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Toxic Official Kannada Trailer | Rocking Star Yash | Geetu Mohandas | KVN | Monster Mind Creations

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The video features a reaction and analysis of the official trailer for the Kannada film *Toxic*, starring Yash and directed by Geetu Mohandas. The hosts express immediate confusion regarding the movie's premise despite having seen teasers and songs beforehand, noting that they are already feeling aroused but ultimately unimpressed with what was presented. They describe the trailer as a "fairy tale for adults" in name only, arguing that it leans heavily into style over substance rather than delivering on its promise of genuine storytelling or emotional depth. The reaction is one of skepticism, particularly concerning whether the film will live up to the hype generated by previous works from director Geetu Mohandas and actor Yash. A significant portion of the discussion focuses on the trailer's excessive length and reliance on "cool" visuals rather than narrative coherence. One host criticizes the four-and-a-half-minute runtime as being akin to a short film or a music video, suggesting that cinema should prioritize storytelling over simply looking stylish. They point out that while there are cool kills and stylized shots reminiscent of films like *John Wick* or big-budget masala movies, these elements feel forced rather than organic. The hosts argue that the trailer prioritizes making moments look good for the sake of it—such as characters screaming, yelling, or engaging in chaotic behavior—instead of exploring character motivations naturally, which diminishes the overall appeal and believability of the content. The conversation also touches upon specific scenes from the trailer, including a monologue by an older actor portraying a man haunted by guilt after killing his wife over unfounded suspicions of infidelity. While one host praises this particular performance for its raw emotion and lack of reliance on memorized lines, they contrast it with other moments that felt like actors trying to be "Jokers" or simply acting crazy without substance. This mix of genuine talent and forced stylistic choices leaves the hosts uncertain about whether the film will offer something original in a revenge story genre filled with similar tropes. They conclude by stating that while there is an audience for purely visual spectacles, they are hesitant to watch the full movie immediately after seeing this trailer and prefer to wait for other viewers' reactions before committing their time.
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You ready for it? >> The Britney uh biopic. >> No. >> Oh, I know what you're going to say. Sex. >> Yep. I'm looking forward to sex, blood, explosions, sex, guns, fire, sex, scantily clad bodies, sex, and maybe some elevative artistry, but mostly sex >> and hopefully permission from their husbands. The biggest, the baddest, wackiest, funniest, filmiest show on earth. [music] >> Hey, welcome back to our stupid. I'm Corbin. >> I'm sex. >> You can follow us on Instagram, Twitter for more juicy content. Thank you for patron, follow, subscribe, and the like button. Welcome back. We have not seen the trailer. We have no idea what's going on, but we know enough about this film to know that this is a fairy tale for adults and [snorts] we've seen the teasers. We've seen the songs. It's >> we are very aroused [laughter] >> already. >> I'm already I'm already feeling titilated. >> The trailer dropped about 7 hours ago. Uh which is >> Yeah. Uh >> it's around >> it's around. >> Yeah. >> Uh our time. Yeah. >> 7 time. We were sleeping. Uh but uh we are here now. So let's get into this big boy. >> This is going to be it, isn't it? This is probably the the big schllebang uh before the movie >> No. >> opens. You don't think so? >> It's the 8th. It comes out the 26th. >> I think this is it. >> No, we're going to get songs. >> No, I meant trailer. Uh >> we may get another song. I bet we'll get >> You think we'll get another trailer? >> I think we'll get another one. All right. Um, they're going to do so much promo for this. >> You think they're going to really release it? >> We'll see. We'll see. Here we go. [laughter] I promise. >> [screaming] >> Like a ghost, you're haunting me. Just like Fore! Foreign! Foreign! got a life. No. [music] Who the hell are you? I was regular. Who the hell are you? Time is permanent. >> KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT. >> THIS WAS supposed to be my [ __ ] fairy tale. >> I was hoping to have a civilized conversation. Do I look civilized to you? Let's see it. [snorts] >> Hello, Daddy. >> [screaming] >> It's time. I'm coming. Be ready to battle chaos. Who is chaos? [screaming] >> [screaming] [screaming and groaning] >> I'm sorry, guys. Are you happy? H not what I expected. I don't