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Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

5411 Izzy and Stef Movie Review: MADAME WEB

Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

Stefan Molyneux

Pacifism, Freedom, Philosophy, Liberal, Atheism, Objectivist, Conservative, Objectivism, Democrat, Libertarian, Anarchy, Joe-rogan, Politics, Republican, News & Politics, Atheist, Freedomainradio

4.72.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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I will never forgive you all for urging me to watch this hot mess of celluloid...

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0:00.0

Well, I guess this is one of the few times we're talking about the movie right afterwards.

0:06.0

Yes. The movie was called Madame Webb.

0:10.0

Madame Webb.

0:11.0

Now, you know what was interesting is that there's actually a spy, I think I got a spider theme,

0:15.1

sometimes they're kind of subtle.

0:16.5

Really?

0:17.5

But I did get a spider theme.

0:18.7

Oh my gosh.

0:19.5

Oh, and at first thought, first, well now we knew that this is going to be kind of rough going.

0:25.1

It had a 14% approval rating or something.

0:28.5

All right.

0:29.5

So the actress, Dakota Johnson, I think, and so she was, yeah, she's, okay, so I thought, okay, she's just kind of emotionally dead at the beginning, but I'm sure there's going to be a story arc where she ends up emotionally lively.

0:42.0

It seemed like she, and then, you know, looking at the lively. It seemed like she had more emotion than she did in the beginning.

0:47.0

Well, yes, a little bit, but I guess because she warmed up, right?

0:50.0

So she's, she's distant, she's numb, she's inaccessible, she's cynical, like...

0:57.6

And then she just gets even more so at the end.

0:59.7

I guess her qualities just increased, but there were no qualities. Oh my gosh. She didn't make any sense, it was so bad.

1:05.0

Okay, so I made the case, just as we will get into the car,

1:10.0

that there is a good story buried in it.

1:12.0

Now the good story that's buried in it is something like this.

1:15.5

So this girl, the main girl, or Cassie? Yeah, Cassie. Okay, so Cassie, her mother dies. She doesn't really know what happened except she thought that her mother was some idiot scientist who was in the Amazon studying spiders for no reason vanity

1:35.0

selfishness or whatever so she resents her mother she's angry to her mother she goes

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