Welcome back to Ripe Avocados. Today we're going
to do Begonia. I think I pronounced that right.
New movie with Jesse Plemons and Emma Stone and
a few others. Stavros Halkias, he's becoming
a big time actor now I guess. So let's jump into
this one and hear what it was about. So the movie
Begonia is basically if you took just one of
the many conspiracy theorists and psychotic people
you see on Instagram reels or in Reddit threads,
if you took him and made him even more extreme
to the point where he will actually act out on
the things he'll do. And he's dragging along
his super innocent friend, Donnie, who is just
has nothing else going in life. And we'll just
follow whatever Teddy Jesse Plemons character
says. And they basically kidnap the CEO, Emma
Stone, of a major pharmaceutical company because
they believe that she is an alien and trying
to kill humanity. And the whole movie is. Jesse
Plemons rattling off the most conspiracy theorist
sounding arguments the whole time and as a viewer
you're watching it being like holy shit he's
literally just torturing Emma Stone this whole
time shaves her head off bashes her kneecap in
um and shit starts to unfold more and more throughout
the story and you're really rooting for Emma
Stone pretty much the whole time you're like
Jesus Christ Jesse Plemons is just the craziest
motherfucker ever until the very end where it's
revealed that Emma Stone is in fact an Andromeda
yeah let's get into entertainment here I really
like this movie I know you did would you say
this is top movie of the year or top it's it's
my favorite movie this year I think and I've
been combing back through my brain the movies
I've seen this year. There's a couple that pop
out to me. I really liked Warfare. I thought
Sinners was good. But I think Begonia takes the
cake for me. At least right now. I don't know
what else is coming out this year, but Begonia
was... We got Avatar. Avatar coming up. That
could... I could care less. I mean, maybe. I
don't think it was my favorite movie, but I would
say it's top five for sure. I like weapons more,
but I think it was pretty close. Yeah, I knew
you would. I think it was pretty close to weapons.
Honestly, similar tone to weapons, too. It's
not as scary, but it's pretty graphic and violent
at times, for sure. Oh, yeah. And the only other
one I might consider more is the one battle after
another. But honestly, I kind of like this movie
a little more, I think. Those are my top three
of the year. But I would still say Weapons was
my personal favorite. But that doesn't mean this
movie was poor entertainment -wise. I was glued
to my seat. No bathroom breaks. It's not that
long either. I think it's under an hour 50 or
an hour 55, which was good. But just a very interesting...
original plot that worked out you know well actually
not original it's i think it's technically a
remake an english remake of the south korean
film save the green planet that was released
in 2003 okay okay or at least very similar plot
lines because that movie saved the green planet
it's about a guy that i think kidnaps his co
-worker who he believes is an alien or something
along those lines i've never seen the movie but
that's what i've read Alright, well, regardless,
first iteration of Begonia, but it's not a story
I was familiar with whatsoever. I didn't watch
the trailer really at all. I didn't know much
about it. I just knew that Emma Stone was going
to get kidnapped once I read a short little bio
on it. But just a lot of stuff to unpack with
this movie. I mean, there is... The beginning
is... is almost it's just narrated by jesse plemmons
and he was so good so good in this movie i've
always kind of not disliked him i just thought
he was good not didn't move the needle for me
in any in any real way i everyone knows he's
always great in those like certain character
roles like in game night or in civil war um even
in that show with elizabeth olsen He plays good
roles, but I never saw him as, I guess, the lead
actor. But I think him and Emma Stone, they might
get Oscar noms for this movie. They definitely
will. I think Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons were
the defining roles of the movie. We can talk
more about them in characters, but I think...
They made the movie very interesting. There's
a lot of dialogue in this movie, honestly. There's
just a lot of confrontation, like torture methods,
but not really too much torture aside from the
high voltage scene. He's not really waterboarding
her. For the most part, she's just in solitude
and trying to negotiate her way out. And bald.
Yeah, bald. I mean, it's not like they are kidnapping
her. They are treating her like a prisoner. Yes.
