First World Problems when your new white screen monitor is so large that you have to zoom
in way too much to see shit.
You gotta zoom in way too much to see shit.
With your mouse.
And your dick.
That's right cause it's so small.
Yeah.
I don't think that's what we want.
We don't want to zoom in with our...
I don't think...
That's good.
I don't...
I mean...
You're like, yes and no.
I'm confidently average.
That's all in that statement.
I mean, me too.
We got some good feedback from the podcast.
From who?
A co-worker of mine who shall remain nameless said that we have excellent chemistry.
We flow really well together.
Oh yeah, baby.
And they listen regularly, which I did not know.
Really?
Someone that you work with listens regularly?
They were like, yeah, you have like a good rapport and it's very funny.
Well that's awesome to hear.
Especially when you finish your breakfast wrap.
Oh, is that why you stopped suddenly?
Well...
Oh, baby.
I can hear that shit tumbling around in that mouth.
So...
Tumble, tumble.
Tumble, tumble, baby.
So...
Finish your wrap, Brendan.
It's okay.
Mm-mm-mm.
Mm-mm, good.
It was really good.
I also have a cold, so you're gonna get to hear some of this.
Can I hear you snarfing?
Oh, baby, yeah.
Snarf it up.
You know when you get a good one and you like feel it come out of your nose?
Yeah, that's the best.
Then you look and it's like a big glob on the thing.
I don't know why that's so satisfying, but it is, I love it.
It's like the opposite of a poop kind of.
It's a schloop.
Yeah.
That's a good shit.
I don't know how that's the opposite, but that's what we're gonna do.
That's a good analogy.
Analogy.
We haven't done this in a while.
Yeah, it's been busy, man.
Well, and we're both planning weddings.
Yours is...
This is Refine 90 Cinema in the Future.
A month from six hours ago, we will be together.
A month from today, we will be together for preparing for your wedding.
We will be.
I've got my flight and my hotel the night before, and I am figuring out a suit this
weekend and...
I hope it suits you.
Good Lord.
Yeah, it's been busy, obviously.
And it's just been good.
I mean, there's always...
I don't think it's avoidable that there's stuff that will be stressful when you're
planning a wedding, even though the way Steph and I are doing it is very late back.
Michelle and I are at the point where it's like, if we have to spend a little more money
to not have as much stress, we'll just do it.
I mean, that's pretty fair, honestly, because the stress of it really sucks sometimes.
Yes, but also, I keep saying it's not about the wedding, it's about the rest of our lives.
Well, it kind of is, right?
That's kind of why Steph and I did it the way we were doing it, because then we have
like just like 30 people there.
They're all of our closest friends, and everyone will get along.
It's not like it's going to be like weird, like awkward situations where people don't
really know each other well, because you'll get to know each other very quickly.
There's only 30 people.
Well, I don't know.
Me and your mom.
I mean...
You're going to make me sit in a room with that bitch.
Geez!
I'm just kidding.
I'm telling her you called her a bitch.
She'll probably be like, fuck that guy.
I'm going to be like, just take a second, have a seat, listen to like four minutes of our
podcast.
Four whole dang dang minutes.
No, it's going to be wonderful.
She's going to cry so much.
Yeah, my sister probably will.
In a happy way, because you're her little boy.
I certainly am.
I'm the littlest of boys.
You are.
You're also the youngest.
True.
I am her youngest.
I'm like her baby.
And I'm not going to say she loves you the most of all her children, but...
She will just ask her.
She regularly tells me that she's like, she's glad she did it right the third time, which
I think is hilarious.
By the way, it clearly has been a while because welcome to another episode of Refined 90s Cinema
with Brendan and Alec.
We're back.
It's 2023, everybody.
We have not done a podcast since Christmas.
This is episode 50.
You want to tell everybody what we're watching today, Brendan?
We are watching the Truman Show, the Truman Shizzle, the Truman Show.
That's pretty good.
I haven't watched it in a very, very long time, but we'll see how it goes.
But it shouldn't be too bad.
I think it'll be pretty cool.
Let's keep up.
Thud up.
I have a feeling we're going to be watching this movie, by the way, and it's going to
be very...
There's going to be parts where we're like not saying a damn thing because it's such
a good movie.
So anyway, my story started 20 minutes, literally 20 minutes ago with...
That's why we have editing.
I was wearing headphones, and my fiance was sitting in the same room watching me edit,
and she was like, I loved seeing you laugh at different parts, and I didn't know what
was funny, but I could tell you were editing your podcast and laughing at the different
jokes, so I could tell it was going to be a funny episode.
Quite honestly, I listen back to some of it sometimes, and it cracks me the fuck up.
Some of the shit we say is hilarious, dude.
We're sometimes funny.
Sometimes.
And sometimes we're not.
Sometimes we're funny, sometimes we're not.
Sometimes we're just two guys talking about movies.
A lot.
You're going to get married.
Can you believe that?
No, I don't want to talk about it.
I'm going to have to travel across the country.
