Blink Twice (2024) | WiG: Gut Reaction #102

gut [Music] reaction hello H nerds and welcome back to the salog why it's great gut reaction where I watch things and react from the gut gut yesterday I had the pleasure of watching blink twice directed by Zoe kravit starring Channing Tatum Naomi Aki and Aaliyah Shaw cat uh I was just watching a couple interviews just to sort of Get Hype up for this because I really thought it was a solid film on the whole I do have a little minor criticism uh but uh are you liking these glasses I'm not used to wearing these for these but uh yeah uh dang this is zo Zoe krait's directorial debut and I got to say she really knocked it out of the park for a first-time director uh I it's hard to tell that she is a first-time director like the I've you know on this on this podcast what you normally find for those who are not subscribed is that I will try to talk about the movie from the filmmaker's point of view I've been a filmmaker for 17 years I've studied studed the craft I've studied what directors look for what directors and every director has a different process that's the most important thing to understand that's why every director's movies are different from each other they have their own point of view and they have their own way of communicating and also getting to the point of communication for their films so uh when I'm looking at movies and the reason I call this the why it's great got reaction why it's great was my original podcast my first podcast where I I really tried to do my homework and do as much research as I possibly could and where I actually put editing into the podcast but it was just so much work I reduced it to being the gut reaction so I could just kind of produce a little bit more consistently but yeah so that's the whole goal here is that this podcast is not just a basic review but I am trying to look at it like as a as a person who studied directing since he was 15 and that's my aspiration as well I've directed some short films that's when I'm examining like how is this director approaching this and I got say this movie was was very very absorbing right from the top uh very absorbing in such a way again like it felt like a very experienced hand was behind the wheel I have to shout out to movie watching girl on Instagram uh I had seen a poster for Blink twice in a movie theater but I didn't see any ads for it at all until after I'd seen a a little movie review from movie watching girl and uh I gotta say on the whole I actually agree with what she said but I just wanted to shout out to her cuz she actually watches movies a lot I don't know how she does it she has a whole family kids the whole deal I don't know how she has the time to watch these movies but she she consistently pumps out reviews so if you are subscribed to me or even if you're not but you want to to really get reviews that are up to date on what's coming out then I highly recommend check out ovie watching girl on Instagram great reviews it's all just written reviews on Instagram as fars I know but uh she's the one that that if I hadn't read that review I would not have checked out the trailer and been interested in blink twice uh because of course yeah I mean I saw Channing Tatum taking a picture but it was not clear to me and it seemed a little creepy but it wasn't clear to me what's going on here cuz I hadn't seen any trailer so I want to checked out the trailer I showed it to my friend and it happened to be the most convenient movie to see yesterday uh it was just like oh hell yeah okay I mean movie watching girl had a lot of great things to say and so going into the movie just the way it starts up front it just has it kind of captures you with its creepy Vibe without doing too much you know it's kind of you get the sense that something is very often wrong and then you snap out of it and then we're into the story of have uh Freda who works as a a waiter at A very upscale uh business it's the very business of Channing Tatum who's uh his his office building has an expensive restaurant um but right off the bat I mean we have very strong control of both color and camera work you know what I mean I think a lot of firsttime directors a lot of new directors do not understand the whole process of where you put the camera to communicate who is your main character what's the most important information to see in the scene and you as an audience member you may not know or care about it but if you really think about what are your favorite movies what are your favorite shows most often more often than not it's going to be movies that I have really well-handled camera work where you can tell who that main character is right up front and it's not something that you consciously are aware of that's you don't have to be that's the whole director's job it's this invisible job of that camera being so close to the main actor especially in the beginning of a scene or whenever it's emotionally important that the main actor gets that they're the one who gets the closeup I'm ready for my close-up Mr deil that close-up means something um and then how you control how you shoot something that is what gives the audience what they're paying attention to so that's why Quinton Tarantino Christopher Nolan gilo Del Toro Matt Reeves all these directors are the best directors because they can communicate to the audience everything that they want to communicate and and Zoe Kravitz absolutely