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Monkey Man

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SPOILER-FREE FOR 28 MINUTES - We discuss Dev Patel's 'Monkey Man'


What did you think of the movie? How does it stack up against other action thrillers?


We also discuss "Kidz Bop" lyrics, spirit animals & MUCH MORE!


Join the conversation on socila media - MACandGUpodcast

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Mac as someone who has younger siblings. You have nieces and nephews. Have you ever come across Kids Bop? Kids Bop? Kids Bop? Yeah? Kids Bop was around when we were kids, ten, eleven, twelve. Have you listened to kids Bop? Uh? Not in a while? Okay? Good, So I have a little Uh. I can't play any music. We don't own the rights to any of this music. Okay, I'm gonna read you the original line from a song, and I need you to tell me how kids Bop changed that line. Okay, can you what's the

year range here for these for these songs? So you know all these songs and I'll tell you which Kids Bop it's off of. Oh that doesn't help me all Mac from Kids Bop twenty four, one of your favorites right right, the song thrift Shop by Mac Lamore and Ryan Lewis you know it? Yeah, of course, I'm gonna pop some tigs. The original line I was in my pocket. The original line from the song is walk up to the club like, what up? I got a big cock? What do

you think? Kid Bop says? I thought he says dick? Did they say cock? I'm looking at cock? Right here. You got a big house? You think? The kids say, I get a big house. Yeah, that's what I'm going with. Lock it in. The kids say, walk up to the club, like, what up? I got a hit song? Okay, good enough? Okay, So you're kind of feeling where they're going with this. It's not bad they avoided the big altogether. I would have just put a different noun in there. From Kids Bop forty

the song truth Hurts by Lizzo Are You Aware of It? Great too? The original line is I'm one hundred percent that bitch. Just took a DNA test. Turns out I'm one hundred percent that bitch. What do the kids say, just took a DNA test? Turns out I'm one hundred percent the best. That's not bad. Actually not the answer. I'm one hundred percent that kid. Oh so they did what? Okay? They do what I wanted them to do on the first one. All right, fair enough?

Okay? Once again? From Kids Bop twenty four, Once again thripshop? Are you aware of the song? By Maclamore and Ryan Lewis Well, there's a lot of line changes in this song. It's a lot of cussing, so probably should have washed. This smells like R. Kelly's sheets. What did the kids say? The kids saying, no, mister Kelly, can I get the line one more time? Probably should have washed this smells like R. Kelly's sheets. Oh boy, I don't know which direction to go

with this one. They're gonna they're not gonna name drop anyone, so it'll be like really broad. Smells like something feet because feet is close to sheet, you're close. Smells like dirty socks. Probably should have washed. This smells like my baseball cleats. Someone really cooked. They heard sheets and they said, I've been waiting for a cleat ride my whole life. Let's keep going. Kids Bop twenty two, Yeah, Nicki Minaj Starships. Have you

heard it? The ships med they can tell that you have. There's a line in the song that says, we're higher than a motherfucker, Higher than a motherfucker. What do the Kids Bop say? Higher that it won't be mother lover, they won't even use mother at all. Higher than Oh I don't know. This one's got me caught up pretty good. I got'm blank on this one where Kids Bop and we're taking over hold on so set so that replaced a lot of words there. Yep. Okay, give me the

Nicki Minaj line one more time. We're higher than a motherfucker. And the kids Bop line is where a kids bop and we're taking over. That's the worst one by far. Hold on to your pants from Kids Bop twenty seven, All about that base by Megan Boom boom boom boom base. Oh. I'm saying super bass right now about that. It's just like, hey, you guys like do wop? I want to bring dou wop back. Boys like a little more booty to hold it nights. What did the kids Bop

say, Boys like a little Oh. Maybe they don't even get into that though, because that's implying boys like something about the girls. They're probably gonna avoid that altogether. Kids like a little more Oh. I don't know, I don't know. Give it to me. I got nothing for that one. Don't let it keep you at home in your room at night. Okay. So trainer line originally is boys like a little more booty to hold it night, and then the kids Bop line is don't let it keep you at

home in your room at night? All right. I never would have got close to that that might be worse than the last. Well, let's keep on going. Let's just do all this all right. We have a short episode. We have monkey Man. This is kids. I have a three year old. I listened to a lot of this from Kids Bop Dance Party, Kesha TikTok, which I'm wondering if they change the line of wake up in the morning, feel like Diddy, because it's not a good line no

