Don't Worry Darling & Neighbours

Don't Worry Darling

Sidey: I'm not raw dogging my top five. I

do have a top five.

Reegs: I do

Dan: I'm raw dogging it all.

Reegs: Welcome to Bad Dads Film Review, back from our recent hiatus like herpes at a Lily Phillips gangbang.

This week's show

is all about weddings and marriages, and if you're unfamiliar with the concept of marriage, try to envisage a hostage situation where you willingly choose your captor and the ransom is your sanity.

Starting off the matrimonial madness this week is the Top 5 Weddings. The only time you'll see grown adults willingly spend a small fortune to watch two people sign a legally binding contract. And our main feature this week is Olivia Wilde's 2022 mystery thriller about the tyranny of the patriarchy, Don't Worry Darling.

featuring Florence Pugh and Harry Styles, where the behind the scenes stories of tension on the sets and love triangles is almost as interesting as the movie itself, which is to say, not very. And then, if we hadn't had enough of examining the oppressive conformity of suburban married life, and the brutal toll systemic misogyny exacts on women, We review

the wedding that made everyone in Australia cry, not just because of the fashion choices hit TV drama Neighbours.

Sidey: Drama we're going with? Drama? Soap

Reegs: Soap opera? yeah. That's gonna take us home. All that's left to do is introduce the dad, starting with Antique Dan, fondly remembering trading his first wife for two goats and a sack of potatoes.

Dan: Good deal.

Uh,

Reegs: Next up, he's got looks that could kill, but a brain that needs a defibrillator. It's Gorgeous Chris. Single handedly ensuring the world is overrun with mini Peters. It's Peter. And last but not least, the man who's been practicing his strokes in the swimming pool.

And as a consequence, has been permanently banned from the AquaSplash. It's Sidey. And then there's me, Riggs. hello.

Cris: Hello.

Sidey: Mm. I am actually gonna be getting married, so this is all fairly topical.

Reegs: All right, You're just going to announce it. I wasn't going to

Sidey: Yeah, I don't think it's a secret. you've

Pete: just completely broken the hearts of most of our listeners who are probably

Sidey: Yeah, well, it hasn't happened yet.

You've got till May to convince me otherwise.

Reegs: to convince me otherwise. Yeah.

Dan: Still throwing it out there. Still, still a chance.

Sidey: Yeah.

Reegs: Yeah.

Pete: What have we got? We've got, you're married, aren't you, Riggs? Daniel, you're married. You didn't have a stag do, but you're married, so I don't know if

Reegs: years I've got, I think,

Pete: Thirteen years of marriage.

Reegs: marriage. Yeah.

Pete: Okay.

You are not married, Chris?

Cris: No.

Sidey: And You're

a, you're a

Pete: I'm a

divorcee. I think I'm the only divorcee here.

Dan: 100 percent sure I'm married. You're married.

Pete: I was there. You were? No, you I was there. I was a

Dan: Yeah, I know you was Pete, but you're not very reliable, are you? You know, I

Pete: very drunk. I did get

Dan: it's not that I couldn't get out of it if I needed

Sidey: How

Reegs: How long

ago was

That That was quite a long time ago. wasn't it?

Cris: ago.

Reegs: Yeah.

Dan: 18 years ago, I think.

Reegs: 18? Wow. Got any words of advice?

Dan: well, she actually

Because Jersey at the time

Sidey: is the corn riot. we

Dan: had a child.

We had child

Pete: a bastard child,

Dan: and, and the child then would take the, the mother's name. Unless you were married, you know, that was the rule at the time. And her

Cris: I told you it's the

Dan: her, her being

Cris: go there in a cart?

Dan: check persuasion, there's over at the end of the name of all women, but Jersey didn't recognize that. So he would've had over at

Pete: He'd have had a girl's

Dan: had a girl's name and like, so they.

They chopped that bit off for the blokes, but they didn't recognize that here. So Yana actually changed her name to Craven before she married me.

Reegs: Oh,

right.

Dan: And then, but on the marriage day, it was, do you using a surname Lavrentiy Kova? So I'm not sure, am I married? I don't know. Maybe somebody out there will know.

Maybe there's

Reegs: Illegal loophole

Dan: I think, I think Mick Jagger went a similar way. Yeah. He got out of Jerry Hall. I hope she's

Sidey: of people got out of Jerry Hall.

Reegs: Mmm.

Dan: Yeah

Cris: I mean, he's almost as wealthy as you are, so it makes

Dan: this, this is it. You've gotta protect your assets e exactly that. No, I, I've, so I was at that wedding you were there.

Yeah. Yeah, I've been to both of yours.

Pete: had one

Dan: No, you've not, Pete. You've been a, you've, you've forgotten one, have you? And

Pete: oh yeah. That Vegas trip. Yeah, yeah,

Dan: yeah, that was just a quick one though, isn't it?

Reegs: it? Yeah. I think the thing about marriage is it statistically increases a male's like, health and

wealth chances

Pete: of suicide

Reegs: chances and statistically decreases a female's, So is

Dan: is that right?

Sidey: So double down on life insurance we're saying? Yeah. Okay.

Reegs: No, well, it makes it better for you.

Dan: I do, I do love a wedding though, really.

Sidey: better for her. to be married to This

Reegs: Yeah.

that t shirt as well.

Pete: For the listeners. You were pointing at me there. Yeah.

Dan: But weddings are fantastic events. Yeah, love them. The older I've got, the more I enjoy it. It's just

Pete: I'll tell you what, Dan.

Dan: You

Pete: do like, you do like a wedding reception and getting out your dance moves. We had a dance

Dan: dance off! You and

Pete: and I had a dance off at a wedding.

I think it was, I think that the fans called it a draw. Yeah.

Dan: draw. Give me some, not now, but

Sidey: Well,

Give me some, not now, but requests for the, your favourite dance moves.

Dan: Yeah, any funk, I find it very difficult to to not

Sidey: Yeah, no, I

Dan: Yeah, yeah, that's right, yeah. No,

I mean, you get a bit of James Brown on,

Pete: cannot help it.

Dan: you cannot help but

Cris: Well, considering your knees, that is the only way you can

Dan: Yeah, that's right. I'm not getting back up again. You're right. But I'll go down.

Reegs: And obviously, the most

important part of you getting married

Sidey: is the stag do. Yeah, we're all going to go away,

aren't we? We're all going to be

Pete: going to talk

Dan: All of us in this room are going to be

away, aren't we?

Sidey: it's going to be long.

Dan: six day bonanza.

Six

Sidey: nights.

Yeah.

of, of, of Culture.

Dan: was looking

Pete: Yeah, a multi location.

Sidey: Road trip.

Dan: A road trip.

Pete: do.

Reegs: You were talking

ambitiously about taking some of the pod equipment, weren't you?

Sidey: Well, we're all there. Yeah.

We've got a mobile

Dan: Yeah, we've got the Zoom Pod

Sidey: battery powered one

Pete: Yeah, but if you book with EasyJet, you've only got like, under the seat luggage, so you're going to struggle.

Dan: You don't need much. Actually. I mean, we could all take headphones and a

Sidey: hold the mic, a cable.

and the

field recorder

Reegs: Imagine the damage we could do.

Pete: Jesus Christ, Yeah, Yeah, good luck editing

Reegs: that. Yeah. Anyone watch

Sidey: Anyone watch anything

good? Just very quickly?

because so many of us today.

Dan: Very quickly, no.

Sidey: okay

Cris: Yeah,

I watched Forrest Gump, is amazing. Yeah, it was really good. I watched I think I told you last week when I came after you recorded the pod that I've watched the Inside Llewyn Davis, which is, I quite enjoyed that.

I watched a movie, a Netflix called The Courier.

Sidey: the

Cris: Which is, I thought was really good and I'm thinking to nominate for the pod. And it's based on real life and real facts and it's over some guy that embezzled money. over 1. 5 billion euros from the Spanish government, so it's quite good. And I told you I watched some Japanese South Korean thing, but I can't remember the name of it, and I can't really remember where I watched it, so.

Pete: so you don't know exactly what country,

Cris: Well, no, because I was, I was the other week I was in London and I, I just had a few things that I downloaded quickly on my on my Kindle just to kind of get through the flight. And I, I mean, if it would be in any more, I don't know, acceptable language for me, I would probably remember the name or something similar to that, but it's so far away that.

South Korean language and this everything's subtitled. I don't understand any words or anything unless you read the subtitle. So I can't really relate to do a search of any

Sidey: It's more likely to be South Korea than North Korea.

I'd

Cris: South Korea. No, no. Yeah, it was definitely South Korea. So that's, that was it, which I was quite happy about.

Pete: I've since I was last on the pod started and got five, about five seasons into last kingdom which I'd never seen before, which someone put me onto because I really enjoyed Vikings and like Vikings Valhalla and all of that kind of carry on.

It's not quite as good as Vikings, but it's, it's kind of like the other side of it. It's the, the, the, the English side of it. And yeah, it's all right.

Reegs: No, not really.

Sidey: I've been watching Agatha

all

Reegs: Oh, I watched a bit of that, yeah.

Sidey: It's okay.

And we're rewatching

Harry Potter.

Reegs: Potter. They're

making

a TV series, aren't

Sidey: they? are, yeah. Why?

People

like it, and money.

Pete: it's brilliant, so why not?

Sidey: We started watching them after McGonagall

snuffed

it.

Pete: Where were you up to?

