282 ANOTHER ONE OFF THE LIST!

282 ANOTHER ONE OFF THE LIST!
Yoga and chair exercises are a topic of conversation before the gang digs into more films on their To Be Seen piles.
Also discussed: Presumed Innocent, Red Harvest, House of the Dragon.

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Oh, I'm sorry, did I break your concentration somewhere between science and superstition. We have such sights to show you strange eons. Welcome to strange eons radio. That is Eric over there, hello. That's Vanessa over there, hello. I'm Kelly. You guys, yes, I'm getting old, and I have been okay with getting old for the most part, but have you well, you might notice that my hair looks a little darker, so apparently not like to call it growing old disgracefully. And I decided to take up old man yoga. Excellent. Yes. I thought what I was getting was an old man workout, like chair yoga, but this is apparently just yoga. There's been no chair involved in this weird the weight loss has been minimal, but I am starting to limber up a little bit, which is good because, you know, bending over my back, listen my neck, my back, my pussy and my crack, all of it in pain most of the time. So K for the little beach ball rolling. So it's also hot as balls. So I'm seeing most of this in my underwear, and I'm sexy, thinking this would be an inopportune time for a home invasion, while I am attempting to downward dog with my ass in the air and this calming voice saying, keep your spine straight. And I was like, that's not happening with all of these movements. I'm trying to figure out, what are they trying to achieve here? Because I can't do what they're telling me to do. It's like, Now, keep your feet flat, knees straight, bend at the waist, palms on the floor. I'm like, That's not happening. So is this about stretching my back and my legs? Okay? I'll just bend down as much as possible. But then you get in, I don't know what it's called. You're you're resting your ass on your heels, and then you're bending forward, touching your forehead and and then she's like, now, take three deep breaths. Well, if you can imagine this gut pressed against my knee and my forehead on the floor. I'm like, I could hardly take any breath, much less a deep breath. So I don't know I'm I paid for this. I'm going to continue doing this. I think I'm also going to find the chair workout thing I was trying to find, and add that to the to the list. Either do that or they, you know, those little blocks they sell that are like mysterious for yoga. That's actually for that. It's for the stretches you can't quite reach and do all the it allows you to get that extra length. Oh, okay, just found this out interesting, yeah? Because so you can use like, or you can find a chair or a surface and do like part of you know, like, I see, yeah, I've got, I've graduated to the standing on one leg, and you've got your foot up against your knee and everything. And it's like, keep your balance. Meanwhile, I'm like, this the entire time, and my left leg not nearly as strong as my right leg, it turns out, but that's the leg that pops like a shotgun every time I stand up. So it's okay to reach your hand out and just like, lightly touch something so you don't fuck yourself. You guys will you guys will find me some Sunday morning that will come to record my Sundays. Kelly, it's called Downward Dog. Eric and I can't get out of it. You need like, one of those little lifelines that will help me feel younger. You're gonna do dangerous shit. It's yoga. Yes. Anyway, stand by what I said. Yeah. So that's what my life has been like for the last couple of weeks. Oh, nice. Wow. Do you watch anything spectacular while you're doing yoga? Well, I've been reading a lot, and I'm not reading anything spectacular either, but I'm reading something kind of interesting. It is called Red Harvest by Joe Schreiber. It is a Star Wars novel. It is a Star Wars horror novel. It is a zombie attack in the Star Wars world. Oh, my God. With. With Sith, Sith agents versus Zombies and dark magic and all this stuff. And it's the only reason I decided to buy the book. And I have to admit, in a very nerdy way, I'm really enjoying it. Well, that's good, yeah, wrong with that? Yeah, it's, it's a Walking Dead meets Star Wars, and the heroes are bad guys. So I was like, I'm actually kind of digging this nice. That's good. Yeah, it's called Red Harvest, if anybody else is nerdy in this particular kind of way and wants some zombies in their Star Wars. And the nerds that listen to this, the author of that, again, is Joe Schreiber, well, I've been spending a lot of time on a