Arabian Nights (1974)
The principal focus of this podcast episode revolves around a critical analysis of the film "Arabian Nights," directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Throughout the discourse, we elucidate our profound discontent and bewilderment regarding the film’s erratic narrative structure, which ostensibly intertwines a plethora of disjointed stories with excessive and gratuitous sexual content. We contend that the film's attempt to juxtapose themes of love, destiny, and morality falters under the weight of its overtly explicit scenes, which detract from any potential depth or coherence. Our conversation delves into the implications of such portrayals, as well as the ethical considerations surrounding the casting choices that evoke discomfort. Ultimately, we arrive at a consensus that the film serves more as a testament to the director's proclivities than a meaningful cinematic experience, leaving us to ponder the ramifications of its legacy in the realm of film history.
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I wouldn't even call it sex.
Speaker B:Sure.
Speaker B:Implied sex.
Speaker B:I don't know because it was like so weird.
Speaker B:It is very weird.
Speaker B:And like the way they like.
Speaker B:And this is like I was like, why are we always petting the penis?
Speaker B:Like because like that's it was.
Speaker A:I was like, I've had one for 32 years.
Speaker A:Never done it.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Welcome to the what's Already podcast where we fashion ourselves cinematic judge and jury.
Speaker B:My name is J.J. crowder.
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Speaker B:But yeah, we've entered a new month.
Speaker B:It's April.
Speaker B:Ironically enough, it's.
Speaker B:We're recording this.
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Speaker A:Yeah.
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Speaker B:Yeah, I sure, whatever.
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Speaker B:But, yeah, with that, let's jump into this month's kicker offer of the NC17, which is Arabian Nights.
Speaker B: ,: Speaker B:Now, that was in Italy, but that's what they have listed.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker B:This movie was written and directed by Pier Paulo Pasolini, who has got an interesting filmography.
Speaker B:It was.
Speaker B:It stars Netto Devoli, Franco Chi, Franco Merly, Tessa Boucher, Inez Pellegrini, Margaret Clementi, Luigiano Rochi, and Alberto Argentino.
Speaker B:Boy.
Speaker B:It's an Italian movie, and it's about.
Speaker B:It's about something.
Speaker B:In ancient Arabia, a beautiful slave girl chooses a youth to be her new master.
Speaker B:Then she's kidnapped, and they must search for each other.
Speaker B:Stories are told within stories.
Speaker B:Love, travel, and the whims of destiny.
Speaker B:God, that move makes this movie sound very interesting.
Speaker A:See, that's not a very good.
Speaker A:I mean, great synopsis to, you know, for a catch 22.
Speaker A:Not a good synopsis.
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker B:Reading that or somebody, I'd be like, oh, that sounds interesting.
Speaker B:And then I watch it and I go, what the.
Speaker B:That's not what you said.
Speaker B:That's.
Speaker B:This is not it.
Speaker B:And we'll talk about it.
Speaker B:But, yeah, Arabian Nights.
Speaker B:This one's your movie.
Speaker B:So besides winning, which I think was your main motivation, what.
Speaker B:What made you choose this?
Speaker B:Son of a.
Speaker A:So winning was the vast majority of it.
Speaker A:And then after that, it was googling NC17 movies.
Speaker A:Because I know, like, two.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:And I scrolled through and I was looking for one that was foreign film.
Speaker A:Never this movie before.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker A:And that's.
Speaker A:I'm proud of that.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:I wish I could continue to say that I hadn't seen it.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:But no longer can I.
Speaker A:But this is 100% I have been ruined by this little contest that we're doing.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:I am impulsive person and I do not plan ahead.
Speaker A:And past winning.
Speaker A:I do not think of the consequences of my own actions that come back and bite me.
Speaker A:We've seen this.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:January, February, March was a little okay.
Speaker A:And we're right back at it with April.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:So we're batting 75, 750 right now in terms of where can I drag up the worst in it?
