welcome back to ripe avocados today we're going
to review send help brand new movie with our
boy dob or sean's boy and rachel mcadams who
is not hot in this movie at all but she's in
there i'd like to talk about it a little bit
so sean does think she was hot in this movie
i do not let's get into it hear what this thing
was about and we'll score it So the movie Send
Help, directed by Sam Raimi, as Ben was saying,
starring Dylan O 'Brien, a .k .a. The Maze Runner,
a .k .a. Sal Stolinski, and Rachel McAdams, a
.k .a. Regina George. Just became the CEO of
this major company that Rachel McAdams works
at. She is portrayed as just the grossest human
being alive. Or at least they try to portray
her that way. But she's really good at her job.
Really good with numbers. But very awkward. Extremely
socially awkward. Doesn't know really how to
talk to people or express herself in the right
way. And she is expecting a new raise, a new
pay bump. And Dylan O 'Brien's like, nah, fuck
that. I'm giving it to my fraternity brother.
And she's super bummed out. Dylan O 'Brien just
plays an absolute asshole in this movie. And
it all kicks off when they're on a private plane
charter to Bangkok or Beijing. And the plane...
The plane goes down in the middle of the ocean.
And Dylan O 'Brien and Rachel McAdams are now
stranded on an island somewhere near Thailand,
I believe. And Rachel McAdams is just a survivor
enthusiast. She knows how to make fire, set up
her own tent, hunt. And Dylan O 'Brien is just
stuck in his old ways. He is a complete douche,
a complete asshole. Still believes that Rachel
McAdams should serve him as this god and he just
doesn't know how to do jack shit. So there's
this giant power struggle between the two. Rachel
McAdams has the skills to actually survive on
the island while Dylan O 'Brien believes he should
be the god on the island and she should do whatever
he wants. So that power struggle ensues. It's
a lot of back and forth between Rachel McAdams
being like, hey, I'm the big dog here. And Dylan
O 'Brien just not succumbing to that, even though
he eventually has to because he can't survive
without her. In the old Sam Raimi way, there's
a lot of horror blended into this. There's a
lot of comedy blended into this. And then there's
also a great thriller mystery aspect with a couple
twists here and there. So overall, I thought
it was a fantastic movie. You did? I couldn't
tell based off the summary there. I fucking love
it. Still no Brian, man. Still no Brian. so this
was the the best movie you've seen in how long
like since the last 27 years since the last maze
runner came out this was the best thing you've
seen yeah since all right so the last time i
saw maze runner teen wolf this has got to be
the best thing i've seen no i like this movie
too let's score it and then we can really dissect
it um all right so entertainment i gave this
an 8 .1 out of 10 entertainment i went nine two
that's high uh characters on 8 .4 characters
i went nine oh damn yeah cinematography i won
eight two cinematography and writing i went seven
seven writing i went eight two eight two so let's
talk about the entertainment like why did you
think it was why do you think it was that good
i haven't i have not seen this mold of a movie
before though like crash landing on an island
it's just lord of the flies lost or I've seen
the pilot of Lost, so that's my whole knowledge
of Lost, so I could be wrong there. Fantastic.
But definitely Lord of the Flies. Definitely
Lord of the Flies. Yeah, this is not a Lost plug,
though, by any means. I just don't know much
about it besides, like, the first episode. So,
like, I mean, that whole plot or that type of
story is intriguing. There's a lot of shit that
can go awry, as we know. there's no authority
here it's all anarchy and rich mcadams figures
that out pretty much right away and i like that
they added in the little touch of how she was
a nerd just obsessed with survivor and then she
gets to put her skills into effect yeah huge
survivor plug by the way yeah besides the fact
that their biggest fan was a sociopath but well
no yeah it was it was a wasn't a bad use of um
of marketing or um What do they call it? Product
placement. But, like, I don't know. I didn't
think this was, like, a five -star movie. I thought
it was really good. I thought the twist with
the estate being here on the island was good.
But I was telling you offline, like, I kind of
saw that coming when they teased it at first.
Although, it wasn't at all, like, a bad aspect
to the movie. I thought that made it a little
more interesting. I just, I don't know. I guess
I'll wait for the writing to touch more on this,
but the whole thing with his fiancée coming to
the island and just getting erased very, very
conveniently, it just seemed a little more...
It seemed a little fodderish to me. Hey, follow
me up this rickety mountain real quick. I just
couldn't fathom how she ended up with her arm
in the ground like that from falling off the
cliff, which was... Well, fell in the ocean and
then washed up upon shore. But it buried. Whatever.
