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Why We’re Done with Tyler Perry Movies
Can Tyler Perry’s newest film make us swear off his movies for good? Join us on the latest episode of the Open Book Podcast as we humorously dissect "Divorce and the Black." After Jay's grueling recovery from a kidney stone and Nia's much-needed break from moving, we decided to unwind with this two-hour and one-minute movie, which felt like two lifetimes. We dive into the storyline, exposing Megan Good’s mysterious character and unraveling the familiar tropes of struggle, flawed male figures, and the ever-present church influences that Perry fans have come to expect.
We don’t hold back in our critique, openly discussing the apparent decline in Tyler Perry’s film quality. From poor wigs and visible microphones to nonsensical character choices, we spotlight how Corey Hardrick's unnecessary wig and other production missteps contribute to our growing disappointment. Our conversation delves into the repetitive themes of trauma and redemption through a "clean" man, questioning if there’s still potential for Perry to use his platform to champion emerging talent instead of churning out subpar content.
In a particularly memorable segment, we analyze a park scene with a weeping willow, where the mismatched song lyrics left us scratching our heads. We argue that the song would have been more impactful in a scene laden with conflict, perhaps involving Hardrick’s character. Wrapping up, we ponder if we’ll ever watch another Tyler Perry film, despite the inevitable buzz each new release generates. Don’t miss out on our candid and often hilarious take on "Divorce and the Black" and our broader thoughts on Perry’s cinematic trajectory.
So we just finished watching Tyler Perry's Divorce and the Black.
Speaker 2:Divorce and the Black. How long was that movie? It was two hours and one minute Right, two lifetimes, okay. So let's start with. We probably include this on our podcast too, so welcome everybody to the Open Book Podcast. Welcome to the Open Book Podcast. I'm Jay. This is Nia. Y'all know what we do. This is the Open Book. We talk about our life, we show you our life, we review some movies so we both took days off.
Speaker 1:I took the day off because I passed a kidney stone this morning self-care day self-care day drinking tiny cranberry juice essential waters got our 40 ounces of essential water and I'm exhausted because there's so much gold that goes into kidney stones and my husband told me to take the day because I was going to go back to work.
Speaker 2:So we're in the process of moving and she goes to work.
Speaker 1:So while we're resting, we decided to watch In the Black Divorce in the Black, and the movie started out. So I guess the question is it kind of started out like excuse me, I didn't really know, like if Megan Good was like in on, like if it was something dark. That happened Because it started off first off. The intro was amazing, I have to say. The intro was an intro yeah um, but that was it.
Speaker 2:I feel like it's one of them it just felt like it was supposed to go a different route and it didn't yeah it was just kind of a long line of the same thing you know, the more I learn about writing and what it takes to write, be it a book or a movie, and writing scenes, writing acts. This is one of the movies where it's pretty like the differences in the scenes and the acts stand out. You can see kind of the chops that were put together. That first scene was the cellar.
Speaker 1:That was the one that was like, okay, got him, yep. And then it was like, okay, what happens next? Do we believe that he revealed something at the very beginning? And then it's like, you know, know, as the movie went on, it's like do we believe that megan is as innocent as she appears to be, or is something, did something dark in her past happen and tie her to this guy? Like what exactly is going on? And then benji pops into the picture and I really enjoyed that song that they had by Chris Somebody.
Speaker 2:Well, let's give the full context for anybody who hasn't seen it. Which is why I'm trying not to say anything, but let's lay out what the movie's about. The movie stars Megan Good as a country girl.
Speaker 1:Married, wife Married country girl.
Speaker 2:She's married to Coreyory hardrick's character and, um, they are from two. They're from a small town. They don't really say what town, but it's. One of the things they made super clear is that it's an hour and 15 minutes away from atlanta.
Speaker 1:They said that about 20 but they didn't specifically say the town and we didn't learn that it was Atlanta until like the middle of the movie.
Speaker 2:Yes, so we know that they are from a country town and they now live in the city. But they're from a country town, so the movie starts with them in the country town because the husband, corey Hardrick's brother, has been killed in some way and they're starting the funeral. Obviously, the big killer scene is which I had already knew about. I just didn't know the context of it because a lot of people have been. I saw people online saying they pulled him out of a casket. I didn't know who got pulled out of a casket or why I didn't.
Speaker 1:I literally skipped past anything that had to do with this movie, so I had no context of anything yeah, so that's this, that's the selling scene, but obviously the movie is about this couple.
