of Ari and then she found something in a buoyance and then she just kind of disappeared from
there kind of stayed a bitch the whole time.
Tristana didn't really have any Ari didn't really have any even though I think I feel
like there was some sort of focus around him.
Yeah there was.
Like he just kind of Ari and Seconda were the ones that I feel you could make the argument
that had any.
Yeah considering.
It's just not really.
No yeah because you know Seconda realizes that she's tired of always feeling like she's
second best so she decides that it doesn't matter what a guy looks like it just matters
how he makes a girl feel you know makes her smile makes her laugh and then Ari finally
realizes you know hey I can't actually be loved by someone who actually does love me
because you know as Seconda told me I'm a nice guy I have a good heart and I am very
kind to women.
Yeah so I mean that's it I feel like it was a very rushed arc if there if it was one because
yeah literally that arc is the last 30 minutes of this movie.
Yeah and it's just so small too.
Yeah so yeah it's really not an arc if at all.
So unfortunately I think I'm also in the low 60s with this one.
Yeah as am I.
I'm gonna go a 64.
I'll give you 64.
Okay.
Alright so that averages out to 64.
Moving on over to effects which because this is an indie movie we're going to talk about
the cinematography.
I don't know.
God what am I saying here.
I'm assuming they shot on location.
With the house definitely.
Yeah.
I don't know if they actually went to well it said that it was all filmed in Georgia.
Have you heard that like everyone's saying like Georgia especially Savannah is becoming
like Hollywood's new destination for filming movies.
Yes I have.
Yeah dude you're so you might be able to sneak on to some movie sets.
Yeah.
I'm just waiting on Marvel news and I will be like right there.
Well apparently that's actually where they filmed a lot of Spider-Man away home.
Was it in Savannah?
I thought they shot in Atlanta.
Oh yeah it was Atlanta.
I'm sorry.
Yeah and Atlanta is like the big movie place now.
How far of a drive is Atlanta from you?
Three four hours.
Damn it.
I mean it's not too bad.
I mean if you okay if you were able to be an extra on Spider-Man No Way Home and I'd
be there in a heartbeat.
Hell yeah.
Doc Ock can kill me.
He can throw me from the bridge.
I don't care.
Yeah.
Spider-Man doesn't even have to catch me man.
Yeah it'd be an honor dying by Alfred Molino's tentacles.
Anyway getting into the effects of this.
The cinematography was was pretty well done.
The issues that I had with it were sometimes they I feel like they should have put focus
on the characters talking a bit more because there was a lot of times where someone was
saying something that wasn't on screen.
Yeah I agree.
There was actually one part that I noticed with sound.
What was it I think it was when they were appraising the painting that they were going
to sell and I think it was a line that what was her name?
Secunda says she like says like well that's that or something and it was like it wasn't
as like audible as all the other lines.
And I'm just like okay either she wasn't wearing her mic or there wasn't like one above her.
That was like the few instances.
Okay that was the only one that I really noticed.
Did you listen to this with speakers or headphones?
Headphones.
Okay I listened to it with headphones too and I noticed like a lot of problems like
that.
I don't know how that's music.
Yeah.
Yeah but cinematography wise I feel where this movie could have been helped a lot is
and I hate to say it I feel like you guys could have maybe used a little bit more stock
footage just to enhance the scale of the movie because it felt like you were trying to pull
off like Sicily and I feel like you guys could have like I don't mean to be like feel like
I'm talking directly to them.
I feel like some stock footage of like Sicily or Italy really could have enhanced how big
this movie felt.
Yeah like no I absolutely agree with you because like honestly and this is nothing gets the
movie I don't know how much you've seen of the Golden Girls but I feel when Sofia, Dorothy's
mom talks about Sicily I feel she gives even more detail that I can like get into my head
about it and she's just talking about it they actually don't show it than what they portray
in this film.
Like I picture Sicily when she talks about Sicily and the Golden Girls here not so much.
Yeah like it's just like I said stock footage would have could have helped a lot here.
