Top 10 Movies To Watch BEFORE You Get Old ft. Tablo’s Letterboxd | Hey Tablo Ep. 24

Welcome to Hey Tableau. Many of our fans have asked me to do a list, like a movie list. Movies to watch before you turn 30. Movies to watch before you die or do not die until you see these movies. And here's what I've decided. Instead of just giving you my list because I've seen so many movies, I can't just like pick 10. I'm gonna go to Letterbox and look at this list that they actually just recently put up called movies. Everyone should watch at least once during their lifetime. And I will decide for you if these movies are seriously worth watching within your lifetime. And I'll pick out the ones that I really think belong on this list. Hey Tableau. Okay, so I'm on Letterbox and the great thing about Letterbox is that the reviews are sometimes better than the movies. Like they are hilarious. I don't know if that was the intention when this app was created, but it devolved or evolved into just really hilarious like one liner reviews. So of course, since I'm a movie lover, I'm a movie buff. I do have a Letterbox account on this episode. I will reveal my account and the reviews I have to be honest. I did it for a while and then I quit because like I watch so many movies. It's so hard for me to journal every single one and review every single one. So I did it for a little while and then I quit just because I like a movie. Doesn't mean you will, but I mean it's hey Tableau. I get to have an opinion. Okay, so let's go. The first movies here are Psycho 2001 Space Odyssey, Shindler's List. Good fellow is back to the future. Oh my God. Even the first line. Okay, it's going to be impossible for me to pick and choose from all these movies. So here's what we'll do. I'm going to focus on movies you need to watch before you hit 30 or 40 if you're already like 35. Okay. Or 50 even, but movies young people should watch before their quote unquote Tableau old. So Psycho 2001 Shindler's List, all amazing, beautiful movies. Good fellow is of course, but focusing on movies you should see while you're young. I don't know if I would add those to the list. So here we go. I'm going to keep going down until. Okay, this one, this one's got to go in the list spirited away. Okay, not only have I seen this maybe 15 times. My favorite scene is when the parents turn into pigs. That's such a powerful scene that like once you went when I first saw it, I was like, this is like a nightmare. Like I thought this was like a family movie. What the hell is going on? But anyways, the reason why I would add this to the list is because first of all, this is going to be a weird take on the movie. But like it shows great work ethic, like the work ethic of this main character, right? She's like trapped on this island with like spirits and, you know, it's like, she should be afraid and just scared and just trying to escape as soon as possible, right? Every single scene should have been the main character trying to escape, but she puts in work. Like she, she like, you know, she's like, I'm here. I might as well work hard too, you know what I mean? Because in life, you're not always going to be in a situation where you want to do the work. Like not every job, most jobs are terrible. You know, you have a terrible boss. You don't really want to be there. But before you escape making the most of it, I think this movie shows that. I know it's a weird way to see this movie, but that's what I got from it. Believe it or not, when I first saw it, technically I was a kid too. When I first saw it, right? I was young as hell. I watched it, I think with Mithra and two cuts, two cuts walked out in the middle. But Mithra and I watched the whole thing and the thing that the only thing that was going, like going through my head, I was like, wow, that's a terrible situation to be in. It's like terrifying and socks, but she's like working hard. Let's look at some of the reviews here. Okay. Letterbox, you go for the reviews. Look at this. The first review I got lost in a department store when I was five and it felt a lot like this. Here's another one. I mean, probably the best movie ever made. I love these reviews. Okay. Wait, I'm going to, I'm going to review it too. Okay. Spirited away work ethic. Okay. Here you go. There's my review work ethic, five stars. Okay. Okay. Let's go through some other movies. I'm going to, all these movies are great, by the way. So you should, most of these movies on this list, you should see them if you get a chance. But I'm going to just like run through them until I find movies that are perfect for young people to watch before they hit 30 or young people to watch before they hit 40 or young at heart to watch before you hit 50, 60, 70, 80. Okay. Fight Club, do the right thing, all great movies, Titanic, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. This has to go on the list. I know many of you have