Speaker 2:Uh, it's a tyler perry movie, so you can imagine the struggle of this couple, right? It's? It's gonna be a woman and it's gonna be who's, who's wronged by a man, and she has a, the, the answer to her problem supposedly right in front of her, in the form of a another good, squeaky clean man and because it's a tyler perry movie, it's gonna have something to do with the church, and the church was present for everybody else failing you except you and the pastor.
Speaker 1:You're probably going to be the pastor's daughter and your mama and your daddy did everything for everybody in the church and completely neglected you, or the church just wronged you in some kind of way, and you are scorned because church people are bad.
Speaker 2:But you're still going to get church music and you're still going to get church music and you're still going to get church all over the place You're going to get God. So you get the hooks of church You're just going to get that church is not good.
Speaker 2:Yes, so I think I feel like Tyler Perry definitely has a process that's working. He got a business model that's working. Obviously, he's not trying to make A-plus or 10 out of 10 classic type movies. He's writing from his own personal pain. I know he got a documentary that I haven't watched. I haven't watched it either. People said it explains why his movies are like this. I'm pretty sure I don't even need to watch that with understanding why it's are like this. I'm pretty sure I don't even need to watch that with understanding why it's probably like this. Um, but back to this movie, though the movie, there was an incident that occurred.
Speaker 1:The husband is not right, the wife is nothing. There's nothing wrong with her and my thought is like is something, something happened in the earlier years that tied her to him Like did?
Speaker 2:something happen in the earlier years that tied her to him. That would be in a regular movie.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like, why is it that this? You know, maybe there's something extra going on.
Speaker 2:No, some people are evil, some people are good and blameless, and that's just what it was.
Speaker 1:It was evil and good and the church is trash and you know it just was a continuation of that. You know it just was a continuation of that and it just kind of went from being interesting to kind of just very quickly going off the cliff.
Speaker 2:Super interesting that the first scene was the best scene of the movie.
Speaker 1:And that's it for me. I don't know about for you, honey. Was it the same for you?
Speaker 2:It almost felt like some of the scenes felt like they were, only they weren't even written. I got no one scene at the end where they're like did she call her best friend or best friends? Like we just think it's on the couch. We got to go and come on.
Speaker 1:That was just kind of like even the scene where the couple her best friend and they that incident and it just kind of like completely got glossed over and it was like, okay, let's move on back to her in Dallas. It was just kind of like y'all not going to acknowledge, like you're not going to support your friend in this, you want to get back to just kind of doing what y'all was doing before. It was just all over the place. I thought it was horrible.
Speaker 2:I think the thing I thought it was an interesting premise poorly executed. I think what you're looking for is a backstory.
Speaker 1:There was nothing Some depth of character. It was so many holes in the story. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Why is this dude evil? Why is Ray? What happened to him? Why would she be so loyal to him?
Speaker 1:Why wouldn't she think about the repercussions being with somebody like this would have on her family, not just her and her children, but her family, her and her family. I just it didn't make sense and it didn't.
Speaker 2:I think my two biggest problems with it and I try not to be a such a big Tyler Perry basher because I have been in the past. Like I said, from a business standpoint, I completely understand what he's doing, but from a consumer standpoint, as somebody who just watched this joint, my two biggest problems. One the same thing I always got with him. My man only writes one-dimensional characters, man, especially male characters. But this time he pretty much did it with everybody in the movie. Everybody had no backstory, no reason to do why they were doing what they were doing at all. This person was just bad. This person was good, this person was was good.
Speaker 2:It's like there was no depth, no secondary reason for anything and everything transpired in like a week yes and on top of that, like the biggest thing that stood out to me, especially at the end what it's hard to find a like there was a clear antagonist. Right like there's a bad guy but this bad guy comes from a bad family. Right like it's like the bad family it. The crazy thing about it is and no offense to these actors, man but Tyler Perry made them all ugly Like they looked bad. They all was making ugly faces Like I thought that was just over the top and just lazy to me. I hate when stories are written like that. Like let me sift through it and feel where I want to feel. Don't just slap. All of these people are just horrific, evil people. There's no reason that any of them are mad. They're just all mad and want destruction for everybody.
Speaker 1:I don't like that and it was super interesting because here it is, you have the pastor and the wife and you see that their daughter is going through this and instead, when it was like, well, we should pray about it, it's like, hmm, let's not, let me push you on to another man and it's like, and they said they was gonna pray your daughter a chance to heal, like remember they said they were gonna pray and they didn't, and then it was no, you just need to get back, you need to go to the guy that you were supposed to be with and it's just like it.
