Genie (Peacock - 2023) ft. Alonso Duralde

[00:00:00] Hi, I'm Bram and I love Peacock Christmas movies. I'm Dan and I despise Peacock Christmas movies. I'm Alonso and I thought we were pronounced to get Peacock and this is the Deck The Hallmark Podcast. Deck The Hallmark, it's his podcast. And Friends Host is podcast.

[00:00:23] We hope you like this jolly podcast. Follow the law. Wow. Hello everybody. How are we? Man, doing great. I think so. I think we're doing great. Yeah, it's a Monday here in the studio. Oh, very exciting. And I just found out we were talking about this.

[00:00:48] You know, I'm going to London later this month. London? Yeah. I'm going to fly back just for the Monday episodes. I know you are. I'm flying back to make sure I'm here for the Monday episodes. And that's how much this means to me is my family.

[00:01:03] It's our first time ever in Europe. I'm like, you know what guys? I need to be live in studio. Let's put a pin in this. That's right. Real quick. Monday morning, I'll be with the time changes like I won't even be gone.

[00:01:13] It's just going to be so quick. Easy. But I'll be here. You will be England Dan without John Ford Coley. I don't know what that means. And no one's going to get that reference who was under the age of 50. You're welcome. England Dan without John Ford Coley.

[00:01:26] Alonso, you're speaking my love language. You know me. You know me. If they were brand doesn't mention John Ford Coley, I'm like, what is going on? They call me the Colby. Look, I'm here for the Yacht Rock quips. You know, you're here to shred.

[00:01:41] I know that about you. Also that's also that know that about you. It's March. Congratulations to everybody. We've we've made it officially to March. It's madness. It's crazy. It's nuts. It's Christmas. March 4th. It's Christmas. Christmas. Sure. Why not? It's Christmas. It's Christmas. Thank you.

[00:02:03] Alonso, any fun Christmas related things that you've heard are in production or might be coming out this later this year that you are especially excited about? Yeah, there's a couple of things that have already been sort of bobbing around.

[00:02:21] There's a comedy called Naughty with Olivia Munn that apparently like was the object of a bidding war that's like, you know, people are very excited about. Can you say Naughty one more time? Naughty. Speaking of Richard Curtis, who we're going to be talking about today that he's got

[00:02:40] something called That Christmas I believe that's coming on Netflix. The long awaited red red one is that what it's called? Red one with the rock and with one of the Christ's I want to say. And J.J.K. Simmons of Santa, that could be really cool.

[00:03:00] And you know, over on Hallmark we already know we're getting Aaron Craco and Daniel Lissing. I mean, come on. Come on. That's exciting. Big show. That was a great rundown Alonso. I'm as excited as I am to continue going through the 2023 crop.

[00:03:15] It feels wrong not to be even more excited about what's coming out this year. There's so much coming out. It's very exciting. It's very exciting. And of course, can't get to those things without talking about Jeannie first. Talk about Jeannie. That's never a good sign.

[00:03:32] Christmas stands out there. If Brand says any movie title like that, not a good sign. Yeah. Jeannie. Let's talk about Jeannie originally aired dropped as the kids say November 22nd 2023 on the Pocock and it went a little something like this.

[00:03:54] We meet Bernard, not the elf from Santa Claus. He's his own man. He's a hardworking fellow at an auction house. He worked so hard in fact that he misses his daughter's birthday because he had to stay late at work that evening.

[00:04:10] And when he finally shows up, his daughter is away, is asleep and he doesn't even have a gift for her because the stuff bear that he had fell off the scooter on the way home. And that's not even what she would have wanted if she was awake.

[00:04:25] She wants to dollhouse you would know that if you were ever around. And this is the last straw. His wife takes his daughter and they leave immediately. The next day he asks his boss for some more time after the holiday season so

[00:04:39] he can try to work on his family. His boss tells him you can take all the time that you need to in fact never come back. Oh, God. He gets fired and that's sad. So he's having a tough time.

