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WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.600 You guys, I go to see this so-called black film the other day. 00:00:04.799 --> 00:00:07.280 20 minutes of common attraction. 00:00:07.679 --> 00:00:09.759 All black films are fine. 00:00:10.160 --> 00:00:26.960 And I'm talking about what you're Donald Trump hosting a debate is like flavor flame hosting a spelling beat. 00:00:32.159 --> 00:00:34.159 I wanna see the president's birth certificate. 00:00:34.240 --> 00:00:35.840 I wanna see the receipt for your hairpiece. 00:00:35.920 --> 00:00:36.880 How about that shit? 00:00:38.320 --> 00:00:40.719 I wanna know why your lips look like little light switches. 00:00:40.880 --> 00:00:41.359 How about that? 00:00:45.039 --> 00:00:46.880 Maybe say it's a masonine bullshit. 00:00:46.960 --> 00:00:50.399 If I were president, I would tell China they're taking advantage of America to knock it off. 00:00:50.479 --> 00:00:54.000 China underwrites 60% of America's debt, they're fucking landlord. 00:00:54.479 --> 00:00:55.840 Talk shit to your landlord. 00:00:55.920 --> 00:00:57.039 See how that shit go. 00:00:58.240 --> 00:00:59.920 I don't like the way you're doing things. 00:01:00.000 --> 00:01:01.359 You kinda move. 00:01:04.799 --> 00:01:12.719 We represent different systems, but the ties between our people endure, and we've never gotten along better. 00:01:13.359 --> 00:01:15.920 Hello everyone, thank you for listening to Screen Generation. 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:19.040 It's the show about films released by Sony under the Screen Gems label. 00:01:19.120 --> 00:01:22.560 I'm your host, Evan Hughes, and I must lead with an apology. 00:01:22.719 --> 00:01:25.519 I'm sorry that I'm gonna come down a little hard on this movie. 00:01:25.680 --> 00:01:27.200 I'm not here to shit on these things. 00:01:27.359 --> 00:01:32.159 I absolutely see the intention, but I watched it twice this week, and both times the verdict was the same. 00:01:32.319 --> 00:01:36.319 It suddenly dawned on me that these are so much easier to cover when the movie is good. 00:01:36.480 --> 00:01:37.920 Like no shit, huh? 00:01:38.239 --> 00:01:39.840 Guess I gotta be more careful at work. 00:01:39.920 --> 00:01:44.560 I just was flying so high with the last two, I was like, this is going to be a good one. 00:01:44.799 --> 00:01:46.000 Now let me explain. 00:01:46.159 --> 00:01:47.359 I tend to aim low. 00:01:47.519 --> 00:01:55.840 It allows me to appreciate things more, and I stress more because expecting nothing and being blown away by mediocrity is a strategy that's paid off for me. 00:01:56.159 --> 00:01:59.040 The problem is I had high expectations for this film. 00:01:59.200 --> 00:02:01.200 It's partially a case of mistaken identity. 00:02:01.280 --> 00:02:02.640 I thought this was a different movie. 00:02:02.799 --> 00:02:06.640 The other reason is on paper this movie works, but on screen it just doesn't. 00:02:06.879 --> 00:02:14.719 On paper, you have two of the most attractive black men on earth and two popular stand-up comedians portraying a support group of men that actually hang out and give each other advice. 00:02:14.960 --> 00:02:16.479 How can you mess this up? 00:02:16.800 --> 00:02:19.599 I have a real issue with a movie when the credits are the best part. 00:02:19.759 --> 00:02:20.400 Not the opening. 00:02:20.560 --> 00:02:29.439 The bloopers in this case are the best part of this film, and I have to assume they're included because I bet this movie doesn't score well with an audience unless they leave the theater with a smile. 00:02:29.680 --> 00:02:31.039 And this movie did well. 00:02:31.280 --> 00:02:36.639 It quintupled its production budget, but what I can't find out is what Screen Gems paid for the script. 00:02:36.800 --> 00:02:42.159 And it seems that Warner Brothers had the rights for the soundtrack, so Screen Gems didn't make any money on that at front. 