Lightning Round: AI Movies, Ariana Grande’s Star Power & NY Fashion Week | Fast Five Shorts
The lightning round covers fashion films, Ariana Grande's talent level, and AI-generated movies, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Mirakl, Ocampo Capital, Infios, and Quorso.
From Chris's surprising Zoolander pick over Devil Wears Prada to Anne's rating of Ariana Grande as a perfect 10, plus discussion of OpenAI's $30 million AI movie "Critters" and the upcoming Spinal Tap sequel. Quick-hit entertainment takes that connect back to retail and culture.
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Chris, let's go to the lightning round.
Speaker ALet's close it up here.
Speaker AOmni Talk is heading out to cover New York Fashion Week right after this podcast.
Speaker AChris, but most importantly, what is your favorite fashion related movie?
Speaker BOh, man.
Speaker BThe easy answer here is Devil Wears Prada.
Speaker BBut I, believe it or not, I actually think that movie is really overrated.
Speaker BI haven't seen it in a while.
Speaker BI need to watch again, but I think it's really overrated.
Speaker BI'm guessing I'm going to get barbs for that one.
Speaker AThe next one's coming out, so you better watch it soon.
Speaker BI know, and without Adrian Grenier too, which I'm super, super excited about because he was terrible in that movie.
Speaker BI'm going with Zoolander Anne because Zoolander is such a setup of the fashion industry and Anne I can respect anyone that can read minds.
Speaker AOh my God, it's.
Speaker AThat is such a good movie.
Speaker AIt really is the.
Speaker AOne of the best fashion movies.
Speaker AMy favorite was the Isaac Mizrahi documentary.
Speaker AI really loved that.
Speaker BIn the 90s.
Speaker AOr something.
Speaker BDocumentary.
Speaker BOkay.
Speaker BI didn't think documentaries were, were in, in, in, in play.
Speaker BOkay.
Speaker BI'd have.
Speaker BOh, for sure.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker BDocumentaries are at play.
Speaker BI can't think of a fashion documentary either, other than like the Abercrombie and Fitch salacious documentary I watched.
Speaker AHey, that's in the consideration set to whatever you want.
Speaker AWhatever you want.
Speaker BThat, that doesn't beat Zoolander.
Speaker BThe walk off between Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson is an all time classic.
Speaker BAll right.
Speaker BAriana Grande's Eternal Sunshine tour tickets will start to go on sale this week.
Speaker BOn a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rank Ariana Grande's talent level?
Speaker BI'm curious where you're going to come down on this.
Speaker AI think she's an 11.
Speaker AI mean, she is, she's incredibly talented.
Speaker AI'm not her biggest fan by any means, but I don't think anybody can deny her talent.
Speaker ATriple threat.
Speaker ALike smart businesswoman, great actress, great singer.
Speaker AI think she, I think she's got it all.
Speaker AAnd, and yeah, I mean is.
Speaker AShe can command the, the prices per ticket.
Speaker AWe'll just say that she's, she's charging right now.
Speaker BSo Ayanna Grant is the tp.
Speaker BShe's your tp.
Speaker BShe's the total package.
Speaker BAnd that's amazing.
Speaker AYeah, I would say so.
Speaker AI'd say so.
Speaker AShe's.
Speaker AShe's doing well for herself.
Speaker BAll right.
Speaker AWhat, what do you think of her talent level?
Speaker BOh, I, I definitely go eight or nine.
Speaker BI Think she's.
Speaker BI mean, when I saw her in Wicked, she crushed Wicked, and so that's a whole nother game.
Speaker BSo.
Speaker BYeah, I think.
Speaker BI think she's very talented.
Speaker BI don't know.
Speaker BI go 11.
Speaker B11 to me is like Michael Jackson.
Speaker BLike, there's only so many people.
Speaker AOh, yeah, okay.
Speaker AOkay, so I'll temporary.
Speaker AI'll.
Speaker AI'll bring her down to a 10 then.
Speaker ABut she's.
Speaker AShe's not an 11, but a 10.
Speaker AWe'll.
Speaker AWe'll give her a 10.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker AOkay.
Speaker BMaybe not Michael Jackson, because I don't know if you can still say Michael Jackson.
Speaker BSo maybe like Elvis Presley or something like that or, you know.
Speaker AOkay, she's gonna go in the hall of fame.
Speaker AShe'll be in the hall of fame someday.
Speaker AI think we'll give her that accolade.
Speaker AAll right, Chris.
Speaker BI won't ask you if she's more talented than Taylor Swift, though, ad.
Speaker BBecause that could be a whole can of worms that we don't want to open up.
Speaker AI mean, yes, that is going to open up an entire new can of worms.
Speaker AAnd are we talking vocal talent?
Speaker AAre we talking writing?
Speaker ALike.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker AAll right, Chris, question number three.
Speaker AAccording to the Wall Street Journal, OpenAI is using its artificial intelligence tools to help produce a feature length animated movie called Critters that will take less than nine months to make and less than $30 million to create.
Speaker AThey will be debuting this film at the Cannes Film Festival.
Speaker ACannes Film Festival.
Speaker AYou've been seeing a lot of movies lately, but I want to know, would you pay to see an AI generated movie in the theaters?
Speaker BYeah, we.
Speaker BWe.
Speaker BYes, I would.
Speaker AOkay.
Speaker BBut I would.
Speaker BYeah, I have no problem with that.
Speaker BAs long as it's good content and it's been creatively put together.
Speaker BI think it's just a new form of artistic expression, honestly, at the end of the day.
Speaker BBut yeah, I will say $30 million, when that's the line of demarcation.
Speaker BThat seems super freaking expensive to me.
Speaker BLike, that's.
Speaker AApparently, that's like minuscule dollars for a movie production budget.
Speaker BWow, that's crazy to me.
Speaker BI'm surprised they can't get that much, much lower.
Speaker BBut, yeah, I'd be interested to watch it and see what it is.
Speaker BYeah, I don't have a problem with it, do you?
Speaker ANo, I mean, but the thing that I like about this is they're still using artists to create the original character.
Speaker ALike human artists to create the original character.
Speaker AThey're using talent to do the voiceover of these things.
Speaker ASo there still is something contributing to that production budget, but now it sounds like they're just going to be able to take that one image and then make that whole movie out of that one image.
Speaker BIt takes humans to create the final product, you know, at the end, so.
Speaker BRight.
Speaker BAll right, last one.
Speaker BWe're giving a lightning round a new definition today, and.
Speaker BAll right.
Speaker BThe New Orleans Film Society is set to partner with the Broad Theater to present an exclusive advanced screening of Spinal Tap.
Speaker BThe End continues in late October.
Speaker BAnd this is funny because when was the last time you used the phrase dialed up to 11?
Speaker BI think you actually just used it not that long.
Speaker AI mean, I didn't.
Speaker AI didn't dial it up to 11 for my answer for Ariana Grande, but I basically said 11 because of this movie.
Speaker AIt allowed us to give an 11 on a 1 to 10 scale.
Speaker ABut I feel like we use this monthly on the show, so.
Speaker ASpinal Tap, thank you for.
Speaker AFor your contributions.
Speaker BYeah, I can't wait to see that movie.
Speaker BOh, my God.
Speaker BI saw him on Jimmy Kimmel the other night.
Speaker BIt was great.