The Pestle: In-depth Movie Talk, No Fluff | Film Review | Spoilers
Oct 6, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min · 15 segments
**We level with Tom Cruise’s “Digger” and discuss:** - Story & Writing, satire, showing the reaction instead of the event, what makes a great monologue and a great argument on the page…
Or maybe before we even get into that, the trailer, that first trailer that came out for this thing is one of the most brilliant trailers I've ever seen.
Right.
Yeah.
And then you go, finally, it says all leading up to this performance of him as Digger, which is really interesting now that we know what this movie is really about, right?
Yes, exactly.
So, yeah, go for it, buddy.
Well, let me just say before I get started that with this, you know, I saw this film on Thursday, you know, because it comes out on Friday.
So on Thursday they play it because they want to pad the, you know, the weekend box
office.
Yeah.
Yeah, which I love because nobody's ever there.
Like, you know, they don't know this.
So, you know, I was in the theater.
There weren't a whole lot of people there.
So it was nice and quiet.
I was center, third row.
It was great.
The next day I had a straight on whole conversation with Jenny about it.
And I will say that the reason is because this to me is the reason why movies exist.
I cannot tell you how much I fucking love this movie.
And I don't even care what anybody – I don't care what the critics think.
I don't care what you think.
I love you, but I don't care.
I literally – went through so many different emotions without even knowing it.
Or maybe before we even get into that, the trailer, that first trailer that came out for this thing is one of the most brilliant trailers I've ever seen.
Right.
Yeah.
And then you go, finally, it says all leading up to this performance of him as Digger, which is really interesting now that we know what this movie is really about, right?
Yes, exactly.
So, yeah, go for it, buddy.
Well, let me just say before I get started that with this, you know, I saw this film on Thursday, you know, because it comes out on Friday.
So on Thursday they play it because they want to pad the, you know, the weekend box
office.
Yeah.
Yeah, which I love because nobody's ever there.
Like, you know, they don't know this.
So, you know, I was in the theater.
There weren't a whole lot of people there.
So it was nice and quiet.
I was center, third row.
It was great.
The next day I had a straight on whole conversation with Jenny about it.
And I will say that the reason is because this to me is the reason why movies exist.
I cannot tell you how much I fucking love this movie.
And I don't even care what anybody – I don't care what the critics think.
I don't care what you think.
I love you, but I don't care.
I literally – went through so many different emotions without even knowing it.
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