I'm not a physicist. But that was a little crazy.
But, I mean, I'm just giving negative pieces
of it. I thought the whole, like, survivor aspect
of it, like you were mentioning, how she's able
to just create all this shit from nothing and
make some pretty sick teepees on the beach. Yeah,
Michelin star sushi on the beach. Crazy. Yeah,
yeah. yeah i mean they for what it is too it's
really just two people we didn't even mention
like all the other people on the plane just died
like horrifically i guess you kind of glossed
over that um and then once it happened like There's
a lot of ways you can go with that, but I think
they kept it interesting throughout. There was
definitely a buildup where Dylan O 'Brien at
first is like, fuck this girl. And then he's
like, okay, I kind of respect this girl. And
then he's like, I need to respect this girl or
I will die because she will not feed me. And
it kind of just kept escalating. And we got a
little bit of a horror ending, if you would,
for Dylan O 'Brien, definitely. 100 % for Dylan
O 'Brien. um i just to start off why to start
off why i like this movie i mean i just love
dan o 'brien i don't know what it is i don't
know what it is he's funny he's just like such
a natural actor it feels like the way he portrays
himself on screen is just it's believable you
want to like the guy I'm happy to see him back
on the big screen. I know he's come out with
a couple movies recently, like the SNL one, but
I didn't go see that one. But I was excited to
see he was in this thriller -esque horror movie
and couldn't wait to go see it. And I was holding
the movie to a high standard, and it met that
standard for me. I thought the dynamic between
Dylan O 'Brien and Rachel McAdams' characters
was fantastic. I thought the splashes of comedy
throughout the movie were also, they hit the
mark each time. The subtle cuts, when Rachel
McAdams first is like, you know what, fuck Dylan
O 'Brien. I'm not going to help him because he's
acting like a douchebag after she saved his life.
And the subtle cuts. Where it's like the pan
shot of Dylan O 'Brien slowly getting more and
more deranged because he doesn't have food, he
doesn't have water, and he's like foaming at
the mouth by the end of it. I thought that was
hilarious. And then, like you said, the twist
with the estate at the end definitely saw that
coming. When Rachel McAdams pointed out to him
like, hey, you see that giant X -Rock? Don't
go that way. There's poisonous thorns over there.
It's like, shut the fuck up. We know there's
something on that side of the island, but it
still didn't... I would have just started running
right at it. I mean, I would have jumped off
the cliff first thing. I'm like, well, actually,
hold on, hold on. If I'm stuck on an island with
Rachel McAdams, I'm not. Whatever you want. Whatever
you want me to do, I'm doing it. But yeah, I
just thought the twists weren't anything crazy,
but the movie overall just kept me... engage
the entire time and again I think it falls back
onto that dynamic between Dylan O 'Brien and
Rachel McAdams this whole time you're like holy
shit Dylan O 'Brien's the biggest douchebag of
all the time can you just listen to Rachel McAdams
and what she has to say because she clearly knows
what's going on and you start to see him change
a little bit And then he just subverts right
back into being the biggest asshole of all time
when he tries to poison her and take his shitty
little raft out against 10 -foot waves and he
gets demolished. But then here's the thing, though.
Here's why I love it. So Dylan O 'Brien's the
biggest douchebag and you want to be on Rachel
McAdams' side. But as you slowly start to see
him change and be somewhat of a better person,
And then he kind of reverts back at times. You
would, you should be as a viewer completely on
Rachel McAdams side until you start slowly. The
movie starts slowly revealing that she also is
a psychopath. Like she ends up killing his fiance
and the little innocent Filipino man that tries
to help her. She actually only killed the Filipino
man and the fiance was just. collateral damage
for sure sure i counted his two bodies i counted
his two bodies but it's crazy but and then the
scene where she like is castrating him i was
like holy shit this lady's dark but right so
so that's the thing i i think this movie was
so good because it's like at the end of the day
you're still probably on rachel mcadam side i
was kind of rooting for dylan o 'brien but but
uh like donovan dude don't know poor donovan
yeah no for real um but yeah i can't make a couple
sexist jokes at the office anymore he's got to
get strangled to death on a plane yeah but his
body flaps against the window and she just like
yeah moves the window thing down I thought that
was fantastic. As a fellow golfer, that one stung
a little bit. I was like, fuck. Got a fork to
the eyeball, too, before that? I mean... Donovan's
never going to log another round in 18 birdies
now. He's in the ocean somewhere. And honestly,
that's... When Dylan O 'Brien learns that Donovan
didn't make it, he's just so heartbroken. Just
completely heartbroken. The Asian guy, he didn't
care about it at all. Yeah, no. Oh, he kicked
him in the face and he went out the hole in the
plane. Dude, I hate those. Like, that was a really
good plane crash scene, but I hate that kind
of shit. Like, I hate those fight or flight moments.