And it really just drives this question the whole
time you're watching it. You're trying to fathom
whether or not she's actually an alien. And to
be honest, I kind of assumed she was an alien
when he originally said this. Because it was
just so far -fetched. And I didn't really know
where it was going to go. It leads really into
Emma Stone's acting ability. She has these really
coy, odd answers to some questions. And Jesse
Plemons never is phased by anything that she
says. He is on his shit from the get -go. And
he was right the whole time. And I always kind
of thought he was going to be right in that instance.
I didn't know how it was going to unravel. at
all and i think that's why it was such an entertaining
movie i did not expect the brother or the cousin
to kill himself i did not expect that whole yeah
that whole thing to unravel like it did that
such a such a sad scene too very sad i mean donnie's
character in itself was such a tragic character
right like Let's go to characters now. Let's
just talk about the characters. Donnie, before
we start glazing Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons
even more, I want to touch on some of the side
characters, like Donnie. I thought he was played
really well. I don't know the actor's name, but
such a tragic character. Clearly, it's known
he has some sort of disability, learning disability.
He's just kind of this innocent soul that is
dragged along by Jesse Plemons' character. And
Jesse Plemons puts him through the fucking ringer.
I mean, he chemically castrates him. He's forcing
him basically to kidnap Emma Stone and have her
locked up in the basement, hold a shotgun to
make sure she doesn't leave or do anything crazy.
I mean, this kid is being put through the absolute
ringer. And you just feel so sorry for him. But
at the end of the day, it's like he just loves
Jesse Plemons so much, like to a fault, to where
he will just listen to whatever he says. And
in the end, that's what gets him to kill himself.
It's such a sad storyline to see unfold. And
even when you get to... the end where it is true
emma stone is an alien jesse plemmons was right
all along you still don't get that sense of gratification
because a emma stone and the andromedans end
up killing the human race anyways the means by
which jesse plemmons got his answer i mean like
he was torturing her he had killed and tortured
and dissected and experimented on numerous other
people probably regular humans but also apparently
two other andromedans that he killed like he's
been doing this for a while now and it's just
this grotesque method to find this answer that
he's trying to search for and even if he get
he doesn't even get the answer at the end he
fucking blows himself up yeah and i liked how
that that scene was shot too because i don't
really think it's i think it's left for interpretation
this is how i i thought of it does did she actually
sent him through that portal and his bomb just
like reacted to it i think that's really what
happens this is this is what i was thinking too
because i was trying to figure out why it exploded
she sends him into the closet and she's already
backing away So she knows some, she feels that
something is going to go wrong here. And I think
what happens is when she ends up going through
the portal at the end, the teleporter to get
back to her mothership, that cut scene where
it's just like, it looks like cells forming.
It looks very molecular. And then she rises out
of that liquid goo. It looks like she's reborn
again. So I think what the teleporter did was
kind of break all the cells down and then reform
them in the ship which is what Emma Stone did
tell Jesse Plemons she's like we can't go both
go through at the same time or else we might
merge together on the other side so I think what
happened was it just broke his body down and
set off the explosion which is what killed yeah
that's a good way to interpret it it was a good
point like she does back away so she knew something
was going to happen there And yeah, I mean, RIP
to Donnie. He did not deserve any of that. And
yeah, I mean, this movie was just very, very
interesting. Donnie was probably my favorite
character. The other character that they do touch
on a lot is their mother, or Jesse Plemons' mother.
That part, I didn't completely fathom. Let's
talk through that. So she... I was under the
impression that she was an Andromedon or an alien,
which is why she was like levitating or whatever.
But it just turns out Emma Stone was doing some
sort of experiment on her and caused her to levitate.
