woodruff you've tested positive for
HIV have you ever used intravenous drugs have you ever engaged in homosexual como
only eat at home in its day letting me a body that make with Alonso Derale
I'll this is what the flick it's funny when movies like Dallas buyers club come
out
for me in some ways because like or so obsessed with celebrity culture in touch
it
noxious unpleasant way many were and
I often participated do it but not that of Thomas but many were kinda had lost
all this weight
last year right and then they were all the stories about losing weight and
accept payments for a role but what is it is it too much weight
and then you see the movie you like yeah it was for rolling actor I
and and then it secure in many ways is this giant let down
I then you see know he's a professional actor he lost a tremendous amount for
all that work
it work he felt about del partner are based on a true story
apparently if you want to see movies about gay people saving their own lives
really is crisis have to watch documentaries because when hollywood
makes a fictional go about it
it's about a straight white homophobe who saves the day iraq I am at work on
who plays Ron woodruff
I a straight dude in Dallas who becomes HIV-positive it all the authorities to
live
and after nearly dying by taking a ZT he discovers alternative therapies
that are not approved by the FDA so he begins a buyer's club
based on one that i gay men's health crisis in New York it already started
to bring it listed pharmaceuticals to people that need it the most
because we only they were gonna get 'em check it out they don't get mad at it
next
go it's better than what you need here in this day yes
protein totally nontoxic weekend bad bit
the USA Oprah you could make a fortune of the
so we had a conversation before we started taping about why you didn't like
this if I decided I now know the answer
but I i not only part of it but also that will always on my back you up on an
answer because that for years has it been
an enormous problem is that I would could make one movie about civil rights
movement yeah
or about slavery without it being about 100 like white guys have all the right
things like
it turns out that after those the three kids the a
andrew goodman and making shorter chaney and james chaney were killed in
philadelphia mississippi
that only the bravery of the CIA for this look at work call back to Hoover's
FBI
right right J edgar hoover came to the rescue called so I
I'm appreciative a that sentiment that didn't bother me I did
think about it because for much of the movie Matthew
mcconnell a who who plays which is named Dennis
Laurent Ron what would hurt its wonderful as a football player
I the that who plays
Ron Wood River is so thoroughly
hateful no yeah he's dynamite I mean I I gave this a positive review
solely based on nothing we can do is perform because he's great
he is uncompromisingly an asshole yeah and by by the end of the movie he
basically has achieved becoming less of an asshole
so that I really admire about the movie and open yet by my issues about it
the whole you know let's make a movie about a straight guy thing aside
my big problem with this movie is that it just feels
so kind o by the numbers
this sort Oakville you know the the the guidance the system in the
people you know we're in the early years the disease trying to be a bigger than
that it
you know it if the couple who were everybody around him is a composite
character
major letters characters a composite Jennifer Garner's aka bother you
the the doctors who are trying to push the toxic ACT on people in the FDA who
were hounding him
one guy pees right right everybody is a composite or just feels like
that sort of the car didn't 70 is made for TV movie about a true story
but just feels very kinda dramatically a brilliant save
I felt that way about the FDA that they said that was massively
simplifies don't like a character I felt like there was some substance
to Jennifer Garner but his
I think why it impressed me a white didn't feel that why what why didn't
feel
Erin Brockovich E with alkali like Iraq it's like that but anyway I didn't feel
like this guy fighting against the system and
is that because everything he does is
shellfish for a good part of the movie and and they were very consistent with
that and they
it they were as you mentioned they were so uncompromising
in how rod Woodruff is and what motivates him right
which is a totally understandable thing that motivates in a survival
yeah I'll survival in and some money but then so
that that got past many of those shortcoming for me
I mean for me at a movie about a guy who is forced to deal with people who
he loads to stay alive
and and I i admire the fact that them didn't make him do this giant 180
you know come by our moment but at the same time I didn't feel like all the
queer characters in the film
are only their to make him a better person
like the only you know I journal is going on praise for playing the strands
character
but for me it was so boiled down to magical
lmao my just there to kinda been able to plot enable
the white heroes Road to
you know becoming slightly better and
I didn't I that and that's a performance for me the just feels
you know what I was getting super amount to praise for it
II to me I don't I didn't know until this shit but i wouldnt know there was a
lot of John figure out what was it like when I die I
you know I know many minority in this would the whole performance struck me so
serve self-satisfied and
show will leave marker ish you know its