00:02:42.479 --> 00:02:48.319 Actually, I want to break this down brother by brother, and I want to see where they're at and where they're going in their careers. 00:02:48.560 --> 00:02:50.479 So let's start with Morris Chestnut. 00:02:50.879 --> 00:02:56.800 Now, the moment you couldn't stop crying when Ricky dies and Boys in the Hood, you knew Chestnut was going to be a star. 00:02:56.960 --> 00:03:01.439 I cannot tell you how many Screen Gems movies he's in, but I'm absolutely not going to complain. 00:03:01.599 --> 00:03:05.759 This will not be the last time I just ogle at him for the entire running time. 00:03:05.919 --> 00:03:07.759 Then we have Shamar Moore. 00:03:07.919 --> 00:03:13.439 Now, Shamar is the soap opera star, alright, and uh he's already won an Emmy for The Young and the Restless. 00:03:13.520 --> 00:03:20.400 He's the host of Soul Train at the time that they're shooting this, and he's gonna become a placeholder in casting for a capable cop all over TV. 00:03:20.560 --> 00:03:27.439 He's original cast of Criminal Minds, and he's done eight seasons of SWAT, which was cancelled only for Moore to get a spinoff. 00:03:27.520 --> 00:03:28.719 I mean, the man works. 00:03:28.960 --> 00:03:30.240 Okay, Bill Bellamy. 00:03:30.479 --> 00:03:37.599 Now, he's an accomplished deaf jam comedy stand-up, and he's credited with coining the term booty call, but he's also in everything right now. 00:03:37.759 --> 00:03:43.599 Uh, usually in supporting roles, like in music videos and stuff, but there's love for Bellamy in all show business still. 00:03:43.680 --> 00:03:50.719 And despite the character he's playing in the movie, he gets married the year this movie comes out, and they're still together, happily married with two kids. 00:03:50.960 --> 00:03:55.919 And in this movie, he has a serious resentment for the brothers choosing relationships over their friendship. 00:03:56.080 --> 00:03:59.680 He's actually just trying to be a good friend, not trying to be degrading to women. 00:03:59.840 --> 00:04:00.479 Then we have D.L. 00:04:00.560 --> 00:04:01.199
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Hugley. 00:04:01.439 --> 00:04:03.439 Now, Hugley is one of the big four. 00:04:03.520 --> 00:04:04.960 He's an original king of comedy. 00:04:05.120 --> 00:04:12.400 He was briefly a television personality, and he's one of those celebrities that really gave us the scare when he collapsed in the like the early COVID days. 00:04:12.639 --> 00:04:19.519 His performance is probably the best in this movie, which is weird because he doesn't have the same filmography as the rest of the brothers. 00:04:19.759 --> 00:04:29.759 So, because I feel it's going to come up, I thought this movie was the best man directed by Malcolm Lee, Spike Lee's cousin, which also starred Morris Chestnut and an ensemble black cast. 00:04:29.920 --> 00:04:35.680 That movie came out one year prior to the brothers, and at this time the state of black cinema is on the rise. 00:04:35.920 --> 00:04:41.199 The late 80s and early 90s saw directors of color making films with black casts for black audiences. 00:04:41.360 --> 00:04:45.600 A big part of Screen Gems as a model was to find the audiences that are underserved. 00:04:45.759 --> 00:04:50.079 The black audience is large enough and it has the potential to cross over culturally. 00:04:50.319 --> 00:04:53.040 It's one of the reasons I thought Screen Gems would be worth covering. 00:04:53.199 --> 00:04:55.680 This movie was not marketed to an eight-year-old me. 00:04:55.839 --> 00:04:58.000 It's a pretty big blind spot for me, actually. 00:04:58.160 --> 00:05:06.720 I'm from the Southwest, we have a very small black population, and strangely, through music and through camera work, I've been spoiled with black friends and acquaintances. 00:05:06.879 --> 00:05:10.720 And I'll be the first person to admit I'm guilty of culturally appropriating. 