Sidey: Goblet

of Fire just finished.

Pete: Ooh, solid.

Sidey: Yeah.

We probably did a Top 5 ages ago, but that was a long, long time ago, so I think we just crack on. with Top 5 Weddings.

Pete: Yeah.

Reegs: I sort of outed you,

didn't I?

No, with the wedding thing, well I suppose you chose, didn't I?

I didn't out

Sidey: Yeah, I made a decision to do that, so it's fine. It's out there. It's happening. 31 May.

Yeah, everyone. be there.

I

haven't invited anyone from the

uk or

off further

afield

So my family

My family are very

disappointed.

Fuck them.

Cris: Fuck Well done.

Pete: Well put.

Reegs: put.

Sidey: Right. Who wants to start the insanity.

Reegs: Well, It's your wedding. It's your wedding. Go on you're

Sidey: okay.

Dan: You are the best man.

Sidey: There's an episode of Game of Thrones. It's the first one that jumped out to me called the reins of Castamere.

But it has, an

AKA the Red Wedding. Less romantic than a lot of weddings you might have seen on screen.

Agreed. And a hell of a lot more murdering.

Pete: Well,

the wedding itself goes off without incident,

Sidey: Yeah. It's

Reegs: the feast afterwards, it's the

reception, the

Sidey: at dinner, breakfast,

Reegs: the wedding

Pete: it's called weirdly called the wedding

Sidey: register. I detest that terminology.

by the way. I Fucking hate

that. Yeah,

Reegs: it's awful.

Sidey: Yeah. Anyway, yeah, It they're having a sit down

after the

Pete: Yeah. They've, they've done the bedding ceremony where matey goes off to, cause it's what it's what's her name? It's Katlyn Suck's brother, I can't remember his name, who gets married. to one of the fray girls. He, he happens upon the one like acceptable one and yeah, they go off and then yeah, when, when the, when the festivities starts and everything and then the doors close.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Bruce Bolton's got a chain mail,

Sidey: then

Pete: armor under his jacket.

Sidey: Rob.

And

they stab

his

Reegs: She's

Sidey: pregnant, heavily pregnant wife. Repeatedly in the mid riff it's fucking awful. And then just everyone dies like everyone fucking

Reegs: I'd already seen the episode because my missus hadn't.

So I was like sitting there, like

Dan: looking

Reegs: waiting. yeah. Yeah.

Sidey: There was loads of like Reaction videos and stuff on online as well. People seeing it for the first time. Yeah. It's one of the most murderous. Like surprising scenes. I mean nothing should surprise you in Game of Thrones, but there hadn't been

anything at this

level.

Reegs: I

Pete: there hadn't been anything at this level. So

Sidey: it wasn't flirty, you know, and so many of the cast are fucking gone

Pete: yeah, like main cast characters just offed in like one fell swoop, like didn't see it coming.

And even the aftermath of it is, is, you know, when Arya, Arya rides up with, yeah, with, with the Hound and They've they've decapitated Rob Stark and the the and and his direwolf and sewn the direwolf's head onto his body and they're like riding him around on his horse and yeah, that's fairly chilling

Reegs: And because the you know, the program had been telling you at this point he's going to be the hero

like, you

know, that's

Sidey: wasn't Jon

Reegs: you understood about like tv and all that stuff. So yeah great one that

Dan: Nice, well i'm i'm gonna bring in some quiz questions

Reegs: Okay,

Pete: good man.

Dan: So, instead of putting a film forward because I can't think of any I'm gonna ask you

Reegs: you can't think of a single

Dan: Well, there's some classics, but i'm sure they'll come up.

I I can always bring them back if if I feel i've missed out but question one Why are engagement and wedding rings traditionally worn on the fourth finger?

Pete: good question. I'd like to know the answer to

Dan: It's it's not a trick question it's it's a legit one

Cris: I don't.

Dan: I'm going to move on if you don't know

Reegs: it.

It's a clue.

Sidey: it a very historical answer? Yes.

Dan: No, I like the way that you're going though. So because you've had an attempt, I'll give you the answer.

Pete: Is it is it, is it to do with archery and

Sidey: it to

Pete: you like, keep your bow fingers free of I think

Dan: I think that was to do with the V's. So that's why they

Pete: And something to do with the Welsh.

Dan: and things.

Well,

Pete: Yeah. So do I get half a point then?

Sidey: a point then? Well,

can

Dan: you, can you give me a, an era where you think that the

Pete: the bronze

Age.

No, the eye in it, it's

Dan: It's the Egyptian the ancient Egyptians. It was Thought that the vein in that finger led directly to the heart

cute

Reegs: you wear a wedding ring?

Are you going to wear one?

Pete: I did. I did. I did wear one. Yeah.

Reegs: Yeah.

Pete: Yeah.

I sold

Cris: I hope I never wear one,

Dan: No. 'cause I always, I always, I

Sidey: I don't, I don't

Pete: you always try and pull other birds. Yeah. Yeah.

Dan: then if you've got a wedding wing, you know, it works so well that you just gotta keep being them away. So, best to,

Sidey: are we

going to come back

to another question?

Dan: Yeah. We'll come back.

We, we'll

swing around

Reegs: Okay.

Pete: Okay. I like it.

Cris: Gump.

When Forrest meet marries his Jenny, yeah. Which is a wedding and

Dan: Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Touching moment

Cris: He's, He's there.

Reegs: up.

Cris: Yeah. Well, no, he doesn't. But it's I, because I've just recently seen Forrest Gump and

Dan: it your first time?

No,

Cris: No, no, no. I've seen it before, but I've seen it when I was eight.

Dan: Right. Okay. Yeah,

Cris: really remember much. I know about box of chocolates and all, you know, like the things that you always see online, but,

Sidey: Film.

Cris: Oh, it's brilliant.

I love it.

Dan: I

liked it as well. Yeah.

Cris: So I have that as a wedding scene. I can also put in a real life wedding that I've been to just, I'm going to say it really quickly, which I went with my girlfriend at the time and she said to me when, before we went, she's like, Oh, listen, it's going to be a bit awkward because my ex boyfriend is going to be at the same table.

I was like, okay, I don't really care. And I'm not, I don't know the guy. So whatever. But then when I got there, what she failed to tell me is that the guy transitioned into a woman. And he was, she was now with her girlfriend.

Yeah,

Reegs: who that is.

Cris: Oh, do you? Yeah. Okay. It was very bizarre for me.

So I just thought I'll put it out there because it was a different kind of encounter, let's say.

Pete: that is, that is different. Just, just to clear this up, so the guy had turned into a woman, but, but he was a woman, but he

Reegs: No, it's a woman. It turned into a dude, right?

Cris: No. No.

There's a guy that turned into a now it's a girl and she is now a lesbian

Pete: Okay.

Cris: or a gay.

want to, I don't know, I don't want to offend anyone, I don't know, can I say lesbians? I don't know.

Sidey: Yeah.

Reegs: Yeah.

is there anything wrong

Pete: are a thing, Yeah,

Reegs: that's okay.

to deny lesbians on this. I

Cris: I

Pete: I like, I like the way you tried like going a bit or a gay like, yeah.

Reegs: Speaking of a gay, come on Pete,

Pete: Okay. So as, as I was leaving the house on the way down here, cause I hadn't thought of any weddings.

Sidey: you?

got married, whee! Whee!

Pete: quickly asked the, ask the the people in my house anybody think of any famous weddings from films or anything like that? And my seven year old Charlie. So, oh yeah when Bowser and Princess Peach are going to get married in the Mario movie. And so that is, so technically, I don't know, is a wedding still a wedding if it doesn't actually then, the like, the vows aren't exchanged and it isn't made official?

Sidey: That's a marriage, so the wedding is

the event.

Pete: the wedding is the event, so yes, so this was a wedding but there was no marriage because loads of, like, things started, like, attacking and so on and so the actual marriage of Bowser and Princess Peach didn't happen.

Thank goodness.

because, because he wasn't, I mean, you know, I think he had good intentions but he went about it in the right, in the, in the wrong way.

Yeah, I mean, he wrote a really nice song.

And he

was wanting to, you know, wanting to get with Peach for a little while, he had the hots for her, I mean she's quite hot, so I understand that. Everyone seen that film?

Reegs: No, not yet

Pete: I really like it,

Sidey: it.

in, turned off. That was

Pete: yeah but you're a cock, so that doesn't surprise me. There's an amazing like, rainbow road chase scene in like, in carts with Donkey Kong and all of that.

Fucking great film, I really really enjoyed it, and will watch it again. One is one of probably Charlie's favorite film. So yeah.

Reegs: Well, At

the seven minute mark of Guns N Roses nine minute and 17 seconds, June, November, rain is an absolute moment that was seared into my

subconscious

Sidey: Slash? Or is it someone jumping through

the wedding cake?

Reegs: It's the

Sidey: For no

reason, nailing the

Reegs: So the, the, the, it's this long video about a rock star and his girlfriend and she commits suicide, but halfway through there's the wedding which, and then the titular rain happens and then this guy just fucking torpedoes

Sidey: the cake,

right? I don't know how many

Reegs: I don't know how many cakes they had

Sidey: There was a rumour, I think it might like an urban myth that Axe of rose had got a real like priest or whatever to to do the vow. So it was

actually,

Reegs: was actually getting married to

Sidey: hoodwinked this girl, this, this model into marrying him. But that's probably not true. But then afterwards Slash It's like in Black Addy, you know, when the legs have to be, like, really far apart. Slash has the most incredible guitar solo pose of all time, with his guitar not plugged into

Reegs: into anything. Not plugged in, on the edge of a cliff, with a

Sidey: fire. With the wind blowing his, like,

Reegs: blowing is

Sidey: friar around, yeah,

Dan: strong video. Yeah.