Speaker A:And go ahead and say.
Speaker A:And the problem is that with this movie, it's actually pretty good if you take out everything that makes it NC17.
Speaker A:Like the Arabian Nights concept.
Speaker A:I love that kind of concept where you tell 45 different stories that are all a few minutes long and it really breaks up the movie.
Speaker A:Makes it easier to digest, especially in a connected model.
Speaker A:So there is actually, I think there is a, you know, movie called Arabian Nights that is much more family friendly to watch.
Speaker A:Same thing, right?
Speaker A:So this Arabian Nights concept is.
Speaker A:Is fascinating to me and I enjoy it.
Speaker A:This movie, it just, you know, I.
Speaker A:No, there's just a lot of no in there that.
Speaker A:It's like the director's just absolutely wet dream is what he decided to throw into this movie.
Speaker A:And let's see how we can make it weirder and weirder and weirder.
Speaker A:And you could kind of say there's a little Italian cinema in there, George's European cinema in general.
Speaker A:But this dude went ahead and just took it.
Speaker A:400.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:With the weird.
Speaker B:Boy, did he ever.
Speaker A:And so, I mean, about 35 seconds and it stopped being enjoyable that I won the pick and my movie got picked and it started to set in that, oh, I did it to myself again.
Speaker A:If it isn't the consequences of my own actions coming to, you know, reap their ugly head.
Speaker A:So, yeah, it was.
Speaker A:It was a slog.
Speaker A:We'll put it that way.
Speaker A:And like, you kind of mentioned pre recording.
Speaker A:There's no way to just put this on in the background and pretend that I listened to it.
Speaker B:Nope.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:So, yeah.
Speaker A:What did you think of this movie, jj?
Speaker B:I think it made me want to punch you in the face.
Speaker B:I.
Speaker B:Listen, I. I was like, so confused and I was trying to pay attention.
Speaker B:I get distracted.
Speaker B:It gets weird.
Speaker B:It gets more weird.
Speaker B:And then I'm like, what the am I watching?
Speaker B:And I think to your.
Speaker B:To your point, like, I don't mind movies that are like little vignettes.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:Like the little pieces.
Speaker B:But I also like there to be some connectivity to my stories.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker B:And I was so lost like, we get the opening story of.
Speaker B:I can't even remember his name now, but this main guy.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:And then he.
Speaker B:The.
Speaker B:The slave girl picks him.
Speaker B:And then all of a sudden there's like five other stories that I'm like, how does this relate to what.
Speaker B:And then we come back.
Speaker B:So I'm like the whole time going, what the am I watching right now?
Speaker B:Like, and all the.
Speaker B:The only thing that tied all of these together is just sex for the sake of sex.
Speaker A:I wouldn't even call it sex.
Speaker B:Sure.
Speaker B:Implied sex.
Speaker B:I. I don't know, because it was.
Speaker A:Like, this is so weird.
Speaker B:It is very weird.
Speaker B:And like, the way they, like.
Speaker B:And this is like, I was like, why are we always petting the penis?
Speaker B:Like, because, like, that's.
Speaker B:It was.
Speaker A:I was like, I've had one for 32 years.
Speaker A:Never done it.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Nobody else has ever done it.
Speaker B:Like, I was like, what is going on right now?
Speaker B:And there's so much penis.
Speaker B:Like, I thought we saw enough dick with pink flamingos.
Speaker B:But no, this one is like, I'm like, okay, there's a lot of dick here.
Speaker B:And anyway, I'll stop talking about the dick.
Speaker B:But it's just like, I just had no earthly idea what the point of this movie was besides just being a bunch of naked people and like, weird sexual stories that I was like.
Speaker B:And then a lot of murdering.
Speaker B:Like, a lot of unaliving people too.
Speaker B:Like, I was like, what is going on?
Speaker B:And.
Speaker B:And I guess it's all based on a book or like some short stories like A Thousand and One Arabian Nights or something like that.