more. By the way, I'm very much in on people saying no Diddy, No, I really, I really like that. I've taken to that. Before I leave, brush my teeth with a bottle of jack. What do the kids say, brush my teeth with a bottle of brush my teeth with a bottle of I want to say floss, but that doesn't make sense. It's just that makes zero. It just yeah, before I leave, brush my teeth and then I go and pack. Because you brush your teeth in the morning, you feel good here, hear me out. Now,

you're a parent, You can raise your kid how you like. Just play them the regular fucking song. It doesn't matter. What you've gotten down to is that if they learn about Dix and tits at seven, it makes no difference, makes no difference. It's totally fine. All right. We'll just skip to the final one from Kids Bop two j Lo Jau rule. I'm real. Original line is, what's my motherfucking name? Hard loving and straight thuggin. What do the kids say? Bitch? I ain't doing this shit

for nothing? The kids don't say that straight? Oh my god? What Kids Bop? Is this one? Kids Bop two? Wow? So that's all right. So this came out they were competing with now, way back when, two different audiences. I suppose, completely different audiences. Uh, hard loving, straight thugging, hard hugging, straight, hard hugging, straight loving. That's my loving and all my hugging. You were so close on that. That sounds like a Beatles song. Oh my loving and all my

huggin. That's Kids Bop? Yeah? How about that one? Good? Three? Yeah? Just three? King of Queen and Mail Street Entertainment. Yeah, I do, and I am mad and we are the Mac and Goo program. We bring you redemntion, ooh vengeance. It's a dish best served cold. Today we are discussing the latest. Uh, I don't know what. It's not a blockbuster, so I don't know how you would categorize this movie. It's not a blockbuster. I think it only release that we

were excited for. It only made ten million dollars over the first weekend it was released, Okay, and Netflix passed on it? Question Mark back. Yeah, so a little peel the onion back here, because that's a saying. This movie started shooting before the pandemic, and then it kind of went into some turmoil. Uh and Jordan Peel came in and saved it, and that is in part how it got to the big screen ultimately with Universal, but it was for a moment a little bit dead. Netflix had passed on

it. There are absolute morons for passing on this. I'll say that this would be one of the best, if not the best Netflix movie they've Netflix makes two Ryan Reynolds movies a year and they're the exact same thing. Makes no sense why they pass on this. What we were talking about before the

money? Oh, how did to categorize this? I would say after seeing the initial trailer, this became one of like the dozen or so movies I was looking forward to most of twenty twenty four, And with that in mind, I don't know if it quite lived up to that expectation, but this was a pretty good movie. We are, of course, talking about Monkey

Man, Dev Potel's directorial debut. This is a rted ar action and thriller with a run time of one hundred and thirteen minutes just under two hours on Rotten Tomatoes, Goo Roddie Tez eighty eight percent from the critics, eighty three percent from the audience. Yeah, a crisp seventy one on Metacritic. That all seems great to me. Nothing sticks out there, so I guess I have no bones to pick with either of those two websites. Kid. This

movie is written by Paul stick with me here, Paul and Gonalwela. Paul and Gonalwela, who you would know from nothing? He there's nothing he's done that you would know. Also, Dev Patel was the writer here. The most notable of the three writers is John Colly. He's had a twenty five year career or so you know, master and commander of the Russell Crowe movie.

He also was the right on Happy featgu How about that for a catalog, So it seems like they brought him in because Paul and Dev were kind of an experience as screen runners and I think he probably helped them along. Like I said, this is Dev Patel's full length directorial debut a couple of

shorts before. I will say, and it's not one of the bigger takeaways from the movie, but the movie to me does feel like someone's first time directing in that it felt like this is directed by someone freshly out of art school. They really wanted to throw some imagery at you, They really wanted to throw some dream stuff at you, and like really get across some metaphors

sort of to a fault at times. And there's there's a couple of sequences in this movie where I'm like, this has kind of taken me out of what was supposed to be like a rollercoaster ride of a movie. So that's that's what I'll say about that. Let me ask you a question, obviously, the movie also stars Dev Patateel. I have seen reviews go both ways on this. Do you prefer in this movie alone, Dev Patel the director or Dev Patel the actor? I would say Dev Pattel the actor by a

mile. On the flip side of this, I was just to say the best thing about the movie was Dev Pattel's performance. I thought it was fucking amazing. I thought you're about to ride the fence like Dev Patel. I just asked you for one or the other. I don't think the directing was bad. Yeah, it just felt like someone wanted to use everything they've learned instead of just like spotting stuff here and here, here and there. It's like, oh, look at this metaphor. I'll look at this dream sequence