Sidey: It's really good.

That

chick what was in Stepford Wives, was also in The Graduate. Which is a really iconic. Wedding scene at the end. She's Elaine, isn't she? Yeah, and Dustbin hoffman bangs on the window and screams at her And everyone looks around like in that really iconic

way

Reegs: in don't

Sidey: they run off onto the bus And then they do that in There's probably quite a few take

Reegs: other a little awkward Look, don't they And the smiles kind of die?

Sidey: like, fuck, we've done it.

They do it in Waynesworld 2 as well.

Reegs: Cassandra

and mrs. Bouvier. It's been taken off many many times

The office

it was done in, and of course the Busted music video.

Sidey: music video. Ah, the highlight.

Reegs: you prefer Busted or McFly, or would you prefer that they were

both dead?

Sidey: I think given

that a boy band member killed and died. Oh, that

Reegs: that is

actually, yeah, that

was part of the reason for picking this

Sidey: this week's

Reegs: movie, because that had been in my, it was very sad, wasn't it?

Sidey: It

seemed very troubled.

Reegs: very troubled, wasn't it?

Sidey: he Yeah, but yeah, I wish they were all

Reegs: were all dead.

Well,

Dan: Well, I'm moving

on to quiz. I'm going to hand you a a post it and it says on it, my grafting bike

Sidey: Wedged.

Reegs: Okay.

And is it a movie or what is it? It's an anagram, is it?

Dan: Correct. Of a movie.

Reegs: My Big Fat Greek Wedding? Yeah.

Pete: It's got, yeah, that's it.

Dan: Okay, well, Riggs won that one. Well done, Simon. And, traditionally, what days of the week are believed to be the luckiest and unluckiest to be married?

Sidey: Sunday's. Gotta be a

no-no. Surely.

Reegs: Wednesday sounds like

a shit hump day. Don't get married on hump day.

Sidey: It Might break up the week nicely

Reegs: Yeah, that's

Dan: So you

Reegs: Tuesday?

Dan: me, you gotta give me one day, a lucky day and one day, an unlucky

Cris: Friday is unlucky and lucky day is Monday.

Dan: Wrong.

Sidey: I'd say Sunday Sunday's unlucky.

Dan: You'd say that. Okay. What would anybody else say?

Pete: I would say Sunday's unlucky as

Dan: You would say Sunday's unlucky. Well, you're both unlucky then because that's not right. Do you want to have a lucky day? You've got a lucky day to choose. What would be your lucky day to get married? A Tuesday.

Pete: Hmm.

Thursday.

Dan: A Thursday. What about yourself? I don't know.

Reegs: don't know, I'm going to let them keep guessing and hear what they say and then,

Dan: I'd like an answer though.

Reegs: Okay. I'll say Friday is a day that you definitely should get married And Tuesday is a day you shouldn't.

Dan: day you shouldn't. Yeah, I was allowed be on this one.

Sidey: Yeah, I was thinking that was the

obvious one. Yeah. And that's based on what?

Dan: I got married

Sidey: Right. Well,

Pete: I got married on a Saturday and I am

Dan: I

Sidey: Proved. Proven. It's a fact. It's a

Dan: that,

Cris: only that, everybody gets married on a Saturday. Very few people get married on any other day of the week.

Sidey: Yeah, statistic

Cris: Yeah. Statistic overload. And also in modern society, these days in the last 30 years, statistically divorce is more common than ever in

Dan: we've done a counterfactual against that to ensure that the the data is relevant in all

Pete: Do you know what day of the week, is that what you're looking up, Side?

What day of the week are you getting married?

Sidey: Saturday.

Pete: Saturday.

Sidey: Oh, it's doomed. It's doomed. Yeah, it's doomed so far.

Dan: Mmm, I better not say anything. I've got one more quiz question, but I'll ask it on the on the next

Sidey: way round.

Dan: thanks

Cris: In the movie Money Talks, with Charlie Sheen and Chris Tucker Charlie Sheen marries Heather Leclerc at the end of the movie. I don't know if anyone remembers this movie, but I remember it because I thought it's

And Heather Locklear's dad is the guy from Pauly from Goodfellas.

I can't

Pete: Oh yeah, yeah,

Cris: the actor's name, but he's also in this movie. He's like kind of a mobster kind of Italian. Yeah. Italian guy. And he has this interaction with Chris Tucker, who is basically a guy that. just should be in prison, but Charlie Sheen does a deal with him that he'll help him clear his name if he helps him with the wedding and all that stuff.

So, I don't know. I quite liked it and it's got she looks really, really hot in it. Heather O'Cleary in her prime. So, it's a movie that's not necessarily the biggest one, but it's very good.

Pete: yeah prime lot

Reegs: Yeah into

that.

Pete: Probably before the red wedding

The

most, one of the most famous murderous weddings would be that at the beginning of Kill Bill 2.

Which obviously is timeline wise pre, like, as before

Sidey: genesis of the whole thing, yeah.

Pete: the film. Yeah, you don't see it, I think it's the opening,

Sidey: you're just a shot of the

chapel, isn't it?

from

Pete: to, to Kill Bill 2. It goes back and fills in the blank about why she, she is so scorned and why she was in the situation she was in in the first place.

It's done in black and white, isn't it?

Reegs: is, and so

Pete: so it's got all of the, the ganger there. And yeah, it's ends up with in, in a, a huge sort of like knife y, sword y, gun fight y, bloodbath type thing. A

Reegs: The image of the blood spattered bride is one that has persisted. There's a movie, Ready or Not, that it's got, like, that kind of vibe to it, where she has to, on her wedding night, pass a family tradition of, like, a game of hide and seek that involves them with weapons, and her in a wedding dress ending up killing

everybody figures

Sidey: Kate Bush music video.

of the same as well.

Reegs: Yeah, Nice.

Sidey: yeah

Reegs: There were a million movies that had the word wedding in. Like Wedding crashes. Did you see that one?

Sidey: Yeah, it has a like a good montage of weddings being crashed. Yeah.

yeah.

Reegs: Back in like the early noughties when there was, you know, you could just call the movie Wedding Crashes

and it'd be about people who crash weddings and then, and then and then like a comedy, it's

Cris: Oh, it's good. It's good. It's quite funny.

Pete: Is that, what's it,

Cris: Oh, and Wilson.

Pete: guy,

Sidey: Vince Vaughn and iron Wilson.

and Christopher Walken.

Reegs: Isla

Sidey: really good in it Is it? Isla Fisher.

And the other girl that's in it, the lead.

Who's

also in other films, and also

The really hot Bond girl.

Think

of a posh older lady English actress.

Solitaire from Live and Let

Reegs: Rosamund Pike.

Sidey: Yeah,

she smokes in it. That's the motorboating line, is her.

Pete: I feel like there's a wedding in Live and Let Die as well. I know Bond.

Reegs: there is.

There is. in Yeah. I saw

it earlier today but I didn't

care enough

to.

Pete: enough to.

Sidey: though. Rog

Pete: brilliant film though.

Rog film, obviously. It's going to be one of the best because he's the best Bond.

Reegs: Bridesmaids as well was another one. I liked that one. Kristen Wig And who is,

Sidey: Yep.

Reegs: Melissa McCarthy. That's one. Yeah. The Wedding Singer.

Sidey: Yeah, I was gonna maybe mention that one.

They go,

Reegs: gotta be probably my pick to be

Sidey: It's strong Adam Sandler content. It's good Drew Barrymore content as well and they talk about

Reegs: steeper shimmy as

Sidey: I like the way they talk about how they're gonna do the kiss and it's an appropriate level of tongue. church tongue. Is that

Dan: Is that when they have the band on and they've got that guy

Sidey: Like really inappropriate guys, like grinding it

Reegs: Oh yeah, . Yeah.

Sidey: Into the old

women's stuff

Dan: yeah motherfuckers get down. Yeah. That's a

Sidey: it's good that one, yeah

Reegs: So that's a little sample of that, but there are

a billion. Like The Wedding Planner,

Sidey: Runaway Bride

Reegs: Runaway Bride. Yeah, all of those.

I was

Dan: always think of The, the one, the Christopher Walken De Niro film.

Reegs: The Deer Hunter?

Dan: At the beginning of that they're at a wedding aren't

Reegs: There's a few classics, like The Godfather starts with a really lavish wedding, doesn't it?

Oh, sorry.

Sidey: well yeah, let's talk about that one, because I watched it recently, Godfather starts off at the wedding of Cornelia's daughter, and it shows you, his whole world and how it works. And

Reegs: on

Sidey: on, Yeah on his wedding day, he's just taking, requests from people. You come to me on my daughter's, I'm not going to do the voice, you come to me on the day of my daughter's wedding, you know, without enough respect to do the blah, blah, blah, and you see, like, this is the guy who can make fucking anything

happen. But you're, I owe him a favor. You know, he'll come to you later on when they need

Dan: fucking I owe him a favour, you know, he'll come to you later on when they need something.

I'll take care of it. He beats the living shit out of these rascals. Fucking rapists or whatever, like

Sidey: There's more than one.

Dan: bit more than a rascal,

Reegs: that boy, Rascals? isn't it?