Not really.
Well, I have to travel across the country for your wedding, too.
We're both getting married, Brendan.
We're adults.
This is true.
God, why can't we just podcast every day and be really immature?
I mean, we already got the immature thing covered, so.
That's why we do this podcast.
All right.
I think that it's movie time, Brendan.
I'm drinking my, I'm already almost done my first glass of wine.
We haven't started the movie yet.
I don't have wine because I'm congested, and wine makes me more congested.
I'm excited for you.
It's going to be good.
It will be the goot-ist.
Can you work a podcast reference into your speech?
No.
Unless perhaps I say both Stephanie and I were refined in the 90s.
And look at us now.
Fuck yes, brother.
All right, guys, get ready for the Truman Show.
Get ready to listen to Silence for an hour and 40 minutes.
Are you ready?
No, it's going to, hey, don't count your chickens before they hatch.
I don't even own fucking, I don't even own chickens.
That'd be a quick counting job.
Well, if we're professionals, then count us down and do it.
Do it right, Brendan.
Three, two, one, go.
Like I have a question for you, Brendan, before we start.
Get really into this movie.
Have you seen it before?
Yes.
Okay.
So you like you've seen it as well.
Yeah, I saw it when I was young, though.
So I don't know if like I will barely remember this movie probably,
but I remember enjoying it.
Yeah, I can already tell I'm not going to remember like a lot of this.
It's going to be like your, but I have seen it before.
The sixth sense.
But yeah.
Yeah.
It won't be quite like that because the sixth sense that was like,
I literally have never seen it before.
Looks like Disney World.
Did you enjoy Disney World, by the way?
Was it your first time there?
Yeah.
So we went over Christmas break.
It was insane.
I've never experienced even just to see it.
Isn't it wild there?
It's fucking crazy.
I've never experienced anything like that before.
I couldn't believe it when I went either.
It was insane.
Did you guys go to Animal Kingdom at all?
Yeah, we did all four parks in three days.
Yeah, Michelle knows what's up.
When Steph took me, we were like going to every park and like park hopping and stuff.
And we could like do a trip together or the four of us.
Oh, that'd be so much fun.
Steph would love to go to Disney with another Disney fanatic.
I guarantee it.
And we could podcast with Disney movies at Disney.
Oh my God.
Yeah.
So the second day we did after hours at Hollywood Studios and got to like walk on all the Star Wars rides.
Yo, so did you like the virtual reality like Millennium Falcon?
Yeah.
Dude, I've never done that one because that park got there after Steph and I went.
Yeah.
It literally took longer to walk through the line than it did to wait for the ride.
That's awesome.
Yeah, because the park's closed to everyone else except if you have these special tickets, right?
So.
Yeah.
So we had the fast passes as well when we went and it was really nice like just being able to walk on to a lot of rides.
Yeah.
We really liked Flight of Passage, the one in the Avatar area.
I don't know if you guys did that ride, but all of the line up through Avatar, but it was too crowded.
Yeah, that rides insane.
Every there's there was that was the longest line that we waited in when we went there.
So one thing I would point out about this movie and I really, really like it is that every shot in the movie is like it's being filmed on a hidden camera.
I love the colors.
Yeah.
Like the pastels and the browns and has it has a they did a good job making it feel like Truman's got a camera on him too.
And like like all of the camera angles are like are like the people have cameras on them or the cameras like somewhere in the background or whatever.
It's really interesting to watch because the camera angles are so different from like your average movie.
Hey, he sells insurance like your future wife.
Doesn't he sell insurance in fucking Yes, man as well?
Does he?
Yeah.
I don't know.
Does he sell insurance or is he like a financial?
Oh, he gives out loans at the bank.
He approves loans.
Jim Carrey is always like a banker or a lawyer in these movies hilarious.
And yes, he does sell insurance like my future wife.
If he's in a coma, he's probably uninsurable.
That's a horrible looking wedding ring.
Just going to put it out there.
Yeah, I hope I like mine actually I think is going to be pretty nice.
I'm doing the hammered look for mine and it's like going to be smaller and like a little bit more because I don't wear rings.
Like I don't like having shit on my hands though.
It's going to be going to take a lot of getting used to probably do these camera angles are so good.
I love the camera.
I love that fish like that.
It looks like it's through a hidden camera with the circle.
Yeah, man.
And I never like when I was younger and I watched it, I never knew any of this crap because I wasn't in film yet.
But like it's really cool to watch this right now because of the camera angles.
Oh, because he's never been outside of what's it called see Haven the town or whatever.
Yeah.
And you don't know as a viewer that he doesn't know his boat be sunk, dude.
Yeah, because the premise of this movie is like he's like a he's like a TV series.
Right.
His mannerisms.
Look at that butt.
Look at those.
Look at that back leg.
Oh my Lord.
That camera angle though.
Do they have sex in the movie?
I don't remember.
A lot of movies had that in it in the 90s though.
So it wouldn't surprise me much.
Oh my God, the fucking advertisement.
