Matt’s & The Talented Mr Ripley

Talented Mr Ripley

Reegs: I was trying to work out how long it was. It's a couple of months, isn't it? I was well outta practice writing, so this could be shit. Welcome to Bad Dad's Film Review, the podcast that is to film criticism as a yoga mat is to actual fitness. This week we're getting walked all over for the top five mats a segments so transparently thin. You'll be amazed at how much filth we manage to hide underneath it. But don't let the. Pile fool you because we'll be covering more surface area than a lino fitter on amphetamines and getting into more compromising positions than a gymnastics coach at a safeguarding inquiry from the bath mat that's been outside your shower since the Blair government slowly absorbing the failure of your morning routine to the prayer mat mat that represents humanity's most optimistic use of a floor covering will be ranking them all with the absolute seriousness of men who've run out of better things to do. Our main feature takes us to the Italian Riviera and the gorgeous sun drench sociopathy of the talented Mr. Ripley Patricia Highsmith's. Charming little story about a [00:01:00] man who wants beautiful things and beautiful friends and a beautiful life, and is perfectly happy to cave your skull into, get them.

It's basically the Great Gatsby if Caraway killed Gatsby halfway through and decided to wear his face.

Standard warnings apply. We spoil everything with the giddy enthusiasm of someone who's never once considered that. Other people might not have seen it yet, and we swear more than John Davidson at the BAFTAs, except with fewer, fewer racial slurs, hopefully.

So if that sort of thing offends you, there's probably a podcast about organic kale farming for you to listen to somewhere. But for everyone else, let's meet three , men whose identities he wouldn't steal even if you were desperate. Starting with Dan so old, he remembers when jazz was considered dangerously modern, and his capacity for giving a fuck is past the event horizon of a black hole from which no fucks can ever escape.

Not even theoretical ones.

Dan: Thanks for that. Yeah. Nail on the head.

Reegs: Rolled out flat in second place. The man who spent all week on on all fours apparently [00:02:00] demonstrating his technique for getting the creases out. And while I'll take his word for it, that it's the most effective way the neighbors have filed a formal complaint and his knees will never be the same again.

It's

Sidey: Hello.

Reegs: Hello. And then there's me Riggs. Hello.

Sidey: Hi.

Dan: Been a while since we've done this format. Yeah.

Reegs: Yes,

Dan: I know that, you know, people have been in touch and going on Twitter and,

Reegs: mm-hmm.

Dan: Even though it doesn't exist anymore to, to say where have you been? Yeah. Where is your podcast?

Reegs: They were probably spurred on to hear your opinions on the film and your hard done work of getting prepared for the top five.

And your quiz. You've probably

Dan: All that. Well, who knows? Who knows? It's it's not peak too early, but normally we would ask if you've been watching anything.

Reegs: Mm.

Dan: Mm-hmm. Other than the homework,

Reegs: I didn't even see the homework really this week. Apart from I've seen the main feature, but no. Other than that, I did watch the Arsenal in Spurs, but the,

Dan: Ah, okay. Well, Les said the better about football. It's not a [00:03:00] football podcast. People

Sidey: are probably clamoring for a walking football

Dan: there is only walking football to, to

Reegs: What happened? Let the nation know.

Sidey: It was a, it was a sort of a derby match, wasn't it? It was a

Dan: Yeah, it was a

Sidey: Side Derby.

Reegs: Okay.

Dan: side.

Sidey: That's

Reegs: toughest side.

Sidey: So one that brave heroes against those like filthy weasels from St.

Reegs: Yeah.

Dan: Yeah.

Sidey: And we spanked them. We

Dan: It was, it was a.

Sidey: proper.

Dan: It was a four nil thumper on

Reegs: Any goals for people in the room?

Dan: Yes. Yes. There was three between us.

Reegs: Yeah. Yeah.

Dan: And I got the other three. Yeah. But it was a team effort.

Sidey: You know, when you play a team and they're not great. Yeah. So we are second in the league. I think we've got 32 points or something like that. I think we played 12.

One 10.

Reegs: Okay.

Sidey: Okay. They've played 11 and lost 11. And it showed, okay, so we were, we were ahead like early in the game, playing well, and then once it [00:04:00] was clearly game over, we just kind of

Reegs: Eased off. We don't need any, don't need any injuries.

Sidey: no, it's just hard to, there's no challenge there. It's.

Dan: We are like that. Our team, St one's is club. We, we are not, we don't have many 10 nil victories and

Reegs: scored two goals past a

Sidey: when the team had literally given up. Yeah, they gave up in protest the week before.

Reegs: Yeah,

Dan: just one goal. He scored.

Sidey: he got one and the

Dan: I mean, they, they gave up, but they, they were still stood up, so I mean they could still tackle him.

Reegs: Well, next time I think you should put them to the sword.

Sidey: Yeah. So yeah. Good run continues next week. We've got cup semi-finals,

Dan: the good walk. Exciting.

Reegs: And that's at the home of football,

Sidey: of football. Nine 30 I think live broadcast. Mm-hmm. Nowhere to be found. Wow. So yeah,

Dan: Yeah. It, it would be on like Euro Sport 15 or something, wouldn't it? On

Sidey: I've got TNT sport now, so,

Reegs: so it could be on that. We'll have to see if it's live coverage. So next time we come convene, you guys could be playing, you could have your

Sidey: there was [00:05:00] chat and then this could have been like a potential problem for next Monday. There was chat that, and they do want to do this, but they just can't get it organized, is that the semifinal happens at nine 30 and then you go straight into the finals.

So the two semifinals happen concurrently and then the winners of those play each other straight after.

Dan: That would be effectively 80 minutes of walking football.

Sidey: Yeah, we could barely get through 40 of it. But that would've meant that if we had been fortunate enough to won win, it would've been like six.

'cause last time we won the cup, that was a late night, which would've obviously gone in. So everyone was talking about like, right, booking Monday work, that sort shit. But it's not happening, it's just a semifinal. And I was thinking, God, I won't have watched anything like the project on Monday. I might be in anyway.

That's, that doesn't

Dan: So we, we will survive another week. But yeah, it did go,

Sidey: It's tough. It's a tough game though. We're playing Portuguese, so top against second,

Dan: Tough stuff indeed. But that, that leads us really into the films that I've seen. This week, which was MA's runner with [00:06:00] Dylan O'Brien, who is the dreamboat of my daughter. And also the guy that plays new. I don't know that you would remember him res, I know that you've seen this film.

Reegs: I have seen

Dan: he has been in other stuff. I'll try and find out his, his name. He's

Reegs: Is he also a young, good looking actor?