does this right away we're just sucked into the life of Freda the the cocktail waitress or just or or whatever it's called that is her job and you know after her shift ends she and her friend uh maybe maybe from arrest of development I got to say that made me very excited to see this movie as well like maybe you cast maybe I'm in okay cool you know you already got gamit okay all right you know what I mean uh yeah and it was just uh we're into their lives they're both roommates and they work together and all of a sudden they they meet Channing Tatum who is the tech giant who's recovered from his sketchy past where he's made some mistakes and now he's apologized to the public and all is good and well again uh and yeah it's it's and then what starts off as a very flirtacious meeting becomes an invitation to go to his Island his special party island where he's going with his friends and these girls don't even think twice about uh going over there um and everything is a party and it's beautiful and it's fun you know it's such a colorful entertaining movie um and I at first I wanted to pigeon hole this CU from the trailer it looked like a literal combination of mid somar and get out both movies I love uh AR Aster someone I'm realizing I'm a fan of every single movie that he has come out Jordan Peele I was already a fan of before get out and then when I saw a get out I was like oh you're a fantastic director damn you know what I mean he's like you're my adults version where G Del Toro inspired me as a kid now as an adult Jordan Peele is like my hero so here we are was Zoe Kravitz and and she's absolutely doing um this very again the directing is just so good we're always in with the characters the story is always moving we're not wasting the movie wastes no time with anything that's not important and again it's very fun I I took the time to watch a little interview from Zoe uh with a Hollywood Insider I can put the link in the description or or you can YouTube it yourself but uh and she talks about wanting she loves the horror Thriller genre which is so clear because there's a lot of again there is that midar get out vibe to this movie but it's even so much subtler than get out you know get out is quite deliberately about the movie tropes themselves as well as reflecting real life and and very much this movie is about reflecting real life uh but it's not it's not so much about playing against the movie tropes it is just truly about whatever this feeling and I like how Zoe describes coming up with this movie as as she just had this feeling of wanting to tell a story about power and power relationships and I just thought wow okay that's uh that's what this movie really feels like and uh the whole idea of like these cocktail waitresses get this amazing opportunity to go to party island with a with a tech millionaire billionaire and they're getting whined and DED and having the greatest time of their lives and and that's part of the fun of the experience you know I think it's it's kind of this the movie has this weird thing where I I as um I'm not the biggest fan of the Thriller genre actually that's something more friends bring to me I really just like action comedy U or mostly superhero films so watching this and I'm like wow this movie almost feels like the girl equivalent to you know Pineapple Express or this is the end when you're seeing everyone just party and have a great time all the while Doom is is coming for them uh but this movie does an even better job of really making you feel like you're part of the party and that the weird sense of losing time you know they're all doing drugs that you get this weird sense of losing time and not quite knowing for sure if something is wrong or not even though you have a feeling that something's wrong but you can't put your finger on it and I don't want I'm not going to spoil it right now but the movie just really perfectly captures all of those feelings and I I think uh I'm going to slightly disagree with movie watching girl she said you know 2third of the movie was perfect but it was just the the last third the Final Act she didn't feel quite work I think the Final Act works up into a point and then there's a choice that's made that I do feel doesn't serve the movie but I wouldn't say at all that it makes the movie a bad movie because when we get to the final final scene of the movie even though we have this little hump that I don't agree with I I still felt like I'd watched something and I was a part of an experience that was just worth talking about you know again this the directing was the the cast was so good uh they say 95% of directing is casting and that's not literally true but it is true in the sense that if you cast right your audience is going to be with that cast and they're going to believe if the cast delivers that feeling that that you can connect with the characters and feel what they're going through and and to be with these ladies because it ends up being these four or five women who are partying with these guys who are all friends of Channing Tatum and they're all kind of having this bizarre experience and you're with them and and it it feels honest it feels real it feels like you're you are part of that experience it doesn't feel too plotty or hey it really when it comes to that word the feeling I mean that's what every director is trying to produce you know and every director does it a different way I think