Like, I don't like seeing humans do that shit.
It makes me so uncomfortable. But it's definitely
what would have happened in real life. Oh, 100%.
but yeah that shit just makes me so uncomfortable
like when i'm watching it but it was a good scene
and i just don't like flying in general like
that's probably my greatest fear is dying like
that and i i feel like it also set the stage
for uh for both the characters themselves right
dylan o 'brien immediately straps in and kicks
off the asian guy without any chatting like get
the fuck off me to save himself while rachel
mcadam's character did try to save donovan right
at the start until he's like give me your fucking
seat which is the craziest thing ever not even
a hold on just give me your fucking seat so i
can survive yeah so she did try to help him at
first but again it was her like fight or flight
she's like no i have to fight for my life here
stab well you know donovan would have just thrown
her off the plane oh 100 the same way dylan o
'brien chucked the asian guy out yeah So you
know what? Fuck Dylan O 'Brien. Yeah, he was
extremely unlikable. He was extremely unlikable
in this movie. Let's just talk about the characters.
This is the only thing I really wrote down. It
takes a lot of skill acting -wise when you can
be as hot as someone like Rachel McAdams and
convince me that you're this incredulous nerd
who smells like tuna fish all the time. Case
in point, Mark Wahlberg in Ted. I was just watching
that pretty recently. He convinces me in Ted
that he's a fucking bum and it's Mark Wahlberg.
I'm like, wow, look at that fucking loser. That
dude doesn't wake up at 4 a .m. to do pull -ups
and push -ups. Yeah. But that was the effect
Rachel McAdams had in this movie. I was like,
ew, what the fuck? She's eating tuna in front
of the CEO? Dude, her loafers. Whenever she has
them off and Dylan O 'Brien's just looking at
them. He's like, oh, my God. Well, his shoes
were something, too. Like, I love when he was
on, like, the beach passed out in corpse mode
when he washed up on shore. And he just, like,
highlighted his, like, Tom's loafers. Like, super
feminine looking shoes. Because she makes a big
case of point to, like, call those out when she's
trying to kiss his ass or whatever. But that's
an ode to her acting ability. Obviously a really
good actress. For me, I felt like it was kind
of like a she's all that moment. Where it's like,
they try to make her look as gross as possible,
but at the end of the day, it's still Rachel
McAdams. They gave her a week on the island and
she put her hair down. And it's like, Jesus Christ.
It's like, if I was stuck on the island with
this chick, I wouldn't do it. It's like, is that
white Pocahontas? What the fuck? I don't know
if you could say that. Well, I mean, she was
making food from thin air. White Sacagawea. Pocahontas
wasn't even doing that. Yeah, White Sacagawea.
Nah, we'll keep that in. But yeah, and then she
comes out of the ocean and she's got that natural
glow and Dylan O 'Brien's like, holy shit. This
girl from accounting won? Maybe I do like tear
fish. well yeah no that yeah he's like i like
this spicy tuna a lot more um we can work we
can work with this uh no i mean that whole part
was a little weird like that whole love triangle
thing was weird i i don't think rachel mcadams
was ever like into him I just think she liked
the power of knowing more than him. But it was
kind of funny because she didn't really know
that much more than him. She just knew where
all the fucking resources were at the house.