Speaker A:Loosely based.
Speaker B:Sure, sure, sure, sure.
Speaker A:Because I read parts of that.
Speaker A:It's not as bad as this, but it's.
Speaker A:It does have that kind of, you know, jump back and forth type of a thing.
Speaker A:Tell a different story.
Speaker A:And the problem that gets me, right, Because I. I'm.
Speaker A:I'd like to think of myself as a semi logical person.
Speaker B:Sure.
Speaker A:The problem is that I get hung up on things.
Speaker A:And we've talked about this before.
Speaker A:Like, I get hung up on very specific minute details that completely change my viewing experience.
Speaker B:Fair.
Speaker A:When I got up on this, it was like, wait, so the slave gets to choose who.
Speaker A:Her.
Speaker A:Who buys her or who is.
Speaker A:I was sitting there going, wait, you don't understand what the purpose.
Speaker A:What slavery?
Speaker A:Like, Like, I'm pretty sure if you're a slave, you don't just get to say no.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:To someone for sure.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker A:So I was sitting there trying to dissect that for way too long in a Movie that is only two hours long but feels like 12.
Speaker A:So I was, I was sitting there going like, wait, wait, what, what, why?
Speaker A:And so there, there was just like you said, there was so much going on that I could not wrap my head around because I was stuck on.
Speaker A:That's not how slavery works.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:And then, then like you said, there was like, oh, penis there.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Like why?
Speaker A:And then.
Speaker A:But I think, I think it could have been good.
Speaker A:I think the problem is someone said, you know what, let's just add a bunch of sex to it.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:I don't, I don't agree with you.
Speaker B:I don't think this movie could have been good.
Speaker B:I think this movie was just terrible.
Speaker B:And I think the idea behind it was terrible.
Speaker B:I think the execution was terrible.
Speaker B:I laugh because there's some apparently uncut version that's like 133 minutes long and instead of NC17 it's actually rated X.
Speaker B:And I was just like, why would anybody watch that?
Speaker B: ke, I feel like this was like: Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Away from your parent.
Speaker B:You know what I mean?
Speaker B:Like, I just don't.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:It's so bad.
Speaker B:Like it just doesn't make any sense and it's terribly acted and it's like, it's just weird.
Speaker A:You go to the time factor.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:1974.
Speaker B:Sure.
Speaker A:Like this is before ratings really mattered.
Speaker B:Yeah, of course, of course.
Speaker A:So yeah, I mean, you know, it's, it's pre PG 13.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:And so there, there's plenty of kind of like loose standards when it comes to movies.
Speaker B:Sure.
Speaker A:And this movie decided because I think I, I'm not someone who has a problem with nudity in movies.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Provided it serves a purpose in the storytelling.
Speaker A:One or two.
Speaker A:You can make it make sense.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:This did neither of those things.
Speaker A:And it just decided like, hey, like you said, this is, this is a self gratification type of a thing.
Speaker A:And we're just going to act out all my fantasies that I had as a director.
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:Little puppets dance and you know, make it, make it real.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Because there's just so much where it's like.
Speaker A:So I, I was like, I want to punch myself in the face at one point.
Speaker A:Like I.
Speaker A:And while I'm watching I'm telling myself winning's not worth it.
Speaker A:But I know next month I'm gonna do the exact same thing.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:The same thing after that.
Speaker A:I'm not going to learn from my mistakes for sure.
Speaker A:But it was, it was just all sorts of bad.
Speaker A:Like, there's very little that I can say to that.
Speaker A:I think, oh, this would have made it better.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Aside from taking all the sex out.
Speaker A:Because I think, I still think there's something there that you could actually turn into a decent movie with the storytelling, the, you know, source material that you do have.
Speaker A:But that's before you take into account, like you mentioned as well, the bad acting.
Speaker A:Like, nothing's gonna save you from bad acting.
Speaker A:And this had some horrific acting.
Speaker B:Oh.
Speaker A:In it.