know, man. [sighs] [gasps] I don't know. Um, it the first thing that came to mind and it's just what the trailer gave me. Uh, doesn't mean that's what the film is, but it it very well could be is just style over substance. >> Yeah. >> Um, that doesn't mean they can't pull it together in the movie and it works so well. Absolutely. I mean, it's a very stylized in terms of cinematography, color, like all that. Like, so like it's hyper beautiful at times and and and all that kind of stuff, which is totally fine. Obviously, if that's the vibe you're going for in your movie, totally fine. [snorts] But then you also have to you still have to have a reason people are going to be watching the whole time. Um, you can't, that's why the saying's there, style over substance, is you're is your primarily focused just that it looks really cool and they have some sound bites >> and that your actors are emoting a lot of emotion by screaming and yelling and crying. >> Okay, great. >> Yeah. Um, once again, doesn't mean that's what the film is going to be, but that's what the vibes it was kind of giving, unfortunately. And I also didn't have the fun >> of I mean there was some cool like violence and kills and stuff like that but like the fun of some of the songs and the the sexiness >> the sexiness even the romance of it. And I I I >> the other stuff conveyed the idea of a fairy tale for grown-ups. >> Mhm. >> This doesn't convey a fairy tale. This just conveys a vengeance film. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Uh they definitely it's it went with a different vibe than uh all the other stuff that we >> It sure did. And like most trailers over three minutes long, it's way too long. It's just they it's you don't need it to be that long. >> Um other than you want to show us more cool stuff, which is what it seemed that was served the purpose is we're going to show you a lot of stuff that we think is cool. >> Um cool factor only goes so far. >> Yeah. Um >> especially if it's >> except there I will say sad to say it but there is an audience for for just going and watching people be cool. >> Yeah, >> there is an audience for that. I'm not it. >> Yeah, >> but there is an audience for that. >> Yeah, there's definitely an audience for it. >> Um >> but you know we just from the the other stuff that we had seen I was just cuz this looks more like stereotypical. I mean there's some different style. Like I said, the stylization is a little different and um obviously there's some cool looking shots, there's some cool people. Um but like I said, it's it I didn't feel a lot of either >> like cool um like they're looking to do something cool, right? >> As opposed to just trying to look cool, >> right? >> Um trying to do something different. It was more just >> and is anybody going to have like will anyone at any point have an actual conversation that feels like a believable conversation >> obviously >> like cuz it's all just hyper just I'm going to say this as cool as I can and I'm going to say that as cool as I can and I'm going to say that as angrily as I can versus >> will there be it just did not sell me on the thought that this is going to be anything other than style. >> Yeah. Um, and like I said, maybe it maybe it is. Um, cuz this director is not known for this style of a movie. [laughter] If you've seen our watch along of her, a Mallea movie, it's a brilliant piece of cinema is what that is. Um, not that I this needed to be that. Um, but it definitely gives a different vibe. >> Yeah. Um it gives like almost a lot of times like typical what we're getting from big masala movies from all industries. Um a lot of times from Batons to KGFs to um the some of the Tugu um big big movies. >> Yeah. >> That just like um it didn't what came to mind was the last Lucifer that we saw with Muan. Oh, in the >> Yeah. >> Um and it just was style. >> Yeah. >> And style is cool. John Wick's got a lot of style. >> I mean, it's definitely looks like it has cooler style than that, but you need still need a little more than that. >> Yeah. It's it's it's not that's that was one of the issues we had, for example, with and a lot of people didn't. Again, there's an audience for it. But with KGF2, >> um I I don't want to sit through a three-hour commercial or music video. >> Yeah. >> Cinema is storytelling. Be unique, be unusual. It can be graphic. It can be violent, but make it believable and make it something that's compelling. Make it entertaining. This >> I feel like I if this is what you're advertising is, what's on the menu, >> it feels like it's going to be a lot of just isn't that cool? Isn't that stylish? And then even story-wise, all I'm getting is his kid's going to grow up to seek revenge. Okay. We've seen that how many times? >> Yeah, quite a few. If you're going to give me a revenge story, hopefully you're going to give me a revenge story that has something original or unique to it, which