Dan: He's, apparently, he's got the, the most amazing voice and the package between him

Reegs: he's got the most amazing package.

Dan: I'm not saying that because it's my 14-year-old daughter to, to describe these things, but she's in love with Dylan O'Brien, is she?

Reegs: is she?

Dan: And he's such a dream boat, and she was

Reegs: dream boat.

He

Dan: TikTok things on him

Reegs: I think he's taken, unfortunately,

Dan: I

hope he's taken, so then we watched the scorch trials, which was the second one. Not too bad actually. The, the pair of those films

Reegs: I remember quite

Dan: far more watchable than I gave them credit because they've been available for me to watch for years and years, and I just [00:07:00] never have.

And you know, he's no Cameron Matheson as I keep telling

Sidey: Thomas Brody Santer.

Is, is new guy

Dan: new? Yeah. What, who, what else has he been in?

Reegs: Things.

Dan: Stranger? No.

Sidey: Lots of major one stuff. Love,

actually,

Dan: love, actually.

Sidey: Artful dodger, nanny McPhee, the Queen's

Dan: art, the, yeah, the Artful Dodger

Sidey: He is been in Game of Thrones and Finn and Fe. Much the same there really?

Dan: Oh, game of Thrones. That's

Sidey: The Force Awakens, I'm told.

So yeah. Quite the actor.

Dan: Yeah. And he's the other dreamboat in, in my young daughter's life. So we watched those and yeah, there's one to go. It's a trilogy, so I am, I'm gonna watch it. I'm gonna do the full tri log. Did, did you get round to seeing anything?

Sidey: I started watching small profits.

Dan: Ah,

Reegs: Oh, right, yeah. Yeah. You see

Dan: 20 minutes of that.

Sidey: It was good. Like nice. It's nice, I'd say. But you need to finish that [00:08:00] off. That was it. I, I can't remember any other movies per se.

Reegs: No,

just the midweek,

Sidey: both,

Reegs: a pretty lukewarm

Sidey: homeworks for two and a half hours plus. So it was, that was like good chunk of the week.

Dan: I, I did polish off the night manager as well. The second, the second one.

Sidey: And did you watch anything else? That was

Dan: No, that was it. That was on B, B, C and it really didn't finish the way that I thought it would. Okay.

There's going to be, there's going to be a third series.

Must be, unless. Bad. He's just win it.

Sidey: Right. Okay.

Reegs: I listen to an interesting thing with Ted Sorento. He's like the chief content officer of Netflix talking about the merger thing with,

Sidey: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I saw Paramount and

Reegs: I want that to happen. I think because the more

Sidey: they, they accepted the offer from

Paramount and then someone gazumped it.

Yeah. And we're still waiting for the outcome.

there'll

be, well, it'll be just who Trump says who.

Reegs: Yeah. [00:09:00] he, he seemed good though that guy. He talked about want, you know, keeping British writers, British people involved for British content on Netflix, so. Okay. That's good.

Sidey: Yeah. Happy with that.

So I did say in the midweek of, this is Matt Daymond week, we're gonna do top five Matts Yeah. Should we get on with that? Yeah.

Dan: Let's,

Reegs: Yeah.

I might need a cup of tea first.

Sidey: Okay.

We're gonna talk about top five

Dan: What'd you call a man with no arms and no legs sitting on your front porch, Yeah.

Reegs: Very good.

Dan: There you go. I'm ready. I'm ready for should I start it or should that

Sidey: I would say you can

Reegs: one is Matt,

Sidey: Matt in whatever interpretation you feel is appropriate.

Reegs: Yeah, I was gonna try and do, I was trying to do Dan's interrupting thing there on him, but it backfired. It takes obviously some kind of smooth.

Dan: Operation

Sidey: Well, Dan. You know, goes over his extensive notes that he's made.

Yeah. Do you wanna set [00:10:00] the ball rolling Reese?

Reegs: Well, I'm going straight out the gate with it's really more of a rug than a mat, but it did tie the room together and its urination on and theft of by German nihilists initiated the plot of the Big Lebowski. Yeah. Talked about it a lot, but there is a, a good amount of rug content in it from not on the Rug Man to the scene where Philip Seymour Hoffman is conned into giving him one of the

Sidey: he said to take whichever one. Did he say

Reegs: Yeah,

It's just he's walking out. Yeah. Brilliant. And yeah, I think it's good rug content for Mat Week.

Sidey: I've got a carpet.

the magic carpet from Aladdin. It had like, it's got its own sort of character and personification of of a rug.

Reegs: Well, it's got a face on it and

Sidey: but it just sort of moves around and it gestures and when it's unhappy it kind of does like a, my little tea, you know, I little teapot pose

Reegs: Yeah. Pouts

Sidey: And it can fly. Yeah. Which is cool. [00:11:00] And that's one of the like better Disney ones I would say. Not obviously not talking about the Will Smith.

Reegs: I've

not seen it.

I assume it that.

yeah. I assume it also features a,

Dan: didn't just do it for the money, did he? No, no.

Sidey: I

dunno, because I never watched it.

I, yeah, I guess so. Yeah. I'm going for the Robin Williams as Jeanie. Yeah. Proper animated version.

Dan: You got the simbad as well. They, they did a.

Sidey: yeah,

Dan: a, a strong one as well. Matt's painting is often shortened to, Matt's is a cornerstone visual effects technique used to create the illusion of vast environments, sets or landscapes that do not re exist in reality.

And an example of this might be Raiders of Loss. Arc, that

Reegs: shot. A Star Wars man, just Star Wars. It wouldn't exist without Matt

Dan: Well, there you go. Star Wars def the deaf star hangers and, and all those kind of things.

Reegs: you can actually see all the behind the scenes photos of

Dan: The distant like

Reegs: painting

Dan: The distant view of the Enwood city in Wizard of Oz would've been [00:12:00] done the same. And the planet of the Apes, the, the 1960s

Sidey: Wait, that was here.

Dan: With that here, that wasn't, that wasn't Matt.

Sidey: You blew it up.

Reegs: It'll tell.

Dan: Yeah, that. I thought that would've been a nice mat.

Reegs: Yeah.

Nice. It's me, isn't it? Wanted, did you ever see that? 2008,

Sidey: the one where they can shoot bullets like them

Reegs: Sort of Fight Club meets the matrix for, for incel. Yeah. Angelina Jolie,

Sidey: the dude?

Reegs: James McAvoy, he discovers that his dad was member of a member of a secret. So society of Assassins called the fraternity and they could curve bullets and deflect bullets with bullets and all sorts of

Sidey: I don't think that you can actually

Reegs: No, but more, the most preposterous thing about it.