Yeah.
That was hilarious.
Fucking takes a swing of his beer, looks right in the camera.
That was a beer and like shows the label.
Dude, we have to do this at some point, Brendan.
Off the Ambassador Bridge.
Just fucking yeah, take some golf balls and a little tea with us and just hit them.
That'd be fun.
It would be really fun.
Go out somewhere, drink some pops, some Canadian pops.
Yeah, with the name Canadian on them and a maple leaf.
Canada dry.
And then our 4.5% alcohol.
Like the color of his shirt, I just, oh, they did such a nice job.
This movie is a pretty good testament to like the fact that you don't need crazy special effects
and like CGI to make a good movie and make it look good.
And I mean, they just used, I feel like it's like, remember when you were like the VHS?
Did you ever do school announcements?
Yep.
Did you have like the, like you could do like a star wipe or like a checkerboard?
Dude, all the time.
And we used to do that shit in like PowerPoint presentations too.
We, yeah, and we used to have it where we had recorded the morning announcements on a VHS tape
and then play them back after the bell.
So like you could put all those wipes with this little mixing board.
That's what I feel like this movie used for camera.
He's so scared to travel on the ocean.
Yeah, but like think about it.
It's because they like are psychologically torturing him.
Yeah, and making him scared to leave.
Oh, he lost his dad in the ocean.
That's why his father was an actor.
Yep.
I mean, what?
Spoilers.
Daddy!
Daddy, no.
Just breathe.
No.
Open your gills, daddy.
Daddy.
Damn it.
Daddy.
Love that it just fucking rains right on him.
It's so funny.
Because it's pathetic fallacy.
That's so funny.
And it's following him.
He must just believe that rain follows you.
That's awesome.
I love how it's raining everywhere now, but you can still see the outline from like the little stream
that was landing on him.
Which actress is this Brendan?
This is, I don't know.
Do you know?
No, she looks familiar though.
Yes.
She's a very famous actress.
Laura Linney.
She plays one of the main antagonists in...
Severance, the show's called.
What?
Yeah, she plays the fucking Lady in Severance, the like boss lady.
No.
It's not the same person.
That's Patricia Arquette.
Are you serious?
Yeah.
They do kind of look alike though.
So Laura Linney was in Frasier, the Big C and Ozark.
Oh, I thought that she was the same lady that did Severance.
It kind of looks like a younger Patricia Arquette though.
Yeah, she looks so much like her.
It's crazy.
Did you hear season two of Severance is coming out in the spring probably?
Like next year in the spring?
Like they're filming it now.
Oh, so we have to wait a whole nother year for that?
Yeah.
That sucks.
They said like spring, summer, 2023, potentially at the earliest.
Oh my God.
That's so annoying.
It's his father.
And there's a fucking troop of runners that gets in his way and a mailman and a bike.
Like it's funny how everything gets put in his way.
And then they drag his dad away from him.
I have to say, it does look like they designed it
and they probably took a lot of cues from Disney World.
It does look similar.
Yeah, like with the arches leading into it and like all the housing and stuff.
Like it's like that.
Not quite real.
A little too perfect.
Yeah, there's just something off about it.
Yeah.
That like eerie.
You just, you know, it's funny about Disney and now you'll understand
because you've been there.
Like when you're there, you just get like these happy feelings.
You know, it's weird.
Like I walked into one of the parks and instantly I was like, wow,
I feel pretty good.
You know, well, it's cause it's like engineered to make you feel that way.
Right.
The mother has a picture of herself because she's the fucking actress.
It was your fault.
She's like a soap actress.
Oh, she touched his leg.
That'd be it for me, man.
I'd be done.
That's his mother.
She's an actress, Brendan.
He still has like his little boy room set up in the basement.
Oh, I guess he's at his mother's house.
He's wearing what looks like a little boy clothes to like that t-shirt.
It'd be amazing if his father was Joey Tribbiani because the picture
kind of looked like that.
Oh my God.
That's a cute dress.
How she's standing.
She's like coming macaroni off of me, daddy.
I guess this move in.
Was that his dad's old clothes?
Old sweater.
Daddy.
Daddy, I have your sweater.
I love this shit.
This is so good.
Ten thousand days.
Oh, that's how they like show a memory.
I remember what happens now.
Can you imagine?
Oh my God.
Your whole life is like all of a sudden just like a fucking lie.
Oh, I don't know.
Did you ever hear there was an NPR story about this guy
who they put him in its Japanese like reality, crazy reality show.
They put him in this apartment, told him he couldn't leave until he won a thousand
dollars in sweepstakes like magazine and mail entry competitions.
And then they'd up it when he would get close.
They'd up it to like five thousand and then ten thousand and then they made it
look like he won and took him out.
But really they took him out into a set and it was like film before a live studio
audience and he was filmed 24 seven and they turned it into a reality show.
And they started with him in an apartment with no clothes, told them they wouldn't
let him out until he won money and close.
Wow.
Yeah.