Pete: rascally rapist, you.

Dan: Rascal these rapists. And and then later on, of course, when Sonny gets shot up, he, he's he has to do his best work

Sidey: think I need to do your best work

Dan: book's amazing. I just remember the, like all the detail of those parts and the wedding and everything's

fantastic.

And in the film, he's, he's got it all across as but Yoko Ono, John Lennon.

Sidey: Yeah.

Dan: Kate Middleton and Prince William,

Sidey: Yeah.

Dan: Priscilla and Elvis,

Sidey: Yeah.

Dan: David and

Victoria Beckham, Beyoncé and Jay Z. Who got married first?

Who got married last?

Sidey: Lennon and

No, hang on, no, sorry, Elvis.

Dan: I'd like them in order. So Yoko Ono, John Lennon, Kate Middleton, Prince William, Priscilla and Elvis.

Beckhams, and

Beyonce and

Sidey: and Elvis,

Yoko Ono, John Lennon,

John

Pete: Beckhams,

Dan: any points for

Reegs: The

Beckhams,

Sidey: the Beckhams Jay Z and then the Middletons

lost.

Dan: it

is correct. Yeah. And

Reegs: all get a

Pete: we all get a point for

Dan: No, it's just,

Cris: I had no idea.

Pete: I was.

telling

Reegs: him go.

Dan: you can't all get a point. He's no idea. He's just

admitted it.

Cris: no,

Pete: he said something

Reegs: me too, that

Dan: Yeah, well, you get double points

Pete: Thank you. Thank you.

So,

Cris: You win. Yeah,

Reegs: Is that the end of the

Dan: this is a strong quiz this week. Yeah.

Cris: Is that not your level?

Reegs: Oh, I

Cris: I forgot you got a promotion

Dan: a bonus question.

Cris: No, he got a promotion recently, he's the boss

Dan: There you go. There, there it is. Well, let's have a tiebreaker if you will. You need to come complete this sentence.

Okay. I'll get it. Can I hear your buzzers?

Sidey: Buzzers?

Dan: Something.

Something. No.

Okay, let's start off. The phone just flipped. The phone just flipped out. Something old. Something new.

Something borrowed. Something blue.

Pete: Dunno.

Dan: And

a silver sixpence in your shoe.

It's a famous, famous. so I win.

Pete: yeah.

Reegs: Well done.

Who said

Pete: Well done.

Sidey: done

Cris: Who said that?

Pete: It's just a

Cris: Oliver Twist or

Sidey: would know it up to the something. borrowed something. Didn't know that silver bullet.

thing.

Dan: No, nobody knew the silver bullet

Reegs: What was it silver bullet,

Sidey: Silver sixpence in your

Dan: Yeah. Alright. Yeah. We've already forgotten, but

that

Sidey: that was No, we have.

Cris: Yeah,

well, I haven't forgotten my I've got two more, one I'll save for the norm, and this one Braveheart.

Sidey: Oh

yes.

Cris: another one of my favorite actors, Mel Gibson.

He he's an actor, I don't care about his personal life, but he marries Myrren secretly.

Sidey: Hello, Myrn. I know. it's

all fine.

nothing else happens.

Cris: Well, they have sex.

Sidey: Yeah. Do we see her boobs?

Cris: I think so.

I can't remember exactly. It's been a while since I've seen Braveheart, but a great movie. And they get secretly, yeah. They secretly get married in the woods. Scottish traditional wedding, one would say.

Sidey: And

then

she has her throat slit?

Yeah. it doesn't end well, does

Same thing happened to

Dan: was probably her.

Cris: it was probably a

Dan: seen

Pete: I've never seen Braveheart.

Sidey: of them.

Cris: good.

Pete: I can't be asked

Dan: be arsed.

Cris: good.

Pete: No, not interested.

So yeah, I just, a couple more. Only because you mentioned Harry Potter. I do like to get Harry Potter in there. You've got the the wedding of Fleur Delacour and Bill

Sidey: Weasley.

There's a

Pete: There's a lot to question in this. One, again, he is punching way above his weight. She smokes. He's not. He's it's Dominic Domal, Dominal Gleason or whatever. But, yeah, in a really, like, sort of bit part, all the, like, yeah. He pops up every now and again but it's, it's punctuated the wedding.

Luckily, it's, they've had the actual ceremony. There is a marriage, but then the, the reception is, is interrupted by like an orb that comes in through the tent. And it's quite, it's quite chilling. Roy

Sidey: quite

chilling.

The Magic

Pete: The, the Ministry of Magic has fallen. The Minister of Magic is dead.

Like, and then it basically says, like, run for your lives, and then Death Eaters start appearing and everything, and they all have to apparate out of there. Like, fucking, how you don't like this stuff, Reegs?

Reegs: Yeah, it's shit.

Pete: Oh, you're a you're shit. You're shit.

Cris: It's true.

Pete: that was fucking class. That was pretty pretty epic and tense.

No! Never! And then the other one, really just to, to troll Chris. is in the end credit scene of Napoleon Dynamite is the epic wedding of Kip and La Fonda

and what a film that is. That's at least a film we can all agree on is flawless

Reegs: moment when Napoleon rides in on

the horse and all that. Remember it, Chris?

Yeah,

Cris: no, I turned it off after

Sidey: I don't think he's stayed for the credits. No,

Cris: i've turned it off after 10

minutes

Reegs: minutes for me. I've

Dan: first? I've got one more question. Because I wasn't convinced we had a winner. Actually, I can't win myself. So I'm taking first answer.

Which of these is not a style of wedding dress?

Fishtail, mermaid, flute, trumpet, Okay. Okay. Okay.

Reegs: trumpet

Sidey: mermaid it's definitely Mermaid,

is definitely one I'm sure. of it

Dan: glass. Is it? Yeah.

Sidey: It's a glass.

Dan: So who won? So, I think,

Cris: Yeah,

Sidey: jazz flute

Dan: the

Reegs: on that bombshell

Pete: so

Dan: here.

Cris: the listeners

Reegs: the listeners are the winner here. Well done you guys

Dan: And I will add in the deer hunter as my choice.

Sidey: Okay.

We're all massive Friends fans.

And there's loads of, Yes, especially Pete. And there's loads of wedding content. The First time

Season

1, Episode 1, when we meet Rachel Green, she's in a wedding dress.

Reegs: dress. Yeah, her own wedding dress, she's escaped,

Sidey: Yeah, she's your runaway bride. And then

the famous one is Ross and Emily getting married. And He says Rachel, he?

says, Rachel could you believe

it? I was like, really

Reegs: really? And Monica and Chandler

Sidey: Multichildhood, they get married, it's like all serious fire hazard, the amount of

Reegs: Started to go seriously

Sidey: and Phoebe gets married to Paul Rudd.

Yes.

in the snow. Yes.

Dan: And does Joey get married as Doctor,

Sidey: He officiates.

Yes.

he officiate he become He gets ordained. and able to carry out the thing.

Yeah

Classic. Pete loves that. Yeah.

Pete: Yeah, like Jerry probably cracked onto a bridesmaid

Sidey: to say, how are you doing? And

Pete: was like, Oh God.

And then and then he ate like 18 slices of pizza

Sidey: think that happened, yeah.

Reegs: Yeah, that probably did happen.

Pete: comic genius right there.

Sidey: I

Reegs: think

you lot give a shit about the Princess Bride very much. But Peter Cook

Dan: love that movie Yeah.

Reegs: Is what brings us

together.

Dan: Is very, very

Reegs: that the Princess Bride.

Pete: I've got, for Charlie's shout, I've got to go Bowser and Princess

Peach.

Reegs: Nice.

Sidey: Christian.

Cris: Goodfellas. There's Henry Hill's wedding.

Sidey: Oh, yes. Oh, of course.

Reegs: cousin Peter, cousin Paul.

Everyone's

Pete: Paul.

poorly, his foot poorly.

Cris: a variation

Sidey: all worried about leaving the, the sack of

money.

He's like, no, it's fine. It's really fine.

Cris: that. It's quite, I, I

Reegs: Is that where they're giving him the envelopes as well?

Sidey: envelope after

Pete: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Sidey: She's like, what about the money? So

Pete: P. D.

Reegs: Peter's Paul.

This is

Sidey: get confused my time myself sometimes.

he says,

Reegs: This is Marie.

All the wives are

called Marie.

Cris: So yeah, that.

Sidey: good. That's a good one. That's a good one. I mean, I, I have actually got some nominations from

Reegs: from the real

world.

Sidey: From

real

Pete: human people.

Dan: outside these four walls.

Sidey: We've had Braveheart we've had Wayne's world too. we have

had Monty

Python the Holy Grail.

Pete: don't remember a wedding in that.

Reegs: the

Sidey: Sir Lancelot attacked a wedding.

Reegs: Brave Salonso.

Sidey: red Wedding as well, and they

did say that if we were closer to Christmas then we could have love

actually. Fuck no.

Pete: no, no.

Reegs: Bit of Richard Curtis, yeah.

Sidey: so, if anyone else wants to nominate online, then,

We'd love that. Wouldn't We We'd really love it.

Dan: I do.

Cris: Imagine

you go Siamese twins and you're connected at the balls.

Dan: No,

Sidey: married,

It's weird

when people get married.

to one of the Siamese twins.

Pete: I'd say fucking is more weird than the marriage

Sidey: yeah.

Dan: think balls would be

relatively

Sidey: they're not, maybe they're not having a,

Pete: this, Gold?