that's supposed to mean. Like that's what it felt like to me, honestly, Okay, dude. The synopsis of this movie, an anonymous young man unleashes a campaign of vengeance against the corrupt leaders who murdered his mother and continue to systematically systemically I think you go through the one systemically victimize the poor and powerless. Now, with that synopsis, it would lead you to believe that this movie is more quickly paced and uh, there's more action fighting in it

than there really is. This makes it sound like they stole my car and killed my dog and from the get go I'm about to kill and the trailer conveys that as well. Yeah, trailer makes you think this is gonna be what this movie is. There's a lot more rises in Falling, and it's

a lot more ramping up like a roller coaster. Like you might get two two and a half john Wick like scenes, with one of them at the end being a real, real big one, but don't expect that to be the full like, don't expect john Wick three where it's just wall to wall acts. This this is it's actually like a Shakespearean type of story underneath it all, and at times it's what makes you root so hard for the main character played by Devotel. At other times it gets in a way in the

way of the best parts of the movie. I always say it, I don't like action for the sake of action, but you also can't throw an action movie at me and then go from sixty to zero and like really try to get into some heartfelt stuff. When my heart was just racing, got my heart beats at one hundred and eighty, and now all of a sudden, I'm just like, whoa wait, what the hell are we doing in

this movie? Does that? A couple times as we're climbing back up that roller coaster to get toward that big climbax, you are like, when are we gonna get here? And then it does pay off just to get quickly dissatisfactor. It does hit what you wanted to hit. The last thirty minutes of the movie are fucking awesome. I do amazing. I have one critique, and we'll get to it in spoilers. I also have a critique. I have one note. That's it. The last thirty minutes felt like what

the whole movie should have been. Now, I don't know if they could have done that, but at the end of somewhere in the middle of Act two actually, or at the end of Act one, however you want to define it. After the card chase, you're fucking You're like, all right, we're rolling. This is gonna be what this movie is about. And

then we take about forty five minutes off. So while I think that could be shorter, I do think you needed that rebuild to actually get us to, you know, really feel that we've accomplished something by the time that we got to the final act. And also, I wouldn't want two hours of what that final act was, because then that is just John Wick and all. So I don't think the stunts and the way that things are shot in this stand out above other action thrillers to the point of you can do that

for two hours. You needed the other stuff to build the story. I totally agree with you on the in the big picture of things here and I and I even like the fact that the hero gets knocked down and it has to come back, like that story is always gonna work. However, after getting knocked down, there was just too much messiness. And that's what I said. You can cut that a little bit, yes, but you needed two hours of we could have This movie could have been ninety minutes, and

I think it would have been a lot better. There's a little too much of and this is what my main gripe of the of the movie is, like we care about the main storyline, and then there's these couple other things that they throw in there, I think, to try to add some depth to the story, and it doesn't necessarily hit it. It sort of just gets in the way of what we want to see. Here we go.

Bob oden Kirk's Nobody ninety two minutes long. Yeah. Perfect. If this movie was that, it would have been a very similar feeling to that too. That movie's awesome. That movie kicks ass. That was, like, I think my fifth favorite movie of twenty twenty one. I think that came out and let me ask you this, off the top of your head, how many of the uh like the kills in this really stand out to you? There was probably like three or four in that final thirty minutes that were

pretty awesome. Because I have won, that stands out. But if you're comparing it to nobody, like I think of that bus scene over anything in this, the bust scene, and nobody's better than anything of this movie. Even the four Wick movies, there's probably fifteen of them that would really twenty that would pop over this. I also felt like the action was a little frantic at times, like especially the camera work too, But I obviously I

don't want to get too teep into fucking cinematographer. We don't really know what we're talking about. This movie stars Dev Patel as Kid. They don't give him a name. He takes on a fake name in this movie. He's never identified, no real name given to him. Like I said, I thought the best part of the movie was Dev Patel. I think he does a wonderful job. Charloto Copley as Tiger. This is the South African or New Zealand gentleman that runs that fighting ring. Maybe it was New Zealand Australian.