So she, the pharmaceutical, this is how I interpret
it. The pharmaceutical company that Emma Stone
runs was. developing a new drug that they were
testing on sandy jesse plummet's mother because
she was coming off opioids or addicted to opioids
and they were giving her this new drug she was
a worker to help her out yes except the new drug
kind of put her into this catatonic state and
or vegetative state and you see her just lying
in the hospital bed later in the movie before
jesse plummet's eyes to serve with antifreeze
but I think those black and white scenes where
it's a flashback with Jesse Plemons with his
mom, especially the one standing outside the
headquarters with her floating away. I think
that was more metaphorical to the whole situation.
It was him like holding on to her like a balloon.
And you keep seeing her slip out of his grasp.
So I think it was more just sort of an analogy
to... This whole idea that these big corporations
will just, it doesn't matter that their drug
ended up putting his mother into a vegetative
state. Like the whole time, Emma Stone's whole
spiel during that black and white scene is like,
hey, we will pay for all those services. Don't
worry about it. And she's feeding him all this
big pharma bullshit. Exactly. And you see him
trying to hold on to the balloon. which is his
mother, but it's just slipping further and further
out of his grasp. Yeah. I mean, that's a good
way to put it. I gotta stop doing this motion.
Yeah, it looks like you're, like, jerking off
a giant or something. Yeah. I just kind of wish
they explained that a little more, but I did
like how it was thrown in there, because for
a portion of the movie, I was thinking that Jesse
Plemons was an Andromedan, and his mom was one.
That's why she was levitating, and he was just...
not accepting that he was one of them and i i
don't know i my mind was racing but that's why
this movie was so good because i could not put
together the pieces really until the end and
i love a movie that just makes me think makes
me want to dive into the reddit threads with
the conspiracy theorists that jesse plummins
is i want to dive into those threads and read
more about what people have to say i think that
whole spiel on um his his mother and her tie
-in with the pharma company and Emma Stone is
just the fact that Jesse Plemons in his mind
his his reasoning for or the conclusion he came
to was Emma Stone killed my mother this drug
killed my mother this company killed my mother
they don't give a shit about humans and I'm going
to work out this theory to figure out how this
lady is so evil and i don't think she can be
this evil and be a human she has to be an alien
and i think he came to that conclusion and then
that is what set this whole track in motion yeah
it's a good point the you know the mannerisms
of emma stone too especially after she gets out
of that ambulance like unbelievable acting she's
like moving her leg they probably sped it up
i don't really know how they shot that but She
just was, you know, I mentioned how she had these
like kind of odd, very odd reactions to things
to make it seem like she was chat GBT just talking
to somebody almost like she opens her mouth really
wide and react like gasps at something. And she's
very she's just so good at playing this on like
I could not figure out if she is just so corporate
woman like. I am going to work my way out of
this any way I can. So I'm going to pretend I'm
an alien and just feed him anything that he wants
to hear. But then the look in her eye when she
is seeing that Jesse Plemons is actually on to
her and having to just try to survive in this
situation. But she's almost too calm the whole
time she's captured. She's not ever really that
worried until a certain... set of things happens
but even after she's electrocuted and he shoots
himself in the head she's still compliant with
jesse plemmons and takes him to the office and
has this whole intricate plan because i think
she just knows that i mean she was right her
her technology and her people are able to her
alien comrades are able to you know get have
her back and Wipe out the human race. And she
gets whatever she wants out of it. I don't know.
There's just a lot to unpack here. No 100%. And
I think it all goes credit to. That. As a viewer
when you're watching it. And you're battling
within your own mind. Okay is she an alien? Is
she not? Is Jesse Plemons correct? Is he just
a fucking psychopath? All credit to Emma Stone's
acting. But also. yorgos the director that scene
in the beginning where they show emma stone's
character getting ready in the morning very regimented
but then also at the office right at the beginning
doing that diversity inclusivity whatever uh
training thing yes exactly and she's literally
just like she's so on the money in her speech
But then she can flip out of that any time. And
I think that just speaks to how, you know, big
corporations nowadays, they don't give a fuck
about the little people. They don't give two
shits about anyone, right? They just try to save
face and they know how to talk. They know how
to bullshit. So throughout this whole movie,
you can't tell if Emma Stone is tapping into
that. Or if she's actually afraid for her life.
