Match Point

That's not the Woody Allen one.

That was called Match Point.

Yeah,

not Match Point.

No, this is a rom-com from the early noughties.

Yeah, it was better.

this thing defending yourself like the long island clan why would they give a fuck how much money opie has why like why would if you really loved someone and they kept producing things that you liked and you were a fan of theirs and you kept consuming the content they're putting out they're consistently delivering the thing that you liked and you were able to consume their content why would you care how much money they have Like, why would you give a fuck at all? You get to listen to him every single day, right? You get to hear the wonderful musings of the opester every single day, so why the fuck would you care how much money he has? That's how I know these pocket-watching motherfuckers in my YouTube messages are...

are all Opie because why the fuck would anybody come at somebody going, hey, look, I know you don't like Woody Allen and you think that he's a pedophile, but you know how much millions fucking Match Point made? No one does that.

So Woody Allen himself probably does that, maybe, but that's how I know it's Opie.

And here's one of theirs that, like, again, this is something that I feel like is something that I would play on this show, this clip that they're about to play on their show, with Opie and Ron the waiter and Eric Marino, who, good Lord, Eric Marino is not fucking funny at all.

She got hugely acclaimed, obviously, in Eternal Sunshine a couple years prior.

She turned down Woody Allen's Match Point to spend time with her kids.

Good call.

She

But the discussion itself revealed some interesting observations.

You were already convinced that Match Point was the stronger film.

believing it explored similar questions of murder, morality, and guilt more effectively.

You also questioned whether Cliff's lighter storyline really belonged alongside Judah's darker one.

People do evil things.

Does that make him evil people? I understand why because of just exploring that and exploring the guilt.

is really fascinating and to this day i still think it's a great thing to see and by the way i'm not even i haven't even brought up anything about the aesthetics i was shot it looks beautiful still looks great to this day i still think this movie deserves as high regard for just the exploration for what it's doing and it's something obviously woody allen will return to multiple times in different films in different ways One of the things that the assistant said when it was talking about my first review, I was talking about how Match Point is a better version of this.

The funny thing is I've always said that Match Point and the assistant will give more information on this.

Yeah, she plays a good level of, like, enthusiasm where you can kind of see where Javier sees the appeal in Rebecca Hall in just kind of the more... interesting character like Scarlett is like she's

giving too much enthusiasm about the holiday whereas Rebecca Hall's like cynicism is very alluring like Scarlett is in a bunch of Woody Allen movies around this time and I think this is this and Match Point are probably the best He gets out of her.

Actually, she's great in Match Point.

Match Point's really good.

I only saw it for the first time this year, but, like, everyone should watch Match Point if you're going to watch any Woody Allen movie.

She's not so good in some of the other ones, like, what's the other one? Scoop.

But she's also in The Prestige with Rebecca Hall around the same time as this.

Oh, yeah, they all seemed to like that, didn't they? Yeah.

Match Point is another one-

Yeah

... that everyone seems to like.

That makes sense.

That's it.

Then you got, uh, I'd say probably of the last 20 years or just over t- Match Point, I think.

Midnight in Paris, I don't remember rating it that highly when I watched it, but I'd be happy to go back to it.