I don't really know something. Let's say South African. Why not. Peto Bash as Alfonso. This was mister Limpy, like the right hand man there of Queenie. I just gonna refer to him as Limpy from here on out. Vippin Sharma as Alpha. This was the trans person at the temple, like the head of the temple aka Alpha, which they play a decent role in this movie, and I didn't mind it, but it's also it was a little much. I felt like we almost get into like a rocky

like mine. They get to a point, so I didn't mind the training of it, but they get to something in the third act. I was like, Oh, this is what we're gonna do with this. Yeah, a little little bizarre for sure. Seconder Kerr as Rana. This was the police chief, for lack of a better term, the villain of the movie. He's a real son of a. Bit A Dthi Calcunte as Nila. This was the mother of dev Ptel's character. I don't know if they ever name her, but that's what her her name is in the credits. So

Bita du Lapala as Sita. That was the sultry young lady at the brothel there, the one that he has a small little relationship. I thought she was very good in it. She was good. Yeah, seemed like an uneessary character, but she was good. Ashweeney Kaliskar as Queenie. She was like the head of the brothel. She was the woman boss whose office was on the first floor there. Makrand Deshpande as Baba Shakti. He was like this religious figure that's sort of overseeing all of it. And then Zakier Hussein

as Tabla Maestro. This was the temple drummer that also played up in this that little montage scene. And I guess the other thing that we should know here or explain to people if they missed it. Hanuman is I guess an Indian deity god. I don't know what you would call it is the monkey man. And that's the whole premise for this movie, the whole idea behind it that his mother tells him the story of Hanuman, and that's how he

seeks his inspiration. Yeah, and you mentioned earlier how you believe that he had all of these thoughts and he wanted to put a bunch of different imagery from stuff that he's seen into this movie and I found on X someone posts this. I'm sorry, I don't have who posted or he who originally posted it, so that perst Pally stole it. Yeah, but there's a shot of the kid with his fist by his waist next to Arthur. It's the exact same image. Yeah, I mean that. I'm sure that happens quite

a bit. Arthur was the first, that's when he hit DW. It's true. D W was out a line though, right d W. I'm not gonna call her what I'd like to call her, but she's an all time one of those when we go to do our best television villains of all time. Oh good addition will be on there. I'm gonna absolutely forget to keep that well there, Who's wors d W or Angelica? Angelica is is? It's a different dynamic because d W is the younger sister who's an annoying

little fuck. I guess for lack of a better where Angelica is older and has more of a power thing, So I guess he's a better villain. Okay, let's get back to monkey Man. Calm down, Uh, you want to get through the gauntlet here? Before we do that, let me get into this is that I went to see this movie Watertown Majestic seven Love

the Theater. I went and I bought tickets while I was there. I did not pre order my ticket, so it was already seven to ten, and the movie was supposed to start at seven ten, so really it's a seven fifteen seven twenty start. And he turned the screen around for me to choose my seat. And what I did, by accident is I thought that I was picking the back row and I took front row center. You are a moron. So as I was looking at my ticket, I'm like,

hey, hey's not in the back. He's in the front. God no. So I went and I picked a seat in the back, and I was asked four times to please get out of people's seats. It was that full, nice, full audience. It was like I was at a fucking sport event though, where it's like, hey, buddy, you're in my seat. It's the seventh thing, and can't you sit over there? You should have just got up and left at that point after the second time, like I'm not going to the front. Fuck that. I saw it a

theater with one other person, same theater. But daytime everyone was out looking at the eclipse. I guess I was watching monkey Man. I did not have that issue because I generally picked the same seat every time it's actually taped off for Mac at that theater. Gauntlet Yeah, sure, all right, let's get to the gauntlet fun factor. I think the fights are solid in this I think they are fun, but I don't think they are up to what Wick gives us, or like the creativity of some of these other action

thrillers. But I think what helps it stick out is that you needed that big build up to get there. It wasn't just wall to wall action. It was let's build up, let's bring it down, let's bring it up. And also at the end of the first fight there, it wasn't necessarily a clean break. It was let's fucking read ourselves. Let's try and figure this out. And that's what leads to a little more excitement, a little more satisfactor in that final scene. Yeah. I had some fun with this

movie. I thought, oddly, there were two or three moments in this movie, which, by the way, was pretty serious of a movie. There's no real lightheartedness in this movie. But two or three times they try to be funny and it fell so flat, Like the Nicki Minaj line not great. Yeah, when he tries to jump out the window and doesn't, I'm like, what the fuck? Like, what is he gonna say? Zoins? Like what the fuck was that? It was? So it was

weird. It felt like there was two or three moments that were like they're like, oh, we're gonna do a little comedic relief, but it didn't fit tonally at all with the movie. It was very, very weird. So I did have fun, but there was the funny, and the funniness they went for did not hit. And I actually do like the fact that you could feel a lot of the pain from the action in this, Like

you could tell that people were getting hurt. I think that's a I don't know if Dev Patel did all the stunts and what not, it did have that very real feeling to it. Though You're right, satisfactor, it takes this smadge to get there, but I think that builds towards the satisfaction at the end. Definitely a satisfying conclusion, And I really liked the last shot of the movie too. I very much enjoyed the ending. It is satisfying

borometer. It takes a while to get there, and while I do like the build up to get there, they probably could have shaved off a little bit in that back end of the second act top of the third For a movie that's under two hours, it really didn't feel like it. It felt like it was two fifteen, maybe two thirty. It just it lost me.