Speaker A:Well, you can't even again, blame, like, Italian cinema.
Speaker A:It's bad by Italian cinema standards.
Speaker B:Yeah, it's terrible.
Speaker B:And I don't even, like, like, I'm with you.
Speaker B:Like, I have no problem with nudity or sex and movies like, which we'll learn in different movies later this month.
Speaker B:But it's, it's one of those things where it wasn't even entertaining to watch.
Speaker B:Like, the, the simulated activity was so bad that I was like, it took me out of the movie.
Speaker B:Like, and if you, like that's my thing too.
Speaker B:Like, if you're going to make a movie that reliant on sex, I need to believe that sex is happening.
Speaker B:Not like half ass thy jobs.
Speaker B:You know what I mean?
Speaker B:Like, it was like I, I just, I couldn't.
Speaker B:And I know that sounds just so terrible, but it just, I was like, what the is going on right now?
Speaker B:Like, that's not even.
Speaker A:Like, it feels weird is what it is because it puts you in a position where you feel really, really creepy.
Speaker A:Like, you get very uncomfortable watching it.
Speaker B:Oh, and not to mention the quote unquote, I'm air quoting here.
Speaker B:For those listening, the ages of some of these people that they spit out.
Speaker B:I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker B:But again, it goes back to one.
Speaker A: Like: Speaker B:In Italy, yeah.
Speaker B: Like, because even in: Speaker B:But in Italy, Europe, Italy, apparently you could.
Speaker B:But it was just like that.
Speaker B:And that's like two minutes into the movie, they're like, oh, everybody's 15.
Speaker B:I'm like, no, no, no, no.
Speaker B:And obviously I know the actors and actresses are not.
Speaker B:But I was just like, ah, see, this just makes this movie even more uncomfortable.
Speaker B:And we're 10 minutes in and I was already uncomfortable, so now I'm justly uncomfortable.
Speaker B:And then you come to find out too, like, if you do any research about the movie, that while there wasn't, thank God, there wasn't any Nudity of these folks.
Speaker B:There were actual very young people in this movie, like, as actors.
Speaker B:In fact, like, the.
Speaker B:I think it was the director's niece or daughter when she was in it, when she was, like, 13.
Speaker B:She's in this movie as, like, sign off on that.
Speaker B:Exactly.
Speaker B:She was so, like, the slave girl when she becomes the king or whatever.
Speaker B:Her.
Speaker B:Their wife.
Speaker B:That was the.
Speaker B:Whatever nieces.
Speaker B:Like the.
Speaker B:The director's niece or something.
Speaker B:And I was like, oh, no.
Speaker B:And then, of course, they swapped her for, like, the whole body double sex scene from that situation.
Speaker B:But I was just like this.
Speaker B:Just.
Speaker B:I shouldn't have looked this up because.
Speaker A:Now I'm even more on.
Speaker A:You shouldn't have told me.
Speaker A:Yeah, I know.
Speaker B:Well, I had to share in the discomfort, my friend.
Speaker B:You caused this problem.
Speaker B:So I must provide the same levels of discomfort, even if it's retroactively, that you caused to me.
Speaker B:Because I was like.
Speaker B:Yeah, it was like this whole thing that was, like, hanging over my head the whole time.
Speaker B:I'm like, this just feels sleazy.
Speaker B:Like, it just doesn't feel.
Speaker A:That's a good way to put it.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:No enjoyment or.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Of any sort that you experience while watching a movie.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:Like, here's a good example.
Speaker A:Oceana and I went to go see the new Mario movie that came out.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:Enjoyable.
Speaker A:Not as good as the first one, but enjoyable.
Speaker A:I had fun watching it.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Then I watched this, and it is.
Speaker A:It is night and day.
Speaker A:It's covering your eyes, not out of, like, terror, which is normally what I do.
Speaker A:It's.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Oh, boy.
Speaker A:What did I do?
Speaker A:What did I do?