at and that's it you know he will win awards for this because by I don't think
the people responded but it didn't work for me at all
I didn't I have different objections I don't know that it's necessarily
award-winning it was good I thought
I didn't feel that way about the character at all I bought the character
and I thought that to me
I mention that I thought I liked that there were some depth Jennifer Garner
some
real nice to her I thought there was two rayon
Jay Leno's character to in part because I I didn't think
that it was I didn't see it as the magical gay persons assorted
to what how you described it was all that apply to make a white guy better
birthright
I didn't see that it felt like it was just accidental and that whatever better
person
dome yeah I would have got as a result general lol
as a result rayon it was just time
like there together and they were stuck together doing this job
and then you get used to people like it didn't I that they never
you know there was a I don't think there's one real speech
from real in it where she says you know you know i i expected you know
diseases affecting you take a look at this really doesn't know that I'm ten
years well you know
through injury could have been who it could have been worse this movie but I'd
but I but I don't got a centre-back characters in her life or
reality at all its its decker tour is just there to reflect of love
why I did not I didn't see that I I thought there was definitely more
the substance there that I thought more likely is that the
in some ways his friends were characters church I'm sure that which ball but that
said there was also some degree of affective chilling mister that because
that's clearly
yeah how it was perceived as a really good job of conveying I cocaine 1985
iraq cuts and getting sick you that the hysteria and the
I the the the bigotry and the just panic that was that existed and and the
well we don't take this seriously because they reacted asked for you know
is that right there's a serves them
search right and the the lack of to me what always
you know and and obviously you know the disease is affected me in
not at all accept that like
I couldn't have sex in college you know and I don't mean that as a joke I mean
like
nobody me because we were wrong about it and it was like this sense if you have
sexual da
right he wear a condom but you'll die and I thought
then ended that the why we work
in a panic a real healthcare panic about this like Mike
you it's not you can give it to other people loses
communicable for crying out loud why aren't we stop in the press is in
shutting down everything we do it's not cancer
it worse on and so I 8 manage to convey
summer that in the ignorance of his friend so I don't know I I was moved by
I like that I also that we just did a review about time which is
also got also this was a little all I thought they were coming yes
that they didn't miss that excessively long but it's over two hours in
don't like you could probably take 12 minutes as I know I would say see this
movie to cement work on who he is
so on a roll these days in this is another in his art gallery over really
terrific performances
I recommend on that front but got I they cannot stress strong enough
see how to survive a plague which is my number one movie for last year
see we were here learn what actually happened during a crisis I mean yes this
was a true story
but this crazy unicorn I mean that that they found the one
straight guy they can make a movie about in this is like where's the fucking
larry kramer bio pic you know
where is the the Peter Staley bio pic why are they have to pick this guy
so that straight america can go on a journey alert always was a bad thing
you know it it's just it I get why that would that would hurt a tie I get why
that you let I did that aside I just I would be more forgiving about that if
this were a better movie and I don't think it's a very good movie I just
think back on his great
I like Griffin Dunne bring appearing in sky so
see it from a con hey but just know how much uva
load worshipers this film i'd IQ the iPad grew up on the first complaint I
think it is a better movie I think it's good I gave it a point that I think it's
really good
and he's terrific and it's amazing that that
we're having conversations about Matthew McKay
about that this guy is turned into a great actor and he has a great actor
he was yeah he's a good he's great and I guess we were just wrong
early in his career no I think he was he was making the wrong choices he was
making films I mean to me if you go back to watch fool's gold her how to Lose a
Guy in 10 days are
failure to launch the lunar didn't get any better right he was picking his shit
material you know goes a girlfriend past with draco starred Jennifer Garner
but I think you at some point he made the decision I don't apply characters
that people like
and I think that liberated him in a great way and now he's playing
these very dodgy interesting complicated characters like in Magic Mike an
mud in and he's so much more fun to watch I get the six
only from a con hey from you get a 6.5
okay 6.5 for I paperwork on a but that's it
it's a it's huge on Rotten Tomatoes at a 95% on Rotten Tomatoes our score
comes up to a assembled your it is very much an award to date
kinda you know uplift sort movie I at some point we're gonna have to narrow
down this conversation which
guys you get nominated for Best Actress really good performances already has
agreed to grad year:
crowded here