yl deloro also he leads by feeling and by color and by emotion but if you look at like Christopher nol and he leads sort of by intellectualism by structure and structured thematic points that are very clear and I think you know with Jordan Peele he kind of Jordan Peele and MN Shaman kind of split that difference and I think Zoe sort of splits the difference but also she kind of leans more to that feeling and I think she really uh like I said I say even if you watch this movie and you don't like the same moment that I don't like I'd say still give it one more chance or or something try CU I'm definitely looking forward to watching this again because there's so many layers to what's going on it's such a human and relatable movie and it is very intense even though they're partying with all the little hints and suggestions of things to come uh I'd say it's like the the opposite of the menu I liked the movie The Menu I saw that last year but in the menu it's a movie where something's very clearly wrong very early on and everyone just has to put up with it in this movie we don't know what's wrong but it's always just it's just in the back of your mind this you know an itch you can't scratch as though he described her concept for the movie um I just I just had a really great time and I I I just don't want to spoil it too much but I just want to say I really impressed with the film making I can't believe this is her first film you know it's really really well constructed uh this is also co-written by this guy e EG Tenon bomb I I'm I'm sorry I screwed up I did read it I just didn't write it down uh yeah but this yeah really great cast chanting Tatum's great he plays this you you totally understand how these girls are bought into this experience with how charming and warm he is is and it's not that he hasn't played some level of that in other movies but this movie is so focused on that aspect of his of his character of his quality that like even I I mean I'm not I'm not falling in love with him but I mean I'm like oh my God I I'd be having a great time with d this dude too he knows how to party you know and uh I was just like when it got to the revelation of what's going on and and all the twists and turns I was like oh man and chanting Tatum he he delivers these levels and layers of performance that are you know they're not they're not um hit you over the head but they they're they're just this right amount of that kind of emotional not confusion but you just see that he's he's dealing with this experience even though he's creating it he's dealing with this experience in his own way which I really liked I think it would be very easy to make him completely like the twist is oh he's a cold and calculating genius you know what I mean I mean he is smart and he he he he is he does he does he is up to something but I I he has this final speech at the end of the movie that really got me that made me understand his character and I thought it was very similar to Furioso where uh but I think way better even though Chris hensworth did a great job Chris hensworth dementus in furiosa gets this final speech where you kind of see his side of the story just a glimpse of it and it makes you go oh that's why you are that kind of now I kind of get why you are the way you are it's not actually what I thought it was um and and that's what I appreciate this about this movie is that every single aspect of it is not exactly what you thought it was um I mean and the parts that you do think that they are you understand why they are you know I I really appreciate this movie's willingness to give everybody a little bit of nuance a little bit of flavor and uh I yeah I just yeah blink twice was awesome uh hopefully this comes out while hopefully this review comes out while it's still on theaters because I I do highly recommend it and you know if you find yourself not liking the Al I just ask you to then give this movie another chance because as I thought about the movie more and talked about it with my friend who we saw it together my buddy Z you've seen her in a couple reviews I decided not to record our gut reaction afterwards just CU I just I was not in the mood I was really under the weather um but I just she she loved it and really described Zoe's directing as as kind of like this book like like like we were reading a book where you're so absorbed in this character's perspective and I think that that's exactly that I could not phrase it better for what she did so hats off to Zoe Kravitz great job directing uh cannot wait to see what you do next holy crap you know Jordan Peele do you have to move over you know what I mean is there a better director than you damn you know I'm I'm just messing Jordan Peele you know you're all great this is this is awesome and again chanting T speeches at the end I thought was yeah I I really didn't see that coming from him I know I mostly know him again from just comedies I never watched Magic Mike but I mostly know him from you know the 21 Jump Streets and all that and uh you know seeing as him as Gambit was eye opening and and I was a I regret being a naysayer who was not up for him as Gambit Deadpool said all the things that I probably joked and said myself but then watching there was a clip of him his scene with Wolverine in that movie spoilers alert spoilers alert there was a I saw this clip of but then I've seen this clip of him from the movie again where he's confronting