00:05:10.879 --> 00:05:16.560 I started a reggae band in high school, I produced beats, and I charge people to record on the mic I'm currently speaking into. 00:05:16.720 --> 00:05:23.279 The only pop culture I've ever been drawn to and consistently sold is black culture, or white dudes trying to emulate black culture. 00:05:23.439 --> 00:05:27.040 Even at this time, it's 2001, who's the biggest movie star? 00:05:27.279 --> 00:05:28.079 Will Smith. 00:05:28.240 --> 00:05:30.720 Who's the funniest guy on Nickelodeon? 00:05:30.800 --> 00:05:31.680 That's that's a trick question. 00:05:31.759 --> 00:05:33.040 It's Keenan and Kell. 00:05:33.199 --> 00:05:34.720 And then who's your favorite superhero? 00:05:34.879 --> 00:05:40.399 Well, that's not fair either, because if you make me pick between my love of blade and spawn, you're gonna have a bigger fight. 00:05:40.560 --> 00:05:44.319 Now, this is five years before Tyler Perry creates his entertainment pipeline. 00:05:44.480 --> 00:05:50.079 At this time, he's staging plays, but there is a ton of directing talent that has found mainstream success in the years before. 00:05:50.160 --> 00:05:54.399 I'm thinking big names like Spike Lee, Antoine Fuqua, John Singleton, F. 00:05:54.639 --> 00:05:56.399 Gary Gray, the Hughes brothers. 00:05:56.639 --> 00:06:06.879 In trying to avoid the mistakes in portrayal and sensitivity, the choice to make these films for black people rebrands the industry from black exploitation or white saviorism that was prevalent. 00:06:07.120 --> 00:06:09.279 This movie has a really decent premise. 00:06:09.519 --> 00:06:15.360 Most romantic comedies are a gang of ladies negotiating their love lives, like let's switch it up and make them fellas. 00:06:15.600 --> 00:06:21.199 I'm a huge sucker for romantic comedy, but it must be a comedy, and in this case, it just doesn't deliver. 00:06:21.839 --> 00:06:24.720 This is a very PG-13 depiction of sex. 00:06:24.879 --> 00:06:30.000 Half the communication between partners is pre- or post-coital, and I won't raggot on that either. 00:06:30.079 --> 00:06:36.480 I want to say we're at a point in cinema where there is no sex at all, so I'm fine with a PG-13 depiction of it. 00:06:36.639 --> 00:06:39.759 Now the reason the movies are because some bad language. 00:06:40.079 --> 00:06:47.680 I'm a little bit surprised because while the film doesn't rest on African American stereotypes, it certainly does make the same tired observations about gender. 00:06:48.000 --> 00:06:53.439 Your main characters are so wealthy and professionally successful that the only drama in their lives is their love life. 00:06:53.600 --> 00:06:55.199 That's very romantic comedy. 00:06:55.360 --> 00:06:57.199 But guys like Bill Bellamy and D.L. 00:06:57.279 --> 00:07:01.439 Hughley are not given likable characters, or chances to improvise for that matter. 00:07:01.600 --> 00:07:06.959 And I'm a big fan of their stand-up, but it did not age like Morris Chestnut, and that's for sure. 00:07:07.199 --> 00:07:12.800 Do you remember in the black and white episode when we talked about Mike Tyson being locked up for rape? 00:07:13.199 --> 00:07:14.000 Well, listen to this. 00:07:15.360 --> 00:07:18.160 I gotta ask the fellas, I need the fellas to help me out, right? 00:07:18.240 --> 00:07:19.439 This is what I need to do. 00:07:19.600 --> 00:07:22.000 This Mike Tyson case thing is throwing me off. 00:07:22.079 --> 00:07:23.680 And I need to know if the fellas will help me. 00:07:23.759 --> 00:07:26.319 If you want to help me through this case, I want to hear all y'all bar. 00:07:26.639 --> 00:07:27.680 Help me, fellas. 00:07:28.959 --> 00:07:31.040 Right, let's analyze the case. 00:07:31.360 --> 00:07:35.279 Mike Tyson calls the honey from the hotel room at two o'clock in the morning. 00:07:35.839 --> 00:07:37.519 Is that or is that not a booty call? 00:07:37.600 --> 00:07:38.319 Can you help me? 00:07:44.800 --> 00:07:47.199 Now women, whipping no booty calls. 00:07:49.600 --> 00:07:50.800 They're usually late. 00:07:51.759 --> 00:07:53.920 Ladies know when it's the command and be lady like. 00:08:04.240 --> 00:08:07.199 And what what do honeys usually do,