Sidey: yes. Maybe they're not having that kind of like a sexual relationship to

Okay.

Reegs: relationship

to it. They are.

Sidey: That segues really nicely into this week's main

Reegs: into this feature. Yeah. Don't worry darling.

Dan: Mmm.

Sidey: Yeah, I had heard a lot about this film. When it came out, because there's a whole lot of drama around Originally, Shia LaBeouf, LaBeouf was

Was hired.

Cris: I quite like Sha Buf. He was in Dublin not too long ago, having a fight in the street with some random,

Sidey: So there was a load of stuff about him.

And

There was a leaked recording of him having a conversation with

Olivia Wilde, the director and star.

Yeah about and, and there was, there was a lot of negativity

Reegs: Miss Flo,

Sidey: miss Flow. They Really?

Cris: That's

Reegs: cringe, isn't it?

Sidey: And then

say when it came to the premiere, there

was all this kind of drama going on. Anyway.

Reegs: of, also Harry Styles and Olivia Wilde were in

Sidey: They were, they were in a relationship,

yeah.

And

then

Reegs: And he obviously spends a lot of this movie eating Florence Pugh's

Sidey: Yeah, he spat on, it seemed like he spat on Chris

Pine at the premiere for

some reason.

That

Reegs: That was weird as well, wasn't

Sidey: wasn't It It did clearly look like he had done that. to me. Anyway, that all happened, so.

he had

all this going round, So,

And then, and I'd And then I'd

Reegs: And then I'd heard that the movie was a bit shit.

Sidey: Yeah. and I'd also had the Ending spoilt, so

Reegs: Oh, had you? Yeah, so the only reason to watch it, which isn't worth watching,

Sidey: Just cut into the chase. We'll get into it, but actually,

it

I'm just gonna tell you what I thought of it now, that we've always said that, it's better than I had feared it might be.

I I thought it might be complete catastrophe.

Reegs: It looks really

Sidey: There's some bits of it there that make it worthwhile. Fantastic. Yeah. Yeah.

Reegs: has the trappings of a good movie. It starts with, they're at a party doing, some sort of drinking

Sidey: It's sort of performing, like, seals, the women having to balance cocktails on their heads and frolic

Cris: yeah, yeah.

Sidey: I Think one of them is told

to shut up, like, by her husband.

Dan: But it's all kind of hijinks, isn't it? And they're drinking, it's, it's that It's pretty

Reegs: one

Dan: guy's

got a, a little signet ring and he seems to be more important than the rest.

Sidey: He's been promoted onto the

like executive board

I think is what you know,

Dan: of the

Reegs: the Victory Project. Because they all live in this town called Victory. And the men all work

Sidey: Hank Scorpio.

Reegs: Yeah. And they all go off every day.

To

Sidey: So yeah, they have

they're having this party and then we see the next day when they go off and It's almost like a dance.

It's completely choreographed where they all get into

their car at the same time

They all leave in a completely uniform way the same way

with their wives

waving

Cris: wives waving

Sidey: from the front lawn. It's very Stepford, isn't it?

Reegs: Yeah, It's it's right It definitely based on the work of a photographer called slim aaron's that I only became aware of After reading this, but you will have seen loads of his work of like Suburban socialites hanging out and really cool and because it's got a very stylish look at fifties aesthetic, but Also, there's loads of cues straight away.

Like the way that they're behaving is not very 1950s as well in some ways like the scene where she does pack them all off to work But when he comes home, he does give her oral sex like, you know, it doesn't

Sidey: I

thought she made an unnecessary amount of mess of the dining

Reegs: unnecessary amount of mess off the dining table. I didn't

Sidey: need to push all the crockery

Reegs: all the

Sidey: Yeah, Well, he had a full meal himself. law. But Yeah, anyway.

Reegs: But it is quite a good scene that goes on. He does get right in there for a few minutes.

So, that's nice. So it all seems idyllic, but the boys are off working on this thing. It's, what do they call it? Development of progressive materials.

Sidey: Yeah, it's all very

Ambiguous. Yeah, and they're just they're not allowed to talk to it

And if it's

raised

they get in a half like, you know, i'm not allowed to talk about

that. Yeah

Reegs: And they live in this kind of closed community out in the desert. It's got like 72 I think families that are there in this sort of It's like vaguely reminiscent of los alamos or whatever. It was called the nuclear testing site of the Indiana Jones memorably survived.

Sidey: Everyone seems to be an alcoholic because they just cocktails, cocktails. cocktails, Constantly.

Cris: And the women go to ballet and, because that's what it shows when

Sidey: I think that's

So we've seen the way that the cars leave and everything. that There's is there's a uniformity and they're like a really, like, very structured way. Like an absurdly structured way that

Reegs: things happen.

But

Sidey: but when they go to the ballet, it becomes clear. It's it's more, it's like, even on a, like a personal level, because Gemma Chan, who's taking the ballet sessions, she goes on with this mantra about structure and,

Control, and

how you've

got to behave in a certain way.

Reegs: About the precision of the movements required for ballet.

And it's sort of about you know, a system of control that we're helping to enforce.

So

Dan: there's a kind of boundary on town as well. There's certain areas you don't go there's kind of cliffs or mountains around, and some of them back onto the houses which make a nice backdrop. But then the other kind of side of it is just desert and open land and everything.

And there's some further. Kind of cliffs, isn't there and they're they're not supposed to go there

Reegs: There's open desert she notices, I think,

Florence Pugh's character Alice.

Because she spends most of her

day, like,

it looks amazing, just cleaning the house, having

Dan: Well, she's got to do that hoovering on that huge shag pile carpet and with a really shit hoover and you think Fuck, you know and she scrubs the bath every day. I mean she's 1950s housewife Dinner is waiting on the table when it gets in and you get the feeling, drinks poured, you know, you get the feeling that is perfect.

You know, it's just lovely. They don't want kids. They have these conversations in and around as she's lying around a pool at a friend's house or something

Reegs: like that. Yeah, the woman walks through completely topless. That was another clue that something was a bit weird because you 50s, you? But the woman walks through

Sidey: No. And

Reegs: Because we meet all the friends.

don't

Sidey: Yeah. Olivia Wild. She says, oh, you know, we're not having kids, but it doesn't matter because

her kids prefer me anyway,

So I can just have that relationship and not have to deal with all of it.

Reegs: Yeah, so Olivia Wilde, the director, is playing Bunny, who's the sort of chain smoking, alcoholic friend, very much like,

Sidey: Pete

Reegs: Pete, in, in Stepford Wives, it was that kind of vibe.

It would have been good if you'd have been

Sidey: there.

Cris: But he's also topless alcoholic, so

Reegs: Yeah.

So, and who, else? and there's another one that's pregnant, And

Sidey: Well, then we're going to cut to, there's a, there's a

party, right? There's a, get together, and we've,

we've heard

about the leader, you know, the main man, the boss, and then we see him at the party, he comes around It's Chris Pine and He's looking so good, Even more handsome than Harry Styles,

I

Dan: Yeah, 100%, yeah.

Cris: Yeah. More classy.

Sidey: he, he, goes on more and more about the the, the.

and, and progress, but also chaos. You start, they start talking about chaos being the,

the enemy of control. Yeah. But in reality, you're not gonna have

Reegs: have, it. someone shouts up

Sidey: someone at the back of the party,

off sort of on the outskirts

of it, just shouts up and says it's not real.

Yeah. It just starts and it quickly silenced and dragged away. Yeah.

Dan: They're going through a bad time. Ted and Sally or whoever it is, Margaret. And and they're. You know, it takes a few glances from the party but He he manages to bring their attention back to him and

Cris: he's so charming, he just says, oh shit, they're really having problems, don't worry,

Reegs: don't worry, they'll Well, there's no centre time as well at this

Sidey: well there's some more sexy time as well. There's party

'cause they go inside don't they yeah And again, not how it Would probably

have

happened in the fifties, but he pulls her pants down Yeah. And starts fingering her, I think. And is kissing her and Chris Pine walks in and

Reegs: walks in, and

Sidey: Yeah. He just watches and, and Alice

clocks him freaking out. and he

Dan: a moment, don't they? Where they just

kind of

Sidey: gives it, they shush

Dan: doesn't scream and say, stop. He's here. They both just kind of look at each other and he brings it up later on.

He

Sidey: does.

yeah.

Yeah.

Dan: It's a, it's a strange kind of dynamic and she also has yeah, she's having visions just little flashes that, that open it.

Cris: I think

that's the first day when she keeps humming that song, you know, and she's like, I have this in my head.

I don't know why.

Sidey: And it's

got

Reegs: don't know why. Well, we've seen like almost subliminal flashes like frames of dancers at first a group of female dancers Doing like this really elaborate dance shot from above and it dissolves sometimes into the pattern

Sidey: blood splat

it

Dan: and and she she kind of at that party follows around and And tries to see where Margaret is, who's,

Reegs: Well the story about Margaret is that she had gone off into the desert You've always been told you're not allowed to leave the, the area sort of thing And, But Margaret had and she'd had a son because she's observed Margaret standing out in the garden Holding this tiny red biplane toy And so yeah, Margaret has gone off, that's why she's, lost her mind.

And then we see her get kind of carted off by men in red suits, don't we?

And yeah.

Sidey: Yes, they do catch, just

sort of see her in her house, doesn't she And she's sat down and she just says it's, you know, they just go on and on about this, this thing. And then

we

see Alice then later on at one of her ballet classes. And, she sees Margaret in the window, in the mirror.

