Breakfast All Day Podcast 4/8/22
Hop in and hang on: It’s a new episode of Breakfast All Day. Our good friend Tim Grierson swings by to help me review the new Michael Bay extravaganza, “Ambulance,” which we actually enjoyed. Alonso and I review the Celine Dion sorta-biopic “Aline,” and catch up with the Judd Apatow Netflix comedy “The Bubble.” We have breaking news from the Academy on Will Smith, as well as new details on Ezra Miller, Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, Asghar Farhadi, the “Marcel the Shell With Shoes On” trailer and more. And there’s some truly great stuff for our Patreon subscribers: the finale of “The Dropout,” as well as recaps of “Bridgerton” E3-4 and the new “Moon Knight.” Thanks as always for joining us!
I think you are wrong on “Don’t Look Up”. Exaggerating the clownish behavior of real people in order to make a point ends up inevitably looking clownish. It would be nice if people recognized how clownish what is actually going on is, but many people don’t.
And it would be nice if I could honestly say that anything that happens in “Don’t Look Up” couldn’t happen in the real world. But I can’t. So, that movie worked for me. It didn’t work for you.
However, everything you say about “The Bubble” is 100% right. (And you should know that I saw it before I learned what you would have to say about it.) It is a truly terrible movie.
As with “Don’t Look Up”. “The Bubble” is trying to humorously deal with a very serious and important subject. But it fails so spectacularly and so consistently to have anything interesting, useful, or funny to say about COVID.
I’m sure Apatow thought that the talent he brought on board would be able to find a way to make the situations funny and insightful. He was wrong. Maybe he should have brought Katherine Heigl onboard.