Show it like an airplane fly like it looked like they were at like a pretty small airport
even possibly like a private airport.
I'm sure that you could have gotten stock footage of an airplane flying through like
Italy.
Oh yeah I feel I feel that would have been pretty easy to do.
Yeah then just a couple stock footage drone shots of like the mountainous hills and grape
fields and all that like that would have helped so much because like overall it just felt
so tight.
Like especially when they went out to like look at the land and like what's her face?
And Malata was just like okay let's go take a drive so you guys can see the land and it
was kind of weird that she was showing them land that she used to own.
But she's like let's go for a drive let's see the land and like show you guys what she'll
be inheriting one day and that just felt so small scaled.
Yeah it just those little like little tricks here and there just to make it the scale seem
larger just just something.
Yeah like it's just very very tight.
Like the main focus was in the house which in the house no problem you guys freaking
killed it like showing us what the house was.
Like I actually felt like I could like map out the house.
Oh yeah.
Which was super impressive.
Yeah I agree.
But yeah for me it like my issue was scale and not putting the right focus on who was
talking and I know it probably would have added a lot of different like cuts and whatnot
but I think it I think it would have helped a little bit.
Yeah would definitely pay it off.
Any other shots that you think of?
Not really honestly.
Overall I feel like this is definitely one of like a high point for the movie.
Yes I definitely agree.
So personally I think we're going to be at like a 74.
Okay hey you know you know what I'll match it.
I'll go 74 as well.
Alright that averages us out to a 74.
Sweet.
Alright next up we got music which in this we're going to throw in like the actual music
and we're going to throw in some of the audio.
So kind of like what we talked with sorry I kind of brought up a little too soon in
effects with the audio like me and Kayla pointed out that there were some moments where when
an actor is talking you can tell that either they didn't have a mic attached to them at
that point or there wasn't a mic above their head because they were definitely less audible
compared to the other actors that were speaking before them.
Yeah very much so that definitely happened a lot.
I will say though I was very impressed with the score that they had.
Yeah it was actually very good.
It was super catchy.
Yeah.
Yeah loved the score.
One of my issues was that sometimes the music didn't quite fit the scene.
There were some times where I feel like they were trying to go a little bit on the dramatic
side but the music was very upbeat.
And so it kind of pulled away from the drama of the scene.
I can't think of like a specific instance but I do recall it happening a couple times.
And so like it almost made me pause to think like okay was this meant to be a joke or is
the music just not working for it.
So yeah it's kind of a tough one for me.
I think what you were saying when it didn't sound like some of the characters were mic'd
up.
Yeah so personally that definitely brings it down for me so I'd probably be at a seven.
That's actually exactly where I was too.
Oh sweet.
There we go.
Yeah it was good.
It was really good.
I feel like had you fixed the problems with the mic and I don't even think it was necessarily
the mic.
I think it might have been like the sound mixing.
That's true.
That's a good point.
Like I think that the mixing was just off.
And so it just kind of made all the other scenes stick out.
Because there were times where it was like oh someone's talking and it's super clear,
super crisp.
And then you hear someone in the background talking and it sounds like they're on a bad
mic.
Yeah.
So yeah I think a seven is definitely fair.
What brings it up like had the score not been as kick ass as it was I probably would have
been down at a six.
But the score was pretty bitchin'.
Yeah I definitely agree with that.
Alright next up we got costumes.
Which I mean the costumes weren't bad overall.
I do have a major complaint.
And I think you know exactly who I'm talking about.
The professor.
Yeah.
Who green lit the goatee?
Because that could have not looked any more fake.
I mean come on.
You guys had some kick ass costumes the entire time.
But then you know.
Okay like not like top level like Hollywood studio levels.
Yeah but like the sisters dresses were like on point.
They looked great.
But then.
Yeah.
But then they decided you know what maybe let's make the dad look like Colonel Sanders.
Yeah Colonel Sanders goatee was on steroids.
You straight up a billy goat.