That's the same shit as Dylan O 'Brien. Dylan
O 'Brien doesn't know shit. He's just the CEO
because his dad was the boss before him. She
knew how to make shit from wood and tie shit
up, fish herself, all that stuff. I do think
she was getting that like super fresh fruit from
the house for sure. But yeah, no, I just, man,
you just said something that sparked something
in me and now I forgot. Spicy tuna. Spicy tuna
is good though. I do like spicy tuna. Don't know
Brian would have hated me. I love eating tuna
fish. But yeah, no, just go back to your point.
no that that's that was my point like i just
think that it was a bit of an oxymoron how she
perceived to have all this knowledge and then
she really didn't have it that much but i guess
she had a little more she definitely was smarter
than him the whole time like she was she was
always one step ahead too yeah um it's kind of
scary at the end too oh yeah super serious i
mean their fight scene at the end was fucking
insane but we can get to that in the cinematography
the one point i wanted to bring up where you
were like the the love triangle was a little
weird i don't think he was ever infatuated with
her he just wanted to get the upper hand on her
end i think she just loved the idea of being
in control and i think that's what that whole
thing was she calls him like sweetie a couple
times which is her like bird's name That she's
got locked up in a cage, feeds the bird, all
this stuff. It's her only partner in life, pretty
much. And I think it kind of translated into
Dylan O 'Brien where it's like, look, I'm taking
care of you. You're mine. Like, I am in charge
right now. Don't disobey me. It's like doing
the airplane. Open up, Dylan. I think that's
probably where it was going to end up going.
Kind of like Misery. Almost like that. Well,
that's actually probably a good... Dude, I'm
going to pat myself on the back. Yeah, no, that's
a really good comparison. Very similar comparison.
Like, she clearly early on wants to just keep
him as prisoner. She sees the boat. Yeah. And
she's like, oh, my God. Like, I don't want to
leave. But I was like, you don't want to fuck
this guy. Like, why do you want to keep him here?
And at that point, she hadn't committed murder.
I mean, she could have returned to civilization
just fine. But then she just, yeah, she has to
commit a triple homicide to get back to her life.
And then she does. Dude, while it's on my mind,
because you said committed murder and I'm thinking
about that poor little Asian man that she murdered
with a giant rock. Yeah, he didn't even know
English. Dude, one of the funniest parts of the
movie to me was when she's picking mangoes and
the boat pulls up and the fiance's like, oh my
God, Linda, like you're alive. where where's
dylan where's dylan at and then uh she's like
oh god like what am i gonna do she's like uh
yeah i i can i can take you with me she picks
up the giant bag of mangoes and the guy's like
hey we have so much food on the boat right here
she's like no no no no like i need the he's like
oh you really like mangoes huh she's like i don't
want your fucking seed oils this shit's fresh
bro I don't want that fucking packaged food.
Yeah, no, that was pretty funny. And yeah, I
mean, she just carries out that whole Betty,
or what's her name? Kathy Bates character for
Misery. So let's do the cinematography because
I think there's a little bit that we can touch
on here. I mean, you mentioned those pan shots
where kind of, I guess those were time lapses
when he was just slowly becoming more anorexic
on the beach. Yeah, she was like starving him.
um i liked i i mean there's a lot of like quick
pan cameras in this too and like zooming in too
like they zoomed in on the like nasty tuna fish
on her on her cheek or whatever and like they
zoomed in at like some weird yeah to make it
like a point of emphasis and like see what dylan
o 'brien is really lasered in on besides the
fact there's other happening around Yeah, yeah.
And the costume design I thought was pretty good.
Again, they do a really good job of making Rachel
McAdams look mid, which is very hard to do. Academy
Award. Seriously. Mean Girls was a revelation
for me back in the day. It's crazy just seeing
those two in the same actress in completely different
roles. But at the same time, Dylan O 'Brien doesn't
usually play a... narcissist like this either
and i think they did a good job like putting
him in really douchey clothes like the loafers
i was talking about and um there's probably wasn't
there another thing that he had like a or no
i think i'm i think i'm misremembering it like
he didn't have like a weird ring or a a watch
no yeah the engagement rig the engagement like
they zoomed in on that a bunch of times i mean
obviously it was like a rock um so they just
emphasizing how wealthy he is you know showing
things without saying too much like it's clearly
obvious that he is in another class rachel mcadams
looks at her as like a peasant and doesn't really
give a shit about her at all and that's that
whole thing is is depicted just through how they
shoot it which i thought was cool yeah I also,
I'm not going to lie, I feel like some of, there
were quite a few CGI scenes that could have been
taken maybe a little over the top, but again,
I was kind of fucking with it. When Rachel McAdams
is boar hunting, the amount of blood that just
splatters everywhere is insane. It's like someone
just took a giant bucket and just flung it right
on her. But still, I thought it was fantastic.
The fight scene between Rachel McAdams and Dylan
O 'Brien at the end, I mean, a complete Duke
Nukem style fight. He's gouging her fucking eye
out. She's shanking him. I mean, so much shit
is happening. And again, I fucking loved it.