Wolverine about stealing all of his liquor and just his delivery was just so on point I was like oh you are Gambit just that one little moment was all I needed and then um well at least it was the first engling that that got me there and then Channing tat posted this wonderful behind the scenes footage of his choreography practice in in the Gambit moves and I remember thinking was that even in the movie like that final fight scene I well that final fight scene with Gambit and those other characters for those who haven't seen Deadpool and Wolverine that final fight I felt like I didn't see that moment it was just there was a lot of shaky Cam and there was just so much going on I really got lost in that scene it does not know normally happen to me in movies every now and again filmmakers do completely lose me in the gray uh which is what happened but when I saw Channing pulling off this amazing choreography that was so Gambit I was like Matt you're an idiot you don't know anything this guy's Gambit you know what I mean and then I went and saw Deadpool in Wolverine again I was like my buddy James is right he's G he is Gambit and I didn't even know I just heard an interview clip where he grew up greeting X-Men and loving Gambit and he was grew up in Louis I was like oh oh okay okay now everything now I get why you wanted to make the movie I didn't I didn't know any of that before I thought you know I was I didn't know anything so so to have to go back to back from going oh [ __ ] you are Gambit to go oh and you're scary Tech guy that was a fun sort of experence experience like uh to see this sort of from one week Deadpool and Wolverine to Blink twice I'm like oh [ __ ] I'm seeing some sides of you chanting Tatum um not only am I seeing a wonderful piece of work from a first-time director but to see uh some range on chanting Tatum that I'd never seen before I never saw his sports movie with Steve Carell so I'm very you know not knowledgeable on him outside of 21 and 22 Jump Street uh but that that was awesome and I was like damn two for two dude two for two I'm sorry Channing Tatum in my Deadpool and Wolverine review I said you had a big head and that's why you can't be Gambit but I I also said I have a big head and we are the big-headed people so but I'm sorry if we meet you may give me a proper slap you Channing Tatum no one else you you may slap me I'll give you one you can have one no charges okay you have one slap Channing Tatum no no charges okay just give me a good one and tell me damn right I'm Gambit you [ __ ] you know I'll give you one you can say do it one and you can say that and I will apologize and say you're right you're right you met a name for yourself today so anyway yeah blink twice was awesome so that's why as much as I can say spoiler-free I do want to spoil this movie a little bit so if you don't don't want spoilers for Blink twice I'll just say I highly recommend it I think it's a really strong piece of movie if you're a fan of if you're a fan of AR Aster and if you're a fan of Jordan peele's movies then you're going to love this for sure like if you if that's the vein of movie that you like you're going to be happy with this movie and I what I like about it my last spoiler-free thought is that although it does have those feelings of midar and get out is very much its own movie and that is all I can ask for as both a filmmaker and a film reviewer this is what I'll say about filmmakers every filmmaker is a film critic who got tired of talking and wanted to walk and and that's why sometimes I'm a bit harder on podcasters because they are armchair critics they're not walking the walk they don't know what filmmakers go through what a hellscape it is to make a movie regardless of whether it's your dream or not so I kind of just don't care for some of the harsh comments that people think that's okay to say because you're on the internet and your opinion is God it's like no no if I had a newspaper i' freaking hit you but you know that being said as the film reviewer pass [ __ ] awesome movie I I really had a great time so you know what spoiler free go check out blink twice and and here comes the spoilers okay shortest [ __ ] title sequence ever I love that this okay talking about colors I said this movie is very colorful very strong command of the camera work and all that this is when I I talk about color story right I talked about color story in my unbreakable review Way Long long ago it's one of my Prime examples of of how color is used to tell story when we start off with this Vivid shot of a of a lizard I just got this distinct feeling that the lizard's going to get killed or the lizard is witnessing something or something something something was up with this shot of the lizard and the music and the vibe of it it reminded me actually of Hollow Man which starts off with a rat being killed by an invisible gorilla I don't know why it gave me that feeling but that was my first thought I was like oh you hit me with a hollow man you hit me with a Paul verhoven you know even though no blood was was seen you know it was just like ah something's off here something's very wrong here um I don't know why and I don't know why you know what I mean and that's then that's the experience of the whole movie but then we cut to this very muted color uh we see our main actress our main character frea played by Naomi akie hope I'm saying that right and she's on her phone and