It was like a really obnoxious, but I did a enjoy it at the time. Like really logic all out the window. But its main plot was driven by a sort of secret loom that could predict the future and tell them the people they were gonna kill. Right. So, you know, gotta put [00:13:00] loom into mat week, I think. Oh.

Dan: Why not? Well, Matthew McConaghy, he's been in a, a few films as well. You have to call him Matthew. His mother is apparently.

Quite religious and named him Matthew, not Matt. And so it is like my mom actually, she says, you're not Danny, you're Daniel. Yeah.

Sidey: Yeah. My mom's not a big fan of it, like abbreviating

Dan: yeah. So McCaugh is been in a few absolute belters actually. I remember, I think the first time that I saw him was the. The all nighter film.

Confused. Dazed and Confused. Yeah. And he plays a kind of, the coolest guy who's a bit older than high school kids in town who's got a car and sorts 'em out for a bit of weed and buys them booze and things. And his line was, yeah, that's what I love about [00:14:00] high school girls. I get older, they see the same age and yeah, he was, yeah.

Yeah, it was, an epic film actually. But that was the first time that I saw Matthew McConaughey and then he's been in,

Sidey: see, I would've dismissed him his, like, his whole career up until a point, and then he just started appearing in like really good stuff.

Yeah, True Detective and

Reegs: Magic, Mike Wall Street. He was great in Magic Mike.

Sidey: yeah, yeah,

yeah, yeah. Obviously into Stellar.

Dan: Yeah.

Yeah. That was, that was

Sidey: And it's like, wow, I didn't

Reegs: Buyer's

Sidey: yeah. I didn't realize he was so good. He

he

Dan: of range and

Reegs: You think he was a pretty boy at

Sidey: beginning.

Yeah. That's

Reegs: I saw an amazing thing with him this week. Apparently he's a person who, it was Timothy Chalamet talking about him and apparently he is a person who likes to stand very close to you.

Sidey: you,

No, I'm not into

Reegs: when

he talks and so is Austin Butler. And then they showed a clip of the two of them talking to each other and they're like literally like that far apart, honestly.

Are they squaring up for a fight? Are they gonna

Sidey: fuck personal space? Man, get

Dan: [00:15:00] Space invaders? Yeah. I'm not, I'm not keen on that kind of proximity. But

Reegs: It shows your power and dominance, doesn't it? I

Dan: It does. It. I dunno. It just smell your breath and taste your spit. It's,

Reegs: his breath smells delightful. Matthew

Dan: like a cherry

Sidey: weed, I'd imagine, isn't it?

Dan: Yeah.

Sidey: What about I just got a big long list of Matts Yeah. About some characters. If I name a character, will, you know what film it's from? Matt Hooper.

Dan: Hoops.

Reegs: Oh, jaws,

Sidey: yes. Matt Murdoch.

Yeah. I haven't seen

Reegs: Born

Again. Yeah, I started it and it was really good, and then I just stopped.

Sidey: Yeah. What about. Matt Kowski, you'll never get

Reegs: Who is it?

Sidey: it?

Clooney from

gravity.

Dan: Oh, wow.

Reegs: right. Yeah.

Dan: I reckon. Give me a million years had I got there, but.

Sidey: I don't think you've got a million years in you.

Anyone

else? Feel free to shout.

Dan: Well, I [00:16:00] is there Matti Matt's her name? No. It is Matt, who's shaken, not stirred.

Sidey: Oh, okay.

Reegs: Oh,

Dan: okay. Well look, I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel here.

Reegs: What about Matt LeBla?

He was in friends and the

you.

Brilliant spinoff Joey?

Sidey: We've got the box out of that in, in the asic.

Reegs: Oh, really?

Dan: Yeah. Okay.

Sidey: it.

Reegs: I think fucking destroy it before it takes us all down.

But he Right, I was always not sure about him. He. You know, obviously Joey was really good, but then he's gonna be like typecast. And that character got flounder into

Dan: he did lost in space

Reegs: He did lost in Space, which was okay. He did the amazing, he did Charlie's Angels. He did the amazing 1996 American sports comedy Ed.

Which he plays a talented baseball pitcher opposite his friendly ball playing chimpanzee. It really does feature the line. I'm gonna spank that monkey which is good with his. Bloody red eyes and monstrous, monstrous, scary features. I kept waiting for Matt LeBla [00:17:00] to rip that little kid's face off and rape the chimpanzee, but he didn't.

But he was in, did you ever see it was called episodes with Stephen

Sidey: Yes. Yeah. He plays like was

Reegs: he replaced like a fictionalized version of himself with loads of insecurities and stuff, and he's brilliant in it and it's very, very funny.

Sidey: I really liked him.

And he was the top gear host as well.

Reegs: and he was in top gear as well.

Yeah,

Dan: Yeah. He seems better when he is not acting

Sidey: well. He's,

Reegs: he's very self-aware, I think.

Sidey: I think he was typecast and that hurt him.

Reegs: Yeah.

Sidey: And he's just accepted it and so he is like big into his cars. He has like a racing team and he's just sort of kept himself out of the spotlight really.

It just seems like an or like a decent bloke.

Reegs: imagine, I mean, like women would've thrown

Sidey: Yeah. Yeah.

Reegs: him. Absolutely thrown themselves at him. And he, it deals with sometimes in that episodes thing about his sort of dealing with

Dan: and all that. Well, we, we've all had to deal with that kind of

Reegs: It's hard, isn't

Dan: It's hard, isn't it? It is. Matthew Perry was another Matthew in friends. Yeah. Yeah. And he actually had [00:18:00] probably a, a better, film choice in acting career. Then Matt LeBlanc, not that he blew it out the park or anything, but he did

Sidey: did that, the whole nine yards

Dan: did that whole nine yards.

The whole nine yards. Yeah. And a couple of others, I think,

Reegs: and was medicated to death by his doctor.

Really? I mean,

Dan: yeah. Really sad. I mean, he, he's he, he was, they're all quite, you know,

Sidey: too many enablers.

Dan: Yeah. Talented. I've got a few other, Matthews, if you wouldn't mind mind listening to Matthew Modine.

Yeah. Full metal jacket. Yeah.

Sidey: Private joker

director

Reegs: director in his own right I think now as well, isn't he?

Dan: Yeah. Yeah, I think he is. You've got Matthew Good. He's not bad. Yeah. He did the Watchman, the Watchman Imitation game. And and Downton Arby Sharpy your favorite, Matthew Broderick.

Sidey: Yeah. Love him.

Dan: Yeah. His boy is Char and Ferris Buhler's Day off.