And

Margaret's kind of trapped in there and

she's

banging her head against the

Cris: And

Sidey: And she's, Alice screams when she she

smashes it and everyone looks around and there's nothing there. And it's like, oh, she's starting to

Have some sort of episode. And it happens again when she's doing some cleaning, she's cleaning the glass.

Reegs: starts to crush

Sidey: she's starting to like you know, get fixated on a bit. And then the next thing she knows, the wall behind her, the hallway, is closed right in. and she's pinned up against the glass, suffocating.

So, I

don't know, maybe she's constrained in some

way

Reegs: yeah, maybe, who knows. And there's some eggs as well that are just empty shells.

So yeah, loads of bizarre general weirdness telling you, you know.

Cris: Something is off,

yeah.

And then she just well, meanwhile,

Reegs: she goes,

Cris: like he's

Reegs: things get weirder and weirder and weirder, Oh, go on,

Sidey: it

Cris: looks like he's getting more and more pally with

Reegs: Frank.

Cris: And it looks like he's becoming more important. The more she is a bit more She has all these visions and it's a bit more weird and she stands out a little bit, the more important he looks like he's becoming to the society and to Frank.

And then we see her getting on the tram. Is it the tram or a bus kind of

Reegs: It's a tram, I think, yeah.

Cris: And all the other women go to ballet because that's what they keep doing all the time. And then she

Reegs: off to the shops,

you see, them

Cris: then she just stays on the bus. And the guy, the, the driver, Mr.

Bus driver man says.

Sidey: Yeah. Or

Reegs: and it's all weird as well it goes a bit sort of like Computer glitchy, doesn't it when she sees a biplane in the sky and she's following its progress and she sees it crash in the mountains And she goes to the end of the line she, and she tries to convince the

Sidey: he's like, I can't leave. I

Reegs: not allowed to do that.

Dan: He just looks at her like she's mad. He's like, we can't go out there. Like, and she's going, you're nuts, like, plane's just gone down, you must have seen it. So she heads off, which seems a really bad idea because it's hot,

Sidey: it's a desert.

Dan: it's a bloody long way, but, sure enough, she gets to where The plane might have gone down, but in fact what catches your attention, there's a building on top.

It's this kind of

Reegs: dome

structure

Sidey: like a Bond villain's lair. Yeah,

Dan: lair. Yeah it is circular with like mirror windows all around it. And when she touches it, she gets some of those flashes again and she wakes up in her own bedroom. And it's Husband, Harry Jack Harry Styles. He's just mixing a drink, said, Oh, how you doing?

Reegs: used every like appli the kitchen.

Sidey: when your missus cooks?

Dan: Yeah, he,

Reegs: been turned

Dan: and he's saying, Oh, you were asleep when I got here. Yeah and she's freaked the fuck out. Because she

Reegs: Last thing, she was standing on a bond villain's lair pressing her face against some glass. And then the next thing, yeah,

Dan: She's, she's back in bed and she can't piece it together, but she kind of just goes with it because Jack's so convincing and in such a good mood and cooking and

Reegs: moves it on Oh, you were tired, blah, blah, you know, gaslighting

Dan: Yeah, yeah,

Sidey: Don't worry, darling.

Dan: yeah,

Reegs: exactly.

Um Uh,

but later she will see Margaret, won't she on the roof of the house.

Sidey: She looks round and,

She knows what's about to happen. Margaret looks she's got a knife

in her

hand. And she

slits her throat,

Reegs: quite gruesome, isn't it?

Sidey: pretty bad, Yeah, And, and

Dan: own

Sidey: falls from the roof and just thumps into the floor. And she's witnessed it, she has seen it explicitly. Yeah.

And then she's told, no, she's fine,

Reegs: there's blood everywhere. But then men rush

Cris: Yeah, the red men, the men in red,

Reegs: in, yeah. Yeah.

Dan: And

take her away as well like so they can't she can't go forward

Sidey: obviously seen a suicide,

right? and she's just told the doctor there,

is in her house then and saying, oh

no, she's,

you know, I can't discuss

that.

Reegs: Yeah.

Sidey: he says, you wouldn't

want me discussing your suicide. medical details with other people.

And

she says, I

Reegs: Oh, Dr. Collins you're talking about.

Sidey: about. And she says, I wouldn't mind. he goes, Oh, okay. And then just says, no, she's fine. She just, she had an accident and

she's going to be

Reegs: she cut herself. She slipped while cleaning the windows. That's the story And it's like so obviously bullshit.

And they show us a few times. her remembering, like, the body on the floor and the blood everywhere.

and that's like,

it's just

complete bullshit, but she does spy in his briefcase a file, doesn't

Sidey: she?

It Heavily

redacted.

Reegs: Yeah.

Unfortunately, yeah, when she takes it out, it can't read

Dan: And then when she later confesses this to one of the other wives remember they're at a party she may have already had an episode here where she's, She's

Reegs: what?

The big party where Harry Styles has to dance, are you

Dan: Well, she, where, where she admits that she's taken this file. Yeah. I think Harry's Jack's dancing. Have I jumped too far

Reegs: Yeah, maybe. I think

Sidey: Well, he is promoted, first of all. Well, she starts to realize that she, she doesn't like this life. Some, it's not right.

Something is definitely up. She can't put a finger on her, but she wants out.

she wants to be out of there and she tells Jack.

we need to lay. We need to leave and

It's not like Stepford, where the guy's okay, we'll go, It's like, no. yeah. We've gotta go to this event, and when they go to this

big, big swing and

Reegs: He's got a

Sidey: It's it's a big announcement that Jack's going to be promoted onto the board.

Reegs: But there's more sort of, behind him is the banners behind him say, Today victory, tomorrow the world, which was a fifties Nazi slogan, so, yeah.

if you,

Sidey: And Dieter Von

Teese is there doing a burlesque dance

Reegs: Doing a burlesque

dance and She's flying And having a

Sidey: basically,

Dan: Yeah, keep going, keep going. Yeah, he's

putting it all

Reegs: host this

Sidey: She's crying and having a breakdown and then they have to host this thing at their house. As like a

Another

celebration. of his place. So everyone, all

the all the sort of people that we've been introduced

to are around the dinner

table

and she says Oh, and and how did you guys meet?

Oh, you found the bus ticket.

I said, Zach, the same as you and you. and You, And So she knows

that

Cris: She

Reegs: only about three different stories so privately Frank basically admits to her in the kitchen.

Dan: That's right,

Reegs: that We're under, like, a system of control. confirms her suspicion She starts, like, detailing what she thinks she knows about what's happening, and what he's doing, and his role in it, and the power that's being exerted over it. And then when she brings it up at the table, the bit that you were talking about, where they've only got different stories, and

Sidey: all the, everyone's situation

is the same.

Reegs: They start gaslighting and going, Well, no, no, it's all, you know, what are you talking about? No, there's nothing weird going on at all. And that's when she's carted off to have electroconvulsive therapy.

Dan: Right, yeah.

Reegs: The guys in red, because Harry Styles gets the car. He does tell her. oh, We're going to go

Sidey: That's right. They pull her out of the car. They do, They put her out of

Reegs: the car that he's been working on, and they get in the car and then they cart her off and she's given this thing. And that's when she, when she has the electroconvulsive therapy, that's when we are jolted into the real world. where She's actually a physician.

She's,

Sidey: She's, having to.

work

double shifts.

Reegs: It's

at the year now. not the

Dan: And we realise, in fact, this is a deep state game that she's in, or a reality world that people choose to put on something similar to a VR headset, but it's more of these eyepatch things, isn't it?

Reegs: Well, it? turns out She comes home from this really hard shift, and Harry Styles is there, but this time he's got

Sidey: He's got shit hair,

Reegs: accent.

Sidey: skin is not very good, He

wants Sex but she's like fuck off.

I've

Reegs: He's like, I didn't know what to make food. So I didn't make anything Can you make me can you make me a sandwich or whatever like really playing it on? I mean, you know, you've all Been there, but it was like really awful. And so he's got And then yeah, he's he's unemployed.

He's listening to these podcasts of chris pine who's just spouting all this basically andrew tate, like bullshit and so Yeah

Sidey: And then effectively it's in the reset button.

Yeah She is,

I guess,

I guess she's drugged

and then put

these little eye lasery things on

that projects the game onto her and it's so, so

disappointing way to do it.

Dan: It's an interesting concept to me though because people have, you know, just thinking about the future of, of AI and, and VR and all the rest of it, how they will link it together and people, you know, spend so long in games at the moment,

Reegs: I know. but Right. One of the absolutely ludicrous parts of the plot is that this thing that Frank, Chris Pine in the real world, runs this for 72 people as opposed to the fucking billions.

That would buy an absolute, like, world changing virtual reality But yeah, because the idea is that he's trapped in there with a bunch of losers, basically, making this society they've traded

Sidey: they try they try and talk about that sort of thing, people opting in. So Bunny, it turns out, she

has

lost her kids, and

so she's, she's a willing participant in it, because this, this version of her life

Reegs: It's the only interesting idea the movie has, that, you know, that it takes this sort of complete, you know Sometimes you're complicit in your own subjugation, idea

Sidey: it, Then

it goes,

then it tries to be

a feminist thing. because Gemma Chan,

for some reason, has had enough of Chris Pine. And she stabs him.