It lost me in that exact moment you're talking about. And I understand the character needs to go through that transformation, that understanding, that awakening, that enlightening that he has, just where they place it in the movie just didn't. It just didn't work because, like I said, you go from this crazy chase scene he's running across roofs, and then all of a sudden, for a good thirty to forty minutes, really nothing happens Halloween. Will

this wane over time? I think it will. Yeah, There'll be a couple like good clips that I'll make it on TikTok, but there's not a ton here to come back. Aually, I doesn't ask you, do you think us remembering that final scene for being pretty fucking cool? Will that make us kind of forget the rest of the movie As we move further away from

it. I think it's it's always easy to forgive movies when the ending is satisfying or satisfactory as opposed to movies that were, let's say, eighty percent of the run time was good and they slip and fall in the landing. I always prefer landing strong awequator. Is it better or worse than twenty seventeen's Aquaman? Definitely better. Yes, it's better than Aquaman Max credit Union. Who are you giving credit to? I guess def Patel because he did everything

and I think his acting is the best part of the movie. So yeah, Deaf Patateel not like a to me. This isn't one of those things where I'm I'm like, oh, you gotta go see dev Patel in this movie. But after watching the movie, it's like, all right, Deaf Patel did a great job, if that makes sense to you, know what I mean, Like, I'm not now going out of my way to tell people to go see Monkey Man. It wasn't that good and he wasn't that good, but he was the best thing in the movie. Do you think

that the villains were too too dimensional? I also didn't know, and so obviously deaf Patel's background his first generation English, but his parents were Indian immigrants, so I also couldn't tell if he was somehow paying homage to some Indian films he liked, or to Indian cinema. For example, a couple of years ago, you loved the movie called RRR, which was patently outrageous. I'd care for it. You loved it. I wasn't sure if this was

trying to do some of that type of stuff. It didn't really, but like the villains were kind of we should have had a dance sequence in this movie that would have really broken it out, that would have really lightened the mood. So you're right about the point you're making. I just didn't. I'm sure it was. It was intentional. Yes, Pants Tent City, Excite bike Mania, What got you going? Did it get you going? It did, but not as much as I thought it was going to.

I loved the brutality of the kill, so we we sort of get the film is brutal, but there's really no murders up until the final thirty or so minutes, and I wasn't sure if they were gonna like half asset. They did not. They full acid. The last thirty minutes. Maybe not full pants tent, but we get pretty close. It was. It was

a fun final thirty minutes for sure. For those of you tarty to the Mac and Goo party, we rate everything on a forty hot Dog rating system and Mac for all of what we just said about this movie, where I do think that it was fun, maybe not as fun as I was expecting with that with that revenge thriller action aspect of it, it didn't quite reach the highs visually that I think wick nobody some of those other movies did. RR had some amazing visuals in there as well. I really do think that

that builds up while long. I think that adds to the final scene and it makes it kind of worth it. It made it where yes, it's a big like, Okay, let's get back into shape, let's find our self spiritually like you said, and it goes on a tick too long. But the fact that you got that payoff, it's a recommendation. Now, the payoff makes it a recommendation. I got it at thirty three hot Dogs and as of right now, second best movie on the year. Yeah,

I don't disagree with anything you're saying. I think we're roughly in the same range. I just I think I have a couple more nippicks or a couple more gripes. The relationship with mister Limpy there like never felt complete to me, Like it was kind of forced upon us and we just had to accept it. But all of a sudden, those characters were really there for each other, and that was hard to buy. But they also are very vague

about the timeline of this movie. So we see at one point that the election is coming up in like thirty four days, so we know the movie probably takes place over like forty five fifty days something like that. I don't know. It was just hard to buy their connection. I didn't care for that. I also felt like that sultry lady there, the lady in the green dress that he speaks to, was he was like, did she reminded him of his mother? Like there was like a weird thing there that they