He also did various other eighties films that

Sidey: sure did,

Dan: [00:19:00] Etched in, in our memories forever and

Sidey: haunt me to this day. Yeah

Dan: I like him though. I like Matti Brodick. I always thought he was Yeah.

Reegs: Yeah. He killed someone in a road traffic accident, didn't

Sidey: he?

Sounds about right.

Dan: Okay. Right. Well that, that maybe I like him a

Reegs: Well, I dunno if it was his fault or anything, but

Sidey: I bet it was reading

Reegs: that. You think it probably was where?

Dan: right.

Okay.

Sidey: That's

just the one we know about.

Dan: Yeah. I've

Reegs: a few to chuck out in Star Wars two Backer is called a big walking carpet by princess Leia. Yeah.

Sidey: Yeah. A bit racist I think.

Reegs: Yeah.

Dan: Do you know his name or his name is Matthew. Chew Wow. See, I can go lower. You thought I'd reached the bomb?

Reegs: Matt Berry. Yeah. Gotta be there. Mahari.

Dan: right? Yeah. Yeah.

Reegs: do you remember her? She was a

Dan: fatal.

Reegs: She was a, an exotic dancer who sort

Sidey: me more.

Dan: she was like the spies. Well, fem fatal. Yeah. Yeah. The, the honey trap

Reegs: She was executed by the, [00:20:00] either the French or the Germans, I think The French in the Oh, the, just after the first World War.

Yeah. Because she's to kind of fabric, she's the, i, the sort of honey pot or whatever it's called, where you like, you know, sexually trap a man essentially and get secrets out of him and all that. But

Dan: we've all been there. Yeah. Yeah.

Reegs: whether or not that did actually happen or not, she's been played on screen by Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich,

Sidey: Yeah. All right. Okay. Or

Reegs: and a few others. I got a few carpet rug and matte based film stuff if you're interested in that. Dr. Strange Loom,

Dan: here.

Reegs: Phantom tread the Wolf.

Wall

Street's terrible. Rug Store, cowboy braid runner. And of course, MATTMAN begins starring flees with a spoon. Py McLachlan and Twill Smith.

Dan: Nice. Like that. Yeah.

Sidey: I've got a, a kids one. This is potentially gonna be my noob. It's not anymore. Matt's tracker. Do you remember him?

He was in a kid's TV show, which was one of my [00:21:00] favorites as a kid called Mask.

Yes. Mobile Armored Strike Command. With a K. Yeah. And hes spelled his name Tracker.

TRA double KER. So that's three Ks in there. Oh. I don't know if there's any significance to that. I didn't spoil it as a kid. But seems to be some sort of weird undertones. And then at video game one there is a character called Matt Taylor.

Which

Dan: which we know are Matt

Reegs: know a Matt Taylor

Sidey: be a big worry to everyone.

And he was in a video game called Until Dawn.

Reegs: Oh. I've played that.

Sidey: And I think in We Sports the like end boss. Sort of like tennis and boxing character was called Matt, the me, M double I, that was in We Sports.

Reegs: Alright. Me? Yeah. Matt,

Sidey: so just, just my norm to go, I think.

Reegs: All right.

Dan: Well, I, I'd like to give Matt Dylan a shout because I like Matt Dylan.

He did something about being the Flamingo kid back in the day, which was a film that I really enjoyed at the time. There's that. [00:22:00] Film where there's that other Matt, he's really sleepy all the time.

Reegs: Sleepy Matt, Matt

Dan: Tress, I think his name is. Yeah, I, I can go lower. Matthew Wiener. You might remember

Reegs: he was the creator of Mad Ben, wasn't he?

Dan: he?

That's right.

Yeah. And the ramen offs, he's married to Linda Breer and they have four children.

Sidey: oh, that's

Dan: have all that information. I've got my nom and I'm gonna get in there because I reckon it's also side's. Nom, it's Matt Groaning.

Sidey: No, it's not. That's a good

Dan: Okay. Matt Groaning. He's responsible for the, the Smiths.

Oh, the Simpsons. Yes. Yes. I knew it was an s.

Sidey: Riggs.

Reegs: Oh.

I'm torn between a few, a few, but I am gonna just go for Matt Damon because he just seems implausibly decent for like a really massive a-list Hollywood star.

Sidey: Then he blot I could see is when after

Reegs: a crypto fucking grifter. I know that, but

Sidey: no the one I was thinking of was after Goodwell hunting.

He dumped mini driver on Oprah, didn't he? That was unfortunate.

Reegs: and seems like completely out of character [00:23:00] when you look at

Sidey: Yeah. But he does, he, he does a lot of campaigning for teachers. I think his mother was a teacher, so he does a lot of stuff for education and paying teachers properly and blah,

Reegs: He and Ben Affleck have very smart guys when you listen to them talk.

Sidey: Yeah. And yeah, I mean they've, Oscar winning at such an early age to have been that successful. I know it's Mira Max and who knows what happened. But anyway, yeah, I do. I really like him. Any more to add on that Damon? No.

Reegs: No, not really.

Sidey: My norm is Machu Chu.

Yeah, the place. Oh. Which features in quite a few films, but the one I was thinking of was the Motorcycle Diaries, which I always think about nominating 'cause I really, really like it. Do you remember that one?

Dan: Yeah.

Sidey: the

Dan: Sha

Sidey: shero kind of bio early year bio pick. Never been. I think I would like to go it looks epic.

I dunno if I've, I could barely go through again with

Dan: we should do a,

Sidey: up fucking

Dan: maybe we should do a pod from there.

Sidey: Yeah. I'm, I'm up for that. Yeah. So there we go. We need two more

Reegs: we need two more. We need two more mats. If you're still listening, maybe you can give us a mat.

Sidey: right. Should we go into the main film?

Reegs: Yeah, I [00:24:00] suppose.

Dan: No.

Reegs: So you had never seen the Talented

Sidey: Mr. I had not. And it wasn't

No, it is true. I did deliberately dodge it. I did. You did? Yeah, I did deliberately dodge it.

Reegs: Oh man. I'd seen this near the time it came out, and this was probably the third time I've seen this. I knew it was quite long, but I knew it was really good.

Sidey: Dunno what it, I couldn't tell you specifically. I like Matt Damon liked Jude Law. I didn't know that Philip Seymour Hoffman was in it till I watched it this time. I did know that Gwyn Power was in it, but that didn't, that wouldn't stop me watching something necessarily. Kate didn't know she was in it till I watched it this time.