And he ate ramen every day.
Like it was nuts.
If I could eat ramen every day and not like wither away and die, I would.
So good.
I fucking love ramen.
I should take you to a ramen place when you're here.
I don't know.
Like you're not here for very many days.
So it might be hard, but look at his little bow tie.
I like bow ties, man.
Me too.
Michelle asked me if I wanted to wear a bow tie for our wedding.
And I don't think so.
Stephanie refused to let me wear a bow tie.
That surprises me.
She's not into the BT.
The BTA.
She wanted to bang in the library.
She looks the same age throughout the whole movie.
Did you say, did you ever bang in a library?
No, I said she wanted to.
She was trying to get him to do it.
He's like, I got to commit this to memory.
Clearly loves this other woman and or has strong feelings.
He's never met her.
He's seen her.
What a creep, dude.
Look at her.
Look at him fucking peep it over the books.
It's the shirt of the that he had in the in the chest.
Oh, did she die?
She probably dies.
Oh, God, I forget Brandon.
I'm upset.
No, it's like, can I do it?
Should I tell you?
No, don't tell me.
Let me be excited about something I don't remember.
Why?
For what?
Come have a cameo.
Say hello to the people.
Hello.
Brandon says hello as well.
Hello to the Brendan.
This is my future wife, ladies and gentlemen.
To the Stephanie.
I'm here to tell Alex to not stop podcasting for 15 to 20 minutes.
You cheating on me?
Well, listen, I wouldn't need 15, 20 minutes.
Let me just.
No, I'm adjusting.
You're ready here first, folks.
You do not want to see.
That's fair.
Okay.
I love you.
I love you too.
I know what she's doing.
Is she preparing her wedding night sex attire?
Are you preparing your wedding night sex attire?
Okay.
Go do your wedding dress stuff.
She like stared at me for a second.
Then she started doing like a weird dance thing.
And I was like, okay, that's her come hither.
Make me a mommy.
I want to be more than just a cat mom.
I want to be a flesh mommy.
Oh my God.
That term is awful.
Oh, he cheats on his fucking wife, lady, girlfriend person.
She drowns.
She's going to drown.
Just like her day.
Just like his dad did.
And that's a thing like his fake actress wife would have known about all of this.
Yep.
Speaking of pizza places, when you were here, do we have Mike's kitchen?
Is that the place in the States?
No, no, no.
That's the pizza.
Remember, I got the Big Mac pizza and you were like, oh no, I definitely didn't.
I wasn't there for that night that you ordered it.
We should do it next time.
I'm down though.
Dude.
Okay.
She fucking tells him his life is a lie.
She's the real true love.
Oh, it's a pretty decent car to be able to drive on the beach.
Yeah, what the fuck?
How is it even driving on the sand?
It's because it's fake.
They're going.
Sylvia, your sweater.
Your red sweater.
I'm going to smell it at night.
And not tell my wife.
Truman Bar.
All the women watching this show are in love with him.
That's, but that's another like, there's a whole real world outside component.
But why would they let him keep that?
Because it's part of the show.
And how he like remembers this woman that he loved before.
They would make it part of the show.
So that it's kind of creepy, honestly, but also kind of romantic.
He's trying to find like eyes that look just like her to fucking
rebuild her the back of a photo of his wife.
That's fucked up.
What did you do?
He immediately like starts drinking it.
I mean, I would to a serial killer ask.
Let's do honestly.
If it were him making a collage of this lady's face for two hours,
it would still be better than that other movie.
The fucking hardware movie or whatever.
Hardware.
Look at her.
She's watching him watching the Truman show.
I love that camera angle from the radio.
Yeah, it's like a little hidden camera.
It's cool.
Oh, he's hearing like the production walkie-talkies.
Stand by all extras.
Now he's hearing through the walkie-talkies, Brendan, like he said.
And they're all wearing earpieces.
Yep.
That's insane.
What a clever movie, honestly.
I love that he starts to like realize.
Well, he's like something's not right.
There's even a fucking street cleaner like in Disneyland, man.
That's a good comparison.
But even when you look at it like it's too perfect.
Yeah, like there's no cracks in the road.
Everything's maintained way too well for it to be like regular lived in society.
Right.
It's clearly like a movie set.
That was a cool shot.
But think about it though.
If you're watching like a reality TV show or like it's just a TV show in general
and the character felt as real as he does because he actually thinks it's real.
Can you imagine how good that would be?
Like just imagine how good of a show it would be to watch something like this.
Well, and I think like that's why they kind of show you the real world outside of the Truman show is
fan clubs and restaurants and people are literally glued to it and addicted to it.
Well, and also I don't know if you notice, but when they switch to the scenes where it's
outside of the Truman show, everything looks a little bit more dull.
Like the colors aren't as vibrant.
I think it's just nice.
He's starting to like question his reality, which I think is like a really normal like
a coming of age disillusionment with adult life type of thing.
Almost got hit by a bus.
He's realizing like all of this happens because of me.
Yep.