again, >> it might. >> It might. Don't fully judge the film by a trailer, but you can get an idea. This did not make me want to see the movie. >> Yeah, it's um >> especially with how excited I was for basically everything else >> that we've seen. Um >> Yeah, this gives me pause. I'm going to be waiting to hear what people have to say about it rather than showing up first show, first day. Yeah, like I said, there was some like a lot of these like the kid's a Joker. Uh obviously maybe it's he's he's in a circus. Maybe this is him as a kid. Obviously. Um there's there's a lot of different reasons for that. >> That that I believe is his son. That's where his son ended up cuz he said they made me dress up like a Joker. >> Yeah. >> And he's angry about it. >> There were some cool kills. Like I said, there were some cool looking shots. Um that guy looks like he's trying to be modernday um um Russell Crow. >> [laughter] >> at 129 because Russ grows that big old beard nowadays. >> U obviously lit a cigarette. Cool. Like I said, there's a lot of there's some cool stuff in there. >> A lot of yelling. >> A lot of yelling for sure. A lot of uh um dialogue that obviously is >> a lot of things that are obviously see. It's one thing for there to be a moment that when it happens, you're like, "That's cool." And it just happened organically versus you watch something and you see moments that were created because we're going to make this cool. >> Yeah. >> Like we Phoenix dancing down the stairs in Joker or having his moment in the bathroom. That works because it's just organic and it's doing something in the moment and they're not trying to be cool. They're trying to get down into the heart of this character and express what's going on with him versus often times, and this is what I saw here, was we did that because the director thought it would look cool, cinematographer thought it would look cool, the actor thought it would look cool, and that I check out. >> Yeah. >> Um >> but there's an audience for it. >> Um like >> people go to McDonald's. >> We'll wait to see um what people are saying here. >> Yeah. And also, why is your trailer four and a half minutes? >> Yeah, I don't get that. >> Four and a half. That's a third of the movie. >> You've almost made a short film. [laughter] >> Why? >> Yeah. [clears throat] >> Um, [snorts] and you still don't quite know what the movie's about, [laughter] >> right? >> Four and a half. >> No, it wasn't like And it wasn't like there was a break where you had a front half of the trailer in the second half. It was just what it was from start to end pretty much. >> The second half was more about whatever uh whoever this guy is. And I'm sorry for not knowing who he is. The actor I'm saying the guy that's with the covered in blood and all that kind of stuff. Um >> um but he also looked like he was doing kind of a I'm crazy stickick. >> Exactly. >> You know, we've we've said that before. We've seen in movies where certain people are acting psychotic or or they're >> acting like they're trying to be the I'm going to be do a joker. >> Yeah. And when you can see that somebody's trying to be something as opposed to just organically being something. >> It it doesn't help that I just came from my acting family this morning where I've watched people acting for 4 hours and the last actor that went up did a scene that was so good. Mhm. >> He uh he's an older actor who is portraying this guy at a group meeting and he's talking about a horrible thing that happened to a girl he really liked and the he didn't know at the time, but the husband of the woman found out. He didn't know she was married. And so he went to go to the house to talk to her. And the husband answers the door covered in blood >> and he sees a hammer on the stairs with hair on it. And what happens is the husband has killed his wife cuz he thinks she's cheating. and he's guilty because he feels like if I hadn't even just said hi to her, she wouldn't be dead and he's been haunted by it for his whole life. This guy's monologue was so damn good. It blurred the I one point I said to another actor afterwards, I went I didn't I for a split second I thought he was just given a stream of consciousness about an actual event that happened and just being like uh artistic in that regard versus memorized script. And when I told him that afterwards he took the script out of his jacket and he went, "No, it's it's really my lines." So to see something that organic and that believable, which is what most acting ought to be, >> it just didn't doesn't help. >> Didn't help. [laughter] >> Interesting. I'll be interested to see what you all think about this trailer. If you like it, if you didn't like it, what your thoughts on it are. Are you excited for this movie? And uh anything else we need to know down below. >> The biggest, the baddest, wackiest, funniest, filmiest show on Earth. >> [music]