What's up, listeners.

So when I recorded this week's episode, I was in the basement of a parking garage with zero reception, which means I didn't have my phone to look at my notes like I usually do, which means I need to tell you the cast and the writer and the director of the movie right up top.

Also, there's a few details about the movie that I wanted to share, so I'm going to say all of that right now.

This week's movie is Bogonia.

Bogonia, written by Will Tracy, directed by your Ghost Lantemos, starring im A Stone, Jesse Plemons, Aiden Delvis Stavros Halkius, and Alicia Silverstone.

This movie is an English language remake of the two thousand and three South Korean film Save the Green Planet.

It's about two young men who kidnap a powerful CEO because they suspect that she's secretly an alien who wants to destroy Earth.

All right, I'm Ronald Young Junior, and I'm leaving the theater.

Where have young girls thinking them?

When will they have?

When will they am?

Now?

All right?

This is Ronald, and I am leaving the theater after seeing Bogonia.

So I'm in a basement with no service.

As I recapped at the top of the episode, let's get into the film itself.

I don't I there are so many things about this film that were fine.

It made me lean in, it made me watch it.

Jesse Plemon's performance is great.

I do not know the actor's name who played Don.

His performance is also great.

And Emma Stone's performance is great.

Performances are great.

The actors all clocked in.

I have no quibbles with the actors.

I don't even think I have any quibbles with Yrgos Lanthemos and his directing style.

He shot this on film, it looked good.

I believed the set pieces very believable, like it made sense.

I felt like I was in that world.

I have issues with the story.

I have issues with watching as much movie as I just watched, only for it to end the way that it did.

And when it ended, I was in a press screening.

Every now and then you'll get some sort of titter or some sort of clap or something from the audience that will indicate how they felt about this movie.

And it was silence for me.

It was stunned silence, as in, I can't believe what I just watched.

I might have wasted my time here.

The reason why that's important and is that important, I don't know.

I don't know if it's important that I wasted time or not.

I guess what I'm saying is watching the movie, getting to the end and feeling like it fell flat.

Really, I don't want to walk out of a movie wondering if I liked it or not, because for me, that's a clear indication that I don't like it.

Because movies that I like and movies that make me think, will often make me think about the parts that I do want to rewatch again, whereas this one, I don't want to watch it again.

It was frustrating.

It's a captive movie, and captive movies are always frustrating to me.

I am always thinking, just get out of there, just run right now, just stab them now, just get on out of there.

And this movie it's not necessarily filled with that, but the approach, the dialogue between Stone and Jesse Plemans felt sometimes excruciating, but not again because of the way they performed it, but because of the way it was written.

And I don't know exactly what the messaging is here.

I just feel like at twenty twenty five to have to watch what I just watched.

I would like some messaging.

I would like you to tell me something.

I would like you to peel back the curtain a little bit and tell me what exactly were you thinking here, because what I'm going to get from the actors is a press tour.

They're going to go around and say, oh, it's brilliant and it means this and that, and it's a commentary on this.

But they're just trying to sell me the movie.

I've seen it now and I'm not going to buy another ticket, and I don't want to see it again, but I do want to kind of digest what I just saw and maybe you'll get point zero one star back.

But other than that, I just yeah, this was hard, y'all.

This was hard, man.

It was even for me painful at times because and I think for me, when it stopped being painful and I leaned all the way in, I felt like it then kind of spat in my face and then kind of rubbed my face in it for a while in a way that felt extremely frustrating.

And there's really no way for me to tell you what happened without spoiling the movie, so I almost want to just and even if I tell you, I just I don't think it's gonna be I think if you want to see this, go see it, but just know that it's possible you might leave pretty frustrated with it.

And yeah, I think it's a short review today, y'all.

Like I that's all I really have?

Is that all I have?

Yeah?

Wow that I'm sorry y'all like this one.

I don't have much more than that.

I just i'd I feel like one two three Cloverfield Lane.

I think it's called another frustrating movie for me because I really liked Cloverfield and I feel like each entry in the Cloverfield franchise is more frustrating than the last.

But X Machina X Bachina one two three Cloverfield Lane are two mysterious kind of captor movies.

If you will.

X Machina is pretty good.

It does a pretty good job.

One two three Cloverfield Lane does an okay job.

I wish they gave me more.

I wish you would get me into the fight like I want to be.

I just want to be in the fight.

When it comes to the Cloverfield movies, they keep taking me away from the fight, put me in the fight, coach, and then this get a captive movie where I I just don't know why I had to watch it.

And the way that you scoring to indicate fear in this film is sometimes jarring.

It's effective at times, but I don't love it.

And there's some acts of violence here that don't feel fun to watch.

And I know that's probably a weird sentence.

What do you mean by that?

I mean you watch some movies and they're like, oh, man, he beat that dude up and threw them off a building, and you don't have to like it, doesn't really hold it up close to you, whereas this one is the type of violence that feels visceral and bothersome.

There's one point where a person does self harm and I knew it was coming so immediately covered my eyes from the way that the character was talking.

And I didn't like that and did't make me feel good.

This movie just it's a feel bad movie.

I don't feel good after watching this.

I have to go think about some stuff and maybe I don't know, you to comfort food or so.

I don't know, Man, this is I have to cleanse my body of this movie.

I just y'all.

Please.

With all that being said, I give it a two point nine to nine of five stars.

It's the story that's bad.

It's not really the construction of the film itself that's bad.

But I don't want to watch it again.

I still liked it better than The Long Walk, which I did not like, So hopefully that gives you some indication there, and with that, Leaving the Theater is a production of Oh It's Big Ron Studios.

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