Like this is weird, but how would he know any different?
Like he should have gotten hit by the bus basically.
But how would you know any different?
They went bust and he looks and there's craft services like what?
That's like where everyone goes for lunch and shit.
He found it.
It's the dude on the butt.
I wish he'd hit me on the butt.
That was my point was I think it's normal and that you question like is this real?
I think fantasizing about a different life for yourself is healthy.
Helps you have goals and and look outside yourself.
Yeah, I think like questioning if you're doing the right thing is really good to
write like, by the way, I didn't talk about this earlier, but I've been doing
like a regular ice bath for two for two to two and a half minutes every day.
But you put ice in the tub.
No, I have a I have a bin outside of water.
What I just go outside and climb into for two and a half minutes every day.
Are you fucking with me?
No, it's 100% what I'm doing.
And it's actually like amazing.
Like I when I get out of it, I feel so good.
Like because your body naturally warms up afterwards.
You fill a tub with ice.
Yeah, I have like a bin that I can fit in outside and there's ice and water in
it and I go out and I sit in it for two minutes and it's like a mental battle
some days, but it's really, really good for you.
Like an increase in your circulation and.
And you like fill it with the hose.
Well, I did originally.
Now the water just sits outside and I like I put a bunch of epsom salts in it
so it wouldn't freeze over too bad.
And then I go climb.
I break the ice that's on top and then I climb into it for two minutes
and you just like put on the deck.
Yeah, pretty much.
And your neighbors don't think you're that fucking weird.
Like a couple days ago, the neighbor actually had like an energy consultant
at her house and I walked up the stairs in a bathing suit, soaking wet in the snow
and looked at she was in like full, full winter attire and she looked at me
and I was like morning and then I walked to the house because I was like,
I don't know what the fuck to do.
You look over here like jelly out.
Yeah, it's a little cold out today.
Dude, that's awesome.
Yeah, I couldn't do it today or the last day because it's actually like
freezing a little too much because it's way too cold out.
Well, how cold is it out there?
Right now it's like negative eight.
Oh, at least.
Yeah, it's the same temperature here.
They recommend online.
Like if you're doing ice baths, you should do it at like around anywhere
from one to four degrees when it's that cold out.
I can't do it because it's too much.
So I have to wait till next week to start doing them again.
But is this like the Wim Hof method?
Where did you study up on it a lot?
And I asked for a bin that could fit me in it for Christmas.
It was one of my gifts that I wanted.
This is why we're friends.
Why?
Because I would totally ask for that for Christmas too.
Yeah, like I was just excited about it because like it helps with full
body inflammation, like reducing it.
And I have tendonitis in both my arms.
So like I actually haven't had an issue with my hands or my arms hurting
since I started doing this because the ice bath reduces the inflammation
in my hands and my arms so much.
Good.
It's actually super good for my tendonitis and then like my clarity of
mind is way better and my blood flow is better.
So like I actually started warming up even quicker.
Like so I would come in the first time I came in, I've shivered for like
half an hour and then now if I do it after 22 days of doing it,
I'm warm without shivering at all in like 30, 30 seconds to a minute.
And then like I gradually warm up the rest of the way.
So do you do that and then shower?
No, I don't shower at all.
I just put on like my sweatpants and my sweater and I go to work.
But like I don't shower at all.
I just come inside, put on some warm clothes and go about my day.
Okay, but so my next question is how do you clean yourself?
I don't need to, dude.
It's literally I just put Epsom salts in the water and I have a lid for it.
So it's not like any like rainwater or anything's getting into it.
And you're like, switch it out every couple of weeks.
Pretty much, yeah.
So you're not showering.
Well, no, I'm showering, but I don't shower immediately after.
Oh, I shower every night before I go to bed.
Okay, look at the fucking.
Okay, the sun coming up kills me.
Did you notice that, Brendan?
No.
Yeah, because it's like the lights turning on in the studio or whatever
or on the set.
It's a nice house.
Non-union workers.
He's suspicious.
If you ask me, Alex, she's acting pretty sus.
She's acting super sus.
She's the imposter.
He's going to follow her.
She's going to go to the break room.
She's going to her trailer.
She really do be going to her trailer though.
To do a doobie.
Yeah.
That's how the kids say it, right?
To doob it up.
This scene is the best.
That's so what I'm talking about, yeah.
Beautiful job.
I feel like Steph should have that poster in her office.
Which one?
That it could happen to you with the lighting.
And also that do you have insurance against street gangs?
We should try and find that poster to put it in the show notes.
I'm sure someone's made it.
And if someone hasn't, I'm going to.
You'd be booking a flight to Fiji, dude.
Have you ever used a travel agent?
No, I just booked my shit myself.
No, I mean, yeah, I never...
I mean, I guess we always had the internet as we've been old enough to travel
for ourselves.
I mean, essentially I have a travel agent that's living with me though
because Steph's super fucking good at booking flights though.
Michelle is too, actually.
Well, I mean, they're both Disney freaks.