[00:04:56] He's sad and he gets to his empty house and is looking at this antique box that he had given his daughter as a Christmas, as a birthday gift because that's all he had. And you know this is a bit dusty so he dusts it off with his shirt

[00:05:12] sleeves. He rubs it the right way. He rubs it the right way. And suddenly this blue light begins to gush out of the box. Whoa! This is a genius. You're in a bottle baby. Out of the bottle now. Also I just acted the heck out of that.

[00:05:29] Follow it on TV slash DTH. You want to see that? I thought that was really good. And your magic shirt too. I know. It's magic. I got the magic. Every little thing you do is a theme. I got the magic in me.

[00:05:40] And so that happens and suddenly a woman comes from around the corner and she's like I'm a genie. My name is Flora. And he's like come again now and she's like you make wishes. I make them come true.

[00:05:57] He's not believing her so he mockingly wishes for a camel. And what do you know? A camel appears and that's exactly right. A camel does. What day it is? What day is it? A day. There you go. A day? Movie night. Appears in the apartment.

[00:06:19] We find out that real genies offer unlimited wishes unlike the fairy tale stuff of three wishes. Stupid. Although that does come into play later. After coming to terms with the fact that he now has access to an unlimited well

[00:06:37] made marriage thanks to this genie, he realizes that he wants to use Flora to fix his marriage and get his family back. But when they do show up outside of his mother-in-law's house, his wife is like I don't think you should be here.

[00:06:53] I don't think you should be here. Get out of here. And I don't know what this woman is here with the jewels and whatnot but you need to scram. I don't want to be around here. So Bernie decides you know what? I'm just going to treat myself.

[00:07:06] I'm in Flora. Walk around New York City having a good time. He's showing her all of the amazing things that have happened because she hasn't been out of her antique box for 2,000 years so a lot has happened. Pizza, lights, the whole thing.

[00:07:22] And she doesn't even know about Santa Claus and when they see a Santa on the streets and the kids are making their wishes to Santa, they make all those wishes begin to come true and that's magical and wonderful and so yay for them.

[00:07:37] He meets up with his family and they have some time together drinking hot chocolate and whatnot and he finds out that they're going to go to a movie with another dude and his daughter. He is not thrilled by this. And to make matters worse, what? What what?

[00:07:56] I'm hanging on every word. Oh! That family got it. His family, they leave but then his extended family shows up at his apartment. Yes. I said there for his family letter that I immediately read his family shows up and I'm like what?

[00:08:12] So his parents and all sorts of different people they show up and obviously has Flora whip up a bunch of food and then says hey here's the thing, Flora's a genie. I don't know what to tell you and they do this funny like wishing scene

[00:08:27] where they wish for things like somebody wishes one of them would go to hell and that's a big funny ha ha moment. So they leave and he decides okay I need to make some changes maybe to the apartment maybe that would make things more appealing for my wife

[00:08:44] and maybe she would come back and so you know some changes here and there starting of course with the messy jersey that he has framed in the living room. So he asks, he says I wish this was the Mona Lisa

[00:08:58] and apparently that swapped the real Mona Lisa with the messy jersey so the messy jersey is now hanging where the Mona Lisa was and where would that be, Bram? The Louvre. So the family comes to the apartment and it's a great night

[00:09:18] but after they leave one of the room catches on fire. Flora isn't there to help though because she's at the theaters watching another Tom Cruise movie. The fire department shows up and they recognize the Mona Lisa

[00:09:31] which they now know is missing and they're like this looks like the real things that they call the cops. He gets arrested. Flora shows up. She gets arrested too but don't worry he just kind of yells out a wish that they'd all get released

[00:09:47] it would all go back to normal and it happens. The painting is once again swapped through the jersey and they are released so that's the end of that. Just in time too because he's supposed to spend Christmas Eve with his daughter which they do.