Speaker 1:Just it. It was just, it was too much yeah like literally everything happened within a week. It wasn't discussed why dallas had the issues that he had. It wasn't discussed the different things that he did. I mean just like little sprinkles you don't understand, like why his mentality is the way it is.
Speaker 2:Why is his mother like that?
Speaker 1:Why is his family like that? His brothers?
Speaker 2:They said, he killed his father. Why did that happen, oh?
Speaker 1:we're not supposed to say that that's such a spoiler. Is that a spoiler? Yeah, it's a spoiler. I'm so sorry y'all, I apologize. Man, we can't even. Well, okay, I'm so sorry, but that's out there. It is what it is.
Speaker 2:I'll put spoiler alert in the description of this for y'all.
Speaker 1:I just didn't think that it was a good movie. It didn't end well at all. It didn't go well throughout the movie. It was a lot of violence, unnecessarily. I just don't think that I will probably watch another Tyler Perry movie. I think that this one is officially just kind of did it for me. It was a waste of my time to watch this. It just didn't. I just did not like it at all. I didn't like anything about it. Not one thing that I like about it. Nothing Like how can you encourage this woman that's been in this abusive, horrific marriage for 17 years?
Speaker 2:Yeah, something like that Even longer right, Because she said she was 37 and then she said they had been together since she was 17.
Speaker 1:And then you push her onto another man without her getting the healing and the help that she needs. It's like and, and all you could say is oh we, we didn't, we didn't tell you enough that we were proud of you. And her say oh well, I just thought that I'm supposed to put up with this because marriage is frowned upon and divorce is frowned upon in the church and he's supposed to stand by your man. It's like, what world are you living in? Like I just um, I don't like his. I'm just not gonna watch any more of his movies. His, his messages within the movie are trash and the movie itself is trash. And it sucks that he gets these big actors to come and do these movies to lure you in to watch it and you think, oh, maybe this one is going to be good. And I mean, this one was probably the worst of all of the ones that I've seen, and I, for me, is this is a, it was pretty up there.
Speaker 2:I've never really liked any. I can't recall liking. I can't recall feeling like any of his movies were excellent. I did enjoy one or two of them. Yeah, I can't recall feeling like any of his movies were excellent. I did enjoy one or two of them. Yeah, I can't recall thinking yeah, I think that was my favorite one.
Speaker 1:That was a long time ago when he first came out and he really was like playing around with different things. Since then they have just got worse and worse yeah and it's like, it's almost like a joke, right? Oh, the wigs are bad, the clothes are bad you can see the mics and ha ha ha.
Speaker 2:And, by the way, corey Hardrick did have a strange wig that I did not like and it was like A lot of them had weird things.
Speaker 1:He didn't even have to do that, it just didn't.
Speaker 2:I can't imagine why that character needed to have a round afro head.
Speaker 1:I don't understand what was on Corey Hartwick's head that needed to be covered up for this character. I don't get it. Here's the thing Tyler Perry has made so much money and he has acquired such success that this is the time where you start taking people under your wing or you incorporate some of these actors, these writers, these people you know, directors who are trying to get in the game and give them a platform. It's time for you to just quit. I don't think that he should make any more movies. I really think that he should allow people to be able to have the platform that they need to get seen, because it's clear that that's what you're doing. People know that your movies are not going to be very good.
Speaker 1:They're hoping that it may be and it's always the hype and it's the hype of it and it's like, man, this is such a disappointment. This is just kind of a clown session. But me, I feel like I really wish that he would use his platform for something else, instead of him putting just these incomplete movies out that don't make any sense. And you know, we want to support our black people, our black artists, our black writers and directors and, and you know, I just feel like it's just a waste. It's just it's.
Speaker 1:You know, obviously this movie is gonna be for someone. It was not for me and if in, like I said, I just feel like you know he there's other ways for him to use his platform for good. Well, you can make a good movie, you've made him before but I think, as time goes, this has just kind of been like this is the box that he's kind of put him himself in and it sucks to see, I mean, but especially with this whole mentality about church, and you know it's been like that in every movie and I'm just so sick of seeing it.