They go to Disney on the regular, right?
He can't go to Fiji, but he can go to Chicago.
Getting out of train to Chicago.
I'm on the train to Chicago.
What a movie, nuns.
All these people like, where the hell are we going?
And that guy's like, I don't know how to drive a bus.
He tries to start it and just fucking messes it up.
I love how everyone grabs all their shit so organized like, too.
Everybody off.
We've got a problem.
Doesn't he have a car?
No, why would he have a car?
No, like Truman drove a car to work.
Oh, it's true.
He could just get his fucking car and drive, but he's on an island though.
Oh, but why would he take a bus though?
He's like, wife, I'm telling you, it's a setup.
I don't know how I'd feel in his situation.
They go around again.
They come back.
They go around again.
You want to go to Fiji?
Oh, he locked her in the car.
Get fucked.
I don't know.
I don't know where Fiji is.
Now he's going to drive to Fiji, Brendan.
Fiji is an island country in Melanesia.
Yeah, like that's totally Disney.
100%.
It looks just like it.
It's probably, they probably modeled it after Disney, honestly.
I love how a billion cars drive out in front of it.
Yeah, like he's so synchronized.
I like that you said exactly what he said before he said it.
But I bet that's just how we roll here on Refined.
Nineties.
Cinema.
Man, he is just something else.
Jim Carrey's crazy.
He's a crazy boy.
It's a bread.
He puts her hand on the wheel, closes his eyes and says drive.
They just light the road on fire.
Everything's fine.
Look how perfect that road looks, even.
She's going off script, Brendan.
They're out of sea haven now, baby.
Nuclear power station.
They're coming up with some.
He's like, how did he know?
My name.
He fucked up.
Looks like the Intel guys making the processors.
Run Truman, run.
I mean, anyone would struggle with a bunch of dudes with weird like fucking radio
active suits on them grabbing you like that radio active face.
Where are you?
What are you talking about?
This is the best.
Oh my God.
I can take some multi tool kitchen knife out starts poking it at him.
What are you talking to?
Like the poor guy is losing his mind.
He's being gas lit by the entire town.
It's like the worst abusive relationship.
Yeah, no fucking kidding.
Like, you know, when you're seeing someone and you get out of it and
you're like, I'm much better off.
Yeah, exactly.
When you're in it, you don't realize it.
Well, I mean, we've both been there.
So multiple time.
I'm pouring some more wine.
I mean, we learned our lessons.
This guy's the biggest dick of them all though, Brendan.
He's just an actor.
His best friend fucking imagine if I one day like you found out that I was just
an actor paid to be part of your life.
I can't.
I can't even imagine.
Like, oh my God.
How awful would that be?
That would be the worst thing to find out.
We're like, you know, you're your parents when you're a kid, your parents ever say
like, yeah, we pay your friends or kids ever say that to you.
You imagine how earth shattering that would be to your
conception and your who you are.
And it'll be the absolute worst.
I love that they're feeding him lines.
Oh my God.
It's so it hurts to watch this as an adult.
Like, right?
Because you're like, and he's like literally messing with him.
They brought daddy into the Truman show.
Obviously, it's not going to be the same guy.
No, it'd be a fucking different dude.
It can be a weirdo.
Alexander, go to him.
It's not the same guy.
No, he knows.
Look at his face.
He put pillows with his face on them.
That was great television.
Love him.
Protect him.
That's insane.
That guy's shirt is very 90s.
He knows.
He started to figure it out and she's like, oh, fuck.
I want his D.
Hey, it's tick tock.
It's kind of like the vertical.
Like that's amazing.
Yeah, like from the moment he was born, they were filming this TV show.
It's fucking insane.
That was the worst special effect.
I know.
They clearly blew their budget on the set.
100%.
Fucking watching it in the bathroom.
He fucking pops out of a Christmas gift.
Everyone's fucking watching on the beach as his father has a hidden camera.
You're too late.
There's nothing left to explore.
This is a classic example of when you're trying to like end a series, but you can't.
It's when the writers fuck up the end of the series.
It's like in fringe or lost or like any of those series.
Oh, that's why people are so addicted to it, though, is that it's on 24 hours a day.
And it's like pay-per-view.
He's got a Truman dollhouse.
What the fuck?
The office guy.
Scully from Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
He described it as a cell.
That's awful.
Say no to the Truman show.
A new romantic interest will be introduced.
Oh, she's being super creepy.
She wants his D, dude.
Well...
Is this guy just living in the fucking bathtub?
I think so.
It's amazing.
The SS America.
And he's got a picture of his wife.
I wonder if they charge people more when there's sex scenes in the show?
I hope so.
Do you ever watch like Justin.tv or iJustine?
No.
They did those like it was like live stream 24 seven.
And even if they banged, they had like a camera that they wore.
It's that's so fucking weird.
But it was like before cell phones were really big.
So they was like actual like a big DSLR camera.
That's so weird, man.
The thing about this website called Justin.tv.
It was like early mid mid two thousands.