game that everyone else has played and beat many, many years ago, which is Fallout New Vegas, which I always thought was a DLC for Fallout three, but it is not. It is a whole separate game, which I was told. And I was like, Oh, crap. So what is a DLC? A DLC is downloaded, downloadable content, which means, basically, somebody built a game and then they put out, like, an extra chapter, or, you know, an extra levels, or, you know, an add on, of, like, now you can go into this part of the world, you can go in before, and then you pay a little extra. And then you don't have a whole new game, but you have part of an extension of a game. So I thought it was that, Nope, just a fully separate game. Started playing it, and, man, I forgot about how you can just play Fallout. And then, like, six hours go by and you're like, I was supposed to get to a shack that was like, 50 feet away. I still need to get to that shack. However, I've gone in four side missions. I've picked x number of berries. I've, like, killed this other rogue, outlaw, blah, blah, blah. So I've been playing this thing couple of sessions now, many hours in, and I just left the, like, starter town that you just begin to understand the world about, which is, yeah, so I'm like, Oh, hey, that's my next destination. But what about this, like other shack and this roadside and that hill over there? So this is a dangerous game for me, because time is valuable, but nonetheless, I haven't played it in a while, but Grand Theft Auto used to do that to me, like so Oh, look at that person's got something on their head. Let's go see what they want done exactly, exactly. It's so easy to just get lost in the side mission. I remember playing Fallout three, where Liam Neeson is your dad, and you're trying to save him. And I spent so much time not saving Liam Neeson, but eventually the game forced me further the plot for Liam Neeson. They're like, I know you're in this random place, but now this thing is gonna happen, and you're gonna have to get back on track. Come on. Come on. I was like, Ah, shit. Core Plot reimbursed. Would you like to hear my Liam Neeson impression? I do bananas. It's pretty good. I don't know what point he says that, but it sounds like that's how he would say it. Yes, I go with that. Sure. Yeah. I love it. So I've been watching presumed innocent on Apple TV, yeah, okay, so finally, they got away from a sci fi show, yeah, yeah. Jake Gyllenhaal plays the key role in based on the the book. It's on that same book. Okay, that's what I was curious. If it's the same, I imagine they're going to change the ending. I'm not sure yet, haven't it's, it's, uh, Apple does weekly releases on this one. So, Okay, interesting. Dean, I did not realize that it's like, oh, there's five episodes. It looks like looked up something. Oh, maybe that's all we watch. Like, five of them in a row. They're very good. And it's like, oh shit, they're still like, I think it's like a 10 or something. What have you gotten yourself into? But it's quite good. It's the there's one real big, and it's not a problem. It's just this story. Gyllenhaals character is really hard to like, and it's intentional. His he keeps doing it's like, is he the lawyer or the lead lawyer who's presumed innocent, but the acting is ridiculously good, but his character keeps doing little things like, stop being a dick. But it's not. It doesn't feel bad. It doesn't feel like they're screwing with his character to just make him a dick. It's just this is, this is the person this guy is, and he is. It's really, really well done. Again, fucking apple. TV, man, yeah. And the there's weird. There's a few very, very strange things in it, because it brings in dreams, oh, and couple of them are unexpectedly violent for a lawyer, procedural kind of show, like a heads exploding on camera, like, Oh my God. But yeah, if you like the lawyer kind of films, and you know, you think law and order is just not cutting the mustard, go for a really good one. I seem to remember this being one of the movies that I thought was, was fine, yeah, was it wasn't one of my favorite, though, of that group that came out. There's like five of them that came out at the same time. But I think this is a, definitely a deeper version nice. I think it was up for a bunch of Emmys too. Oh, was it? Yeah, I could see that. Then I just see that Apple is coming out with a time bandit series. Yes, yes. Lisa Kudrow, with Lisa Kudrow, no little people. Oh, really, and a diverse cast. And I was looking at just the poster of this and thinking about how much I love the movie going. I don't know that I needed a TV series