[00:10:01] Bernard now decides after realizing that Flora is supposed to live life decides I want, I'm going to give Flora a Christmas gift and that gift is for Aladdin to wish the genie free. Exactly right. I'm going to wish that you don't have to go back into this box.

[00:10:19] But Jafar gets a hold of the genie and it's a mess. She is so happy and she says if ever this were to happen we all know the rules here but you get three more wishes. And so he then accidentally makes her disappear before he can say goodbye.

[00:10:37] He wishes to go back in time which was a thing that he was told he couldn't do but then was told that he can actually do. So he goes back to the beginning of the movie

[00:10:48] and quits his job, doesn't have to stay late, gets his daughter to the dollhouse takes him to a wonderful dinner and honestly it works out perfectly for them. They have a wonderful Christmas together. Fast forward three months they're still happily married and he goes to a pizza place

[00:11:04] and guess who is running that pizza joint? It's Flora and now my friends was genie. We did it. Hi everybody. Hi everybody are you okay? Bye everybody we're going to break. It's only Monday. Take the homework. Hi everybody. It's great to be here. We're talking genie. Genie.

[00:11:38] 2023 Peacock joint, Melissa McCarthy. Richard Curtis. Who wrote it? Correct, didn't direct it but wrote it right? Correct. Let's talk about it. This was a movie that I heard some murmurings of during the holiday season but I didn't get to. It's a remake of the, what was it? 1991?

[00:11:58] I believe. BBC joints. Let's break the Peacock version down though. Alonzo what do you think of genie? Not mad at this movie. It's cute. It's got some good laughs. It is family appropriate and there's some fun ideas here.

[00:12:18] I just have an ongoing annoyance with the let's punish the parents who work too hard scenario because frankly we are all mired in late-stage capitalism and everyone is being overworked to try and keep food on the table or in this case to keep a beautiful

[00:12:36] and huge Manhattan apartment. Yes. And so the whole thing of like let's punish dad for spending too long at the office and not enough time with his family. It's just, it just is that kind of thing that to me smacks of

[00:12:51] like clueless movie executive or successful writer director who does not have to think about these things and who either is spending time at the office willingly and like makes these movies to make it up to their own kids or is well-recompensed

[00:13:07] enough that they're able to like take time off and do things and stuff. So this really treats the notion of like too much work, no work at all with a very kind of cavalier attitude that just bugs me because I know a lot of loving parents out there

[00:13:22] and if they're spending a lot of time at work it's because they would like their children to eat. So that just always bugs me in these movies and it bug me here but for the most part a lot of fun and certainly

[00:13:34] one of the better non-R rated Melissa McCarthy projects. Well I'm not doing my hot take yet. I just wanted to piggy piggy back on that. They treat this guy's job like it's a choice. Like he just, he doesn't have to do this.

[00:13:51] He's just chosen this over his family and then when he decides he's quit this job everything stays the same. Their status is the same, their apartment stays the same and that is to your point Alonzo becoming more and more glaringly weird.

[00:14:07] You know the further we go along here. And it also ties into the arc you've got unlimited wishes then get a lot of money so that you don't have to work and you can spend all your time with your kid. Easy.

[00:14:21] I found myself being charmed by the movie to begin with and I was enjoying it and I found the Christmas of New York City of course to be wonderful. Until we get to the Mona Lisa of it all and then I was really annoyed.

[00:14:42] I was annoyed that it happened and it could not matter less to what happens in this movie. It is a full let's take a really weird exit to this town of Mona Lisa Switches, Switcher Mups and let's hang out there for a while

[00:15:02] and kind of see what we can see and then we'll leave and we'll never talk about it again and that'll be that. And after that we then have this realization of Melissa's Jeanne being set free and her dropping a bombshell here of well

[00:15:23] now that I get to be free you can get three more wishes. We all know that. And you can't travel back in time. And that was the final straw for this one with me. I just was frustrated because I just felt like

[00:15:40] we have so much at our disposal when it comes to a Jeanne with unlimited wishes and a father who's trying to get his family back and this was the best. We had all this and this was the best story we could come up with.