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:I was so uncomfortable for two hours, dude.
Speaker B:Like, I was like, oh, no.
Speaker A:The.
Speaker B:Casey would watch.
Speaker B:You are.
Speaker B:Bryce.
Speaker B:What the are you watching?
Speaker B:With some of the sounds coming out of this, I was like.
Speaker B:It was like, nothing good.
Speaker B:Nothing good.
Speaker B:I.
Speaker B:You don't want any part of this, dude.
Speaker A:I have to wonder at some of the movies we watch this year why Casey still lets you podcast with me.
Speaker B:It was because I hide in my office cave and watch them in there.
Speaker B:Like, if I tried to watch half the we watched this year on the main tv, I'd get murdered in my sleep.
Speaker B:Dude.
Speaker B:Like, are you me?
Speaker B:I was like, what the is happening?
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:And she, like, she was doing some stuff and walked by and was like, she stopped.
Speaker B:I hear, stop walking and listen for a minute.
Speaker B:She comes back, what the are you watching?
Speaker B:I'm like, no, just walk away.
Speaker B:Just walk away.
Speaker A:You don't wanna know.
Speaker B:You want no part of this.
Speaker B:Right now, like, this is the most that it was arguably the most uncomfortable.
Speaker B:I've been watching a movie in my life.
Speaker B:Like, yeah, I was like, oh no, it's terrible, terrible.
Speaker A:It was so bad.
Speaker A:I don't have anything else because it was so bad.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:That it's really hard to talk about any kind of story or plot other than there's 17 of them.
Speaker B:Sorry, my camera.
Speaker A:Oh, you know, you're good.
Speaker A:That all lasts for five minutes.
Speaker A:Yeah, hard to keep track of that.
Speaker A:And even the overarching story with the whole kidnapping and everything, like, there's nothing really to talk about with this.
Speaker A:It is 100% just.
Speaker A:I think you hit the nail on the head, the self gratification of I'm gonna make a movie.
Speaker B:Yeah, well, and it's not his first time.
Speaker B:So I did again, I didn't like deep dive this whole thing, but you know me, I can't help myself.
Speaker B:So leading up to this film, he did like one called the Canterbury Tales that's literally based on the Canterbury Tales,.
Speaker A:Except just a bunch of sex, but sexualized.
Speaker A:So he's got an M.O.
Speaker A:He takes all.
Speaker A:So does he have one titled the Odyssey?
Speaker B:Fuck, that would be awesome.
Speaker B:But no.
Speaker A:Based on the Odyssey, just throwing a bunch more sex.
Speaker B:That would be hilarious.
Speaker B:But no, but he has the, the Cameron.
Speaker B:And then he's got like.
Speaker B:There was another one that I was like, oh no, Oedipus Rex.
Speaker A:Okay, so yeah, he definitely has an mo.
Speaker B:Yes, he, he, he does.
Speaker B:And a lot of them he'll write and then other people will like do other things with like, he'll, they'll direct it.
Speaker B:But yeah, he's.
Speaker B:He has a big time M.O.
Speaker B:And the guy's still making movies.
Speaker B: He made a movie in: Speaker B:We made one.
Speaker B:I don't know.
Speaker B:And it doesn't look like they're any different.
Speaker B:So like, apparently this guy, like Italy loves him.
Speaker B:So he's got one called Body Tales.
Speaker B:You can't make this up, dude.
Speaker A:Like Body Tails Italy.
Speaker A:Stop.
Speaker B:For real, for real.
Speaker B:Like, it's okay.
Speaker B:Listen to the.
Speaker B:I swear he comes on and writes his own IMDb synopses.
Speaker B:Because listen to this one.
Speaker B:This is Body Tales, right?
Speaker B: Two condemned murderers in: Speaker B:Stories involve self mutilation, mutilating nobles, a vengeful shepherd's wife, a priest, punishment, and a complex love triangle.
Speaker B:There's something wrong with this.
Speaker A:Yeah, that's all I'm saying.