she's Doom scrolling and then we realize she's on the toilet which is like very real I literally just saw a whole horde of those memes while I was on the toilet Doom scrolling and you know what I like about right off the top is that she's kind of hypnotized by her Doom scrolling which is again another clue but it's also just kind of showing you this layered sense of the world that we all live in where we are all kind of constantly hypnotized uh and and then amongst her Doom scrolling it finally ends with her looking at clips of chanting Tatum as the tech giant apologizing for his past behavior that is not described but saying that he's gone to therapy and he's worked on himself is a better person now and la la la la la and you just see in her eyes that kind of like that infinite affection this this longing for him this longing for a thing that she doesn't know and that too I resonated with CU I'm like I'm sitting here and I'm and I know on Instagram I'm drooling over actresses and actors all the time and you know maybe the smart ones are the ones not liking my comments they're maybe they're the right maybe they're the right ones you you know what I mean I don't know um or maybe John Glover is just very nice but uh you know and and I I got that exact feeling of was like oh [ __ ] that's me like to to have that feeling right away like this movie could have started anywhere it could have started with her making a microwave dinner and that would have been relatable but the fact that it starts off with this hypnosis of the Doom scroll uh which again just the fact that we have to call it a doom scroll I mean it's like you're doomed to Eternity like Copus you know rolling up that rock up the hill like that's a very significant type of imagery and and nuanced layered meaning which this movie continues to have uh that the fact that you know when she does meet tanning Tatum and then they go to the island and everything's fun and they right away the first night start doing these crazy drugs that you know is like you know just right off the bat I thought man if you're taking that high of a dose of drugs you may not remember what happens the next day or you may just lose track of time or lose track of yourself if you're if you've never even done mushrooms before and you're doing this massive dose of a combination of mushrooms and Other Drugs That's in a single drop and you don't even know if they're even being honest of if that's what's in there uh but that's my first thought you know what I mean and uh and I appreciate that later on in the movie after all the partying is kind of worn on for these girls and uh freaking they kill Alia how dare you kill my maybe you know George Michael Michael will be very upset about this or George Maharis whatever he goes by but uh you know I I love that moment when when uh Freda and and Sarah the the hot Survivor babe who I love I love her she was in a she's been in a few things I Person of Interest couple other movies and shows that I've seen um but definitely in this she was like standout everyone was great everyone was standout but like she was really standout uh and she's the competing babe for chanting Tatum's attention uh little does she know they're all getting his attention without them knowing about it but I love that at least they acknowledge it's like what were we thinking just going with a bunch of strangers to some random Island it's like yeah exactly what were you thinking you know I mean does do you how often do you hear guys doing this like pretty much almost never I mean you get to know someone you go on little trips with them figure out exactly what they're about and then once you survive those and realize they're not a serial killer then you do the bigger trip you don't just go straight to the island because you need a vacation you know what I mean I'm like that's just freaking like it's like you walked into the booby trap knowing that there was a crate over your head you know and it's just but it is that that same thing that like the Doom scroll something is so alluring and you fantasize about it and the fantas overrides your your Natural Instincts or your natural sense of self-preservation that you know you don't know this person and you're going to go with them to some random place in the middle of nowhere and then you're going to give up your cell phone you know what I mean it's just like all of that's bad um but it's not unrelatable like the movie does a really great job of making that so understandable relatable upfront when you see they're working the crappy jobs and the boss is kind of harsh and you know and it's uh it's just a normal crappy regular work life you know and just to to have that relatability consistent throughout the movie to the point where maybe is trying to tell Freda hey and I know she has a real character name but I'm just going to call her maybe because she's maybe but maybe literally tell tells Freda hey something's really wrong here don't you feel it don't you feel like something's wrong here uh you know that first voice in a horror movie telling you hey something's off and and Freda just so desperate to keep this life where she's being whined and dined and this is another thing by the way but I mean before I get to that she's so desperate to keep this experience of being whed and DED that she ignores what her friend says and and ultimately puts her friend in more Danger and herself and it's just uh