Alex Ross Perry

You said that you can see watching this movie that Peter Weir felt like he was ready to hang it up, which is what I felt watching Buster Scruggs at Walter Reed, a truly dispiriting screening.

It is.

That is an embarrassment.

That is an embarrassing one.

You were saying every Coen Brothers thing is embarrassing.

Not everyone.

Just to me, like, Peter Weir is a guy.

I don't think I have a movie of his in my brain that's below a three-star film.

so great that we got you on for this series.

I wanted you to do Weir for a long time.

We're doing it.

But to me, I feel like that is a body of work that has some real lows for me.

He simply can't make a bad movie, in my opinion.

No, he did not make a bad movie.

Largely because he changes what he's doing so much.

And because oftentimes his instincts are just... This is what's so sad to me about the industry failing him, as Mr. Hawk pointed out, and as is obvious from this movie's release and everything.

Like, how can we fail a guy like this?

Did we fail him?

He had an enormously successful career.

the contraction that happened in the 2010s, you know, he's like the kind of guy you picture a scene, like some guy who's been at the company for 25 years has been a top salesman gets brought in.