Cris: Yeah,

after Florence Pugh drives away, yeah.

quite

Sidey: unexpectedly, I thought. she just

So

Dan: well, the wheels are coming off

Reegs: it all comes off.

when She comes back the second time after all this stuff. We've revealed all this information and all that, but then he, he plays the music, doesn't it? It triggers her again in this world to remember it all,

Dan: and she knows exactly what the fuck is going on. Then in this world, she realizes

Reegs: the men when they fuck off every day, they go into the real world to physically take care of the their, their bodies.

They put water in their mouths and put fucking porridge in their fucking.

whatever.

They're making me

And so they're just basically like

Dan: Hostages. Yeah, they're just vessels in which they're participating in this world, this VR world with them as the perfect.

Reegs: And

the simulation is designed around the males wants and wishes, basically.

Dan: designed around the males wants and wishes, basically.

Reegs: did say They were talking about making it bigger, but

Dan: talking about making it bigger, but You know, unwilling participants in it who are effectively kidnapped and, and being

put into this VR world and, and they go, I thought it was quite interesting that that concept of it

Sidey: kind of hurtling towards the end now.

because

like I

was mentioning before, Gemma Chan does murder Frank, And she says, you had your go. You fucked it up. Yeah, we're taking over now. Yeah. And I'm like, Oh, okay. It's like, it's like, you know, destroying the patriarchy, whatever. That's fine. is an idea.

Then Florence pugh's like, continuing her

sort

of quest, and she runs back to the bond villain lair

Reegs: She has a big chase

scene in the car, doesn't she? yeah

The cars crash into each other, and then she's being, there's quite a striking visual where,

Sidey: But

she goes back

to that place, and again puts her hands on the glass, and falls back, and the guys in the red suits are there, and I'm like, but there's nothing

she doesn't know.

obviously, at the time,

how it's played out in the film, but we know as the audience that the women are going to be taking over.

So, why do we care if she gets captured now? It doesn't make any difference. Like, there's

Reegs: Well, she gets out is the implication, because you hear her take a breath at the

Sidey: yeah, I just

Reegs: yeah, But I

also thought, you are tied to a bed. Like in the real world, you're gonna die of thirst and hunger tied to a bed unless you bite your own arm

Dan: Well, that's why she had to get out as well, isn't it? Because she'd killed. If you

Reegs: she'd killed

Dan: the guy in the real world, he's, he'll be

Reegs: her.

Dan: in that world. He'll be dead in the real world. So she hasn't got anyone to look after her and nobody knows where she is.

Sidey: I

just thought.

it was all a bit confused at

Dan: It was yeah, it was, it wasn't a fabulous film.

I kind of liked the idea when I found out it was, Oh, right. There. If effectively host hostages these women or a lot of them in this world that they're bill and He wanted that to take over the world because I don't know. I just see kids playing games for hours and sort of You know, they can just get lost and you think if they become that real which is where we're heading in a lot of the ability of Ai and vr and everything you just think you wonder how long people will

Reegs: The fact that you're talking about that though, than any of the feminist themes, were there any though?

It was, I didn't know what it was trying to really tell me, other than like, you know,

Dan: Yeah, I wasn't really listening to

Reegs: women being employed, or like, I don't know, my wife watched this, probably had the completely wrong reaction in some ways, because she was like, I think I probably would've been okay in the as a housewife, like looking at the big house and

Sidey: house is quite nice.

Yeah.

Reegs: like, doesn't, you know, you make

Cris: all

Dan: I sit at home drinking cocktails

Reegs: Which I think is, you know, She was joking, but it's probably a bit

Dan: Was she? Was she though? Yeah.

Reegs: Yeah. I dunno.

Dan: a 1950s housewife to be honest. You

Cris: You are a

Dan: had a maid.

Sidey: I really liked to live. Do remember we watched Book Smart? Yeah. I

really liked that one. This This is a bit of a misfire, I think.

Having said that, I still really enjoyed Florence Pugh in it. Not just because I really fancy her, I just think she's brilliant.

She's very very good

and Harry Styles was kind of, like, rubbish until he got angry a couple of scenes where he shouted. I thought he was quite

convincing. He was

Reegs: way better as the sort of loose machine, basically, with the beard and the unconvincing accent. and

Sidey: And Chris Biden's super fit as well.

Yeah.

Smoking hot.

Reegs: And it

looks, it looks great. The sound there was way too much soundtrack considering a really important part of the plot Was a tune that you never really heard it. Maybe that was deliberate because she didn't really get it or whatever I don't

Dan: Yeah, I think I think so. But chris pine the new kurt russell

maybe

who knows

Reegs: it's gonna be the Cuno man,

Cris: Is that, what do you mean the new, is that as in like a good looking

whatever?

Sidey: a

Dan: big hair, good

Sidey: got great hair actually, he

Cris: very handsome man. Yeah. I have to say, for me it was more the fact that it's not a great film in terms of thought provoking or whatever, but I do like quite a lot of the actors in it. Bonnie's husband, I don't remember the name, like his actual name. in reality, but in the film, but he's,

Sidey: it's like a love it's or something, is he?

Cris: But could be, but he's one I've seen in movies and I, he's always quite funny and he's always got a bit of a something about him.

Chris Pine, Olivia Wilde. I actually have to say until I've seen this movie, I've never known that Harry Styles is an actor as well. I just knew that he sings about

Sidey: he's in Dunkirk, and he

was thanos's brother as well, isn't he?

Dan: It came

Reegs: in right at the end

Sidey: It's a post credit scene. Yeah, that's right,

Reegs: Thank God. Let's hope that goes

Cris: goes nowhere. But as a whole, it was really nicely filmed. A lot of light, the sunshine. Everyone has great hair and the stylish

Reegs: Yeah. The costumes and all. that,

Cris: the decor, the houses, swimming pool, all that stuff. It was really cool.

It's really cool as an idea. Not too bad. Not the idea, but as an idea of a concept of how a victory fake plastic city would look like. That's how it would look like. Everybody wearing

Sidey: I would've liked to

just see the film where it's about the vi but that's a real thing.

This is not a ho hologram or a projection or an AI thing. this is a real place. And and this is the time that they are actually alive, and I wanna know what the Victory Project is actually doing. But that's

Reegs: But well, they were just going but That's, takes a very long time to get to a very uninteresting ending.

A muddled message and, it looks great. Florence pew really good. lukewarm Yeah.

Yeah.

Sidey: Yeah.

Dan: Yeah. Yeah, Yeah, it was, yeah.

Sidey: Hadn't heard this theme tune for a long time. Yeah. I think we should inflict it on everyone else Here it is right now.

Sounds really

fucking

cheap and shit, doesn't it now?

Reegs: man. It's

Sidey: It's still, Like It brings it all back. But

what I didn't

Pete: version did you play? Because they, they

Reegs: was this one.

Pete: this one. But

they

would revamp it. Like they often,

they did it to EastEnders once as well.

Dan: Like this one.

Sidey: This

is the one, This is the one from

the episode that we watched.

Pete: we watched. Okay. The original. Which

Sidey: Which is Scott and Charlene's wedding.

Reegs: Yeah.

Did you watch this at the

Pete: Not the

best bit of music you're going to be playing tonight though.

Sidey: I was super into Neighbours. Yeah. Super into it. You

Pete: You still are aren't you?

Sidey: no, it's come back. It's,

Reegs: I watched the last ever one, and then it came back again. Yeah. So, what did I do that

Sidey: do that for? I was watching this

one. It

Reegs: had mag as a Force ghost.

Sidey: Yeah, I

was watching

this one and thinking, oh, this is like pre Harold Bishop. but then he was he was there.

Reegs: Right, I remember thinking Harold Bishop was so old when

Sidey: I was a kid.

Reegs: And I looked at this, I was thinking,

Sidey: about your age about eight years than

Reegs: eight years older than me. like,

Dan: Oh my lord.

Pete: Him he died

Sidey: He got washed off the rocks

Reegs: came back

In this one one of the B plots that's obviously going on is that Mrs. Mangle has had some sort of brain injury and she's fawning over

Sidey: Yeah. She's super horny for him.

Reegs: Yeah, she's horny for him. Is Mrs.

Pete: was mrs. Is mrs. Mangle as old

Sidey: She's fairly old. Helen Daniels is not that old in this. I probably would have done her. But Mrs. Mangle catches Harold consoling madge about her daughter getting married off and sort of, you know, flying the roost and whatever And she gets fucking well put out. and she's like, if you can Bring, you know,

bring yourself away from each other.

Reegs: Carrying on like a

Dan: How's charlene looking anyway

Sidey: Not

as good as she

does now.

Dan: Really Yeah.

Sidey: It's, it's, you know,

Dan: Too young

Sidey: It's if This is a real time capsule. it's

lots of perms.

Great. mullet content kind of like curly

Pete: Like

Australia right now. Like

Reegs: some good storylines going on as well. Paul, Stephan Dennis, remember

Sidey: He was mr. Battle over here once, was

it? Yeah

Pete: he?

Reegs: he?

was running Lassiter's.

Do you remember that? It was the the

Sidey: I do. Yeah

Reegs: that joined it. And he is in a fake marriage with some

Sidey: she was hot

Reegs: looking

Pete: Didn't he? He married one of the Alessi twins.

Sidey: he Did

yeah,

Dan: pretty sure he had a hit.

Sidey: He did.