it's it's the same thing we all do to ourselves and each other I loved I absolutely loved the Red Rabbit scene I I like how in a way everyone is kind of being drugged on this island to forget um except for our our male villains our cast of male villains uh Haley Jo Osmond I didn't mention that in the spoiler-free but it was awesome seeing Haley josman as a literal villain as opposed to a joke villain in future man I love this guy man uh Tusk I Tusk I don't know if haly Joe Osman was working between six cense and Tusk I really don't know but when I saw him in Tusk and he plays this really relatable best friend to Justin Long who's a real ass hat in that movie it's his character not him as an actor but you know he say he's so relatable and human and and then when when when Justin Long gets turned into a walrus you know you just see the the shock of the horror of it is so real in his face and Genesis Rodriguez you know uh the same way that hot Survivor girl gets me in this movie Genesis rogriguez got me in Tusk you know it's like this this actress just that just pours out emotion but the fact that they were standing next to each other and I'm just feeling both of them because they're both such great actors it was wonderful to see Haley Joe Osman back again in Tusk which I have learned not to recommend to people because I'm the only weirdo who likes that movie but damn it it's a I stand by it as a great [ __ ] movie filmmakers should learn from but I'll give it its own episode one of these days but um yeah I uh seeing Haley Jo Osman play an actual bad guy was interesting it was fun and uh uh you know cool to see okay you got you got some range yourself you're not just great dramatic actor you're great you're also great as a bad guy who who gets his Just Desserts oh man that was so good um but I really uh one thing I I kind of wish was different which is oh the Red Rabbit I love the lady who did the Red Rabbit scene you could tell she was kind of drunk and drugged or something CU she's just she's clearly a bit wasted herself uh and later Freda can talks to her again and she calls her Red Rabbit again and it's just made me think Run Rabbit Run you know I'm like why is he calling you a rabbit makes me think of those rabbits from you know us you know and those guys were dressed in red too um but when you realize the setup of her her nail side hustle that she does all these nail decorative things uh and then she finds the the Polaroid of her with long hair looking a little bit younger and she's got the Red Rabbit animal design on her nails that was a wonderful payoff you know that was a wonderful payoff and and I you know I left this point earlier color story you know this movie starts off with her at her job the colors are so muted you don't really see any you don't nothing pops everything's so like dingy and uncomfortable and even where she works where she's serving people it's basically black and white there's like almost no flavor to anything and so when she goes to the island and it's so colorful and beautiful that is just command of color storytelling where the this the colors are telling you what the experience es and you're part of it just just imbuing it no one's saying well it's green out here so that means fun but you feel it you feel it because we were in a dark dingy bath room collecting wine bottles that were then serving to people in a white and black a black and white building you know what I mean so that that command of color palette is a huge part of Storytelling so I I just got to praise Zoe Kravitz and Company as I should for just really understanding the medium so I I appreciate the command of color I appreciate all the Nuance with the multi-layered meanings we have the snake in the grass symbolism but uh with all that being said I will I'm going to talk a little bit about some critiques I do have some critiques about this movie and it's mostly about the ending so like I said movie watching girl she did not like the last act I actually really liked the last Act of this movie up until the key moment so if you have not seen blink twice and you're still watching this please go watch the movie first and and and have an open mind experience the movie for yourself maybe you won't have this problem maybe you'll see the movie differently than me so feel free to go please think for yourself see if you like the movie yourself and if whether you like it the ending or not then come back to this uh because I think that's that your your thought process is is kind of the most important thing uh I'm not here to tell you what to think I'm here just to tell you what I think and if that works for you then great okay so we get to the end they find out they find out that the snake venom helps them remember which I think it's a bit convenient and a bit uh you know I understand the the the poison is the cure it's kind of an interesting idea but um I don't think that's that's really the problem with the the ending I love how basically all the girls get their Revenge it's so awesome and unexpected that they just go straight to bloody revenge and I'm like cool I'm fine with that you know what I mean after we see the horrific flashbacks oh that's what I wanted to get to the one thing I thought before the ending that could be different is when we first see the long one shot flashback which again great command of camera and storytelling when we first see that long shot showing the guys