about this. It's one of those, a wait and see, kind of just, you know, is it going to be Willow, or is it going to be something everybody seems to love Lisa Kudrow, and I'm not sure why friends like spectacular or something. I don't know. I mean, I liked her in Romeo and Michelle's high school reunion, but I think there was something else that people got really excited about her from because, well, that was friends. I mean, she had her own series that I think was, like, very highly regarded. I've seen her pop up as, like, the principal in, like, various movies. There's a lot of little side kind of things, but I know neither you guys like it, but friends is actually still spectacularly popular. Oh, no, garbage. And she was probably my least favorite person, but Oh, Ross was mine. Fuck that, but fuck that noise. She had a show that I think she played like an agent or something, and I remember that being very highly reviewed, and people really loving her and that, but I never gave it a try. And I don't know, I mean, I don't know if I will give this one a try. Wait. I will wait for you guys to talk about it. I don't know that I might be better, because I like time bandits, but I don't worship it like I know some people it's like, the greatest film ever made. Yeah, I loved it. And I like, I think it's fucking great. Anything Terry Gilliam is at least well worth checking out. Yeah, he is fantastic. And I read some weird comment or something by someone who's like, I'm not sure what the guy from Monty Python had to make a weird movie like this one. Okay, you must be really young and not aware of this guy's filmography, because this is right in character, yeah, and has been for many decades, yep, decades at least. What the 80s. I don't want to say this. Well, whenever you probably I don't. Well, he was involved with Holy Grail. Well, yeah, that would have been so, yeah, since the beginning of Monty Python, yeah. I mean, he did the, he did all the animation things, all the really weird animations. Was him. So, yeah, from day one, he's done weird art. Yeah, let's see. I could talk about something that's more on brand, but I think what I'm going to talk about is, a couple years ago, I watched Fletch for the first time, Chevy Chase. Okay? I have never seen it. I know a lot of people love it, yeah, it mostly annoyed me, sure. And I started thinking myself, you know, Ryan Reynolds must have loved this movie, because that character is Ryan Reynolds and his delivery, wild, all that stuff. And so then just yesterday, I decided I don't know why to watch Van Wilder, Ryan Reynolds national anthem that I have seen, and I thought it was pretty funny. He's one of those guys who has gotten much better looking as he's gotten older, but he's got the same delivery going on in this movie. And that brought me to this weird thing where I was like, I wish that this wasn't Van Wilder. I wish this was a origin story for Chevy Chase's character from Caddyshack. Wow, because Jesus, it just felt that way to me. He's a he's been in college for seven years now, and he does not want to deal with the real world and all this stuff. And everybody loves him, except for the snobby guy who hates him in college and all of this stuff. I thought it was kind of a fun little movie. Made me wonder what happened to Tara Reid, because she was the the No, she did Sharknado. Oh, poorly, but she was, she was fine in this and she was very pretty. And I was like, huh, whatever happened with her, you know, your description, starting with Fletch, to where you delivered was, like, those headlines or those things. It's like, I have no I did no idea where this headline was going, word for word, that was just like what you said. Listen, it was a real stream of consciousness. As I was making the decision to watch the movie, it all kind of fell and anyway, I guess the movie I'm talking about is Van Wilder, and I had some fun with it, and it was nice to see young Ryan Reynolds. I think this is kind of where he, like developed that character that he is, that he plays in every fucking movie that nobody realized was brilliant, until at one point they were like, Oh, shit, wait, this is a cool idea for Ryan Reynolds. What if he wasn't a romantic lead? And instead, yeah, I think that. I don't know if it's brilliant, but it finally clicked with Deadpool. But if you watch all of his movies, he's the exact same character in all of them. So most all of them, there's a couple like that buried. Oh, right, pulls out right by it far in March, that was one of the I saw that a weird way, way back. We back when I was working at Sun ghost. And