fellas, when they don't want to give you the boot? 00:08:07.279 --> 00:08:09.600 What they do always bring that ugly girlfriend to poop. 00:08:16.399 --> 00:08:16.800 Hello. 00:08:17.040 --> 00:08:18.160 Hey, nice Mike. 00:08:18.240 --> 00:08:19.120 How you doing? 00:08:20.560 --> 00:08:22.000 Yeah, I saw you earlier today. 00:08:22.079 --> 00:08:23.439 I swear you poof, I swear. 00:08:24.160 --> 00:08:26.079 What if you come to my hotel room, place grab? 00:08:26.240 --> 00:08:27.519 I swear we just place grab. 00:08:28.560 --> 00:08:29.839 Give me a break. 00:08:30.079 --> 00:08:32.799 Every brother idiot I made a booty colour. 00:08:33.759 --> 00:08:37.759 Everybody calls Chris Brown a monster, and I must admit his father Rounder was a horrible act. 00:08:37.840 --> 00:08:40.480 I don't think you call a night-year boy what you was at the time, a monster. 00:08:40.639 --> 00:08:42.159 Night year old are very mature. 00:08:42.240 --> 00:08:44.960 They strike when they just speak is a skill they learn when they get much older. 00:08:45.120 --> 00:08:47.519 People say, Well, you have two daughters, you never want them assaulted. 00:08:47.759 --> 00:08:52.000 That's true, but I have a young son, a woman his whole life to be judged and shitty did when he was 19. 00:08:52.080 --> 00:08:53.600 We can be more pragmatic than that. 00:08:53.919 --> 00:09:00.240 Like when he gets older, he'll know what every grown person in here knows. 00:09:00.320 --> 00:09:02.399 That no man should ever physically assault a woman. 00:09:02.480 --> 00:09:03.840 We all understand that. 00:09:08.960 --> 00:09:10.720 Some woman gotta learn when it shut the fuck up. 00:09:10.799 --> 00:09:11.840 That's all the fuck up there. 00:09:14.159 --> 00:09:16.320 I have never seen a quiet woman get choked. 00:09:16.399 --> 00:09:17.200 That's all the fuck up. 00:09:20.879 --> 00:09:22.159 What did we learn from that? 00:09:25.440 --> 00:09:27.679 They gotta quiet people breathing, still a sickle. 00:09:30.320 --> 00:09:34.480 It's not running that's not really dumb, but I'm not still women to put myself into it. 00:09:36.159 --> 00:09:36.799 Motherfucker. 00:09:55.120 --> 00:09:59.120 This movie is written and directed by Gary Hardwick, who is an insanely talented man. 00:09:59.360 --> 00:10:02.080 Bellamy's character is a lawyer because Hardwick is a lawyer. 00:10:02.240 --> 00:10:08.720 Hardwick is a screenwriter, director, successful mystery novelist, former stand-up comedian, a true Renaissance man. 00:10:08.799 --> 00:10:13.440 And he, as he explains it, the brothers are all him at different stages and parts of his life. 00:10:14.399 --> 00:10:26.240 The four guys in the movie really are supposed to represent four different sides of my own personality, and each of them has a little bit of me uh in the uh Bill of the Lord. 00:10:26.879 --> 00:10:29.919 I am also a lawyer, Bill is poor, was poor. 00:10:34.000 --> 00:10:36.480 So I said, like myself. 00:10:37.039 --> 00:10:38.080 Did I reiterate? 00:10:38.240 --> 00:10:41.200 This movie was extremely successful, made a ton of money. 00:10:41.360 --> 00:10:42.799 I can't take that from you. 00:10:42.960 --> 00:10:44.639 But the script for the movie is pretty bad. 00:10:44.879 --> 00:10:52.320 Characters speak like they're on stage with loud proclamations, and arguably the best plot line is about a married man wanting oral sex. 00:10:52.480 --> 00:10:58.559 Also, with the characters being in different stages, they range from the wise janitor to an American pie high schooler. 00:10:58.799 --> 00:11:04.799 The big problem with this movie is giving the titular brothers all plot lines means that some people have more time than others. 00:11:05.039 --> 00:11:12.320 This film is decidedly about Morris Chestnut, and that means Shamar Moore is a big plot tool who has forgotten most of the movie. 