Like when we're in high school.
Come in, Major Burbank.
Do not drink anything on set.
I love that he's just living his normal day now to fucking test and see.
Wouldn't it creep you out adult twins who still dressed identically?
Yeah.
Fine colonial homes.
A new love interest.
Oh, she looks like the fucking girl that he's actually in love with.
Almost like a cross between her and his wife.
Yep.
What's that penny as in his tie?
It's like a holder.
Like a tie clip.
No, but it's like it's just like a gold pin and it's way too high to be a tie clip.
Weird.
I didn't actually know it's like a different kind of tie clip.
There's the boss.
Oh, yeah.
I guess it'd be super boring while he was sleeping.
Also, why does Christophe live there?
Did he Ferris Bieler them?
He's super Ferris Bieler them, dude.
Yeah, there's the two guys.
Oh, yeah.
Okay.
CSI and her took.
He's fucking driving around at night, baby.
Nice truck.
Oh, that's his best friend.
He shows up with beer as I am.
Where's he hiding?
He tunneled.
That is some dedication.
He fucking tunneled his way out of there, baby.
Truman's gone.
Oh, no, Brandon.
Where'd he go?
They put on fucking elevator music.
I love that they have their little headquarters in the moon.
That's fucking hilarious.
They put a spotlight on in the fucking ocean.
Did you ever participate in one of these searches where they do like
a line walk through like the forest or something?
Nope.
Did you?
Yeah.
When I was younger, there was one.
They were looking for someone.
Yeah.
So we all like did a big line walk near where you lived.
Yeah, there was like a couple blocks patch of like trees and park
where I grew up in Windsor and we we did one of those.
And I remember it really vividly.
It was it's kind of weird actually because I was really young, but
that would be weird for you to participate in.
I had to go with my mom though because there's just me and her for a little while, right?
According to this date calculator, he would be 30 years old.
That's so weird.
He could literally be anywhere.
Also, how do they get all these people to work at night?
Oh, Kristoff, cue the sun.
The sun, baby.
What's going on?
This man who created the Truman Show has too much power, Brendan.
Clearly.
But he's also probably like rich and famous.
He can say something like cue the sun.
He's playing God.
That's the whole point of the movie.
Yeah.
And then fucking Jim Carrey gets into Bruce Almighty where he also
deals with someone who plays God himself.
I love everyone's just standing there ready to go for if he shows up.
Dweep the hobba.
How does he know how to sail a sailboat?
Well, he sailed with his dad when he was a kid, though.
He'll his dad dreamed.
Hey, our guy's back.
He's sailing, dude.
So he has like the perfect outfit.
Yeah, he has the perfect sailing outfit just in his wardrobe ready to go with
it with the hat and everything just and he hasn't even sailed since
he was a kid with his dad.
Like what the fuck?
It looks like riding a bicycle.
Also, I want to point out Santa Maria is like the most fucking obvious
boat name ever.
Oh my God, they're actors that can't drive the boat.
He like looks at him.
He immediately knows the plan.
Yeah, they're going to kill him, dude.
Or they're just going to do a big storm so that it dissuades him.
That guy looks like Ben Feldman from Superstore.
He kind of does.
Yeah.
Superstore had no right being as good as it was, by the way.
What do you mean?
It was such a random show and then it was just so good.
The first season was like, yeah, but then it sucks you in.
Well, it's kind of like the office, right?
The office started off really slow and then got way better.
I tried watching Blockbuster.
It is not good.
Imagine how enticing that would be as a viewer, though.
It's like, you don't know what's real, what's manufactured.
I love how the music too is like basically what the music is they're
using on the show.
Come on, true man.
You're a true man.
Look at the naked bath guy screaming.
But like, I don't understand.
You have so much money invested in this.
What is your plan already, dude?
They've been doing it for 30 years, but they still they don't want to lose.
Like he could live another 70 years.
Increase the wind, Alex, on your Macintosh.
Yeah.
On your Macintosh PC from the 90s.
He wants to protect his legacy.
So he's trying to kill him.
What a fuckhead.
Yeah, the storm cleared up that fucking quick, of course.
Turtleneck sweater tucked into those wool pants.
Dude, I love me a good turtleneck.
So what now?
There's just pirates and they shoot him.
He's reached the edge.
He's rips.
It's like, yeah.
Can you imagine in that moment?
What would you be thinking?
Yeah.
Can you imagine how fucking weird it would be?
Like your brain would just explode.
It's a really pretty painting of clouds.
It is.
Never remember this.
They took the sound out and made it like you're watching the show now.
The worst part about this for him is that Truman would never win any awards
for Best Actor or anything.
Like he just never would do that.
Maybe the show would win.
There's just stairs.
Yeah, just a random staircase.
It looks like he's doing his best Keanu Reeves.
Yep.
But the Matrix came after this.
But still, even he knows what television is, so he obviously watched it.
Fucking pets his head on the screen.
What a fucking weirdo.
So he's as addicted to the television show as everyone else.