never really explored. Wasn't she just from the forest? Wasn't she just from I don't know. They don't explain it. Isn't that what the tattoo meant? I have no idea. Okay, I have no clue. He knows what the bird is, but yes, maybe they're from the same area. Maybe that's there, or maybe he just he loves bird watching. It's possible. It's possible. Again, I felt like the couple funny moments didn't hit

tonally, didn't make make made no sense with the movie whatsoever. All that said, the movie does have a good heart here and a good central story the best part of the movie, even though it is a little messy in delivering its message. We can always get on board with a sweet revenge flick and that's ultimately what this is. So it did that good enough to, like you said, be a recommendation. I got a thirty two Hot Dogs my number three movie of twenty twenty four. I was probably a dog or

two higher when I left the theater. But it just the movie ultimately feels uneven, and there are a couple of great things in here. It's just messy. The movie feels messy, and it feels like it was a first time director. Clean it up a little bit, and maybe this is like a thirty six dog movie, maybe in the nobody range. It had that potential, It had a similar feeling definitely from the jump. It just didn't quite get the highs of nobody. Shall we spoil, let's do it.

Spoiler spoiler spoiler. My first, the only note if I was Jordan Peele that I would have gave to him is you leave that mask on, so when you go back, when you go back to the building with your fucking mask on, don't take it off before you get in. At least take out a full fl lore of people with that mask on. I thought that was very strange. He comes down that alley, he has the mask on. I'm like, oh, this is gonna be kind of cool. Immediately

takes it off. Yeah. See, in my head it plays out where he only takes it off when he gets back in front of the chief so that they can see the emotion in each other's faces. That that to me would have been better. But they don't do that. So I will say this the scene prior when he gets back into the bare knuckle boxing and he just kicks that guy right in the throat, that might have been the funniest moment of the movie. That like that for sure. It was almost like

an Indiana Jones. Indiana Jones. Yes, yeah, that's that's what you kind of think of. That was pretty good. That was That was the best humor that they landed for sure. He does a little spinning back kick and knocks the guy out. All right, I'm done so so speaking, so again, quick background here. What we ultimately learn is that this police chief that he's seeking revenge on in vengeance for his mother, murdered his mother

in a fantastically brutal way. He chokes her basically lifeless and then fucking lights her in the building on fire. That is horribly gruesome, so that you're like, oh, yeah, this guy needs to die. On thousand percent. We also find out that the Baba Shakhti was behind it all. He's

the one pulling strings, but we don't. They don't show us that to the end, and they like are just weirdly spotting him throughout the movie prior to that, with no connection between him and deap Ptel's character, and they don't make it explicit that depth. Ptel even knows that Baba Shaki's behind all this. So it didn't make a ton of sense for the Baba Shakti to be like a final at that point. It just seems like the uh, like, let's kill the rich type of thing, yeah, which is fair.

It's just fair. It's just I didn't care for him being the final boss. I did like his little slipper knife thing though, that was cool. I do think that the standout kill from this movie is when he's on the elevator and he's able to finally get the knife into the guy's neck and he can't push it further and he uses his malta. Never seen that before. That. That's yeah, that is the that is the standout kill. I was very very unique kill for sure. Yeah. Of course it opened

with us getting the story of Hanumann from his mother. I like that. I did like the classic like keep your friends close, your enemy's closer thing at the beginning here where he gets a job out at the brothel where all these rich people from the city go. Like, I like that ingratiating himself with these people, and he does that by building this relationship with Limpy,

But again I didn't care for that relationship. And then again the weird connection with Cita, the woman that worked at the brothel, was I don't know. And he overhears the conversation between Cita and Queenie. Presumably she gets pregnant and she forces Ceda to have an abortion, which is why Ceda kills her at the end. Basically like that felt a little off. I didn't.

We didn't really need that or that storyline whatsoever. Uh goo. Yes, he befriends a sweet alley dog at one point in this movie, and he's central to the first assassination attempt sneaking the gun onto the premises. We never see the puppy again. I wanted to have once upon a Time in Hollywood type of situation here where the dog also joins in on the assault, say when the dog walks in with a flamethrower. No, and I do like the fact that he, you know, he had this whole plan thought out.