probably seen this movie, but if you haven't, please do because this got me through a lot of heartbreak. When you're young, you're going to have relationships that fail. You're going to go through breakups, heartbreak, right? And this movie first makes you more depressed. So if you watch this movie, if you just had, recently had a breakup and Tableau recommended this movie and you're watching it for the first half, you're going to be like, fuck Tableau. Why did he recommend this? Because I'm feeling worse, right? But if you watch the whole thing, you get like, you get a full understanding of what loss is. Like this, this, this picture basically, like within like two hours, it's surreal. It's like a sci-fi at the same time while being a romantic comedy and also drama. And it just somehow encapsulates like the feeling of losing someone. That scene where Jim Carrey is like alone in the car and he's like crying. Oh my God, I've used that meme so many times. Not for like heartbreak reasons, but I use that for like, let's say like an album came out and someone's like, mid, I'll respond with that meme. Okay, let's look at some of the reviews. This movie destroyed me. It somehow reminded me of a quote from Call Me By Your Name. If there is pain, nurse it. And if there is a flame, don't snuff it out. Don't be brutal with it. We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster that we go bankrupt by the age of 30 and have less, oh, bit age of 30. Oh my God. And have less to offer each time we start with someone you. Call me by your name, also a great movie. I want to review this as well. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I'll give it five stars review. Forget AI. I need that memory racing machine. Okay, let's go through more movies. Good. I don't want to add it because it's so, you know, you would expect it on a list of movies. You should see before you hit 30, 40, 50 or 60. But do you know that my ear book quote was the last line of this movie. I got to go see about a girl. Okay, here's the thing in the movie. Matt Damon leaves a letter for Robin Williams. And that's the line, right? That's what it says. And then Robin Williams looks at it and he's like, he stole my line, right? And after leaving that letter, well, hunting that character drives to Stanford. That's how the movie ends, right? And when I was doing my ear book quote, I was headed for Stanford. So I was like, and also this, this movie was just my favorite movie at the time. The funny thing is when I wrote the quote, I hadn't even seen the movie. I don't think I had actually seen the movie. I downloaded a screenplay. There was a screenplay that came up of the movie, but I was so interested in seeing it that I've, and I wanted to be a filmmaker, right? I wanted to be a screenwriter as well. So I downloaded the script first and read the script so many times that, and I didn't care about spoilers. I just wanted to see how the script goes to the movie, right? And I loved the ending even before seeing this movie. So like reading a book, right? And then I went to see the movie and the movie like paid off. Like whatever I had imagined, it did more, even more, right? The music was so good. So I'm going to put that on the list. How do we? really loves this movie too. You know that it's not your fault, that line. I did that on Haru once, like as a joke. Here's the thing, like we saw this movie and some time had passed. We saw it together and some time passed. And Haru had this thing at school that she was kind of down about. And when she told me I was like, it's not your fault. And she's like, thank you dad. And I was like, it's not your fault. It's not your fault. And I did the Robin Williams thing. When she realized what I was doing, she was like, what the fuck? (laughing) Not the time, dad. Okay, I'm gonna review it. It is my fault though. (laughing) Finding Nemo, great movie. Requiem for a dream. Terrifying movie. Palt fiction. When it first came out, it was crazy. Kung Fu Panda. Seriously, there are basically no movies here that I haven't seen. Maybe there's like two or three. Game matrix, Akira. Okay, I'm gonna keep going. Oh, oh, oh, it's so good too. That opening scene is a film in itself. So like, did you cry? - I cried. I cried a lot in movies though, to be honest. I cried during Little Mermaid. The, not the animated one, the live action one. I cried when the dad lets the daughter go. You know, I once cried like long time ago, we were in a car together at Pekai on the way to like, do something I think to perform. And in the car, there was a TV thing that you could watch. So we watched Spider-Man 3, the one with Toby Mcguire. And it's the one where like, it's the terrible one. The one where like, Sandman comes out and Venom. But anyways, there's a scene where Sandman, I think he's like, is like dying. And Sandman takes out this thing and looks at a picture of his kid. (audience