Speaker 2:I'm so sick of seeing it I think his one of the knocks I saw in this movie. Before we watched it. One of the things I saw a number of people say was that he deals in trauma porn. I think that is definitely something he's done historically and this was like this movie was just like complete trauma porn, like there was, there was no resolution or redeeming value or like there was really no lessons to be learned or any point proven other than to show trauma, pain, right, this there's like you said, this this could be for some people. It's probably for women who have been through things like this who might relate to Megan Good character. I can't imagine anybody else getting anything out of this movie because it really didn't do anything else other than show this woman go through this unexplainable thing story, this trauma and then find a new man and jump right into it with her.
Speaker 1:I mean literally jumped right in the fire with her and it's like why would you?
Speaker 2:and that's completely unnecessary because she kept trying to hold him off and it's like he has this traditional hook of this there being this redeeming, big, strapping country boy, clean man. It's like usually in all these movies right, there's some clean man in front of you that the woman is not interested in at first and then she realizes this is where all the trouble comes from. I've been looking at the wrong type of man. He tends to do this in every movie, but it was like completely pointless in this one. It really didn't lead to anything and I think this movie had the most potential and really just delivered the least out of all his movies. It really didn't deliver anything.
Speaker 1:It was such a dumpster fire. I just I can't even believe that I just wasted two hours of my life watching this. It was just trash for me, it was such a just. I'm just so disappointed.
Speaker 2:The funny part is he also has found ways now, because you know there's always a knock on his, his writing, because he wants to write the script. He owns writing the script the scripts do suck right, like you mean, I think they.
Speaker 1:They really kind of pointed it out perfectly. It's like you put this trash out nothing's complete, everything's post, we'll fix it in post and you put it out and I, honestly, I'm I'm disappointed in myself. That's really what it boils. Honestly, I'm disappointed in myself. That's really what it boils down to. I'm disappointed in myself for wasting my time and watching this.
Speaker 2:So yes, to that point. This is what I ultimately think about Tyler Perry. Tyler Perry is and y'all got to follow me on this one y'all. Tyler Perry to me is Donald Trump. Tyler Perry is dealing in something that is successful. It's working. I think.
Speaker 2:When we watch his movies, we always see that the quality is bad. We always have complaints. We normally feel like we wasted our time, but we did it, and so for him as a businessman, there's no reason for him to stop and make higher quality stuff because the public is showing him. We're going to show up for this and a lot of people like most of the people that I see and interact with, half of them only watch it so they can see is it really trash? And can I come and review it and argue with people? And some people say I got to defend him because he's a black man and he's employing people. And some people say I got to defend him because he's black man and he's he's employing people. And some people say it doesn't matter, he's still trash, and I need to say this. So it feels like to me, like most of us are really consuming it because we already know it's going to be trash and we like, is it?
Speaker 1:is it going to be this time? I did not. I didn't read anything about this movie and I tend not to do that. I like to, especially now.
Speaker 2:it seems like all of the previews really kind of give the entire movie away, and I mean, that's for some people, oh yeah, and this movie didn't have much, so it would have definitely given away.
Speaker 1:They enjoy that because they can decide if they want to see the movie or not. I I haven't heard anything about this movie, I just know he came out with a new one and I watched his last one with Kelly. What's her name? Kelly, kelly, kelly With Kelly.
Speaker 2:Beyonce's sister.
Speaker 1:Cousin yeah.
Speaker 2:Nolan Rowland Rowland Kelly.
Speaker 1:Rowland. I watched the last one with Kelly Rowland and I was just like eh, I did a review on that one. You remember that I did a review on that one.
Speaker 2:You remember that, remember we was down, remember we watched that in Phoenix, right.
Speaker 1:I watched that here.
Speaker 2:Oh no, that was the other one we watched.
Speaker 1:What was that? That was with Earl.
Speaker 2:Michael Ealy, that wasn't Tyler Perry, was it? No, that wasn't Tyler Perry. It felt like Tyler Perry a little bit.
Speaker 1:But no, I watched that one here and we watched it separate, because I think you watched it on a plane.
Speaker 2:Yeah. And it was still like I mean, you know, I thought Michael Ealy was going to be in this because a lot of people have been passing around memes of Corey Hardrick and Michael Ealy, so I thought they were both in this movie. I kept waiting for the scene Like where's Michael Ealy at?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean I, I um.
Speaker 2:There's nothing you liked about it. He also brings down some really good actors like debbie morgan is in this and she's a like. She's been in the game for the years and she kind of sucked in this. I thought her acting was horrible. I was like man.
Speaker 1:I thought she did a good job.
Speaker 2:maybe it's the script that she's reading because it just just feels like it's lacking, like these are not realistic reactions from people.
Speaker 1:I thought the characters played their role. I thought the script was horrible. It was just all bad. I just didn't.
