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Five & Dive, Episode 455: Wicki Wicki Wild Wild West (Yeah)

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April 29, 2025
In Episode 455, Patrick, Jeffrey, and Craig chat about movies, new leaderboards, and an impending Steve Cohen soccer team takeover (per the message boards) and then discuss five mostly baseball topics.

1. Wild Wild West ft. Dru Hill and Kool Mo Dee: The NL West is a tightly-packed quartet at the top, all of whom had noteworthy weekends.
2. Ascent into Madness: And then there’s the Rockies
3. Around the Horn: A late night for the Angels, some early-season injuries for pitchers, and a confusingly crafted bobblehead in the Houston suburbs.
4. What to Watch: More Mets baseball, a late lunch with Jackson Jobe,  and whatever is gonna happen in Coors this week.
5. Craig and Jeffrey play a very long game.

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Idli Amin, The Last King of Sambar
4/29
Patrick didn’t like 12th Fail? Aww, that’s too bad. Could it have been the cultural disconnect (or bad subtitling—that can be an issue sometimes)? I won’t say it was the best movie ever or anything, but Vikrant Massey is good in basically everything he’s in. Massey had a smaller supporting role in a fun movie from 2015 called Dil Dhadakne Do, also starring Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Anil Kapoor, and directed by Zoya Akhtar. Another enjoyable recent one is Laapataa Ladies, directed by Kiran Rao; could check that one out. Rao’s first film, Dhobi Ghat (also known as “Mumbai Diaries”) is also quite good, though very different in tone. And I’m waiting for Superboys of Malegaon to release on streaming. Unfortunately, they’re not showing it in any theatres here in Maryland. (I badly want to do a baseball-and-Bollywood podcast, but I might be the only audience for it.)
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Patrick Dubuque
4/29
I went ahead and finished the film after the podcast. I do think that the second half of the film picks up, and in the end I thought it was perfectly fine, if a bit heavy-handed. The film it reminded me of (from my wealth of knowledge on Indian cinema: I've seen four movies, I'm a normie) was Taare Zameen Par, in the sense that they were both predictable, well-performed, and uplifting, if a bit too saccharine and Patch Adams-y. I do think watching it right now, given the world, makes it a little harder to swallow a message of "gosh darn, just roll up your sleeves and try a little harder," but it's not like the movie ignores systemic problems or anything. It's fine! Maybe not the 68th best movie of all time, imdb users, but fine.

I still have my other half-finished movies to complete, and a couple that are leaving streaming soon. But when I'll get back to India when I can. Thanks for listening, and for the recs!
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Idli Amin, The Last King of Sambar
5/02
So the thing I forgot to mention was that I haven’t actually seen 12th Fail yet. I’ve just heard good things, but now I’m questioning what I’ve heard based on what you’re saying. And yeah, Taare Zameen Par does have that saccharine quality, and mainstream Indian audiences are definitely more into that kind of thing. It actually makes it a little tough to recommend mainstream Indian movies to non-Indians (as an Indian-American, my tolerance for that kind of thing is low for an Indian, but probably on the higher side for an American, much like spice). As for the “68th-best movie of all time” thing, that’s DEFINITELY some IMDB ballot box stuffing by Indian people (we’re incorrigible).
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