are actually doing to the girls when they're on drugs and you see them all getting bound and forced upon and all this horrible stuff in that shot we see one of the dudes being pushed around by one of the other guys and he clearly doesn't want to do something I read it as oh they're uh assaulting him as well and I didn't realize oh no he just refused to participate and what they're doing and I think there is a line about there's a special there's a line from Channing Tatum at the end of there's a special place in hell for people who do nothing which I do think is a good line and a solid moment but I think it was also a lost opportunity that is that what happens to women in this movie and and you know I understand it's focused on that aspect it's people don't realize that what happens to women in this movie what happens to women around the world this is not a thing that's specific to Hollywood or to men with power in America this is a worldwide human problem and it doesn't matter the same thing that happens to these women they're wh and DED and all the while not knowing that they're being screwed or being led into a life of of hell where this man now becomes essentially their pimp and does what he wants with them this happens on the poor people level too this this happens on every level of humanity it's a power Dynamic that is not unique to the rich and Powerful but it is more noticed when the rich and Powerful do it because of course they also own all the media companies so they have all the attention on themselves but you know this happens this is happening down the street from you right now to somebody um but not only that I think there was a missed opportunity because when I thought that this guy was also a victim I was like oh that's a super Nuance level because now you're acknowledging that this happens to men too and this just came out with that the the Hollywood kids documentary show which I didn't get through I started it but they were talking about one of the Disney young men um and I'm I'm not even going to say the name or bring that up more than this but it was a young man who was being abused by a producer and or multiple producers and and that's just the truth of the matter is that men go through this too the problem is when it comes to men because of how we are raised culturally then and they talk of and this is the hypocrisy of our gender relationships is that each gender thinks that they're the only one that goes through that and the truth is the only thing that's the only one who goes through that happens with e genitalia everything else same thing because there's that line that um the hot babe Survivor girl I forgot her name's Sarah but she says we as women are trained to compete with each other and I mean I think there is some truth to that um but also so are men I mean that's why the world is the way we're all competing against each other and it is a social train training um but not only that culturally as men we're not really taught to express ourselves we're not taught to open up about ourselves and granted there's really is a limit to how much you should there you should have some kind of self-control when it comes to that but you know we're not given that same sense of group support and social support we're told to suck it up and be be a man and do what you're supposed to do and so crimes that happen against men or boys are highly under reported and that's just a sad truth that this movie I don't think it deliberately doesn't want to acknowledge it I think the movie just has a focused point of view and it's just trying its best to tell that point of view but I do think that would have been a really amazing layer to include in this movie if they had the time to do so where it's like he's a victim too and it would have added a layer to chanting Tatum that he's chanting Tatum is also abusing him I just thought wow that's uh that goes somewhere you know what I mean um because then when Sarah shoots him it's just kind of like well yes he didn't hurt you he didn't help you but that just makes me not care that he died as opposed to if he was a victim too and he just didn't even know know it you know and she killed him by accident then that gives your characters a little bit more to bounce off of which gives the audience a little bit more to feel about the moment whereas yeah if you're just a guy who didn't do anything then kind of just no one cares it's just and I think no one cares is is a dangerous place to put your movie especially in the final scene even if the whole notion is you're supposed to pay for your lack of action but uh you know know I mean you see in that scene he was being beat up by the guy by another guy for not participating so it wasn't like he just stood there and watched he was clearly against it enough to get a black eye for it so there's there's something not being said there that he's paying the price for um but all things being the same I just thought that would have been a great layer I'm not saying it needed to be in it's just that I that's what I thought was happening and then when that's not what Happ happened I was like oh okay all right so he got shot I okay um but what my complaint so getting to what I feel should have been different when Freda turns the turns the weapon Chan ha's weapon on him and puts the memory wiper drug into his vaporizer I mean I don't even get why he Vapes while he's about to slice her neck either I