So I dunno. I just, I sort looked at thought. Don't fancy that. Yeah. But anyway, I've seen it now

Reegs: 1999, auntie Mella,

Sidey: who was the producer of. Margaret. So when I saw his name Crop Over the Stars, I was like,

Reegs: Okay. There's not a mark of quality for you really. It's a sort of noirish psychological thriller. Yeah. About stolen identity.

Yeah. And it's based on a series of books by [00:25:00] Patricia Highsmith about the character Tom Ripley. the charming, psychopathic. Protagonist, and it starts with a scene just of Tom Malone in his room and sort of, it starts with like fractured bits of the, the scene popping in. So we're already getting that theme thing as it reveals his face.

And then you get the, a sort of freeze frame with the title that comes up and all of the words going past, like, you know, sensitive, mysterious, tender, et cetera, et cetera. And then it settles on talented, the talented Mr. And we are in New York City in 1958 and we meet our character Tom Ripley.

He's just been, see, he, he, he gets into a discussion with the wealthy guy. What was his name? Herb.

Sidey: Herbert. Greenleaf.

Reegs: Greenleaf, yeah. And you know, he's immediately. He spots his Princeton jacket and he's like, oh, you know, you must have been at Princeton with my boy. Do you know, Dickie and all this sort of stuff.

And he's just beaming to be seen in the light of this wealthy guy. And you know, he sort of plays along [00:26:00] with it. And then afterwards we see him, yeah. Well we see him just the jacket, the Princeton jacket that so caught herb's attention was actually borrowed from

Sidey: Yeah, it's a grift.

Reegs: and he's a, he works in the kitchen and an opera house sort of

Sidey: This was giving me sort of good world hunting vibes. 'cause it's, you know, and now he's the janitor who pretends to, not pretends to be like, goes behind the scenes and does the, it was sort of like the same, you know Yeah.

Solving the, the problems on the blackboard and whatever. Yeah.

Dan: But her, but yeah, he, he kind of asked him to travel to Italy to bring back his son, doesn't he?

Reegs: Yeah. I mean, you can read that off Wikipedia if you want, but we did actually watch it so we could talk about it on

Dan: I I, well, I have seen this before, although it has been a while.

Reegs: Yeah. So he, he does get into this conversation eventually with, with herb about Dickie, who's his son, who is out in Italy.

And would he go back out there to, to kind of. Reign him in. He's a party

Sidey: boy.

I pay you a thousand bucks,

Reegs: a thousand [00:27:00] And so he sees this as his sort of opportunity to climb the social ladder,

Sidey: he? Yeah. And

Reegs: He does agree to it. And on the way you see him already, like practicing in his room to, to sort of the facade.

He starts to find out, oh, what would he be interested in? The

Sidey: music? Yeah. It's almost like research and stuff.

Reegs: Yeah. The music, he might like, the way he might style his hair all this sorts of stuff. And he practices it on the trip out there. He's because the, the man, the old man is bankrolling this whole trip out there and he meets Kate Blanche.

Meredith Luge or whatever her name is, and he pretends to be Dickie Greenleaf, this guy that he's going to meet undercover, traveling incognito under his mother's maiden

Sidey: which is quite handy for later on.

Reegs: Yeah, really handy for later on. And so, so that he can travel sort of not completely first class and a bit under the radar, and she's like, oh, I do the same thing sort of

thing.

oh, Shuttery.

Sidey: [00:28:00] She's like, oh, having money is such a, oh, it's so difficult.

Reegs: Yeah. So he goes out and he finds them in Mji Mji. They keep calling it, but Mji Beo it says, and he sort of sets up a meeting with him, doesn't he? He goes onto the beach. He's white as a milk bottle, and it's the beautiful people there in

Sidey: it's one of those beaches where you are just side by side. Everyone on the sun lounges. There's no like bit where you can go off on your own. You've just gotta find a spot and cramming next to them

Reegs: and everyone's tanned and looking beautiful and budgie smugglers. And then out comes Matt Damon in these like. Neon yellow. He He's buff as fuck.

Yeah, but he's white. I mean, he's like, you can see through his skin to his heart almost. And he sort of fake, like runs past, oh, ha ha. It's actually a really clumsily orchestrated first meeting as he sort of pretends, oh, is that Dickie? Oh, and I, you know, we went to Princeton. He's like, do I know you?

He's like, well, I know you so of course you know me. And then suddenly he's in.

Sidey: I think Dickie doesn't wanna. Sort of lose face [00:29:00] if not recognize himself there. 'cause he just sort of goes along with it.

Reegs: Well, and also he's just like, he's got like a DHD or something. I mean, he can only focus for about five seconds on one thing before

Sidey: on to the next

Reegs: So yeah, I dunno. He's at first like trying to dismiss it, but Matt, Tom Ripley kind of gets into Marge, doesn't he? And sort of flatters her and she invites him, oh, come round for dinner afterwards. And a little bit to thingy's reluctant.

Sidey: Yeah.

Reegs: But he does go for dinner, and this is where he does end up carrying favor with him because he immediately confesses to him what he's doing there.

He says, oh, my father, you know, your father sent me out here to bring you back. Yeah. And you know, so being truthful sort of disarms him. Yeah, a little bit. And they do end up having a bit of fun, especially when he finds out that he likes jazz and you know,

Sidey: he's a saxophonist.

Reegs: Who Dickie.

Yeah. And by the way, he looks amazing, doesn't he? Jude Law did

Sidey: did you see his dick very, very briefly as he go out the bath in that scene?

Yeah.

[00:30:00] Yeah.

Reegs: So as soon as he discovers he likes jazz, they go off on this absolute bender to this club in, in Rome, I think it is. And they sing this crazy Italian song about how cool it is to be an

Sidey: Oh, I hated that bit where

Reegs: America.

No,

Sidey: Oh no. There's a bit where it is like. He could tell he is lip syncing. Yeah.

Oh, I

Reegs: And he also, the other way he does it, he, he says to him, it's really good. He says he says, oh, what are your talents? And he says, oh, forging signatures, telling lies and impersonating almost anyone. And then he does this like dead on impression. Well, in the movie's logic, this dead on impression of his father James re porn, who has got quite a distinctive voice.

And it is a, quite a good impression. But the a DR ruins it 'cause the the audio like dubbed afterwards sounds terrible anyway, they, they strike up this great friendship.

Sidey: till Freddy.

Reegs: Yeah, Freddy turns up

Sidey: Philip Seymour Hoffman's character.

He's this sort of real, kind of dandy womanizer. I think he turns up straight from,

Reegs: he turns out he just parks his car [00:31:00] in the square, doesn't he like walks out and it just gets one of their bottles of wine and like

Sidey: chins. Yeah. I think he says he's just come straight from the bedroom of some woman. Yeah.

