Water Cooler: Smile 2, The Brutalist, The Apprentice, Will & Harper, and More
/Film Daily
SlashFilm.com
4.6 • 930 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
On the October 16, 2024 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film editor and chief film critic Chris Evangelista to gather around the virtual water cooler and talk about what they’ve been watching.
In the Water Cooler:
- What we’ve been Watching:
- Chris watched Smile 2, The Brutalist, Woman of the Hour, Terrifier 3, and rewatched Longlegs.
- Ben watched The Apprentice, His Three Daughters, Will & Harper, and Deep Red.
- What we’ve been Playing:
- Ben has been playing Star Wars Outlaws on PS5.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone welcome to slash film daily today's Wednesday October 16th |
| 0:03.7 | 2024 on today's episode of the show we're going to gather around the virtual |
| 0:07.3 | water cooler and talk about what we've been watching my name is Ben Pearson I am an |
| 0:10.9 | editor at slash film dot com I'm joined on today's episode by slash film editor |
| 0:14.6 | and chief film critic Chris Vangelista. |
| 0:17.2 | Hello. |
| 0:18.2 | Iris, how's it going? |
| 0:19.2 | What have you been watching recently? |
| 0:20.8 | I just saw Smile II, and I reviewed it for slash film.com, the review went up today. |
| 0:27.0 | Excellent. I'm going to add that review to our show notes so people can read that there, but tell me what you thought about it. |
| 0:33.1 | I liked it. I like the first movie. You know I went through an interesting thing where when I first saw the |
| 0:38.1 | original movie I didn't really like it that much because it felt really derivative. |
| 0:44.1 | Like it just felt like it was borrowing ideas from like a million other movies. |
| 0:48.6 | And then I re-watched it on Blu-ray and I actually grew to really like it on Blu-ray like giving it a |
| 0:56.3 | second chance like seeing it with new eyes I sort of came to really appreciate it |
| 0:59.7 | so I was looking forward to this I think think this is pretty much on par with the first |
| 1:05.3 | movie maybe a little bit better. It's it's doing very similar things to the first |
| 1:10.8 | movie just doing them on a bigger scale. |
| 1:13.4 | Naomi Scott stars in this, she plays a pop star who is cursed with the, whatever, the smile, |
| 1:22.4 | I don't know if you want to call, |
| 1:23.8 | a smile virus, whatever you want to call. |
| 1:25.5 | It's sort of like, it's like a disease sort of thing. |
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