Speaker 2:The script was really bad and there were some times where it felt like there wasn't even a script and they didn't even know what to say next, it was horrible.
Speaker 1:It was horrible and it was like the same thing. It felt like a record everything was consistently the same thing, like didn't you just say that and didn't?
Speaker 2:you just say that, yeah, they did say everything like three or four times this scene just literally happened like a couple minutes ago.
Speaker 1:Why is it happening again?
Speaker 2:I thought that too. I had to look down at the subtitles, like he did. Just say that didn't.
Speaker 1:Didn't she just wear pink in the last scene? Did y'all just recycle that scene and just put it in this one? Because why does it feel like I'm watching this scene over again? I? Don't know, I just I no honey.
Speaker 2:It's a no for me.
Speaker 1:It is a no for me. I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2:So will you ever? You will never watch a Tyler Perry movie again.
Speaker 1:Not anything new that he has coming out, absolutely not. I will watch it, but you know when the next one come out.
Speaker 2:It's going to have the hype. It's going to have the hook. It might even have Beyonce in it. It's going to have something.
Speaker 1:You know he's going to have something, unless Tyler Perry comes out to say that he's offering an apprenticeship to young writers and directors to help give them a platform to, you know, get their movies out there. No, thank you. I mean, we know people. We know people who are really out here trying to make it and get their movies and their, their shows out there and it just seems like that would have been.
Speaker 1:why can't you do that instead of put out this nonsense? I mean, it's gotten to the point now like he used to make quality stuff Now. Granted, he did it as Medea and it started in plays and it was super entertaining, but it's like it just morphed into something else and it just doesn't. It's like there's no effort put into it, it just I'm sorry.
Speaker 2:I agree with him as a playwright. I thought he was great.
Speaker 1:I just don't agree. It's just like allow people to use their to to come out and and actually put some quality work out there.
Speaker 2:I thought he was a genius as a playwright. It almost felt like as soon as he went to movies he was still writing plays. And it just doesn't translate well.
Speaker 1:He had another one that he did too, where he was um, I can't remember what it was called, but it was good, but that was a long time ago. It's been a while since I've liked a Tyler Farrah movie.
Speaker 2:It's been a long while I probably like two, I still wouldn't say any of them are great movies.
Speaker 1:I like the Family that Prays, but even then it was starting to get like, okay, I see where it's going now. Everything has kind of been I like the family that prays, but even then it was starting to get like, okay, I see where it's going. Yeah, it had all its hooks. Now everything has kind of been a scenario that a family that prays what was that? The one with Taraji P Henson?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:The one with.
Speaker 2:Daddy's Girls or something.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, it's just kind of been.
Speaker 2:It was the one with Aegis Elbow with Corn Rose, it was the one with Boris Kojo with an afro, or Aegis Elbow with an afro and somebody else with Corn Rose or something, and there was another one at the very beginning with Not at least me.
Speaker 1:It was somebody else where she was married to the lawyer and he got shot, oh yeah. And that was the one you're thinking about with.
Speaker 2:Those usually had Madea in them to push them over.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they did have Madea in them, but these last ones where you just drop it and it'd be like, ooh, the wigs are bad, everything's bad, it's so much violence. Ooh, it's just like I didn't understand the wigs in this one.
Speaker 2:I don't think it was needed.
Speaker 1:I'm good, you know he's an artist and he is extremely talented and he, you know he's he has an audience that he speaks to, and I'm just not that.
Speaker 2:I will say that I agree with you. I do think he is extremely talented. He knows exactly what he's doing, what he wants to do, and he's successful at it. I think, when it comes to like, you would expect somebody with that much talent to also have ambition to make the greatest movies right, the best, to be getting better and better as time goes on.
Speaker 2:But he seems to be just like mailing it in it's actually getting worse, if you judge by this movie, and I don don't know, maybe he's using this as cash grab to build his empire down there in Georgia and it will turn into what you said yeah, down in Douglasville. So hey, hit us up, we got stories.
Speaker 1:We know folks, you know, y'all see my husband's hair. It's really nice, isn't it?
Speaker 2:Yeah, my wife got me twisted up. We's really good. We don't usually do video podcasts you know.
Speaker 1:so y'all get to see us in bed. Me not At my best, I don't feel the rightest.
Speaker 2:I know my babe's getting better, but at least y'all get to see us as we are, candid as we are. You know Y'all lucky we ain't doing some other stuff in bed. You know what I'm saying. Maybe we would for our purposes.