[00:15:57] None of it just didn't fit for me. I like the idea of it a lot and I like the Christmas of it all which by the way I really like the apartment when it was decorated for Christmas before the Jeanne made it all

[00:16:11] whatever like the original decorations were way better but that's neither here nor there. So yeah I was just kind of frustrated because I felt like we had the makings of something really great and that it just said let's just not explore the best possible case.

[00:16:27] Let's do this really maybe funny Mona Lisa switch them up bit and then also give you two things that you had no idea about when I first came into your life. And so I was frustrated and I don't know how much of

[00:16:42] that is true to the original Jeanne. We did some, Aaron did some research and found out that the Mona Lisa bit is in the original and so if you're making a remake you can like how much of it can really change and still call it the Jeanne.

[00:16:57] So I get that but yeah I found myself being frustrated because the first half of this movie I found to be quite charming and really enjoyed but what can you do? Daniel? Yeah I'm not mad I'm just disappointed I think is

[00:17:10] what I would say Richard Curtis wrote this movie whom I think does some really fun stuff about time I really love that movie he wrote and directed that. The people involved the actors involved. The film called Love Actually you might have heard of.

[00:17:23] Yeah Love Actually Four Weddings in a Funeral among others I think about times is best work but that's that's either her or there. I didn't like the Beatles one what was that called hello? Oh yeah yesterday. Yesterday that's what it's called. I liked yesterday.

[00:17:34] Yeah thank good for you. I think my problem is that exactly kind of what you said Brandon you have everything here. You have unlimited wishes. You have everything here for a movie that plays out the way you want it to play out and instead

[00:17:49] they do everything except for the thing. They just they make it up as they go along which drives me crazy we have another podcast called the D-Com Descendants where you and Aaron Shay and myself review all the Disney Channel original movies it's a great pod you should

[00:18:05] check it out we review one it's not out yet but one of my big complaints with that movie was this I don't care if the plot is crazy I want the rules that you've given me to make some sort of sense and this movie is

[00:18:18] the like commits that cardinal sin like it's unlimited wishes you can't time travel you can't time travel now you have three wishes like it doesn't look I'm not asking for a serious movie I'm asking for you to create the parameters for us to have fun and for them

[00:18:34] there to be stakes. Yeah that's all I'm asking for and they don't do that and then that part of it was really tough and then they get side tracks with what I can only describe as 15 minutes of WTF the Mona Lisa I don't

[00:18:51] like it is so crazy that we spend as much time I mean Luis Guzman shows up like as a detective like it is like a mad lib and so there are some funny moments when he has his family over there there's some

[00:19:06] laughs to be had but by and large tonally the movies all over the place they don't commit to any set of rules and so that because there's no rules and anything can happen there's no stakes I don't I wasn't really moved to any emotion

[00:19:17] at the end of it so yeah considering everyone involved with it really disappointing effort here I just not for me also early on in the movie I was looking down on my computer taking notes and Melissa started talking and I heard

[00:19:31] a bit of aquafina and then I just kept thinking I wish aquafina was in this movie so that what that happened for and that's just the main thing and if you had a genie she would have been absolutely I would have wished it

[00:19:43] would have wish easy it's time for all the fields we talk about what gave us those feels in this movie a Christmas movie takes place in New York I'm of course there's some feels to be had a long time my big field was the fact

[00:19:58] that Ben Falcone is not in this movie and I was rather delighted by that Ben Falcone is married to Melissa McCarthy he's a funny guy she is a funny performer but together ever everything they've done together since the first he was in the United States

[00:20:14] and like he's a very well known guy and he's always got some good eyes made either he's directing her and some of her worst movies or he pops up in weird cameo appearances in her movies and it's always just like y'all are great please work

[00:20:28] separately and so the fact that like Mark Marin played the doorman and not Ben Falcone I thought was a real sign of growth here and and just on that note like the deep bench of character I had never seen her not wearing like a bustle and a bonnet.

