Breakfast All Day Podcast 8/2/22
And we’re back! Vacation is over and it’s time to play catch-up on Breakfast All Day. Alonso and I have a lengthy, spoiler-filled review of Jordan Peele’s “Nope,” and we slog through “The Gray Man,” the latest big-budget, star-studded, action extravaganza on Netflix. And in news, we discuss everything that’s been going on the past couple of weeks: the Bennifer wedding, Comic-Con, the “Wakanda Forever” trailer, Will Smith‘s video apology for the Oscar slap, and several celebrity deaths including Paul Sorvino and Nichelle Nichols. Hope your summer’s been restful, and thanks for spending part of it with us.
I saw “The Gray Man” the day it dropped, so your words had no impact on my impression of it. Like Alonzo, about 15-20 minutes in I said to myself, “they spent a shit-ton of money on this – badly”. It never grabbed me either. And I am a sucker for the kind of movie it was trying to be. All it had to be to make me happy was mediocre. Unfortunately, it wasn’t even that good.
Also, movies have been using “the thing that contains the information that blows the lid off of everything” as the McGuffin probably since the ’30s. The problem is that it is no longer credible in the era. We knew all kinds of bad things about him from the very start. We learned more and more and more bd things about him as time went by. At no point did that knowledge ever end up mattering. Hollywood needs to come to grips with the fact that the shelf life on that particular trope has expired.
That’s “the Trump era”.