So true.
Oh my god I love it.
It was like it was borderline distracting.
Dude seriously though.
Thank god he doesn't have a lot of moments in this movie.
Yeah like yeah.
I mean but everything else seemed to fit pretty well.
Just and it's super hard to dock for that goatee because it was he was he had such a
small role.
Yeah I might be up at an eight because I was like yeah really impressed with the costumes
overall.
Yeah yeah I would agree with an eight.
All right last up we got our own personal grade.
You want to take this one.
Yeah I would love to.
So overall I actually think this is a pretty good indie film.
It's definitely better than some of the others that we've reviewed on this podcast.
Not looking at any others.
Legacy of whining.
We really shouldn't say that.
No yeah we shouldn't but no this one is actually good.
Yeah.
Somebody acting.
You look such a dick when we're just like when we always bring that one up.
I know.
But considering that what was it the wife that like kind of like threw a fit about our
grade was that who it was.
She was trying to defend it a little bit.
Okay I wouldn't say she was like full blown thrown a fit.
Hopefully she doesn't listen to this.
Yeah dude seriously.
How embarrassing would that be.
It would but like honestly at this point I really don't care.
Yeah I mean you got your D minus like chill.
Yeah exactly.
But yeah story's pretty good.
Like Caleb pointed out there are some characters that can be taken out and then their characteristics
just pushed into other characters to make it not as so jam packed with having to tell
all these character stories.
But just have some acting problems.
But yeah overall very very good indie film.
I enjoyed it.
Had some problems with it but overall I honestly never got bored.
I had it kept my interest from start to finish.
So I am going to go a 72.
Nice yeah.
Just kind of touching on what you said.
There's a lot that can be learned from this movie.
The honestly the lowest thing for me was the acting.
I think there was just maybe some coaching that needed to be done here and there just
to improve some people's performances.
But overall it wasn't distracting enough from the story and the story is honestly what shined
about this.
Absolutely.
Like it's such an interesting one.
Like I said it's a solid story trapped in some weeds.
Like clean those weeds out.
Like you have a kick ass story.
So I'm probably I'm going to say I'm sitting at a solid 70 with this one.
I think I had a good enough time for 70.
Yeah.
Hey you know C is all around.
I think that's actually really good.
You can never beat a C grade.
That's always good.
You need to dig your job.
Alright so that brings us to a 71 for our personal grade.
That's not bad.
I like it.
And so that concludes this week's breakdown and the final Albrows letter grade for inheritance
Italian style has come to a C minus.
That's not bad.
That's not bad at all.
It's a it's a pretty solid C. It's actually closer to a solid C than than it is a D plus.
Oh yeah that's awesome.
Yeah.
So it is sitting at a 72.37 percent.
Okay so let me do my magic here.
All right comparing this to some other C minus movies that we have break broken down this
should I go up first or down now I'll go up first.
Yeah yeah I'd agree with that.
All right so inheritance Italian style is sitting at a 72.37 percent.
That puts it below X-Men Dark Phoenix which is at a 72.62 and puts it below Tom and Jerry
which is at a 72.93.
But it puts it above Countdown which is at a 71.56.
Yeah I definitely agree with that actually.
Puts it above Cats which is at a 70.48.
Why does that sting a little bit?
I know right?
Just like just a little bit.
But remember the effects.
Yeah that's true yeah.
All right it puts it above Zack Snyder's Justice League which is at a 70.15.
We ring to that that low?
Dude like it was barely higher than than Joss Whedon's.
Oh that makes me sad.
Doesn't make me that sad.
Really?
That's a long ass movie dude.
It is but it's such a better film.
It's a it's better.
Yes it's better with a rock bottom movie.
Okay fair enough.
Not quite rock bottom like yeah.
But yeah puts it above Zack Snyder's Justice League which what I said 70.15 and then finally
it puts it above The Last Jedi which is at a 70.12.
Rightfully so.
Yeah so out of seven C- movies this is ranked number three.