[00:20:44] So I didn't took me a minute to recognize her because she's in that show that's like very late 19th century. LaShawns is her grandmother, Broadway legend. You've got two of the very few amount of black women who've ever been regular cast members on Saturday Night Live.

[00:21:01] You get two of them in the same scene, Ago Wodham playing the daughter of Ellen Clegghorn. Luis Guzman, Alan Cumming, like bam, bam, bam. Really just like a I love when if you're going to spend this kind of money on a movie

[00:21:15] and you're going to chince out on the special effects, which let's face it, they do. Holy magic. At least let's have some checks for some great like New York actors that you could get in there.

[00:21:25] So that was my feel was just like seeing who else was going to pop up in this thing. Yeah. I mean, my feel was obviously New York Christmas time. I thought the day that they spent out in the city was was really nice just for my Christmas heart.

[00:21:38] But I also thought Mark Marin was delightful in this movie and really liked the scenes that he was in and wasn't trying to do too much. And it was just, it was perfect. I love that. Yeah. My feels literally says Mark Marin know been Falcone feels.

[00:21:55] You can't make that up. It says that also Egon Wodham is wonderful in this movie. But Mark Marin who clearly is there as a favor, like he's like, yeah, I'll come do your thing. You know what I mean?

[00:22:08] Like Mark Marin is not that he sees not a guy that like is probably out there trying to get roles. This is probably like a I'm doing this movie around the corner and I'm friends with Melissa McCarthy.

[00:22:18] Like I'll just come and do this for a day or whatever. And he seems to just not like be doing it Mark Marin style. Like he's very like and I remember like he does a voice in the bad guys cartoon movie. That my kids love.

[00:22:33] And like I feel like we might need more of him in movies, which I never thought I would say, but I felt like he was fun. He's he's done some indie work. He did a couple films with the late Lynn Shelton.

[00:22:43] I know so he does pop up and he's actually really good in that that Netflix show glow. Oh yeah, he is good in glow. That's right. It's like the Ski V manager. Right? Yes. Yeah.

[00:22:56] This was the only thing I had seen him acting and I've of course heard his podcast and that's how I know him. But I thought he was if you listen to him on his podcast, you would be he sounds like he would be fine.

[00:23:05] Never doing like never doing it. That's just his thing. But him being in that role was fun. I thought the scene with the family, especially Egon Wodum and that whole like I wish you'd go to hell thing was really, really funny.

[00:23:17] And the way she played it was great. So yeah, that stuff worked for me better than really anything else. It's time for us to take a break. We'll come back with the weight. What? Sorry. I'm ahead. We're Brand go. Hi. We're back.

[00:23:47] We're talking about the entirety of your back. Yeah, like just the whole blue shirt. But did it look good? But you can you can blue screen that out right? You can brand that was your second really great hiding prank of today. Thank you.

[00:24:00] Not as good as the first one out to lunch or something. First one was really good. You guys all decided to hide from me and scare me. He was so scared. I saw it the whole way to the car. There's a little baby boy.

[00:24:10] Right down on the ground. You cry. You cry. We need to cry. You need the ambulance. I listen, I bring up Bruce Wilson's the kid all the time. Yeah, you and me. Yes. We just talk about it.

[00:24:29] I'm not a huge fan of the movie, but I do love that line anyway. Hmm. What's we talking about? Oh, we're talking about Jeannie and it's time for the wait. What it's where we talk about what in this movie is go wait what and I'm going to rub

[00:24:46] my lamp and wish that a lot of them so would go with the usual caveat that you get whatever you want with the usual caveat that movies that are about magic. So yeah, there's not a lot of logical leaps.

[00:25:03] But yeah, the time travel one is a big one like you if you lay a rule down, you really have to follow it or have some excuse not to and that just felt cheap. So yeah, mine really all kind of came at the end.