He was, so people who don't know, Jersey

has

an annual

like,

sounds really weird, flower festival, called the battle. of Flowers,

and they would get a celeb in to be Mr.

Battle and yeah, Paul

Dan: of, yeah, like floats would go

Sidey: was the guy with the curly mullet who had a brief singing, sort of,

Dan: MacLachlan.

Reegs: Kyle Carl McLaughlin Craig. McLoughlin

Sidey: Carl McLaughlin was Twin

Reegs: Craig McLoughlin then. Craig

Pete: McLoughlin?

Dan: Was he in this episode? He was the brother, wasn't he?

Sidey: So this is, this is Jason.

Reegs: he was the brother, wasn't

Sidey: yeah. he had the really curly mullet. Jason Donovan had the kind of straighter mullet, Like Stuart used to have. And

Reegs: looked sexy in the dress.

Sidey: This is not,

I can't remember exactly how long it was, but they changed the actor to Jason Donovan. It was a different Different Scott? Yeah, Scott. he, They found him in a river. And then

they did!

That's What, happened!

Cris: happened.

Sidey: And the actor, and they, No, they just, like

Because

he's

still alive, he got married in this episode.

But the

actor had changed. it changed him in such a fundamental

way.

Yeah, it's just like, oh, Scott's gone missing. and

they like, obviously, like, been this guy off. And then they got

Puffy Justin Jason Donovan in. allegedly.

Reegs: Donovan in.

Sidey: I think, I

think, one

of the mags like The Face or something tried to out him. And he sued them.

Reegs: Is he gay? He's not gay though.

Sidey: But I don't know why that would matter anymore.

Reegs: matter anyway, but I don't think he is gay though.

So in this episode it's a

lot of preamble wedding bullshit. it

Sidey: Not that much though. they launched this like a bit of getting ready at Madge's house. Bit of getting ready at the Robinson house. A bit of talking about the Mangle Robinson, like, family feuding. yeah. And then there's

Reegs: a another little plot about an escaped mouse?

Sidey: Yeah, that's

at the reception, He's under the table. Cause mr. Mangle thinks that fucking homeowners. No, it's something else. it's

Reegs: The cousin Des or whatever, it? is. But

Sidey: But, we get the pre we get the preamble, we get some blah blah blah

Reegs: we get the wedding

Sidey: the wedding And you get the very first bit of the chat And then it goes into the song

Pete: Suddenly, every part of me Needs to know every part

of

Reegs: you.

Sidey: but they still

live at home

So

after the wedding, they're

pashing.

Reegs: But wait, let's not just gloss over the wedding, because they look great. And it's all done with like, like soft focus, and it goes on forever in slow mo, and he's looking adoringly. Oh, let's just, no?

Pete: say it.

Sidey: Well They had that song, as,

well, didn't they?

Especially for shoes.

Reegs: Yeah. Not in this

Sidey: but, you know, they were

Reegs: as well.

Sidey: it was such a lovely moment Back

When you had four channels.

when this was out, This was

like massive,

massive,

Reegs: 19. 6 million people watched it. Sidy.

Sidey: people watched the Royal Wedding? Not as many as that. It

Reegs: it was only the third most watched thing of that year.

Sidey: 87?

Pete: 87, At

Reegs: was on it? At the top was EastEnders, and

Pete: I

Sidey: Dan East Den?

Reegs: I don't know, I didn't

look it up. And second was a programme I didn't watch, also had quite a good theme tune, was Bread. Bread.

Sidey: Oh, I hated that.

it, fucking scuse

Reegs: theme tune.

and it.

went like

Pete: That's More

Sidey: more

than this, more than 19 million.

Reegs: can't believe

Pete: Yeah, it was apparently only 2

Reegs: yeah, it was apparently only 2 million in Australia, so I think it was way

more

way more loved in the UK than it was

Sidey: Yeah, they all came over, had pop careers, panto, all that sort

Cris: Did you, do you remember when I was working for you, Pete, that I asked you, what is this? Because you used to sell an attraction ticket for Neighbours

Pete: Oh, you could do the neighbors walking tour in Melbourne or wherever it

Cris: Yeah, somewhere.

Pete: Yeah. For Ehrensberg.

Cris: people would, you know, when you go to Universal Studios, It would be as popular for people going to Australia, whoever went to Australia.

They, and

Sidey: because that's the only

Reegs: go to Ramsey Street.

Sidey: That is the only cultural thing they have in

Australia.

Pete: It's neighbors

Cris: I just,

Pete: and

Sidey: Sorry Mel. Sorry Mel.

Pete: and even

cultural is in inverted commas.

Reegs: Yeah.

Cris: remember because I asked specifically you and Martin, I was like, what is going on with all these tickets? Why are these people buying this?

I

think you told me it's like, is that, Soap opera, I

don't know, I don't think you said it's amazing, but

Sidey: people in this, say you had not many of them did that in this particular, episode. We had

Reegs: Well, Guy Pearce came back in this. Guy Pearce

Sidey: Guy Pearce is in this Kylie's in this, Alan Dale was in like NCIS and other things in, the US, He had,

Reegs: think Jared Harris was he in?

Neighbors

Dan: what was the other guy Robinson Mr.

Reegs: Jim

Dan: Jim

Sidey: Alan Dale. That's Alan Dale.

Dan: cause he's also in Ugly Betty, which we've been watching, he plays Bradford, the, the owner of Mode

Sidey: But when

Pete: was like Jim

Sidey: When I

obviously, I watched this, for this episode, of

the part

Reegs: closes with another burst of suddenly and Mrs. Mangle catching the bouquet.

And looking

like making little eyes at

Dan: Watch out Harold.

Sidey: I hadn't

Reegs: man, I was beating one

Sidey: I hadn't obviously seen this for a very long time. It's so cheap. It just looks so fucking cheap. But didn't detract from, you know, my enjoyment of it.

Reegs: was fun seeing like the old house

Sidey: Do you remember it used to be on at lunchtime and then repeated again the same day? But if You

could watch, like, Home and Away,

And then Neighbours later on, or vice Versa, so you wouldn't have to

Reegs: Or

if it was a really good day you could watch

Pete: to watch anyone in this room favor home and

Sidey: Neighbours? I think I like them both equally.

Pete: think

Reegs: for

Dan: I went through a phase of definitely Neighbours, and then certain storylines would capture you on different Yeah. different weeks

Pete: have been to the, what

Dan: Overall

Pete: Bay? It's not called Summer Bay, but I've been to the beach and the place where the

Dan: it's not called Summer Bay.

Pete: It's not really called Summer Bay, no.

Dan: Just let you down all the time, don't they?

Sidey: know. There was a character, there was a

Reegs: Oh, do you see what her

wedding gift was?

A four

year apprenticeship

as a mechanic. I couldn't work

out if that was like really good or really

Pete: Oh yeah,

Sidey: was, she was made up about it.

Pete: cause she was always in like overalls

Sidey: She was a bit of a tomboy,

Reegs: They were gonna

fuck.

Pete: we

Reegs: date. Are you gonna do that?

Sidey: No.

They were

Because

one of the irritating little girls walks in and she goes, Oh, you've seen us pashing and all that.

Oh, fucking hell. That's great. It's really, really good. Strong,

Reegs: strong vibes for neighbors.

Pete: Strong nostalgic recommend. I

Sidey: I haven't seen any of the, like, rebooted stuff. I'd imagine

it's catastrophic.

I think Stefan Dennis is

Reegs: watched the

Sidey: still in it, isn't he? Yeah.

No,

because it

died.

Pete: still in it? I haven't.

Reegs: Paul

Sidey: Robinson. Was he? Yeah.

Reegs: But Carl, Dr. Carl Kennedy bought it and has put it on Amazon Freeview

Sidey: what I was thinking. I see it, it pops up on your home screen sometimes.

Reegs: so a new

Sidey: He was having an affair with that super, super hot

chick when he had Susan at home.

Reegs: them. Susan at home as well.

and then I think his own daughters were hot as well, weren't they?

Pete: I quite like Susan.

Sidey: Everyone did.

Reegs: everyone likes Susan.

Susan.

Pete: Yeah,

Sidey: was smoking. I probably, I'm not going to

complete

Reegs: Yeah,

Strong,

Sidey: Strong, strong strong recommend

Reegs: for Susan

Pete: strong, strong.

Dan: become good

Sidey: Yeah. I think you

might nominate next.

Dan: I will. Perhaps I'll put something on the chat.

Sidey: Cool.

Dan: And we shall reconvene.

Sidey: What episode are we up

to? Two weeks. It's nearly, Are we getting closer?

Reegs: to? I think it's still going to it might not be quite February.

It was going to be around my birthday as well, which

Sidey: That's

Pete: are we doing anything Halloween y?

Sidey: It's

up to

Dan Terrify. It's up

Dan: me, isn't it?

Pete: is

Sidey: the Terrified Trilogy.

Reegs: isn't it?

Dan: halloween's too early. We'll have another week after halloween. Was it halloween next

Pete: week? Halloween's this Thursday.

Sidey: Thursday.

Cris: Oh.

Dan: Oh, so be after yeah,

Sidey: Christmas.

Cris: it's finished

Sidey: Let's

Dan: We're already we're already looking.

Yeah, we're only looking at summer spring that kind of thing. i'll put in some crackers Don't worry about that

Sidey: Well,

all that remains is Sidey signing out.

Reegs: Reegs has left the building.

Pete: Dan's gone.

Cris: La revedere.

Dan: Dan is gone. Yeah