That's pretty good.
That's damn good.
I am interested to see what else it is above.
Just kind of going down the list.
Yeah okay so there was a two percent difference between the Joss Whedon Justice League and
Zack Snyder.
Sorry I disagree with that but that's just me.
I feel like that's the one that you did.
I think you fought pretty hard for that to be higher.
I did.
I remember that yeah.
Because we did that with um I forget their names.
They had us break down their short film right?
Oh yeah that's right.
Yeah we were okay we were both going to go a little bit higher on it but they they were
the ones that brought it down.
Yeah.
Which one was that?
Was it Rocky Road of Freedom?
Oh no it was the short film.
Oh Super Astra.
The yeah that yeah that's what it was.
Geez I don't know why it took me so long to remember that.
Dude I didn't even remember it so you got that over me.
Oh but anyway so yeah that's where it's uh where it's sitting.
Not too shabby.
So it puts it above a lot of movies.
Yeah.
Like let's see it puts it above the 2019 Charlie's Angels.
Rightfully so.
Uh both Justice Leagues, Doolittle, Capone.
Puts it above Friday the 13th.
Yeah let's don't don't tell Jason that.
And Fifty Shades of Grey.
Every movie should be above Fifty Shades of Grey.
That is not true.
We Can Be Heroes is not above.
Oh yeah okay yeah.
Fifty Shades of Grey.
Okay I'll watch Fifty Shades of Grey before I watch that movie ever again.
Uh yeah.
I'll watch the whole trilogy of Fifty Shades of Grey before I watch We Can Be Heroes again.
Yeah but I mean this has been one of our top like our higher uh indie movies that we've
done.
That's awesome.
Yeah so.
Yeah it is good.
So congratulations Laughing Cow Productions.
You guys did a kick ass job.
Yeah you guys really did.
Like like we said we have our issues but I mean who doesn't?
But you guys should definitely be proud of the movie that you guys made.
Yeah.
It was entertaining as all hell and I can't wait to see what stuff you come up with in
the future.
If you don't hate us we would love to review it.
Yeah yeah.
What he said.
It's always the kicker though if you don't hate us.
Because we haven't been contacted by any of our previous.
That's true yeah.
They're just like oh okay yeah never again.
Yeah well I mean in Super Astra's defense uh they haven't finished their next short
film yet.
Oh yeah that's okay.
So they don't have anything to show yet.
I don't know about everyone else though.
So we'll find out.
Yeah that doesn't sting at all.
Yeah.
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You know what and I had a great idea for Halloween Kills when it came out on Tuesday but I just
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I know.
You can still do it.
That's true I can.
I probably will actually.
Because it was so funny with that movie.
Really the people because I went on it the day that it came out.
Because I got the Steelbook Tuesday right?
Like it came in the afternoon.
But I pre-ordered that shit back in October when it first came up.
And people were giving it one star because they were just like oh it wasn't available
the day it came out.
It sold out.
And everyone else is just like okay that's no reason to give it a one star.
There's a reason why it's up for a pre-order.
It's an exclusive.
It's a collectible.
Of course it might sell out.
It's not Best Buy's fault that you didn't pre-order it.
That's no reason to give it one star.
Now the people that were giving it one star because it came dented.
Because it came in bubble mailers instead of boxes.
Which thank god my came in a box.
So it's actually in pretty damn good condition.
Like there's barely anything wrong with it.
But yeah people that were giving it one star just because they weren't able to get it because
they didn't pre-order it.
Like come on guys really?
Damn.
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So yeah once again big thank you to Laughing Cow for sending us the movie to break down.
Yes thank you so much.
We really appreciate it and love how exclusive we feel.
We feel special.
We feel so special and I feel like in a little way we ruin it.
Yeah.
But we give our honest opinions and that's all we can really do.
Yes.
Alrighty well next week we will be breaking down Sing To.
We have already seen this movie and spoiler alert it's great.
Yeah it really is.
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I'm Caleb.
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Deuces.
So long.