[00:25:16] So when he finally uses a second wish to get them into the great crowded restaurant for the daughter's birthday and you see them ordering their dinner. And he gives his order and then the wife gives her and I'm like, mm-mm.

[00:25:29] No, no, no waiter is going to take the man's order first. He's always going to start with the lady. I might even start with the young lady, but he's not going to start in grained in

[00:25:39] me from a young child to never literally like when I was out to eat like my mom had to order like literally like I tried to somewhat untie myself that in just normal circumstances because it just is like this thing that is

[00:25:51] but is going to happen like it's just going to happen. So this is a restaurant that's too cool to have. I was just going to back you up, Dan. When we go out to eat, you always I always look at Aaron like, you know,

[00:26:01] we're all out to eat and I'm always like they come over to me. I was like, it is just a very just like just like riding a bike. Oh yeah. No, Dan's always like the lady will have the spaghetti carbonara and the mountain deals that eat. That's true.

[00:26:15] I always I don't ask her what she wants. I just order for her. Yeah, I've tried many new things because it's just like that's what you're going to order in today. And you're going to like it. That's right. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:26:26] So if this place is too schmancy to have peanut butter sandwiches and cherry ice cream on their menu, I think they're going to be fancy enough to ask correct the misses what she's having. And then yeah, just at the end, the fact that like three months go

[00:26:35] by and they're both just sitting on the sofa chilling out. I'm like, does anyone have a job? You know, it's it's very disconcerting. That was my immediate thought. It was was they're sitting around like look how much better life is without work.

[00:26:48] They're sitting around like ever since you quit your job. This apartment just feels like it's filled with more life. Yeah, like I thought you there'd be on the sofa. Maybe the camera is going to pull out and they were like under

[00:26:59] the tributary bridge, but no, there's still in the apartment. It's unbelievable, man. I only have a couple one. I guess this specific AMC theater only plays Tom Cruise movies because it's playing both Mission Impossible and Top Gun. The original, not Maverick.

[00:27:19] Tom Cruise week will play a different one every which is great for her seeing as how she loves them, which was a really funny bit. But yeah, I did get a good chuckle at that and to to everyone's point about this movie is really hard on people

[00:27:35] that you know have to work. They are on a magic carpet and they are riding around New York screen is what they're on when you have this opportunity to be on magic carpet. He decides I am going to make a on a post a poster board.

[00:27:57] I'm going to write go home. It's Christmas and go up to people's windows that are working and show them the sign and shame them and like hey gang, let's heckle the wage slave like bro. You don't know their situation. Maybe they don't have a family.

[00:28:16] Maybe this time of year it's really hard on them and they just want to be at the office and just try to focus on this thing. You don't know their situation. Maybe they're Jewish. So many different reasons and so heckle that guy's boss

[00:28:32] who made him stay in the office. Absolutely not this poor guy that we don't know what he's gone through why he's working when he's working and to have the one opportunity to do the thing that as kids when we see a lot and we're like magic carpet.

[00:28:48] Can you believe it to go? I'd like to. Let's go to window to window. And tell them that works. I know the proletariat Dan. Oh wait, wait, wait, I have one more. I just thought of this if he goes back and undoes

[00:29:06] everything, that means the Bowery Mission is not getting $100 million. Correct. Yes. That's funny. It's on my list, but you're right. The giant. No, no, no, it's a great one. I got others. Yeah, he undid a lot of good there, which in any

[00:29:23] time travel movie just going back and getting a do over and it working the first time has that ever happened in the history of time travel movies where it's just like I need to do over. Oh, it worked this time. Great. That's all we need.

[00:29:37] Look, Dave just watched all three seasons of Le Brea and apparently like everything we know about time travel is wrong. You can go back to the Stone Age and build a skyscraper and it's not going to affect history at all. Wow.