laughing) And at the time, I was a kid, like I hadn't been married. Like I would never imagine being a dad at that age, right? But when that scene came out, Mithra and I were sitting like this. Two cuts was sitting in the front, right? So Mithra and I were watching it. And that scene comes out and I go, (audience laughing) like this, right? And what's hilarious is Mithra, without looking at me. If there was like, please don't fucking tell me that you're crying in the middle of Spider-Man 3, right? I'm like, I'm not crying. I'm not crying, just looking at the window. And he's like, you're fucking crying during, like, this fucking Sandman. (audience laughing) Spider-Man 3, you're crying. And I'm like, I'm not crying. I'm not crying, so they got in my eye. Uh, so I cry a lot. But anyways, I'll be straight, but I'm gonna, I want this list to maybe have 10 movies. Okay, so I'm gonna keep going. Oh, Lama Land. Great movie. Oh shit, look at these bangers after bangers. Forest Gump, pursuit of happiness, Empire Strikes Back, Terminator 2, Parasite. Oh, pursuit of happiness needs to go on this list. Do any of you remember a few weeks back on Epikaze? We did like this life advice kind of corner. And two cuts was like, you know, put your hand on your, over your heart. Did you really try that hard? Did you really try so hard that you're complaining or you have burnout? If you can say I've worked really hard after watching this movie, respect. Because this movie is the definition of somebody like fucking grinding without giving too many spoilers. This is actually a movie based on a true story. And Will Smith plays the dad. And it's the dad doing everything he possibly can to provide for his kid, right? And he goes from like having less than nothing to, so in the true story, he becomes this legendary investor and becomes like multi-millionaire, right? More than that, right? But it shows him going from like all these missteps in his life and going from like rock bottom to to this job, I'm not gonna say what? And I'm also not gonna reveal whether or not he gets it. Although I just told you what happens in the true story. But anyways, there's this one scene where the dad and the kid, they are evicted from their home. So they're basically homeless, right? And at night, they have no place to sleep. So they go to the bathroom at a subway station and the Will Smith character is holding, it's his actual kid in the movie. So he's holding his kid and has one leg against the doors so that no one can come in 'cause he scares someone's gonna come in, right? He's like in the bathroom stall basically. And wow, that scene was so powerful. I first saw this movie on the plane, for some reason, I always choose the wrong movies when I get on a plane. I started like crying, right? And Mithra was sitting over there. He's just like, again. Anyways, I watched this movie again recently and let me just tell you, seen this movie before your dad and then watching it after your dad or a parent, it is so devastating. But because it's so devastating, at the end, the ctharsis you feel, it really makes you feel like you can do anything. If you have someone worth doing anything for, you do have the superpower to do anything, right? It's hard to go to those lengths because we don't always have somebody to protect or somebody to do anything for, right? But once you have it, like you will be amazed at your potential. Like you'll be amazed at the things you can do and the lengths you can go to. Once you have that somebody, it doesn't have to be a kid, right? It can be a friend. It can be a significant other. But what I'm saying is if you have somebody that you want to like strive for, right? If you want to give more than you have for, you gain those superpowers. I believe that that's what this movie teaches. And it's good to watch as a young person because even if you aren't thinking of getting married and becoming a dad or whatever or a mom, it puts your life into perspective a little bit. Everybody, I don't subscribe to the idea that certain types of struggle should be compared to other types of struggle. Like everyone's struggle, regardless of what degree it is, for that person is a struggle. So I don't believe we should compare one person's problems to another. But it does, for me, it put things into perspective. I was going through multiple different things during the first time I saw this movie. I was in my mid-20s when I first saw this movie and the 20s are terrible. Everyone who's been through the 20s, you know how terrible it is, right? Like I wouldn't go back. But it's just confusing and just, you know, even when things are good, there's always something going terribly wrong. And this movie sort of like put things into perspective. And I was like, you know, the thing that I need to overcome isn't as difficult as what this character is overcoming. So maybe I can do it, right? So this is going on