00:11:12.480 --> 00:11:14.879 And he's the antithesis to Chestnut. 00:11:15.039 --> 00:11:20.799 Chestnut can't grasp monogamy as the literal personification of Saturday Night Live's Doctor Love? 00:11:21.440 --> 00:11:22.000 Swear to God? 00:11:22.159 --> 00:11:22.799 Uh yeah. 00:11:23.120 --> 00:11:24.320 Oh, damn. 00:11:24.480 --> 00:11:26.240 So you you you up in it, huh? 00:11:26.320 --> 00:11:27.039 Uh yeah, man. 00:11:27.279 --> 00:11:29.440 That's dope, dope, dope, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:11:29.759 --> 00:11:31.360 Alright, um, how many partners? 00:11:31.519 --> 00:11:32.480 Uh just the one. 00:11:32.720 --> 00:11:33.519 One partner? 00:11:34.080 --> 00:11:35.519 Eight times a week. 00:11:35.840 --> 00:11:36.320 Whoa. 00:11:36.559 --> 00:11:37.600 Do you love her? 00:11:37.840 --> 00:11:38.240 What? 00:11:38.480 --> 00:11:41.039 The girl, man, your girl, do you love her? 00:11:41.200 --> 00:11:42.159 No, no, no. 00:11:42.320 --> 00:11:43.440 Wait, you don't love her? 00:11:43.679 --> 00:11:44.720 Is this a medical question? 00:11:44.879 --> 00:11:45.360 You know what? 00:11:45.440 --> 00:11:46.080 Just never mind. 00:11:46.159 --> 00:11:47.919 Is it uh protected or unprotected? 00:11:48.159 --> 00:11:49.120 Unprotected. 00:11:49.440 --> 00:11:49.759 No. 00:11:50.159 --> 00:11:55.679 Whoa! Hey, look, can we just talk about why it burns when I pee? 00:11:55.840 --> 00:11:57.039 Because pee's hot, duh. 00:11:58.320 --> 00:12:02.080 And Moore is a man who's introduced fighting his coworkers off his penis. 00:12:02.159 --> 00:12:08.639 And but he has decided to marry a recent girlfriend played by Susan Dalian, who mainly does voice acting after this. 00:12:08.960 --> 00:12:18.879 Bellamy is introduced as a lawyer who has been a bit unprofessional with the judge presiding over cases he's representing, and you don't learn Hughley is unsatisfied for a bit. 00:12:19.039 --> 00:12:22.720 He wishes for his wife to go down on him, and I'm gonna make a quick rant. 00:12:23.039 --> 00:12:25.039 Today, this isn't a problem for two reasons. 00:12:25.279 --> 00:12:26.799 One, people aren't
fucking. 00:12:26.960 --> 00:12:28.639 Not in movies, not in real life. 00:12:28.960 --> 00:12:30.080 Just it's not a thing. 00:12:30.240 --> 00:12:33.919 And two, if we do have sex, there are no longer any taboos. 00:12:34.159 --> 00:12:41.120 Also, because of how things have changed, if your wife doesn't want to have sex with you, that is a you problem. 00:12:41.600 --> 00:12:45.360 And you should do something to change your situation, not her. 00:12:46.000 --> 00:12:49.039 At a party, not a cookout, you meet Chestnut's family. 00:12:49.200 --> 00:12:55.600 His sister is Tatiana Ali from Fresh Prince, and his dad is Clipton Powell, who is on a character actor role in the 90s. 00:12:55.679 --> 00:13:00.080 He's in Menace to Society, Dead Presidents, Rush Hour, and the Friday sequels. 00:13:00.320 --> 00:13:06.240 Chestnut has brought Gabrielle Union, and the ladies seem smitten with her, and it's clear her and the father have fooled around. 00:13:06.320 --> 00:13:13.200 It's a believable age gap, and Powell is a wealthy man full of vitality, so this is going to be Chestnut's crisis. 00:13:13.440 --> 00:13:15.200 Crossing swords with his dad. 00:13:15.440 --> 00:13:24.320 The fellas all play basketball, as I'm certain just an excuse to get Shamar and Morris shirtless, but also it's a way to speak their minds in a way that men do not do. 00:13:24.559 --> 00:13:34.320 The stereotype of men do not seek help or therapy or a relationship is thrown on its ass, but when you do that, it breaks reality and suspension of disbelief is now gone. 00:13:34.480 --> 00:13:47.440 They go out a couple times, Bellamy starts uh messing around with the super young Julie Bence, and I get it, I should have broken down the sisters as well, but I haven't begun to go over the women because they're so non-central to the plot. 00:13:47.759 --> 00:13:51.440 And in a silly way, I don't know how to say this, they are all good women. 