[00:29:49] Now I have to go and watch this because that. No, you don't. Yeah, it's true. I don't. Let's talk more about the magic carpet, shall we? It is him, the genie and his daughter and the daughter falls asleep on that magic carpet. No.

[00:30:06] How long have you been flying around? For days? If my seven year olds were on a magic carpet, it would take literal years. They would break all boundary of psychology. Their brains would function at a level you've never seen before. They would stay awake for day magic carpet.

[00:30:28] They'd stay awake for days on end. Not if Melatonin in the world. The back seat of the magic carpet and then they just go right to this girl's she's on a magic carpet for a half hour. She's like, all right.

[00:30:40] I'm going to have to pass my once you've sort around New York City on magic carpet and for five minutes you've seen it all. I do. I got up all small. I was I was appalled. Appalled that this guy gets a genie with unlimited wishes.

[00:30:57] He goes to his wife and kid one time. She says to leave and he's like, well, I guess it's free time. I'm hollow blue in New York. He literally tries one time and then for the next 30 minutes of the movie is like, you

[00:31:13] want to see the big Apple? And he also tried one time with no plan. Like it was can you get me to them? And then it's like, look, I did all I could do. You've got to see the Rockefeller tree. I know it's been 2000 years.

[00:31:26] You've got to see the tree and we got to go shopping and we got to go to see Santa and we got to learn like that was the biggest. Like if you have unlimited wishes, like you're like on it. Like you're just like money this,

[00:31:39] but material that how do I get my kid back and I thought it was going to be this. Let me buy him all this stuff. That doesn't work. Let me buy my house. That doesn't work. Oh, it's just me. It's not about the wishes. Not this movie.

[00:31:51] Not this movie at all. It still was about the gift at the end. He got the dollhouse for is ridiculous. Not as big of a dollhouse though. It's not the size of the dollhouse that matters. Not one that dwarfs his child. That's right. Yeah, yeah.

[00:32:06] That's not a room. That's what that was the lesson. We did find out I do need to get her at dollhouse. Possibly a normal one will do. It's on the scooter. Let's not get crazy while snowing. It's not going to get ruined. I promise.

[00:32:18] Speaking of which, I do love that a stuffed bear falls off the scooter, but a big dollhouse doesn't under one arm. It's cured by the same straps. It's a do over. It's a do over. Everything works on a do over. We know that. Two more quick ones.

[00:32:38] One we did find out that this happens in the original movie, which is probably what's in here, but it is nonetheless jarring when with 10 minutes or less left in this movie, Jeannie drops the bomb that they just are friends with Jesus Christ. They just casually throw out

[00:32:55] well you know like my boy JC and then they present the movie and then they proceed to kind of sort of quote a Bible verse in this movie in this Richard Curtis Jeannie Christmas movie. They have the gall to bring Jesus and Bible verses to the

[00:33:13] table with 10 minutes left for literally no reason aside from to bring Melissa McCarthy to tears. It is one of the weirder scenes I think I've ever seen in a Christmas movie. It was pretty wild. This movie acknowledges the divinity of Jesus and the existence of hell.

[00:33:27] I don't know what you people want. Yeah, it was right. It's like we just we just are trying to come it's like almost like Christians are complaining for no reason. It's got to be your interpretation or translation or go away. I will say this is now the

[00:33:43] second best Angel Studios movie I've seen so. Behind that Jim Cavies a wonderful I got a Popella hat one. I got a You better you better. That's why we don't rank these movies. That's why I'm not a big list guy and I've said that for years. Right along.