the list. I'm gonna give it a review. Don't watch on a plane. Okay, moving on. Oh shit! Rip lash! 1,000% needs to go, oh, and I've reviewed it. Okay, so when I was doing letterbox for a while, I guess I reviewed it and let's see what my review was. Sure your activity. My review was, I watched this once every three months. Basically, whenever I feel lazy. This movie definitely has to be on the list, okay? And I guess when I reviewed it, I reviewed it in February last year. Oh, it was February this year. I guess I rewatched it that day too. Sometimes when I feel lazy, I don't even watch the visuals. I just like leave it on as sound. So the movies of the movie are on the list. about this jazz drummer and this school, I think it's a college, right, like a music academy. And this musician slash instructor named Fletcher, who's like the fucking devil. Okay, like he's the most abusive, problematic human, like just the way he berates you into quote unquote, push you into greatness. It's just unbelievable. If you've seen this movie, you know what I'm talking about, but if you haven't, warnings, okay, like a huge warning, do not go into this if you have problems with what a movie character says, okay, because it goes, like it goes worse than you can possibly imagine. This movie was made by the Lala Land director and it was originally one of, like his, I think it was a short film that he made as like a student, maybe, and then he turned the short film into a feature length. And when this movie came out, I identified with it because of two things, one, I'm a musician, right? I love music. So when I watch the movie, I identified both with the main character, the young student, who's in the band that this terrible teacher's, you know, the leader of, and I also identified a little bit with Fletcher, although he was just fucking fast shit crazy, right? And the reason, the reason why I identified with both characters is because as a music creator and as a musician, I put myself through a lot of shit. Sometimes to the point of like, abnormal, to the point of like, this is just manic, right? Like this manic, you know, fugue state of like, just creating. And especially when I first saw the movie, it was that, it was around, you know, that age. So I identified with somebody being a student of music, trying to become great. And also I'm a, I'm the leader of Epikai, right? And when I was watching this movie, I actually watched it. I rented out a theater so that a lot of our fans can watch it together. I like a whole theater, right? For a night. And Mithra and Tukuts saw this movie too. And the whole time I was looking at their reaction, because I was worried that they would see me in Fletcher. Because I admittedly, I've been pretty hard on my members, especially at the beginning of Epikai. Like I wanted our team to be great. Like I wanted us to be better than we actually are, right? And to do so, I had to sometimes push my team, including myself. I didn't just do it to them, but I did it to like, the three of us, push ourselves like, beyond our limits, right? And always pushing the envelope. And sometimes that required me to like, demand things that I didn't really want to in my heart, but I knew that it would get us to that next level. And ultimately, make our fans happy, right? So I was worried that they see me in that character. I kept looking at them, right? And here's the thing, they were looking at me too. So this movie made me like rethink some things too. Like I was like, you know, greatness is great. Like, you know, being awesome and our fans being happy with, you know, music that's better than what we can deliver. That's all good, but like, I don't want to be that guy, right? So I identified with him in some ways and also hated that I did. Here's the thing that I hate to admit. There's that one scene after the instructor does like these terrible things and then they split up basically. And then they get packed together at like this jazz cafe, right? Chance meeting and then they sit down together. And the student is supposed to hate this guy, right? This guy basically killed them, almost killed them, right? But at that, like there's a, there's a, the fletcher says to the student, you know, but I did it to make you great. And who does that these days, right? That's the gist of what he says. He's like, nobody strives for greatness anymore. And nobody is willing to push somebody to become great. And if all the greats that we love in jazz or music or arts, in the arts, if they weren't pushed, would we have them? That's just the what he says. And although the way that that character did it is totally wrong, right? When he said it, I was like, yes. Like I could hear my inner self agreeing with him, right? And it's kind of sad because I'm like that to myself. I'm basically fletcher to myself. And I've always been that way. And when I was a kid, my parents were like that to me. A