Because her husband was turned up or something like that. And you're like, well, okay, this guy is pretty full on.

Reegs: And they're so, they're obscenely wealthy and all of them mooching off their obscenely

Sidey: wealthy

trust fund kids, aren't

Reegs: and parents. Yeah. So you sort of, you are watching this guy ingratiate himself into their lives and you don't really give a fuck that.

screwing them over because they're all such vapid people.

Sidey: Mm.

Reegs: So it's bad for Tom because they've obviously, he, he's been absolutely like making sure that Jude, Lord Dickey is his like best friend forever. And then obviously Freddy turns up and he gets pinned off. Yeah. And there's a weird moment where he's sent off to go sightseeing and then goes back to the hotel and tries on his tuxedo

Sidey: gets caught

Reegs: and gets caught and he's like, oh, I was just having fun.

Sidey: He said to, he said, I think he was gonna borrow something. He said, you said and, but he's literally like, it's sort of like Buffalo bill [00:32:00] driving around and then, then there is that bath sequence, right?

Yeah. Because then you, I don't know. To me it was like, then it was like really clear that he is fucking obsessed with him. And there's

Reegs: also been as well, and he watches him. Fuck

Sidey: They, they fuck on the, on the

Reegs: and 'cause Freddy goes, is that his name?

Freddy. He's like you peeping Tommy.

Sidey: He just keeps saying it

Reegs: He keeps saying it

Sidey: is just still staring at them. Yeah. And then yeah, they had

Reegs: you didn't know whether he wanted to be fucked or do the fucking, or. Yeah.

Sidey: They had the sequence in the bath. It's just the two of them in Al Deba and,

Reegs: Yeah.

And,

Sidey: Dickies

in the bath.

Yeah.

Tom says, oh, I'm getting a bit cold. Like, if only I could get in. He is like, what the fuck? No.

Reegs: And he's like, oh no, I didn't mean with you in it. It tries to brush it off, but it's like the most homoerotic I was jacking one out,

Sidey: Yeah. I was rock hard.

Reegs: And he gets up and you do sort of see the outline of his dick as he walks out the bath.

Sidey: Yeah. If this is Saltburn, he'd have been like drinking that water,

Reegs: but as, yeah, but as Marge says to him you know, Dickie's attention, it's like the sun shines on you and it's glorious, but then he forgets you and it's [00:33:00] very, very cold, because that's what Jude law's character is like. Dickie, he, you know, he.

Sidey: just

Reegs: you all of your attention for, for a month or whatever, and then you're gone done to next thing we're going skiing or whatever so they come back from that trip to Rome and this is where they find that that woman has, we've seen him having a dalliance with sna.

Sidey: Yeah. It's some sort of festival going on. A religious festival. They carry thing.

Yeah. They're carrying the Madonna through the water. Yeah. And everyone's cheering. It's big. You know, the whole town is there kind of cheering this, this ritual. And then someone starts screaming and we see the, the lady wash up. Yeah. Into the bay. Clearly drowned. And it's this lady and we, it's the camera kind of focuses on Dickie's reaction.

Because he's knocked her up.

Reegs: Yeah. He's obviously really disturbed by all this. Yeah. And, I think Tom also, he's seen them as well, so he knows about Sisa Dickie and he's like [00:34:00] swears him to sort of secrecy

Sidey: it.

Mm-hmm.

Reegs: And then it sort of all. Comes to a head because if finally the father has got bored of Tom's, like stringing them along, oh, we're gonna try and bring him back and sort of cut him off, not cut him off, but graciously said, right, your services are no longer acquired. I'm no longer gonna bankroll you. So it's over.

The fun times are over and they're gonna part their ways. Dickie says, Jude Law says, oh, let's have one mo last trip in, in Rome, or whatever it is, and that's it. We'll, part ways and So they do go out. Oh, it's to San Remo, isn't it? And they take this like tiny little boat out, just a pair of them.

And there's loads of tension brewing because, jude law's clearly bored of Tom, and as he tells him, he doesn't actually even really like him very much. Finds him, you know, dull and no taste and he started to work out. He's like, who you even are you, where did you come from?

Sidey: Like, you're only here because my father. That sort of thing. But

Reegs: And also you've clearly got no idea about money and, you know,

Sidey: yeah. He starts getting a bit classy.

Sounds

Reegs: getting a [00:35:00] bit clued in as to what's going on with so it escalates and escalates and escalates and he ends up fucking twitting him with an awe of the.

Sidey: Tom hits Dickie. Yeah. Yeah. And it's quite gruesome. He is. Got a big gash in his head and he tries to fight back. Yeah. And he is on top of Tom. The blood is just like pouring down out of his wound and eventually Tom has overpower him and then we just see him pumble him death with the, and then they, they hug and then

Reegs: and then he lies down with him because there's

Sidey: puts his arm across

Reegs: he tried to sort of cuddle him while he was asleep on the train earlier because he is obviously so in love with him.

And now is this the only moment in his death he can, as the blood is pulling around with him, he sort of spoons into him, doesn't my God.

Sidey: So horny.

Reegs: Yeah. So he goes back to, he, he, like I can't remember what the fucking word is for it. When drown a boat,

scuttle, He scuttles the little boat that he's got and he goes dripping wet back to the hotel that he was staying at and the concierge [00:36:00] mistakes him

Sidey: there had been, he'd done it before,

Reegs: Yeah. There's been a thing a couple of times where they, they don't really know who is who. It's just Dickie and Tom, Tom

Sidey: Dickie. And when you see the passports, then it's the photo. There's no laminated bit. It's just a photo like pri sticked onto a bit of paper so you could, you know,

Reegs: and his is well worn because it's been used going across Europe and, and all sorts.

So he's like, oh, it's Mr. Greenleaf. And he's like, no. Then suddenly he's like, oh yeah. So he comes up with this sort of scheme to check himself into both hotels as both people, and then sort of persist the

sends messages for one and the other so that the police will have some sort of record of that, of them coming back and and he's, we've seen earlier him. Under the guise of analyzing, you know, psychoanalyzing his handwriting. He's stolen a sample of it and his signature. So he's able to now sort of forge documents and get money basically from, Dickie's father that he can [00:37:00] cash the checks for. Yeah. So just starts living his life now as Dickie

Sidey: and telling Marge that yeah. Mar is like, this is just a Dickie thing where he's gone off and done something else. Yeah. And just abandoned her.

Reegs: Well, Tom can tell her that. So she sees him and Tom, you know, the Tom, Mr. Tom Ripley tell, oh, he's gone off. We had a big argument. He's gone and done his thing. But otherwise he can live his life as Dickie kind of like wearing his rings, wearing his clothes, wearing his hair differently, that stuff.