Or if she's trying to manipulate the situation
in her favor so she can get out. Or is she really
a fucking alien? Who knows? It wasn't for me
until Jesse Plemons leaves to... I don't know
why I'm laughing. Jesse Plemons leaves to dump
antifreeze into his mom's IV and kills her. And
he comes back and by that time Emma Stone has
found the secret doorway in his basement. and
seeing all the people he's killed and the two
andromedons when he comes back to the house her
eyes her tone everything shifted for me and in
that scene i think that's when i really knew
that she was truly an alien yeah because she
genuinely seemed i don't even i don't even know
if the word is scared but just like in awe in
awe in a good and bad way She couldn't believe
that Jesse Plemons has gone to the extent to
figure out if Andromedans were real. She couldn't
believe that a human had done all these horrific
things just to figure this out. And, I mean,
in the end, it was the ultimate reason for her
ending the human race. Right. I think the natural
human response to what she saw would have been
fright or flight. And I get that her ankle was
all fucked up or her knee. But she's sitting
there in the basement just waiting for him to
come back, you know? And she has this time, like,
he's just biking. I'm assuming it's not that
far. But, you know, she can... A normal human
would just try and get out of there and find
any sort of way to get help. And after she's
seeing all these bodies, she's not even, like,
audibly gasping. She's just like, oh, okay. That
looks like Andromeda. That's what I mean. She's,
like, in awe of all the research and time he's
put into. this crazy theory i like she's flipping
through all the notes and the pictures and whatnot
it's like she couldn't believe her eyes yeah
she couldn't believe that in an inferior race
was able to comprehend all of this and another
neat thing too is there's only one portion of
time where she actually goes at jesse plemmons
for things that a high -powered ceo would do
to another human to like try and belittle them
and shit she she calls them like a loser or whatever
when they're fighting like she's like i'm the
winner like i'm gonna kill you or whatever but
she only says that like one time and i think
the natural human she calls him an echo chamber
yeah the natural human response initially would
just be like we're like let me fucking out of
here and she says that but in an in an alien
et type of way she's like this is how things
are going to process all this this and that and
i chopped it up as yeah i guess she's a corporate
woman but like i said i just thought she was
an alien from the beginning because partially
because you said it was such a good movie so
i was like this has to be going somewhere and
we also had the You know, let's get into cinematography
here. But actually, the one last thing I want
to say is I think Emma Stone is the greatest
actress of this generation. I don't think...
I'd say maybe Emily Blunt. Emily Blunt's great.
She comes to mind. Meryl Streep, I'm not counting
her. Emma Stone is so good at acting. You could
not... The only other... Who else could have
played that specific role and made this movie
what it was? Bella Ramsey. Yeah. You know what
I mean though? I think those dynamics. I agree
100%. Jesse Plemons too was phenomenal. Such
a good actor too. Very good. I think the light
should be on Emma Stone as well. Just because
she's the biggest name in this movie obviously.
But Jesse Plemons too. I mean I was rooting for
him at times. Like when he kills his mom by accident.
I felt bad for the guy. And he was doing. horrible
atrocities the whole time but you're trying you
can empathize a ton with him it's probably just
because he's a human you know he doesn't he doesn't
really want he all he wants is to protect the
human race that that's like his actual goal he
has terrible methods and he's not the the smartest
guy really he just figured something out and
he was so stubborn on this method which is such
a human trait that it ended up killing him and
I think that was just a really realistic way
to write that. No, 100%. And I think that's what's
so great about the movie. You're bouncing back
and forth between the two evils almost. You don't
want to root for the big corporate head. Nah,
I'm fucking Team Human. I'm Team Human. Fuck
you, Ali. Come conquer us. Come conquer us. See
what happens. hey we'll send lebron james to
the front line what the are you talking about
um but no i like you're you're rooting for the
lesser of two evils here you have this giant
corporate head but she's being held captive by
two crazy conspiracy theorists but on the flip
side like one this corporate hit he's not a conspiracy
yeah you're right you're right he's just tagging
along but on the flip side like She runs this
giant corporation that ends up being the reason
why Jesse Plemons' mom is in a vegetative state.
