Aug 18, 2026 · 19 min · 5 segments
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Ah.
Which Tubi is getting a little bit of a, um, good reputation in my book, 'cause it is chock-full of, like-
[radio tuning]
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the exact kind of movie you would definitely sit through ads for.
Sure.
[laughs]
You know what I mean? Like, there's plenty of stuff that I'm like, "I don't really care that I'm watching this," and, like, I'm not gonna get upset if I, like, am taken out of the moment.
Sure.
Yes.
[laughs]
Yeah.
So this is a movie directed by Ben Younger, um, who doesn't really have a much of a filmography-
Yeah
... um, beyond that.
You know, he's got a 2016 film with, uh, Miles Teller and Aaron Ark- Eckhart called, uh, Bleed For This.
Hmm.
A movie called Prime.
That's about it.
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Like, Ben Affleck for a hot minute, which was, like, s- um, and this is an incredibly year 2000 film.
Yeah.
Um, this feels weirdly like a...
I don't know whether to peg this as like, yep, this is a new generation, or if this is the last, like, dying breath of the '90s.
Because this-
Hmm
...
there are moments in here that are '90s, but I'm like, I can't decide if it's '90s or it's like, oh, here come the 2000s.
Um-
Hmm
...
the biggest thing I think I can say to this movie, um, and this is, like, the whole time I, I, I was watching this.
I definitely watched this when it...
In like 2001 or something, um, but, like, have literally no memory of it.
I think I was, like, halfway...
I was a teenager, like-
Yeah
... who the fuck knows?
Yeah.
Um, the, the one thing I can say about this movie is, like, it's impossible to accurately judge this movie in a world where The Wolf of Wall Street exists.
Yes.
Yes.
Um, you know, th- so this is...
Like, Boiler Room is a college dropout gets a job as a broker for a suburban investment firm.
Sound familiar?
Hmm.
Um, and, like, starts making a ton of money, and, like, it's all from the beginning, like the, "Yeah, we're making money, we're getting girls, we're doing drugs, we're buying cars," like, duh, duh, duh.
And there's, like, you know, some shady shit behind it.
It's almost the same concept as, uh, The Wolf of Wall Street when he's selling, like, penny stocks and things like that.
Yes.
This not- movie is not anywhere near that level.
And, like, it, it...
Just through the whole thing, you're just like, "This really wants to be The Wolf of Wall Street," um, which is, you know, hard when, uh, The Wolf of Wall Street [laughs] wasn't, wasn't gonna come out for another three... 13 years.
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