lot of the teachers, like because the age that I grew up, the time that I grew up, especially when I was really little and I was growing up in Korea. Abuse wasn't even called abuse. Like teachers would just seriously just be on you, right? So I think after that, once it stopped, I started doing it to myself. I think I've mentioned this before. And I have a song called Over. It's an epic high song, but it's a solo song. And it's in English. And the whole song is about being an overachiever. And I put all of these emotions into that song. And I wrote that song before-- I think it was before I saw this movie. But when I saw this movie, I was like, oh my god, this is what Over was about. Since I've already reviewed this one, I'm going to pass. Punch-Trunk Love, great movie. OK, Dead Poets Society is so obviously a movie that needs to be on this list. Do I need to put it in? It's so good, though. You know, one of my favorite things about being a parent is that I get to rewatch all the movies I loved with my daughter. And I know that's not the case for everyone, but it just so happens that my daughter loves films. And I don't know if it was because of me, but she just has this distinct taste. And she one day came to me and she was like, Dad, have you seen Dead Poets Society? And I was like, of course, I've seen it multiple times. And she's like, I want to see it with you. And I was like, how do you know about it? And she's like, I love movies. I always search out classic movies. Or I'm like, classic movie. Dad, have you seen John Wick one? Yeah. Do you want to watch that with me? I've always been fascinated by classic films. John Wick one. But anyways, so she wanted to watch Dead Poets Society. And I warned her. I was like, you know, it's a pretty heavy movie. It's a beautiful movie, but it's pretty heavy. And there's a scene in there that really fucks me up every time I see it. Because the one character in this movie that's supposed like the dad expects him to be a doctor, but he wants to do acting. That whole storyline fucked me up so bad when I was young. Not because of me, but because I saw-- I have an older brother who's much older than me. And his life was sort of like that. And I had to see that as a kid, right? Which I think that was the reason why I eventually ended up going to the arts. Because I saw a dream crushed under the same roof. And the way a dream gets crushed is like with a whimper. Anyways, I saw that. So this-- whenever I rewatched this movie, just that whole tragic storyline just seems so personal to me. And it hurts me every time I see it. But anyways, I warned my daughter. And she's like, I still want to see it. And we watched it together. And I cried. And she cried. And then she even wrote like a thing about it. You guys have read it, right? She wrote an essay about it. But she loved the movie. Although there's multiple tragic storylines in this movie, at the end of it, it is uplifting. It is uplifting. Again, like Goodwill Hunting, it's got Robin Williams in it. Robin Williams, such a great actor. And I think if you watch this movie, you miss him more. So it's even more tragic. And this is a weird thing for me to throw out. But I was in a movie with him. Although I was in it for like a split second, I was in it. Believe it or not, if you don't know and if you're hearing this for the first time you're gonna be like what the fuck Tableau me I was in a movie called August Rush And I actually shot the movie for over like over almost a week I think and I was with Robin Williams for a week The one scene I'm in is Robin Williams throws a knife it lands like it lands like right in front of me and I I get shocked I shot many more scenes, but I only made it into a split second Okay, so it's not It's not like I went there to shoot a split second, but anyways he was so he was such a Such an amazing person like You know there were all these people there shooting together. It was like an ensemble, but he was he like would sit with me and like have conversations with me he he actually knew quite a bit about Korean music and He was just so so humble like he didn't even come with like a manager or anyone. He came just with a suitcase Did his work. He was friendly to everyone made us laugh. He was awesome. So Anyways So I'm gonna review this Wait, I haven't reviewed this. I'm sure all the reviews here are like Oh captain my captain, but let's let's see. Yo this comment. I can't beat this comment Okay, someone someone reviewed and this is their review be right back about to car pay all the deems I'm about to car pay the shit out of these deems Okay, I can't beat that The brilliance How can nowadays people are too busy Car paying deems I did It's kind of hard being a letterbox to reviewer Yeah, it's a lot of pressure like you're always like on the verge of becoming cheesy or cringe You have to like The car paying the deems. Oh my god Okay, let's go see