Hello, dear listeners, and welcome to another bonus episode of what went wrong, your favorite podcast, full stop that just so happens to be about movies and how it is nearly impossible to make them,

let alone a good one, let alone arguably the most incendiary movie you could release right now

at this particular moment at a price tag of between $130 and $175 million, an entirely

original piece of work produced and released by a major studio.

That's right.

We are discussing what film, Lizzie?

We are discussing one battle after another, but Chris, is it actually an entirely original piece of work?

No, you're right.

You've already caught me.

It is not entirely original.

This film, written, directed, co-produced by Paul Thomas Anderson, was, at least in part, inspired by Thomas Pynchon's novel, Vineland. Although the connections, though there, are loose.

Lizzie, before we get into the details and all of our spoily thoughts on this film, I should ask you, generally speaking, you just saw one battle after another.

Can you give us a brief spoiler-free review before we go deeper into this film?

So, guys, if you haven't seen it yet,

these initial thoughts will be spoiler-free.

We will then share some information about the film,

a few fun facts about the making of and kind of how it came to be.

And then after that, we'll be getting into our spoiler-y thoughts,

at which point, make sure you've seen the movie first.

All right, Lizzie, I kick it to you.

Well, I think I really liked it.

Okay.

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