Speaker 1:this is the open book podcast, and this is our review of what was the name of the movie, by the way, I don't know yo.
Speaker 2:And then she signed the divorce papers without reading them.
Speaker 1:No lawyer, it was just like and I get it.
Speaker 2:that's a cool scene if you're setting up the fact that she just signed over some stuff, but you never did.
Speaker 1:You never said it. Everything happened in a day. You go party, they throw you a party, old boy is there, you take him back to your house, you talk about you changed your locks, when, when you literally just cite the papers Especially when you live an hour and 15 minutes away from your job.
Speaker 2:You already said that you live an hour and 15 minutes away from your hometown. You've said that multiple times no, but they had this at her house, at the old girl's house oh yeah, that's right, but what I wanted to know is how did the dude her best friend's husband? He was at the party First of all. He had all kinds of male strippers there and dude chilling up in the. I would not have been chilling at that party, but dude was at the party. He was there to support his wife he was at the party.
Speaker 1:It's a good thing. He was there because he was a good old boy out of there.
Speaker 2:But he was wearing a different suit than he was 10 minutes before when he was 10 minutes before when he was signing the thing, but that was supposed to be earlier in the day right, it just was like everything was just like.
Speaker 1:The timing was just trash. They probably filmed all of that in a day.
Speaker 2:Probably I will say this man, my man.
Speaker 1:He did good with some of the scenes visually, although again, but there was some nice, some beautiful shots, yes, but Tyler Perry is subtlety is not his thing weeping willow trees yes, and the country and that song they played was beautiful the song was dope that was probably, but he beat you over the head with it.
Speaker 2:He don't be subtle with it, right? So he mentioned Chris Stapleton right before they played the Chris Stapleton song. Then he had the Weeping Willow trees. As soon as I saw them walk, drive past Weeping Willow trees, I was like there's going to be a sad scene with this. There's going to be some way that he uses these trees, and he did, but he used them in a very beautiful way.
Speaker 2:But one of the things that I thought it kind of was like a harking back. It was like a throwback to Eve's Bayou. Where wasn't Megan Good and Debbie Morgan, both in East Bayou? So I thought that was pretty dope. You know, like, for the movie heads to reckon back, you know what I mean to hearken back and be like yo, I remember that. So I thought that was pretty good. I thought he did pretty good with the visuals, Everything that he does, though he's extremely heavy-handed and he does not use subtlety. But I mean that's just a style. You know. If you're into it, you're into it. You know like what was? The one line dude was like I guess I'm gonna put the fire out tonight, and it was like that was very overt of what's going on right now which was cool, it worked it worked.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what that is alright, babe, run it up one out of ten. Run it up. What is?
Speaker 1:it zero for that scene.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I did so. That's what. That is. All right, babe, run it up. One out of ten. Run it up. What is it?
Speaker 1:Zero.
Speaker 2:Ooh.
Speaker 1:Ooh, I'd give it a three, maybe a four, definitely not a five Best scene. Gotta be the funeral scene, right I mean, that was the one that caused the intrigue they pulled on my casket.
Speaker 2:It's gotta be what about you?
Speaker 1:what was your?
Speaker 2:list. What is it gotta be? Oh, my rating four what is your? Best scene, best funeral scene? Gotta be the funeral scene. There were no other good scenes in my opinion. Like there were some decent ones, Like you know them at the park. I like the weeping willow, yeah.
Speaker 1:I don't like the scene. I like the transition of them playing the song and you getting the bigger picture of the weeping willow. That's it. That scene was just like. You know what I thought.
Speaker 2:The one thing that messed that scene up for me was that song was so beautiful, but the words of that song didn't match that scene. The words were about the couple fighting. Those words should have been played, with her and Corey Hardrick going at it. I thought that would have been more, but they never showed them. It wouldn't have been realistic in that way, that's true. It wouldn't have been realistic in that way, though. That's true.
Speaker 1:It didn't fit.
Speaker 2:I think if they could have showed some scenes of them actually having a marriage that they wanted to fight for, that music would have went perfect with it. But that's not what this movie was about. They didn't have a marriage that they wanted to show that was worth fighting for.
Speaker 1:And I think that he said the song because maybe that was what the outcome was of his marriage. Yeah, and that's why he wanted her to hear it, but it didn't fit for her marriage.
Speaker 2:No it didn't.
Speaker 1:All right, this is 30 Minutes. Deuces y'all Deuces. Peace y'all Rock with us.