every once in a while we do a carpet changeover. So all the managers would get together after stores closed. You'd empty the store out carpet. People come in and change the carpets, and then we'd go watch a movie while they did that, and that was one of the ones we watched during a carpet change. Buried van. No, it's been wild. I was like, as buried as like a you go back and you're like, Man carpet, huh, cool. Well, and of course, you watch that movies from 2002 so everybody in it has gone on to bigger and better things since then. And like, one of the one of the nerds that he helps out was on Big Bang Theory. And, of course, Cal in there from white, white castle. Yeah, Harold and Kumar, yeah, Dina and I watched that like last week. So, yeah, it's just one of those. Oh, that's what's his name, and that's what's his name, and that's the kid from that thing you do. And so, yeah, this is a very long winded way of saying. I watched Van Wilder yesterday guys, and I thought it was kind of funny. Cool. Yeah, well, you know, it got more interesting with the storytelling progression. Yeah, I seem to remember going on a Ryan Reynolds journey myself at one point, but I unfortunately watched the proposal. Okay, yeah, it's a really shitty film that's wild, but it's not van one. Well, I've been catching up on House of the Dragon season two, which is more of what you would expect. Yeah, it's a house of the dragon is is weird and that it's still got all the castle intrigue, but it seems to be lacking the grit and controversial concepts and ideas that part part made Game of Thrones, part of the reason Game of Thrones was so popular. Yeah, and they don't have a shit the one guy, the best character in the original Game of Thrones. Oh, my God, was it a Lannister? Yeah, it was it Jamie Lannister, no, it was the guy from I'd never watched for sure, read the Why am I throwing out the names Tyrion? But there's not a character like him, that whenever they're on screen, everything just focuses to their it's, I mean, the closest you get is Doctor Who, yeah, oh my gosh, yeah, that Matt Smith is a yeah, just because it's so out of character, it's fun to Watch. Yeah, he's fun to watch. But unfortunately, like, it's just there's not enough of him, and he's sidelined. Slash, does enough bad things that you kind of are like, turned off. Yeah, by him. Yeah. It's a weird one. And unfortunately, because it's been so long since watching House of Dragon season one, I'm just like. Like, who are these people? I watched the recap, and I'm like, Okay, I remember you're supposed to have the crown, but you don't, and you do, yeah, that needed to be about 25 minutes long. I know because it was a more than a year between season one and two. Yeah, it's just and it was really complex at the time, and then you're watching this stuff, going, Who the hell are you? I remember vaguely, maybe you're on the side of this team or that team, or who has dragons again? I mean, like the most basic plot elements are out the window because it's so complicated that the nuggets you can hold on to are just the absolute largest ones, let alone the little details. And like you were talking about, the original series got very far off of shock value. They're showing things that we had not really seen a lot of on TV. And it's like, oh my God, in the first episode, you know, somebody gets murdered or beheaded or whatever, and you're just off to the races. And this is like, well, there's nothing you can do, because we already know the absolute craziest places you can go in here. So they're like, let's kill a baby. You know what I don't want to see? Well, it also that did not work well, story wise, either, because he didn't follow the directions he was given at all. No, it was very confusing. Why are you killing this baby? It doesn't make any sense. Doesn't make any sense. And on top of it, the conversation he has with the mother, which I didn't even realize was the mother. I thought it was like the wet nurse, or like maybe another guy's wife, because it didn't dawn on me that she was choosing her two between her two kids, yeah, and then she was trying to outsmart him, and then it didn't work. I was like, What the fuck is happening? And I didn't know until the next episode that it was even her kids. I was like, oh, okay, glad we did that. Thanks, bros. Love ya. Peter Dinklage. Peter Dinklage is the guy that made the original Game of Thrones. Yeah? So, I mean, there's a lot of great in it too. Yeah, there's a lot of great characters in that first one, but, man, so good two things. It's gonna derail conversation, like we always