Sidey: Well, Freddy's gonna rock up, isn't he?

Reegs: Well, it's, it's all sort of going quite well, isn't it? He's spending loads of money, but then he goes, he meets Kate Blanche's character again. They go to the opera and it starts getting a bit like, now Marge is there as well with

Sidey: Yeah. So he's there with Meredith as, and she already knows him as Dickie. And during the interval they go out and he sees that Marge is there with this other guy.

Reegs: Yeah.

Sidey: As spooked. So he [00:38:00] does a runner.

Oh no, he talks to them, doesn't he? He keeps

Reegs: he

Sidey: far enough

Reegs: apart. Yeah.

He talks and arranges to meet them for coffee the next day. Marge and Peter, who will be Jack Davenport from this life and I think the Pirates movies, was

Sidey: yeah.

Reegs: And super gay in this one. And so he meets arranges to meet them for coffee and then he arranges for, he sneaks off with Meredith on the excuse that as Dickie, his fiance, his former fiance is there and it's too much for him. And he arranges to meet her at the same time in the square. And you're thinking, what is he doing here now?

'cause he's arranging two different people who think he's two different people to meet at the same time. But it's quite clever, isn't it? He gets them to meet. So when she turns up she

Sidey: she was there with. With Dickie. fuck,

Reegs: just missed him. I can't believe I've just missed Dicky. And also then it suddenly gives him an excuse not to be there in Meredith's eyes.

'cause she's like, oh [00:39:00] right, well he's not gonna turn up 'cause Marge is here. So quite clever. So she fucks off and they, the conversation leads her to believe like he's gonna get back together with Marge.

And so Meredith kind of goes off a bit heartbroken. And then he goes to talk to. Mar and Peter and you know, sort of smooths it all over sort of thing.

And then like you say, the next bit of risk. So, and throughout all of this stuff, you are mostly willing for him to get away with it?

Sidey: Yeah.

Reegs: mostly

Sidey: a hundred percent. So he, he's staying obviously. I can't remember if this is in the grand or in an apartment anyway Freddy turns up expecting Dickie to be there Yeah. And is banging on the door, blah, blah,

blah. And

Reegs: well, he's spoken to even the Italian

Sidey: the, the Landlady's there. He said, I know you're in there.

I know you're in there. So eventually he opens the door and has to sort of spin a yarn. You know the lies, just have to get more elaborate all the time.

Reegs: you just missed him. He's at this, this

Sidey: And sure. The landowner, he said he [00:40:00] was here. He is like, no, no, no, no, no. Anyway, he goes, Freddy leaves in on the stairs.

He's speaking to Daniel. He goes,

Reegs: but Freddy has already sussed it. 'cause the conversation when they're in there. 'cause he's looking around it, he's like, this is really, he's like looking at the choice of decor.

He is like. It's not right. Your bourgeoisie basically is what he says bought all this ostentatious stuff. You don't re you don't wreak of real money. Yeah. Basically.

Sidey: And on the staircase, the landman says now there's Dicky there and Tom's like looking over it gets caught. So you know what's coming. 'cause they've already had this scene with the, with the bust on the, and I was like, that's. Definitely gonna be the

Reegs: Check off's gone.

Sidey: Yeah. And when he comes in, he walks through the door and wallop just fucking cracked over the head with his bust,

Reegs: beats him to death with this bust of David, I think it was.

Sidey: it's like a weekend at Bernie's moment now where he has to like try and get rid of the body.

So he does it in like, I think it's early evening. Takes him down the stairs, you know, arm round him and a couple see him and goes, oh, he is had one too many. That

Reegs: he makes quite a big show of being seen by that couple. So it can be like, they can give [00:41:00] their, 'cause he's so clever that way, like always thinking ahead

Sidey: And then it's just him and Freddy and his convertible as they drive away. It's just like dead guy.

Reegs: And he goes and hides the number plates and all sorts of stuff for, for happening later. So after all that, he then he creates a, he writes a suicide note from Dickie to Tom basically saying, oh it's, he, he confesses about Sana and confesses for killing to killing.

Freddy. Yeah.

And then just fucks off. Yeah. And then Tom leaves that in his Dickies apartment with his old passport and then travels as Tom now out to San Remo. Is it? Yeah. Oh no. Where he goes to Venice. He goes, he goes to Venice. He meets Peter in St. Mark Square, and then Peter takes him to see the local police who, who want to talk to him about what's going on and what happened in San Remo when they were in the boat. And he [00:42:00] ends up going downstairs basically. He's cut a long story short.

The police guy you think is there to give him grief, but it's basically only there to corroborate the suicide story. And he presents him the note, which obviously he wrote, and he has to pretend to shockingly read and act really offended when he's asked if he might be a homosexual. I thought it was a bit, a little bit homophobic, this movie, but maybe it's just product of its time.

I'm not sure. Anyway, so he does, he basically just gets away with it.

Sidey: Not only that he's given, I think he's bequeathed a lump sum of the trust fund.

Reegs: Yeah. So

because it's all drawing close, he's his father. Dickie's father turns up and he's like, hired this fastidious, private detective and you're a bit like, oh shit, this guy's gonna uncover something.

But all he's uncovered is more evidence that Dickie was a lying, cheating scumbag, basically. And it's tied into an earlier thing about he was violent with some kid at school. So they basically just wanna hush it all up. They think. Actually, this definitely did happen [00:43:00] like this. He did impregnate women, he did beat him to death and he's just gonna pay him a stipend or whatever to live lovely comfortably for the rest of his life out of the trust fund.

That would've gone to Dickie

Dan: to ensure his silence. To make sure he is,

Reegs: Yeah. So,

so,

Dan: he gets away with it. The perfect murder

Reegs: He does.

Sidey: Done killing yet though.

Reegs: No, he isn't. But he is free to be a bit more himself. Right. So the next, more, next times we see him, he's like hooked up with Peter, basically.

Sidey: Yeah. They're going to Greece.

Reegs: Is that where they were going

Sidey: on a, on a cruise? Wouldn't you know it Meredith? Happens to be there,

Reegs: but it, it does make sense 'cause they all move in the same circles, don't they? And

Sidey: I guess there wouldn't be like millions of cruises, you know, there's just for the hoist anyway.

She is there. They have a little smooch. Yeah. And he promises to catch up with her later on. And Peter's seen this.

Reegs: she thinks he's Dickie again and Peter knows him as Tom

Sidey: Peter's seen this once answers and the answer is, I'm [00:44:00] gonna fucking kill you.