some more Total great movies. Okay, I'm not even gonna get through half of this list and I'm gonna hit 10 Oh inside out the first inside out I saw this on a plane again But this time I was with how to win my wife, right and So how do and my wife like the seats got mixed up so they were sitting with another person and I was sitting with two other people like Towards the front of them, right? So they could they could see me from the back And I'm like, you know, I want to see something light because the last time I was on a plane I watched pursuit of happiness and like you know I was crying on a plane. I don't want to be crying on a plane. So I turned on inside out. I'm like, you know, it seems fun It's got weird wacky characters Turn it on you know what when I cried Didn't take me long Towards the beginning of the movie. There's a scene where the the girl the daughter plays hockey That's it. She's just playing hockey See I think it was like a montage. It wasn't even like a like an like a proper scene, right? But I don't know. I don't know what it was right when it happened. I went and as I went Right over here My wife and my daughter they saw me and they're like My daughter's just like Look at my dad with those Pixar tears If you put a daughter in any movie I Will cry Seriously any movie doesn't matter if it's a horror film a comedy like a like an anime. It doesn't matter Daughter like like a dad and a daughter come out. I just I just cry. I don't know what it is. I just start crying. I'm like Inside out. I don't think I should put it on the list. I'm gonna go. Okay Since I'm not gonna get through the whole list. I'm gonna go from the very back and Move towards the middle now, okay? Cuz I don't want to like I Don't want to shortchange all of these movies and I still have to reveal my My profile right? Yeah, I'm gonna go through them pretty fast, okay? Let's see here Mummy about time Therospeolar great movie interview with the vampires in on this list. I've seen it. I like I liked the novels Hold on let me see here Okay page eight had some bangers, but nothing that I would add to the list of movies you got to see before you hit 30 Okay, let's look at page Seven a lot of bangers here as well, but Put robot cop on here. I mean, yeah, okay, it's like a cult classic and I loved it, but I don't know if like this is the movie you got to see like you know in your lifetime You know I do feel like this list was front loaded Ghost dog great movie all lady bird was such a good movie Such a good movie, but I now have to be picky because I can only add three more to this list I know someone's some like movie hipster is gonna be like looking at our final list and they're gonna be like This is what table of things are the 10 best movies ever made no I'm trying to just pick a list of 10 movies you see before you're 30 before you're young like before you get like quote unquote old, okay, or 40 or 50 whatever Have you seen this movie called edge of 17? It's good man. I've seen every movie like indie movies like just It's a really good movie. It's about like you know at someone at the edge of 17 It's really good mind you this list this list that Reddit compiled on letterbox it it doesn't have Many many it doesn't have many movies that I would consider movies you should see in your lifetime by the way Reddit doesn't always get things right We know that right a look old boys on this list Because my wife is in it I'm gonna skip over No, no, no, that's two that's two like biased Oh, you know the 400 blows this there's a movie called the 400 blows and it was made in 1959 Okay, Francois Truffaut and it was a movie of during the French New Wave There was a there was an era where these movie critics started making their own movies and They it was very free-flowing and they broke all the standard rules of film and this was one of my actually like one of my favorite movies as a kid but it might be a little Too old to put on this list And also I don't want if I put this on this list people are gonna be like oh look at him trying to Trying to seem like he he's a soon-of-all Okay, I'll come back to that um Okay, it's I don't think it's on this list But here are some movies that that I think should be on it. I'll avoid movies that my wife was in Because like that's just you know, it's too biased. Okay, this movie is not for everyone, but um There is a movie recently that came out in Korea called the match It's based on a true story. It's like a go. It's about a go master. Go is a huge deal in Korea And if you you know to sum it up like to to like give you a clear understanding with one sentence Do you remember the whole alpha-go thing? AI versus human the reason why they went against a Korean Go master is because that in Korea go is huge and Koreans are amazing at go right and this is the true story of Like like this master who was like just unbeatable. He took on a young prodigy and um You