I thought it was great. I think Sam Raimi does
a great job at incorporating horror into whatever
movie he's doing, whether it's... doctor strange
or whether it's the spider -man movies it's like
he he knows mcguire dancing and pointing at people
i mean that's the scariest thing we've ever seen
on the big screen it's gotta be that that haircut
that outfit and the dancing are just the scary
We needed a dance scene from Dylan O 'Brien doing
that dance in this movie. That would have been
good. That would have been the cherry on top.
But speaking of Little Easter Eggs, I thought
it was dope that they had that one way or another
song that's used in Mean Girls to be Linda Little's
theme song in this movie. I thought that was
a cherry on top for sure. no yeah that was funny
and then the last the last thing i we should
probably talk about is like when he actually
dies it just transitions into her hitting a hitting
a drive like with a 350 yard bomb yeah yeah they
use cgi for that too they could have just used
like nelly corda or one of the one of the goats
shout out nelly corda no that wasn't cgi yeah
that's her real story yeah she's pretty good
so let's go let's do the writing i've already
talked a little bit about it like i i i just
wasn't like uh i don't know like the love triangle
thing was a little weird i don't think that was
necessarily a plot hole though i will say just
the convenience of how the fiance and the the
asian dude showed up and just were like instantly
killed by yeah by her was was pretty i i don't
know i thought it was a little too casual how
they did that plot hole wise though i i can't
really think of much other than could they have
actually survived the plane crash with no top
to the cabin when it hit the ocean yeah probably
that was i don't know this stuff happens a lot
like people do survive shit like that so it's
probably not out of the realm of possibility
but um yeah i mean this wasn't a poorly written
movie by any by any stretch of the means like
i thought it it flowed well i just gave it a
7 .7 because i again like very reminiscent of
lord of the flies and other movies like this
like survival aspects play a huge role of everything
so i mean yeah i i can't really think of any
plot holes throughout the movie i would agree
that When the fiance arrives onto the island,
it starts speeding up the climax of the movie
to the giant fight. I feel like a majority of
the movie is just this power balance struggle
between the two. And then once the fiance shows
up, it's like, okay, Rachel McAdams is a psychopath,
kills him. And then it instantly kind of flies
into the Duke Nukem brawl. That those two have.
I think. It's not. I mean it was just comedy.
But like. How dumb do you have to be. To spell
help. H -E -P -L. Like. Come on. They're just
leaning into it. Yeah. No. 100%. It's like the.
Oh. And I fucking loved it. It's like. She's
like. She walks past him. She's like. Hepple.
No. The only. The. I just thought it was what
you were talking. But like. in real in the real
world i just don't think that her character would
have had the same decision making that that she
ended up doing like i get that she's this survivalist
nut who doesn't want to leave the island but
your competition for that what was the job she
wanted like the cfo or the something like vp
or something maybe a vp yeah yeah like her competition
was literally killed in front of everyone's eyes
yeah and if she helped this guy survive this
crash, like there's like no way she's not going
to get that job. You know what I mean? Yeah.
So once she finds the fiance, I don't know why
her motives are all already changing to like,
I gotta, I really got to commit three felonies
here and then get home. You know? I mean, it
all ended up working out for her. So worked out
better for her. I guess she was right. She got
her own book. That's the moral of the story.
But I mean, females are always right. Yeah, I
guess. No, I'm joking. But I don't know. Not
a terribly rated movie by any means. I think
it definitely had its structure. It knew what
it was doing. I don't think it was too long either.
I think it was pretty well -rounded length -wise.
And kept me hooked the whole time. There was
never really a boring part of this movie. No,
I thought it was a fantastic watch. Very entertaining.
was not sad that i spent money to go see this
um i would i would re -watch this gladly i would
re -watch this with this with no i don't want
to pay more money so it's not that i like dylan
o 'brien not that much oh like free dylan o 'brien
yeah free dylan oh free dylan o 'brien is dude
all day but but um no like if someone hasn't
seen this I would recommend this to them and
watch it with them. Like, I would definitely
do that. No, yeah, this is a solid movie. We
gave it an 8 .4 out of 10. So this is a pretty
high score relative to all of our other scores,
which you can find on our website. We'll link
that in our channel. And you can go check those
out. Check out new episodes of Rape Avocados
every Tuesday. We'll be back next week with another
one. Sorry for the hiatus, but thanks for tuning
back in. And we love you. Peace out. Deuces.