Speaker A:That one at least kind of leads you to.
Speaker A:There's Something else going on.
Speaker B:Sure.
Speaker A:But.
Speaker A:And you know what?
Speaker B:You're getting into this one.
Speaker B:Like, this one, I'm like, what the Is happening?
Speaker B:But this.
Speaker B:Yeah, there's something wrong with this dude.
Speaker B:There's something wrong with Italy for making this guy able to make films over and over and over and over because.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Jesus Christ.
Speaker B:Like, what the.
Speaker B:What the.
Speaker B:I don't have anything else either, so we might as well go ahead and rate this.
Speaker A:Let's.
Speaker A:My movie.
Speaker A:I get to go first.
Speaker B:You're up, my friend.
Speaker A:Goose egg.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:I will not be watching this movie again, ever.
Speaker A:I will do my best to forget I ever watched this movie, but I'll say it again, even though I know you don't care.
Speaker A:I did it for the win.
Speaker A:That's all I did it for.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:But, yeah, zero for me.
Speaker A:Terrible movie.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:You know, it's funny, Jean, you win this month.
Speaker B:We tied.
Speaker B:God damn it.
Speaker B:So it was all for.
Speaker B:Not my friend.
Speaker B:It was all for.
Speaker B:I appreciate the attempt.
Speaker B:And at the end of the day, we all lost this month.
Speaker B:Yeah, that's because of this movie right here.
Speaker B:Yeah, look, this movie's terrible.
Speaker B:It's a zero.
Speaker B:Like, I don't give zeros willy nilly, but this one's awful.
Speaker B:It might.
Speaker B:I don't know.
Speaker B:The.
Speaker B:What was the zero standard that came out?
Speaker B:I can't even remember.
Speaker B:I've erased.
Speaker A:Oh, it was Swiss Army Man.
Speaker A:Oh, God.
Speaker B:Yeah, that movie was.
Speaker B:Was bottom of the barrel.
Speaker B:This one, I think, has overtaken, and I didn't think anything would ever overtake this army man.
Speaker B:But you have struck again, my friend, because I literally.
Speaker B:The only reason I didn't turn this thing off five minutes into it was because we're gonna record a podcast.
Speaker B:And I still almost did it and said I refused after five minutes to watch it and all over it without knowing anything about it because I didn't need to watch anymore to be able to all over it.
Speaker A:See, now, that's the problem is you say things like, you made me hit a new low and I get a dopamine.
Speaker B:I know.
Speaker A:That's like, oh, I like some.
Speaker A:Challenge accepted, dude.
Speaker A:It's been a step stare.
Speaker A:There's been three times.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Progressively bottom of the barrel.
Speaker A:Well, you heard.
Speaker A:You heard it here first.
Speaker A:Anybody who's actually listening, we're gonna get JJ to go real rock bottom.
Speaker B:I mean, we.
Speaker B:There's been some bad ones across the board, and I set my own first standard because I picked for back when we were watching new movies.
Speaker B:She dies tomorrow.
Speaker B:That was the original it can't get any worse than this standard.
Speaker B:Somehow you topped that twice now, so.
Speaker B:And we won't even get started on Charles getting after it and topping it at least once.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker B:I thought nothing would ever be worse than she dies tomorrow.
Speaker B:But I was wrong.
Speaker B:Not to mention Moonfall.
Speaker B:So I mean, there's been some real stinkers that have come in.
Speaker B:And I went, how do I like we she Dies Tomorrow more than these, but this one's a turd.
Speaker B:I will never watch this movie again.
Speaker B:I don't think I'll ever even speak the name of this movie again.
Speaker B:If I can get away with it, it is the movie that shall not be named.
Speaker A:The problem is the way my mind associates things.
Speaker A:If I ever watch Aladdin and hear the song Arabian Nights, boom.
Speaker B:I'm gonna just randomly break out in the Arabian just to with you, golden dude.