think this is kind of a convenience for the scene although I didn't want to see that character get killed it did feel extremely convenient uh for that moment and not only that I think the worst convenience was that he absolutely lost his memory of everything happening because that's not anything set up by the movie before that the way it's set up is that everyone kind of loses their memory of what's going on slowly gradually ually and it's he the chanting Tatum's own lines was that wow you forgot entirely that you met me all the way back to the island everything you forgot that you were here before which kind of suggests that she was especially susceptible to this drug as opposed to generically susceptible I mean his reaction indicates her vulnerability being higher than that of other people's uh so when he just has television Amnesia I thought that was a little cheap and it didn't play and I I don't blame Shannon Tatum I say this is something that does not work on television it didn't work on 10 seasons of Smallville where conveniently people are always knocked out whenever Clark Kent is using a superpowers it did not work but we just accept it there's no acting that can make that work okay no no acting at all can make that work other than you know that's it that's I got knocked out so that's why I don't experience so what um movie watching Girl 19 what movie watching girl had said was was that she expected a much bigger more explosive ending a bigger third act and actually I feel like I was very happy with everything until that exact moment of him about to slice this girl's neck I really felt like everything worked except that moment instead of it being him about to slice her neck and taking the the drug that was swapped considering the high stakes of the moment I think this should have been a more serious battle you know where where really it's a struggle somehow or other the two girls are fighting Channing Tatum or something just make make that confrontation a bigger confrontation rather than having him wait for her to run out of bullets I thought that was pretty I me it was smart on his side but also kind of just less exciting considering how much we've been waiting for this finale but I think it would have been much better if it really is a truly Rough and Tumble final battle between Channing Tatum and Freda in such a way you there's believe there's got to be some kind of Bel unable way you know when she grabs that statue maybe she's really using it as a weapon against them and gets a good hit that allows her to have a few good licks in the battle but have it build in some kind of way where instead of the drug doing it he simply gets knocked he gets knocked out if you're going to do it like have him actually get knocked out somewhere where he could have a legitimate Amnesia from it because it just doesn't I don't feel like with him he clearly has done this for at least 2 years considering she was here last year so for at least 2 years he's been doing this to women and he's clearly had a history of doing something bad that he had to apologize for so I just felt like that I don't buy one bit that this drug just wipes out his entire memory of being a bad person I just thought that is a stretch I mean I understand losing the last night or losing the last week but to be complet completely like shocked by everything happening it just felt like a television thing it really took away the Cinematic quality of both the writing and the directing uh uh yeah but I all that being said when she saves his life from the fire and then takes over I love that twist when we got to that final scene and they're back in the uh restaurant Lobby uh uh I thought and the The Twist of her now having control over him I thought that's a fantastic ending that's that's a great ending but the confrontation part no like that final confrontation I felt it needed a little bit more intensity maybe it didn't have to be a direct battle obviously he's huge compared to her so it's not going to be a physical battle but you know maybe more of a cat and mouse you know she's already snuck around and hid before uh I just really felt like that just make that a bigger battle that's justified by what the characters are capable of as opposed to Simply turning the drug on him that to me could have been done later or it could have been done somewhere in the middle uh but outside of that I really love blink twice I thought [ __ ] awesome movie the whole team did a great job and uh good good job good job team so yeah that's what I got to say I'm blink twice thank you very much for watching bye now that is podcasting I just get better every time don't know what it is about me but I'm so what are you doing here look uh I uh I didn't mean to offend you okay I just uh podcasting how' you find where I live I don't even know where I live I'm not sure if I'm alive okay I understand I know what I said just I heard everything you said think my head's too big what you think huh what you think podcaster don't think I'm Legit I'm I'm sorry okay how big is your head I'm sorry cuz I'm about to make a name for myself here I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry sorry now before I get real disrespectful and talk about your contusion you call a stomach I let you live today to tell the story to everybody else don't you talk about me thank you Mr Tatum I am what I say I am and I am Gambit walk on Punk walk on i b you a for