He had this whole assassination, this whole pretty much terrorist attack planned out for him to go in there and kill this police chief, but he didn't have the balls to do it, and he needed to not only build himself up physically to be smart all upstairs. Yeah. No, I agree. And I also liked the original plan of putting the bleach in the cocaine, so the chief had to go to the bathroom and he corners of them in

there. I liked all of that. That was good. And then that's sort of sort of where we hit the brakes and we end up at this temple. I don't know how they how he gets from the river to the temple, though he gets fucking clipped from the helicopter in the water, and then all of a sudden he ends up at this temple. They find him right how I don't know. Didn't they say that they saw him go in there and then they went and they got him question mark, I guess,

I don't know. So he ends up at this temple with what appeared to be all trans people, and these people have been basically ostracized from the city, from the community, so they've now kind of come to this temple to seek refuge. And since he is now being ostracized he's on the run, they take him in and nurse him back to health. I get why they do that, and it made sense why the temple did that for him. It just went on a little too long there and then like the stuff with

the drummer was fucking weird, like music, it was fine. Like I said, we went from this rising action of the assassination car chase and then we're just down here in this valley for just for too long. It was necessary for character motivations and to make Depotel's character whole. It just happened for too many minutes when they joined the killing and they're all pretty skilled with their weaponry too. Yeah, I didn't see them training or anything. Also weird.

Also weird. And then they one had a sickle like, yeah, that was that was I'm not gonna say jump in the shark, but I'm like, all right, like I can kind of buy this. This is fine. Yeah, but then we get past that. He kicks a bunch They all kick a bunch of ass in that first floor. But prior to that, actually I wanted to make this point. He turns on the gas in the kitchen with the open flame, and there is an explosion in the building. But somehow no fire, no smoke. They just the building's fine.

They just keep fighting throughout the building. Didn't make a lot of sense. He gets up to the champagne room kills the chief of police in a very satisfying way. That was good. Uh. He lets the little political guy escape, which also felt like we didn't need all that stuff that was just kind of tossed in there, or even like like you you don't mean anything, you are pointless to all of this. You're just a puppet. If I don't kill you, you have nothing without these people. Anyways.

Yeah, that's essentially what you gather from that. And then he goes into that final area where there was a pool, I guess where Baba Shakti is. He kills Baba Shakti, but also seemingly he dies there too. It's a little ambiguous, but I like the way that it ended, where he's finally like at peace with himself and you don't necessarily know if he makes it or not. It was a good ending to the movie, like, that's

what his purpose was. And they even talked about what your purpose is who you are, and his job was to not only get revenge for his mother but for his people. Yeah, and he also gives the temple with all that money too, which is like a nice little thing but definitely feels shoehorned in there. Yeah. I liked it. Yeah, sure, Yeah, thirty three ducks thirty Go and check it out. Yeah, go and check

it out. I don't regret paying money to see it. I'll say that let's get into Max Sack and maxak It could be anything that could be a boat in mac you actually have something in your sack. Yeah. I thought about this as I leave a movie titled Monkey Man, in which a man wears a monkey mask and also being a couple months removed from June two, where Paula Trades chooses a desert mouse muadeb to sort of take on his personality

or take on the personality and traits of that animal. I asked you, Goo, Yes, if you had to embody an animal or take on the traits of said animal as your sort of personality, as like a vigilanti or a leader of people, what animal would you choose as a vigilante? Okay, I guess. I guess a bat So what about that? That's fucking with you? I'm not Batman. I actually did look this up earlier,

and I think that I came to a pretty good conclusion here. There is an animal that symbolizes friendship, peace, mischievousness, kindness, and family. Oh what is the honor? The honor? Okay? All right? Yeah? They hold hands with their loved ones while they're floating there. Mm hmm. Creative thing, yes, interesting. Yeah, they're smart animals too. They use they use tools. One of the few animals that uses tools. I put things on my belly when I eat them. That's an acceptable answer.

How how would you possibly fashion? Would you do a mask, an au or mask, or would you have an outfit? Yeah? I would definitely do something that's like kind of slimy that when I dive into the water, I get a little extra zeus. Sure. Sure. By the way, I went through like twenty five animals. What this was one of the first ones I thought of. I think Dolphin's an easy answer because they're smart. But how do you get a convey dolphin owl? For me? Go?