They don't give a fuck about the regular 9 -to
-5 person. No. At all. But on the flip side,
Jesse Plemons is a fucking psychopath. Yes, he
is. 100%. A serial killer, a psychopath. He's
not a good guy. But then again, he's also had
such a tragic life. It's like, Jesus Christ,
you feel bad for him at times. Fucking sexually
assaulted by Stavros. Yeah. And his mom dying
or in that vegetative state. He lives in a fucking
shithole. Right. Like, he's just got the worst
life ever. It kind of reminded me a little bit
of True Detective Season 1 when they go to Earl
Childress' house at the end. There was a lot
of inklings of that. They're very accustomed
to the land. They're beekeeping. He has a couple
odd jobs here and there. And I think they just
took a lot of time making the setting. I honestly
think the first thing they had to do was... figure
out what jesse's character was going to look
like and they nailed that right on the head those
two characters just drive the movie her him and
emma stone's character yeah it's it's 1a 1b yeah
um let's do cinematography because that was fantastic
too loved it i mean it's shot kind of like it
kind of was shot like weapons a lot to me a lot
of these we had some of these like zoomed in
2d angles like when he's killing stavros that
shit was straight out of weapons to me or any
any sort of these like neon blumhouse uh horror
movies where it's very quick camera shots it's
like extremely vibrant colors mixed with like
this vast landscape kind of that scene kind of
reminded me of like midsummer a little bit i
don't know if you got that same connection just
just gross gore and over the top crazy shit going
on um when he climbs across the table that was
shot so well so fucking well it was like what
is going to happen we're not even going to show
you emma stone's face until he's attacking her
yeah um i mean the just the color scheme in general
i also loved the tie -in with the bees i think
that was very cool how they wrote that in in
the beginning they so they do stuff like this
all the time and it doesn't always connect that
well So the term begonia, I had to look this
up. It refers back to Greek mythology where there's
this belief that if you sacrifice an ox without
shedding blood and it dies, then bees will basically
spawn in its body and then be released. So basically
like the sacrifice. of this animal to birth new
life and i think jesse's the sacrifice i mean
i think it i think that term really relates back
to this whole idea of the andromedans coming
to earth right and she mentions they accidentally
kill off the the native race the dinosaurs at
the time due to the diseases they brought and
because they felt so guilty, that's why they
created the human race. And they tried to guide
it and help them make the right decisions, but
ultimately they couldn't. So I think in that
sense, that was their begonia, right? They accidentally
sacrificed the dinosaurs, but we will create
this new race, and it'll be even better. I think
the problem is they ended up realizing that...
Humans are not easy. no humans fucking suck yeah
humans are not easy to govern they i mean they
say it too you guys have all this data on things
that kill you and you continue to you know you
double down on it you just do them yeah double
it and pass it to the next person but but also
like That kind of fired me up too. I'm like,
fuck these people. Or these Andromedans. Get
them out of my world. I also love the costume
design. They intentionally just make Emma Stone
look like a fucking alien when they shave her
head. And they show her with this lathered up
cream on her. Yeah, the ointment they rub on
her. And these eerie shots of her in this basement.