Speaker B:Even the that's what's telling Alec.
Speaker B:When we were doing it, I was like, I don't even know how to pick.
Speaker B:I had to find literally a folded up version of a movie poster that someone took a picture of to use as our post on this because it's the only one that didn't have nudity in it.
Speaker B:I was like, how does movie posts show nipples?
Speaker B:How posters showing it or the other one that didn't have nudity.
Speaker B:Actually that's not even true because she had nipples too.
Speaker B:Was the dude with the golden dildo bow and arrow shooting it at her vagina?
Speaker B:I was like, what is happening right now?
Speaker B:This is out in public.
Speaker B:Someone can get online, search Arabian nights and see all sorts of tits and ass and penises.
Speaker B:The world's broken and I had no idea until yesterday.
Speaker B:So anyway, Alex, tell everybody where they're at, where you can find us when I'm not trying to avoid Italian slash Arabian penises.
Speaker A:Happy to.
Speaker A:Best place to find US is on YouTube to see our faces as we review.
Speaker A:Can we even call this a movie?
Speaker B:Sure.
Speaker A:Kinda movie with no eye.
Speaker A:Two E's.
Speaker A:We'll do it that way.
Speaker A:Aside from that, Patreon at what's our Verge reviews is the best place to get involved with the podcast.
Speaker A:So we haven't.
Speaker A:We changed the content at the beginning of the year and now we get a topic and we both put movies in to the topic.
Speaker A:And then it's a competition now with real life consequences.
Speaker A:So if you win a month, other person's list goes out movies they definitely don't want to watch.
Speaker A:The problem is that new content has led us to reviewing a lot of trash.
Speaker A:Oh God, that is entirely 100% my fault.
Speaker A:But I will not apologize because winning is all that matters, kids.
Speaker B:That's right.
Speaker A:So you can join the Patreon absolutely free to vote on topics or to vote on movies that go in those topics to get the lineup.
Speaker A:If you want to give a little bit behind a little bit of paywall, there is up to now close.
Speaker A:I think we're hitting 700 bonus episodes of everything from bloopers, outtakes, all the way up to full length movies that if this was not part of the content, this movie would have been on a part of the movies that we can't show the general public.
Speaker A:So there are full length episodes of movies that nobody should watch that we did.
Speaker A:So you don't have to on there.
Speaker A:But that's the best place to actually get involved with the content and, you know, vote so that JJ doesn't have to watch any more terrible movies.
Speaker A:Like JJ said, the beginning, we are partnered with Dubby.
Speaker A:So WG, get your energy powder 10 off with code R verdict and on your order, get 10 off.
Speaker A:Can't help that.
Speaker A:With that I'll kick it back to the Colossus of clout, the king of Crash.
Speaker A:A jj.
Speaker B:Yeah, thanks, Alec.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:If you guys are listening watching right now, go to Patreon.
Speaker B:You can.
Speaker A:Now JJ's movies are at the bottom.
Speaker A:If you.
Speaker B:Yeah, no, the, the, the you very much.
Speaker B:No.
Speaker B:We have an active post right now where you can leave topics that you want us to watch.
Speaker B:So go leave some topics and then we'll, we'll put together some movies and then you can go vote.
Speaker B:All that's for free.
Speaker B:But yeah, then you can, you can, you can also go on there and spend a little cash to force us to watch pretty much anything we, we have the right to refuse.
Speaker B:But we just watch this show.
Speaker B:So it's very rare.
Speaker A:There's a very low bar.
Speaker B:If you're not throwing corn at us, I.
Speaker B:We're probably gonna watch it.
Speaker B:I mean, we damn near watched even.
Speaker A:Corn on this one.
Speaker A:Corn.
Speaker B:Yeah, so yeah, but go check it out.
Speaker B:But anyway, listen, we appreciate you tuning in.
Speaker B:We'll catch you on the next one.
Speaker A:Hasta la vista, baby.
Speaker B:Cinematic.