Because owls are wise, they can fly, judgmental, pretty cool. They're also predators as well, and they do the whole neck thing. I don't. I guess i'd probably have an outfit similar to the dude and watchmen. That's that's what I would have. That's a little float and owl vehicle too. Yeah, some others that I took a look at meerkats because they're naturally anxious, so that would be more you and the meerkat are similar. Yeah, that's pretty much the duck billed platypus right right. I'm a fan

of the blue footed booby. I looked into a possum. Why possum I thought they were cool. Okay, you're the first person on the planet to think possums are cool. I almost went with a raccoon, but I'm the opposite of nocturnal. I can't stay up past nine. I do like raccoons also smart. I don't know if they use tools, but they have apposable thumbs. They have thumbs that people sometimes think of them as being monkeys. I think monkeys are bigger than raccoons. No, like they get comparisons because

of their thumb in their brains. Okay, fair enough. I did a lot, a lot of animals in the weasel family. I'd like to have a list. Maybe I'll look it up when we're done here, list of animals that have opposable thumbs. I'd like to see that list. I think it's primates and raccoons. That's it. It got No, I think it's just those. Gotta be more. You can look it up all you want. Like sloths, slap lots only have three fingers. Yeah, you might be right about that. I guess a sloth for you too, because you

look like one. I almost like kangaroo. Kangaroo kangaroos are kind of cool. I don't know I don't know what. I couldn't wear a kangaroo mask though my costume would just have to have a long ass tail. What I think I'm like so Monkey Man also in Dune too, they're not wearing costumes to show up, I know, but you have to embody it in some way. He wears the monkey mouse spiritually all the trades, sort of acts

a bit like the desert mouse. So I was trying to think in that vein, But I'm thinking in this world, if I were good, I would embody something I would naturally have to wear or try to look like the animal. Now, I would wear the mask up until the last possible second and then take it off before the fight. I would take it off beforehand because I know I'd be breathing heavy. That's why we can't see your face, but we can hear you breathing your mac. Right. I looked up

so many fing animals earlier. I spent way too much time on this dumb question. Oh good, you got you gotta get answer though. Thank you? All right, Mac? Where can the people find us? You can find us on Twitter and on Instagram at Mac and Goo podcast. Whenever have the platform. We are Mac Amberson and that includes Oh Mac, Shift seven Goo that includes Facebook, Stitch your Castbox, Spreaker, Google Play, iHeartRadio. We're on Spotify. More importantly, we're on Apple Podcasts. Get on

their rate review, subscribe five stars. If you can do that, we'll get you a free Mac and gooo teacher from the folks over at Watertown Sportswear. That's Watertown Sportswear on thirty four mod Omean Street in Watertown. Watertownsportswear dot com expert screenprinting and embroidery. Te Public dot Com our first check us out at the end of the week for a news dump. I know we got a trailer for Maxine today, We're gonna get one for Joker. Today's Goose

Day Actus, so we'll get one today for Joker. So looking forward to that. Hear us talk about it at the end of the week. Now it's time for we want to do Invincible next week. I would have to watch Invincible. I haven't watched any of season two. Well, I got four episodes, you get eight episodes. It's a lot of episodes. That is eight episodes. I got no time, you got time, you got time. I broke my glasses you wear glasses. No, that's a reference

to the Twilight Zone. Remember when that guy finally had time he could read all of the books, then his glasses broke. That's a different thing. Classes that is also that is from my girl. Yeah, that's actually was at work the other day and we started out just doing a bee reference off. It was pretty good. There's a lot of references to bees in movies and television. Why did you do that? Someone did a story about bees

and how they're all moving to Texas or something. Okay, so then you know you got arrested developments, beads, beesw Yeah, we'll talk about this a little bit on Dump on the Pipeline. We will have an episode surrounding Curby You Enthusiasm him Curby Enthusiasm finale. Couldn't believe he did it. I had a shit eating grin the whole time. I thought it was fucking great. This past season of Curb was very good. Curb got to the point where he could wake up write a Curb episode and it was gonna be good

no matter what. But there were a couple all timers this past season. I only saw the last scene. Do I have to watch the last two episodes. You gonna watch the whole series, the whole series. When when was? What season did you stop watching when they went to Paris? That was my last episode when they went to Paris. Yeah, when him and him and JB. Smooth went to Paris. The end of nine. It might be the end of nine. It was the Michael J. Fowx episode.

Oh that's dude, that's like the end of eight. As the end of nine. I think that's a while ago. That was a really good season too. They just took a lot of time off in between. Yeah, that's when they go to New York because Larry told the guy he was going to New York, so then he had to actually commit to it so he wouldn't go to the fundraicher right. Uh, maybe we could do I don't know. At the very least, we could do like top ten Curb guest stars. I don't know. There's a lot of things we could do

Curb related. Give me like three years and I'll get these all done. Finale was fifty four minutes too, which was nice. All right. So Tuesdays were Guesdays. I Abuse Kangaroos, Tam Burn Bye, please flip the cassette over to Side B to continue the adventure.

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