It just looks like... something you're gonna
see in an actual like ridley scott alien movie
or some some weird shit it doesn't look like
a xenoblade but like that old school big -eyed
alien i like the way they dressed her up just
because i feel like personally it made jesse
plemon's character even more crazy it made it
made you feel like you did not want to believe
him whatsoever the fact he's got donnie shaving
her head in the back seat like make sure you
cut off all her hair real quick you're like dude
it was right like but that's the thing he was
right in the end that's what made it so good
because when you're watching the scene initially
you're like dude she's not contacting her mothership
with her fucking hair that's the dumbest thing
i've ever heard and then when she's actually
on the shit they're like yeah we couldn't get
a hold of you where'd your hair go no it was
almost kind of funny i mean the the destruction
of the human race too i mean that scene was probably
a little five seconds ten seconds too long for
me i i understood what was going on i mean it
was it was impactful um i i wasn't like the biggest
fan honestly of the ship itself like the alien
ship i thought it was too green screeny and ridiculous
they kind of looked like thumb people from spy
kids a little bit but with long long hair long
beautiful hair but um i mean who the fuck knows
what aliens look like you know they could look
like that no yeah i i think that was just a little
odd for me but nonetheless it didn't take anything
away from like the cinematography the music was
so good too it was almost i kind of thought it
was horror music a lot of those initial scenes
when you're learning more and more about the
plot you know i knew from the trailer that they
were going to kidnap her and you know that's
kind of building up they're wearing these when
they were like jennifer aniston masks or something
something crazy i think it was jennifer aniston
yeah that that scene was like funny when they
were kidnapping her um and she's beating the
shit out yeah i and i'm rooting for emma stone
at this point too um because obviously like kidnapping
is not good but Dude, the best is when I think
it's Donnie's character tried to spray her or
whatever, and it's having zero effect on it.
Like, he's completely missing her. No, that was
Jesse Plemons. He's like six feet away. Oh, Jesse
Plemons. Yeah. Like, tried to spray her, and
he's just like too far away for it to even do
anything. That had to actually be those guys
acting that out, I would imagine, because they
were so bad at fighting. I don't know. It was
just like a... it was a kind of a funny scene
and just yeah i mean the the cinematography was
very good we could probably just touch on the
writing here um yeah i mean not many plot holes
i could think of the only big one was kind of
the end when she just goes into the office i
feel like most people would have stopped that
before she got to her office i mean she's limping
in with this random dude after being missing
for days like three days i don't think that made
a whole lot of sense i get that she runs this
whole company so she could do whatever she wants
um to me it would have just been i don't know
i'm nitpicking here overall i don't think there
were many plot holes at all and we touched on
just how well the characters played With each
other the relationship the dialogue between Jesse
Plemons and Emma Stone is Perfect. It was the
perfect representation of again those Schizo
conspiracy theorists deep in the reddit threads
and Jesse Plemons just spewing all that at her
versus the mega big pharma corporation head CEO
spewing bullshit right back both her trying to
manipulate the situation him trying to get these
ludicrous ideas and points across to her and
it's just the battle of the two extremes yeah
and then donnie over there is just trying to
take a piss he's trying to take a leak donnie
donnie was like a representation of a normal
person just trying to get about their day just
taking in whatever is coming at him and unfortunately
he got the shit under the stick but i also think
donnie's character made so much sense and i loved
i didn't mention this i might have touched on
it there's only five characters that have lines
in this movie i think aside aside from like the
news reporter that reports are missing i literally
think it's emma stone jesse clemens donnie his
actor name i pulled up because we gotta give
this guy credit aiden delbis is his name um he's
not in like anything this is like his second
thing he's been in first first like co -star
role but him being that he was sort of the I
don't know to me I just don't think Jesse Plemons
carries any of this out if he doesn't have Donnie's
support with him because at the end of the day
he's he's this fiery reddit conspiracy theorist
but he's a pussy you know like he can't fight
he doesn't have any power or wealth he's just
acting on his own accord and Donnie like helps
him actually carry all this out you know he needs
someone validating his actions almost like a
yes man and the fact that Donnie's not even a
yes man Donnie is timid the whole time he's constantly
pushing back and is like I don't know if this
is the right thing to do right but Jesse Plemons
needs him to keep going through with it he's
like no no trust me I'm saving you I'm doing
you a favor, Donnie. I'm trying to save you.
And he doesn't have any friends. Why do you think
Jesse Pumas has no friends? Because all his friends
that are not autistic are like, dude, you're
fucking crazy. Or he's probably fucking killed
him. Yeah, either or. He's a fucking crazy person.