00:13:51.600 --> 00:13:58.799 But the disadvantage of gender swapping the traditional roles in a romantic comedy means that women feel one-dimensional like men usually do. 00:13:59.039 --> 00:14:05.279 And if the guys could muster any sympathy for the audience, we'd be rooting for them to work out all their shit, but we don't. 00:14:05.519 --> 00:14:07.679 And that's because this movie has no stakes. 00:14:07.759 --> 00:14:10.080 Not really until the bridezilla pulls a gun. 00:14:10.240 --> 00:14:11.840 They have very cushy jobs. 00:14:11.919 --> 00:14:16.080 When Hugley and Tamala Jones divorce one another, he's still living comfortably. 00:14:16.240 --> 00:14:18.080 Oh, let's talk about Tamala Jones. 00:14:18.240 --> 00:14:22.559 In two years, she's gonna be opposite Chris Rock in the pivotal head of state. 00:14:22.720 --> 00:14:26.000 And they have so much chemistry and are trying to make each other laugh. 00:14:26.159 --> 00:14:31.919 In this movie, the witty banner between her and Hugley is when they're bickering with one another. 00:14:32.080 --> 00:14:34.639 It's all arguments, so it's not really enjoyable. 00:14:35.120 --> 00:14:41.679 So, um, then there's the bachelor party scene, and it's a weird thing where all their behavior is kind of chauvinist. 00:14:41.759 --> 00:14:47.279 It's interesting, in Chestnut's dad's house, surrounded by strippers, Bellamy is actually the moral one. 00:14:47.440 --> 00:14:52.799 And actually the idea of a bachelor party has changed so much that even in the hangover, you don't see the partying. 00:14:53.279 --> 00:14:53.759 You know what? 00:14:53.919 --> 00:14:57.279 If your fiance wants a bachelor party, maybe you should rethink this guy. 00:14:57.519 --> 00:15:06.080 And it's at that point, Morris Chestnut is flipping through his dad's Rolodex and stuff, and then hears a message left by Union explaining her plans to admit their relationship. 00:15:06.320 --> 00:15:09.919 And here's the thing he can't be mad at her or his dad for this. 00:15:10.159 --> 00:15:14.960 He's the one against a monogamous relationship, and her plan was to break it to him intentionally. 00:15:15.200 --> 00:15:18.320 If this is a deal breaker, then he wasn't in love with her in the first place. 00:15:18.559 --> 00:15:21.759 Also, Chestnut's mom gives all the sisters the worst advice. 00:15:21.919 --> 00:15:22.879 It's so reductive. 00:15:23.120 --> 00:15:28.480 But the test is if a man gives you the last bite of any food, he really loves you. 00:15:28.720 --> 00:15:32.240 Now, I mentioned these guys are built like Grecian gods and hooping all day. 00:15:32.399 --> 00:15:32.720 You know what? 00:15:32.799 --> 00:15:34.320 They're hungry, so they all fail. 00:15:34.639 --> 00:15:44.000 Bellamy and his white girl are involved in an altercation with the previously mentioned judge, and Benz breaks up with him after insisting that white and black women dislike fake men. 00:15:44.559 --> 00:15:51.519 Now, Shamara gets cold feet about the wedding, and when him and Chestnut check in on Bellamy, his ex-fiance begins shooting up the hood. 00:15:51.759 --> 00:15:57.120 Because a woman with a gun and wedding dress has been haunting Chestnut, he goes outside and she smokes him. 00:15:57.279 --> 00:15:58.879 I'm just kidding, Ricky's fine. 00:15:59.120 --> 00:16:02.399 He talks her down, and um, then we're suddenly at a wedding. 00:16:02.639 --> 00:16:06.080 And the brothers are looking sharp, and it's a bait and switch. 00:16:06.159 --> 00:16:08.320 It's Chestnut's parents getting back together. 00:16:08.480 --> 00:16:11.120 And Union's there, and it's clear they can try again. 00:16:11.519 --> 00:16:13.679 God, I wish this movie had some other jokes in it, though. 00:16:14.960 --> 00:16:19.919 Okay, so if you're making a realistic thing, one of them should be a real fuck up. 00:16:20.399 --> 00:16:22.000 Yeah, where's your fuck up friend? 00:16:22.080 --> 00:16:27.679 I understand the economy was better back then, but how of all four guys not to have one severe screw-up?