know, they he even let him like live at his house and basically like like I like I was a father figure to him um and It shows the the whole journey from Basically the apprentice Overcoming the master and the reason why I put this movie on this list is because if you watch it now While you're young you will 100% identify with the apprentice character with the young Uh up and coming you know prodigy and then later on in your life if you watch it you will identify with the older master It seems that I've already rated this movie and I'm only gave it three and a half stars. It's not like it's the perfect movie. And there are a lot of movies like this, with like a once boxing champion who becomes the aging champion and then gets replaced by the up and comeer. There's a lot of movies like this, right? And even the godfather, if you think about it, is a story about like the dawn, the father who gets replaced by the sun, right? Like the changing of generations. And if you're under 30 right now, you know, it's not gonna seem real to you, like time going by and then your age, not your numerical age, but like the age of you being overcome or overtaken by another generation, right? And the feeling of an aging champion or an aging boxer is not something that you can imagine right now because you're the up and comeer. But there are certain movies like this that I would recommend seeing twice, maybe once, once when you're young and then like 10 years later because you get a totally different reading of the movie and you will never have that experience unless you watch it now when you're young and then watch it again when you're older. Same thing with, you know, pursuit of happiness. Watch it before you get married or have a kid and watch it later when you're a parent. You'll get a totally different reading. So that's on the list. Wait, let me see what some people said in the reviews. I mean, I'm pretty good at Uno, but I'm not bragging. - Maybe give us two films that are really niche. - Really niche, you say? Like how niche do you want? I can niche the niche. Like, don't make me go to my phone. I mean, I don't wanna like seem like I'm like bragging. You know, about my taste or anything like that, you know? Just putting me under the pressure now. Like, God, all these movies seem like. Have you seen a movie called Marvin's Room? Booyah! It's a pretty old movie, but it's a young decaprio before Titanic when he was doing a lot of indie movies. There's something so subtle and quiet about this movie. Okay, so let me just read you the synopsis. It's a story about the years that keep us apart and the moments that bring us together. A leukemia patient attempts to end a 20 year feud with her sister to get her bone marrow. It's a very quiet movie that even with decaprio attached, could not possibly be made for theatrical release in 2026. Because nobody would invest in it, right? Because I've mentioned this before on this podcast, but unfortunately, the age of subtle stories and poignant quiet stories that are impactful to the soul. The age of those kinds of movies, like, you know, being in theaters is pretty much sadly over, right? They may go straight to like streamers, but theaters don't even want them, right? It's just all blockbusters. Or if you have a low budget, like smaller film, it's usually horror for that reason. It's hard for the theaters. I understand, right? It's hard for people to, for them to get people to the theater to pop more to, right? So, but believe it or not, you know, there was a period of time where movies were small, like indie movies even had theatrical releases. They weren't all titanics, right? We had just small stories about families, small stories about heartbreak, small stories about, you know, overcoming, you know, loss that were in theaters and that did well. And this movie is sort of like the definitive late 90s indie film. And DiCaprio is amazing in this movie. Everyone in this movie is amazing. Drake has a song called Marvin's Room, by the way. I'm not sure if he, if it was because of this movie, but when I, when that song dropped, I was like, oh, this guy saw Marvin's Room. And, but the song had nothing to do with it. So I was like, I was like, okay, what? Okay, I gotta review this though. Marvin's Room, well here, I'm gonna just write in Korean. (speaking Korean) (speaking Korean) Like PC Bang or (speaking Korean) but (speaking Korean) Okay, I think I need to add a movie that is fitting for the times we live in. There needs to be an AI movie in here, right? And we have multiple choices. There's a movie called X-Makina, which is just fucking mind-blowingly good. Even Terminator is basically an AI movie, right? About how if you give AI control over our defenses, it will 100,000% lead to the end of humanity. Back in those times, we called that science fiction. Now it's just the news. But to stay within the movies to watch before you hit 30, I'm