Reegs: Yeah, it's done really weirdly, this scene. So they, they, first they're lying on a bed talking and it's fairly romantic sort of thing.

But then it actually, the, the cuts to Damon just coming in into an empty room and he's sitting down and you can see his face reflected in all the various mirrors that there are in

Sidey: Mm-hmm.

Reegs: And you hear the voiceover and basically as they're having this talk about how much he loves him, he just kills him. Strangles him.

So rather than you know,

Sidey: he

is at the point where any kind of loose end, anyone who knows anything will give the game away. He can't have that. So they've gotta go and Peter is dead. Yeah. And he just sits there alone.

Reegs: Yeah. And then it ends like, as it began with him just sitting there, like you say,

waiting, but

Sidey: for all his getting away with it. Oh my he's still alone. Yeah. He can't really ever. Yeah. You know, enjoy the spoils

Reegs: And it's weird as well because it's so much a story. I mean, other than all of [00:45:00] the like psychotic stuff, it's kind of about unrequited love, right? 'cause everybody's in love with people who aren't in love with them. Apart from Peter and Tom, who it looks, the movie does make a plausible attempt to say these two do actually love each other at And he has to sacrifice him to maintain that

Sidey: Yeah.

Reegs: I, I enjoyed this. I thought this was really good. I. Great style. The music's really good. I think. Matt Damon is brilliant in it. I mean, it's old as well though, this movie, right? It's,

Sidey: Yeah. It just felt old watching it,

Reegs: felt old watching it, some of the dialogue and I still wondered whether it was a bit homophobic stuff.

It's good story is good story. So and,

Sidey: there's loads of stuff about how like homosexual, especially homosexual men are portrayed on screen normally, like a villain or a monster or

something.

Reegs: And it always being something they're trying to hide and then force on you or something. Do you know what I mean?

Dan: Well, no, I, I remember having seen this film before a few years ago. Mine, I didn't watch it again for the pod this week. Partly [00:46:00] because I didn't really enjoy it the first time around, and maybe it does deserve a, a second viewing.

I know that you've, you've enjoyed it there and the plot as it's laid out and the potential of it, I thought, you know, would hold my attention and, and make it really kind of, it enjoyable. But I just don't remember connecting with this very much and not really doing that much for me. Matt Damon was, I dunno.

I just, I don't think I very much liked him in this, in this film.

Sidey: I think weirdly he's the most like character you're rooting for. It's a murderer.

Reegs: job of you putting you in the shoes of wanting a, a murderer to succeed.

Sidey: Like. Jude law's, character's so awful. And I'm supposed to feel bad that he's been killed and I don't feel like one single bit remorse.

I was hoping the more people would die. Certainly happy with 'cause he was a fucking pain in the ass. Peter, you didn't, you didn't want Peter to die necessarily. Would've been happy if Marge died. I was sort of on the fence. I didn't really. [00:47:00] I did like Matt Damon in it, and I saw, you know, it's clever the way he, you know, you can see that his schemes, when he was doing all the, the calling each reception to leave a message, I was like, oh, this is good.

The way he's like, clever about how he's like doing, working the system to get leave a like a little

Reegs: and I think his physical transformation, his posture and voice that he changes as he sort of inhabits the different characters is really good as

Sidey: Yeah.

Yeah. Nice to see some dick.

Reegs: Yeah.

Sidey: always happy with that.

Reegs: It's a lot of movie because there's like the bit of the movie that is his friendship and builds up to the climactic death. That's quite long. That bit. Yeah.

Dan: I rem I remember thinking as well, this was probably

Sidey: I sort of knew that that was, obviously I knew like talented, but he's, he's gonna like impersonate someone.

I, I di, I dunno if I knew going into it that there was gonna be a murder. So it does take quite a long time. Yeah. For that to happen. But he'd been so fucking irritating and like, annoying, rich person. I was fucking delighted when he got killed. But no good. Don't like what happened, ever happened [00:48:00] to Anthony Ella. He didn't seem to do much. More, I, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe just maybe went transit, just theater or, so, I dunno.

Reegs: I read today that Jude Law, when he went to, when I think it was 18, he went to some Academy of Drama and Music and they thought he was a girl because of his name. So they assigned him in the girl's dormitory and he didn't tell anyone for a year and lived, I know it's lad lad lad.

Sidey: He's in great nick in this.

Reegs: He looks amazing and he, he's a

Dan: Prime Jude. Really?

Reegs: And there's a lot of stuff. There's like singing and playing the sax and there's being murdered and it is quite a big role in, you know, lots of stuff to do. he's gone off the ball. You never see from him anymore, do

Sidey: he?

Oh, I saw his name crop up on something recently. Yeah. Oh, is he gonna be in No, that's Ryan Gosling.

Dan: He was playing a sheriff in something on Netflix

Sidey: and it was in that. Star Trek star Wars series. The one that's really, really kiddie orientated. One, wasn't he one of the,

Reegs: Oh, was it the newer

Sidey: A Rogue Squadron pilot or [00:49:00] something?

An X-Wing pilot. Anyway. He was like a good portrayal of someone who's dickhead, you know, is an asshole. Yeah,

Reegs: it was interesting watching because obviously it's 1958, nobody's got a mobile phone, so a lot of this, like the plot would go away, like

Sidey: couldn't get away with a lot of this stuff

Reegs: now, but yeah.

This one, you, you absolutely.

Dan: well you just show a photo of Dickie, wouldn't you?

And go, that's not him, that's Tom.

Reegs: About what I suppose with AI and that sort of, you know, text to

Sidey: Well, we're probably getting into the era now where it'd be easier to do stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well in that case, strong recommend,

Dan: strange days. Indeed.

Sidey: We've got to do an outro.

Reegs: Yeah. We haven't done one of those in a while.

Sidey: This is the outro.

Dan: Dan's gone. No. Is it? Do

Sidey: We need noms. Sorry that you didn't hear from Chris this evening, but send thoughts and prayers because he's not very well. He's got a virus. Pray

Yeah, pray for Chris.

Reegs: You,

speak, are you gonna pick next week?

You gonna watch anything? Yeah. Yeah. Nice. Okay, good.

Dan: That's, that's word forward to

Sidey: great. I look forward to it. Alright. I was [00:50:00] almost oh and two for my norms, but I think township, we've got

Reegs: liked

Sidey: got enough likes for that. Yeah. But Margaret, I, I was lukewarm, so Matt,

Dan: Matt week.

Sidey: Matt, I say Matt just about breaks even.

Yeah. And all that remains is to say Sidey signing out.

Dan: Dan's gone.

Reegs: And Regs also has