Yeah, the creator isn't just as addicted.
I forgot about the pillow.
She like gets up, puts some fucking clothes on.
You think they're going to let you anywhere near him?
Yeah.
If you look at the poster, it says 30th anniversary party.
Yep.
He escaped his own reality, Brandon.
Is that fucking crazy?
The artist was hoisted.
See, transmission.
Honestly, like the perfect TV show, though, 30 years of a TV show,
and then he escapes the show.
And that's how it ends.
Are you kidding?
That's amazing.
So good.
What a good movie.
Oh my God.
Probably one of the best we've watched on the podcast in all honesty.
It is just, it is a very excellent piece of cinematography.
Excellent.
You know, we're here at Refined.
Nineties.
Cinema tend to believe and remember that there are fine,
fine things in this world.
I believe that Truman had some really good real sex for the first time in his
life once he left that place.
I hope so.
Me too.
You got this, Truman.
You my boy, Truman.
Well, I'm going to go look up some Truman show reviews.
All right.
Because I'm interested.
I want to know what people think.
One star.
But sir.
This guy gave it a one star review and just said it was strange, but entertaining.
But gave it a one star review.
Fuck you, dude.
But sir.
This movie left me in an irritated mood.
It doesn't mean one star reviews are even, they don't, none of them make sense.
I'm going to five stars.
Was it like my DVD?
It was like, I kept watching this movie stupidly.
It left me in an irritated mood.
The product placements are amazing.
Five stars.
Amazon.co.uk.
Let's see what they have to say.
This, this movie is freaky, right?
It's like the matrix where like, or what we living is what we're living right now.
A lie, Brandon.
That's, that's the point.
Yeah.
It's so fucking wild.
Like a lot of movies in the 90s were like that because like, I think the, the human
psyche like elevated a level or something in the 90s.
And then people were like, is it all fake?
You know, wild.
Here is an Amazon.co.uk review from July 15th, 2021.
A true pro woke Christian knows and could tell the symbolism throughout the movie.
I just hope other people wake up to the lies in the movie.
Lastly, the reason I put the one star review is not because of the production on
of the movie was lacking where the acting was bad.
They got their message all right in a professional way.
It's just that the message that they were trying to convey was a very,
very twisted and is the exact opposite of the truth of the Lord.
Damn.
Someone named Mama Juju says.
Mama Juju.
Wait, can we stop and talk about the name Mama Juju for a second?
I feel like we shouldn't.
All right, continue.
Not me says Mama Juju.
One star daughter loved it.
Oh, Lord.
That's the review.
Clearly they did not.
I took my glasses off for that just so I could face palm.
King Louis says weird stuff.
One star bizarre film.
If you suffer with paranoia, do not watch it.
Ha, ha, ha, ha.
King Louis needs to get some help.
What's your review of this movie, Brendan?
It's good when you watch it the first time because you get the, huh, you get
the twist, but and you're like as excited as the characters in the show
are to see how it's going to end.
And it leaves you with questions, which is good.
But as a rewatch, it doesn't have that bad as a rewatch.
I think if you know the gist of it, like it's you can you can kind of
like read between the lines a little bit.
It's still really good.
But like it's not like something like Avatar or the Rings, though.
I do agree with you where like the rewatch ability is pretty low.
You know what's happening, right?
Like even even now, I didn't watch it since I think the last time I watched
this movie is when I was like nine years old or something like that.
Like I was pretty young and even now, like knowing the way it ends and like
having having an idea of what's happening.
Like it kind of ruins it.
You know, you're not really finding out with the character.
I think that adds a lot to the movie.
Like as a first watch, like you said, learning what's happening as the
character is learning it and like kind of like having that twinge in your
brain, like what the hell's going on?
That kind of weird stuff.
So really, the moral of the story is we should adopt a child and build a dome
for them and then make millions of dollars off of their suffering and pain.
I'm fine with it.
Let me get married first so that I'll get back to you.
I mean, then we'll have an available womb.
So get on it.
Oh yeah, baby.
My first born is being donated to television.
That's right.
Well, probably YouTube.
So let's be honest.
Yeah, it's fair.
Just a series of YouTube shorts.
Not even tiktoks.
Yeah.
Another interesting episode of Rewind 90s.
Cinema.
Hold on.
I just noticed this.
Someone's review.
Continue.
I want to hear the review.
Jessamine said wrong address.
It was delivered to the wrong address.
Never saw it.
My son was extremely disappointed.
Hahaha.
Grub L says unexpected taxes.
One star.
I had to pay big extra taxes, which I had no info about at the moment of purchase.
I expect the price shown to be the final price without surprises at the moment of
the postman delivery.
Geez.
They clearly like bought the wrong format.
Grandma D says one star.
I don't think I ordered this book.
Why do you think her name is Grandma D, Brendan?
That's true.
These are the important questions we should ask in our lives.
Until next time, please watch the Truman Show and enjoy the footage we did.
And if we don't see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and good night.
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