gonna go to AI, the movie AI by Spielberg. It was originally a movie that was being developed by Stanley Kubrick. But after Stanley Kubrick passed away, the baton was passed to Spielberg and he completed the movie. This is a, it's called AI. It's called Artificial Intelligence. And yes, it's a movie based in the future with, you know, artificial intelligence, like humanoid robots, right? That are just lifelike and just basically human. Sort of like in the vein of like Blade Runner. Now that I think about it, Matrix is also like an AI movie too, right? But while those movies like Terminator or Blade Runner, like those movies kind of focus on like how AI becomes villains and like just, you know, completely destroys human kind. AI also touches on those topics, but is at the heart of the movie, it's a movie about like a child, right? It's a, okay, so at the beginning of the movie, this family, their son goes into a coma and likely won't wake up from it. So they get a replacement for their child. That is an AI that looks exactly like their child. Okay, there's like the service that does that, right? But, you know, and now they've adopted this AI version of their child. And, but the actual kid, the biological son, wakes up. What do you do, right? So the parents abandon the AI child. And it's just, I can't really put into words like what this movie does, but like it makes you think about humanity. At times it makes you afraid of the future and technology, but at the same time it makes you feel bad for technology, you know, 'cause AI didn't want to be created, right? Like humans created it, right? And also touches on the topics of like what happens when you hand over control of incredible power to humans, right, to certain humans, right? When they control the power to create life, will they be responsible or will they abandon it? When I watched it, you know, like I heard whispers of like my own childhood. A lot of times I felt very alone. I was in a different country by myself as like a really small kid, right? Like in this movie, the AI character David is 11, right? And I was alone in a continent by myself. Like my entire family was elsewhere when I was around that age. So I kind of identified with the AI child at times. Anyways, it's definitely a movie you should see. If you're gonna watch one AI movie, I would recommend starting with this one. Because the other movies are like great, but like they're like fucking terrifying. And honestly, like if you watched some of the other movies, you're supposed to like watch it. When we watched these movies like in the early 2000s and like the 90s, like Terminator and stuff, and the Matrix, we were watching it and enjoying it because it was so far fetched. Like we already knew that, you know, that's, it's possible, but maybe not in our lifetimes, right? So we still had enough of a comfortable distance to just enjoy the movie as like a popcorn. but if you watch Matrix now, try it. Try watching Matrix and Terminator 2 now. It doesn't even seem like movies about the future. It just seems like imminent. And you're like, "What the fuck?" And just gives you more anxiety. But Artificial Intelligence, AI by Spielberg, this movie was, it's very poetic. It's like watching a Miyazaki Hiya film, you know, at times. So I would recommend this one. Some people don't like this movie. Because they believe that if Kubrick had done it, it would be much better. But at the same time, you know, I agree to an extent. But like if Kubrick had done it, I think it would. I think it would have been amazing, but also a little colder. Some people don't like how Spielberg is, you know, injects emotion into all the movies. But you know, sometimes you need it. Okay, AI, I think my review is. This is based on a true story, right? I'm gonna give it a four and a half stars. To wrap up the episode, let's go into my account and look at some of the movies I've reviewed. I only had this profile for like a really short period. I think I just made it to keep track and then like after like a week I abandoned it. But the godfather, I wrote, "I won't dine with someone who hasn't seen this." [laughter] Interesting. "For Wicked," I wrote. I honestly hate musicals and I still liked it. For. Marty Supreme, I wrote, "The scene with the dog running through the smoke was immaculate." "Cinners," I wrote, "I love Michael Beachward in the way he loves anime." "For the menu," I wrote. I ate like three cheeseburgers after this. One battle after another, I wrote, "In life, one must either have a friend like Sensei, or be a friend like Sensei." And the most recent movie, before I reviewed the movies today, I reviewed Epikai 20, the movie. It was Epikai's concert movie. I don't. I think I was like, "Terma!" And then I searched and they had it on letterboxed. So I. I gave it five stars. And my review was, "One of the main characters is just like me for real." I'll see you next week.