[00:34:04] Always one more at the end of the movie Mark Maron I guess is now in love with Jeannie and they run pizza parlor down the street and they the way we find that out is is that their husband wife are sitting around in their fully furnished

[00:34:19] ginormous Manhattan apartment with no jobs laughing at how great life is and he's like she's like maybe we should order out for dinner and he's like yeah and she says maybe we shouldn't do pizza again and then he says but it's the best pizza in the

[00:34:32] world and she goes you're right get the pizza. I've never seen that 180 before ever in my life. My wife and I talked about eating food. I don't know for 23 years we've been together. I've never heard her say maybe we shouldn't do sushi and then me go but it's

[00:34:47] really good sushi and her go. Yeah no no no I'm sold I've talked into it. It was a very weird one 80 for me and it didn't match my life at all. So there you have it. It's time for Peekaboo I don't know. Yeah we'll go with Peekaboo.

[00:35:09] It's where we won the Rock in the summer of balls. Good as good as anything else but basically all we want to know is are there any questions that we would like still answered. Alonzo I'll let you go first. Yeah I did find myself thinking

[00:35:24] that the notion of Tom Cruise having a genie would be a very terrifying thing and I'm really glad to be there. More than fair. Oh yeah. Yeah I would give me Scientology for all for 500. I a thing happens in this in this movie and it's

[00:35:46] possible that they do explain it and I missed it but unlimited wishes then he wishes that she doesn't have to be a genie anymore and then she says okay we all know what that means three more wishes. What what happens to her like

[00:36:02] when when's her job done if someone doesn't wish for her to not be a genie anymore. When does when would she go have gone back into the antique box had he not made that wish if there are unlimited wishes we all know like in Aladdin three

[00:36:17] wishes and after the third you're done. Yeah but in this one it's unlimited wishes which would lead me to believe that if I if it was my prerogative I could have this genie for my whole life and then if when I die does genie go back in

[00:36:32] the box. Do they explain that Alonzo. No that is a very good question and I was sort of thinking about it and then not thinking about it but now that you bring it up yeah they do not answer that and it's like what even happens like

[00:36:47] yeah because you think I won't give that if she outlives the person but then with the person wish for immortality and then yeah no that's a that is a theological question this movie dares not because you can like if you can't wish to live forever you

[00:37:03] could wish that hey like if I know I'm getting ready to die or I'm close I'd be like hey kid I would like to pass my wishes now to my child. So like you could just keep that train going and sure I wish that they had unlimited

[00:37:17] I wish yes they also I don't know like that's the unlimited wishes thing is great and wonderful but it leads you to a lot of questions and pairing unlimited wishes with the aforementioned late-stage capitalism that Alonzo has talked about is just a terrible pairing

[00:37:38] for this guy to be like you have to work like come on you can just have it if you just get it like it's just awful like wish for a trust fund that's right yeah my with mine was more not my wish my P. C. Mollis was the

[00:37:53] the are you no I'm gonna go further but I do my quest my question about the wishes is at what is the proximity and volume to which he has to say a wish near her for it to work because the whole thing in the prison doesn't make a

[00:38:10] lot of sense to me he's there she's there and then he yells a wish out but then it doesn't help right away then she like when she realizes what she has to do she does it but he's got to yell it into the loudspeaker

[00:38:25] I think earlier in the movie when she's at the whatever and she sets up that romantic date for he and his ex-wife or separated wife she just comes back she just literally he doesn't wish her back like she just goes back into that room

[00:38:43] she can do whatever she can travel wherever she wants without him wishing it correct like in that scene he's done with his date she just pops back in she's like I'm here I better be gone if that's the case why she's stuck in a holding cell

[00:39:01] just I'm out of there like for the same reason that you can't time travel until you can fair enough fair enough I I'm here everybody congratulations we're having a great time going through these movies from 2023 we've seen some good ones we've seen some bad ones let's find out

[00:39:19] what next weeks will be because we're heading over to a movie that originally dropped on Pluto it's called a Christmas family secret I believe it is now on basically every VOD platform but it was originally a Pluto acquisition and last year

[00:39:37] we went to Pluto and we had a Karen Christmas which wasn't terrible Christmas Karen Christmas Karen yes we'll find out what happens next week until then may we be the first to wish you a Merry Christmas Merry Christmas

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