00:16:28.000 --> 00:16:30.639 A functional alcoholic, a guy with a zipper problem. 00:16:30.799 --> 00:16:37.279 Hey, both guys who have the opportunities to have sex with people other than their partners deny the temptation in this movie. 00:16:37.519 --> 00:16:39.600 Maybe a guy who did some insider trading? 00:16:39.759 --> 00:16:41.039 It can be a white-collar crime. 00:16:41.200 --> 00:16:43.840 Just give me one guy who makes the other guys look good. 00:16:44.320 --> 00:16:51.279 And, I don't know, uh, back to that note, the crispy button-up shirts in this movie all tells me that the irony budget must have been very high. 00:16:51.600 --> 00:16:54.320 I've had a lot more time to gush over men on this podcast. 00:16:54.480 --> 00:17:03.679 I mean, like, the last episode had no women, and there are some specimens up in here, but Gabrielle Union is the most beautiful woman, perhaps, ever. 00:17:03.840 --> 00:17:07.759 Her introduction holding a film SLR camera is the best part of this movie. 00:17:07.920 --> 00:17:10.480 Maybe second to the bloopers previously stated. 00:17:10.640 --> 00:17:20.480 And pairing her with Chestnut is a match made in heaven, and with the amount of basketball in this movie, it's her speed because she primarily dates athletes and ultimately marries Dwayne Wade. 00:17:21.200 --> 00:17:27.039 We never really talk about this, but Morris Chestnut is kind of clairvoyant or a psychic in this movie. 00:17:27.200 --> 00:17:33.039 He's dreaming of being shot by a black woman in the wedding dress all moving, and at the end, there's a shootout with a crazy chicken of veil. 00:17:33.200 --> 00:17:35.680 Yet he doesn't embrace this obvious superpower. 00:17:35.839 --> 00:17:40.799 But if you mention this recurring dream to his therapist, he might be making more progress on his mental health journey. 00:17:40.960 --> 00:17:46.559 I'm gonna hang on to this film because it cost me a whopping 75 cents, but it's not getting a good rating. 00:17:46.799 --> 00:17:53.680 This thing is a 6 out of 10, and um, it was a 5 out of 10, but I gave it an extra point because of Morris Chestnut, which might be a new rule. 00:17:53.839 --> 00:17:56.319 Okay, that's gonna do it for Screen Generation this week. 00:17:56.400 --> 00:18:00.000 It's a podcast about the films released by Sony under the label Screen Gems. 00:18:00.079 --> 00:18:02.000 Listen next week for the Forsaken. 00:18:02.240 --> 00:18:02.960 Play the trailer. 00:18:21.200 --> 00:18:22.079 What's your deal, man? 00:18:22.160 --> 00:18:22.720 What do you do? 00:18:22.880 --> 00:18:23.839 As little as possible. 00:18:24.000 --> 00:18:25.359 Hey, what about the future? 00:18:25.599 --> 00:18:27.440 I could be dead tomorrow. 00:18:31.039 --> 00:18:32.000 Take it easy. 00:18:32.160 --> 00:18:33.440 You're scaring her. 00:18:35.359 --> 00:18:35.839 Get the car. 00:18:36.160 --> 00:18:37.200 Look, man, I can't begin inside. 00:18:37.440 --> 00:18:42.640 Get the car, Sean! I need your help. 00:18:42.720 --> 00:18:43.440 What's happening to her? 00:18:43.599 --> 00:18:44.160 She's infected. 00:18:44.319 --> 00:18:45.039 Infected how? 00:18:46.160 --> 00:18:48.319 How much do you know about vampires? 00:18:48.880 --> 00:18:49.839 Must affect me. 00:18:52.160 --> 00:18:54.319 Hey, this is all about survival of the fittest. 00:18:54.559 --> 00:18:56.480 You don't learn that, then you are gonna die. 00:18:57.599 --> 00:18:58.559 Or worse. 00:19:08.160 --> 00:19:13.920 Can you have daddy boys? 00:19:14.319 --> 00:19:15.519 We kill the source of origin. 00:19:16.079 --> 00:19:17.279 We kill the spring. 00:19:17.839 --> 00:19:24.240 We got this spring. 00:19:24.480 --> 00:19:26.400 The night has an appetite. 00:19:26.559 --> 00:19:27.839 Let's see what you got. 00:19:48.240 --> 00:19:49.440 What do you say?
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