Either or. Yeah, so this was a great movie. I
would recommend this to anybody. I already have
today. I've told a few people about it. Definitely
go watch Begonia. Right when I saw this movie,
it reminded me of... It reminded me of two movies.
Right when I saw the trailer of Begonia, it reminded
me of two movies. One was 10 Cloverfield Lane.
Just that idea of... Very good comparison, yeah.
Just the idea of that girl being dragged down
into the bunker. John Goodman's character's like,
look, I saved you. The Ruskies are taking over
up there, all right? Like, you're safe down here.
And the rest of the movie is her like, wait,
is he just... trapping me in his bunker is he
gonna do something or like what the fuck is actually
going on up there and then eventually you realize
aliens took over another movie that this reminded
me of was m night shamalan's a knock at the cabin
i haven't seen that that's new though right that's
it's a it's a little bit yeah it's a little bit
newer and it's got that same idea where dave
batista and his group of characters are approaching
this couple and their child and it's like look
we need to sacrifice one of y 'all to save the
human race and unfortunately in that movie there's
no the ending just kind of muffles everything
else that happens prior it's kind of like a shitty
ending you don't get any sense of gratification
at the end of it this movie though i don't know
i just loved it from the very start to the very
end yeah even though even though the ending is
the human race being annihilated right but it
has like a light touch to it it's more of an
informative this maybe could happen i mean there's
definitely i think there's aliens out there i
mean there has to be um and they also tied in
the b reference from the very beginning to the
very end the one line too that i still remember
i don't even write this down it might be it might
not be completely verbatim, but the first couple
of sentences that Jesse Plemons says when the
movie starts, he's like, bees, you know, they
collect pollen and then they plant their seed
in a different part of a new flower. He's like,
it's basically like sex, but no one gets hurt.
And I loved that line because even he realizes
that humans, they definitely have their flaws,
but he's still representing human. Like, he is
trying to kill aliens in his fucking basement.
Dude, this movie had... quite a lot of humor
in it that was like surprising that scene where
they finally capture her bring her down to the
basement it it just pans upstairs and it's just
donnie and jesse or john donnie and jesse plevin's
characters holding each other just bouncing up
and down yeah i made a lot of weird gestures
yeah no that was weird i mean a lot of unsettling
um not actually not that many unsettling parts
there's a couple weird gory things that happen
but just a lot of a lot of good things the human
race being exterminated was unsettling but yeah
that wasn't too great but they i will say there
was another i mean just some of the lines that
they wrote in this and then the delivery of the
lines were so great there was one towards the
start of the movie or right when they capture
emma stone And they're observing her in the basement.
And he's talking to Donnie and he's just like,
I can't remember exactly what he says, but it's
along the lines of, I've never seen one this
good. Something along the lines. And right then
it clicked. I was like, oh, he's done this before.
He's fucking kidnapped people and tortured people
and probably killed handfuls of people to get
to this point. And I just thought, like, I mean,
again, all credits to Jesse Plemons, all credits
to Emma Stone. This movie just fucking knocked
it out the park for me. Yeah, yeah. I honestly
thought we were going to have a scene, too, where
Jesse Plemons gets cleaned up for once and takes
a shower, and he just never does. Like, he's
biking with blood all over him. You know that
house smelled like shit. Even when they were
recording it, it probably smelled like shit.
Yeah, no. I don't even think he knows what a
shower is anymore. All right. Let's do the scores
here. Wrap this up. I went entertainment. I went
8 .2. Entertainment, I went 9 .5. Characters,
I went 8 .9. 9 .1. Are you going to beat me on
all of these? Yep. Cinematography, I went 8 .5.
9 .4. Damn. And then writing, I went 8 -0. Writing,
I went 8 -9. We have a final score here of an
8 .8 for Billionaire. I mean, it's a very good
score. That's a very good score. Yeah. So you
can go check out all of our scores. They're on
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those out if you're interested in any of our
other movie reviews. And we will see you next
time. Deuces.