do. I don't watch the show or anything, but I am a little angry at the Matt Smith pictures I've seen, because I'm like, Well, we're never gonna get a Elric movie now, because he looks like fucking Elric. He's writing a dragon. Does he have a black sword? He does not. Oh, well, something I saw, I was like, God damn it, this looks like it should be an Elric. There's actually a guy in there that's even more with his Reagan wing helmet and all this shit. There's another guy that's even more Elric, who's super emaciated and, yeah, so long like, No, they can't do that, because everyone will say, Oh, they're ripping off Game of Thrones for this new movie a couple years. People forget. And then secondly, speaking of Peter Dinklage, you saw the Toxic Avenger movie right? Shelved completely, not coming out is that. I was like, what happened here? What? Yeah, there's some weird distribution. Didn't want to do something. Instead of working it out, they just said, Oh, well, oh, sorry, guys, I feel like I'm the wrong person to have gotten a sneak peek at a film that's not coming out. I think I remember you saying you kind of liked it. Yeah, it was, yeah, it wasn't terrible, but I didn't love it either. I don't know. I felt like I was the least biggest fan in the audience because I hadn't seen the original, right? But it's so strange, because this was not like a trauma film. This was a big budget film, and, yeah, I just read that, and I was like, What is going on with this? Now it connects. This isn't Peter Dinklage in that too. Yeah, it all works. Yes, I was saying no, really great little moments in it. It does feel like they're trying to be trauma. And it does have head trauma. Guys in it. Lloyd Kaufman, yeah, he like, does a little like, wink, wink, no nod in it. So, and I think he has a credit, probably the Creator, yeah, that's crazy. I'm back on track. Eric, yeah, I'm gonna dive in on the movie of the moment right now, in the horror crowd, it seems, with long legs, Matt and I went and saw that at your old house of worship. Kelly, in Alderwood. Oh, Alderwood, yeah, the Alderwood 16, or whatever it is, okay? Boy, you know, I've been spoiled by the Cinemark theaters because it still has the old style seating and all that stuff. This is not I like this. We. Used to sit like this, but, but, boy, neat movie. Okay, it's um micaia Monroe is amazing in this film. Her role is weird and strange. You've seen it, right? No, oh, I think you have. I'm trying. I want to Soon she's she there's some strange choices she makes in the way she does the character, but they're interesting and she's fun to watch. Nicholas Cage is, of course, Nicolas Cage, Matt had an interesting point he made afterwards. It seems like the last few movies he's done like he's out of his tax problems. So he's picking, he's choosing deeper films that he really wants to dive into and act and not just be goofy, although at times he's over the top in this. But that's the character. It's less horror than I was expecting, but it's definitely horror. Lot of comparisons to silence of lambs, which I think is a little weird, other than it's just an FB, a female FBI agent going after Sarah killer. But the the I don't know, it's smart, it's interesting. It is weird enough and convoluted enough that it bears another viewing, okay, some kind of film you're like, I know I'm missing shit. What's going on here, but it is well worth checking out. It is very, very dark and dark and uncomfortable in a lot of ways. I have heard so many like whispers and rumors and excitement behind this film that I'm I can't wait to go check it out. Yeah, it's, I think, I don't know. It's back and forth. It's one of those films. Yeah, I don't know. People are maybe over, totally over happy. Well, maybe they're not, but but, I mean, the black coat's daughter, the guy did was also really good, and I haven't seen on the pretty thing that lives in the whatever that's called, oh, it's fine, but yeah, that's it. Had the black coat's daughter has. There's pacing, similar pacing in both of these films, where it's a deliberate but well worth watching. Even in it was packed. It was Wednesday night in Alderwood, and the theater was damn near packed, except for that Front Row, front separated area. There's like eight or nine people in there, but we were in the front row and the rest behind us. It's like, holy shit. There are crap ton of people in here. So that's a that's Perkins, that's directing longlegs oz. Perkins, yeah, okay, I have to admit, I have really enjoyed the marketing for this film. And the trailers don't really tell you anything, but they're so goddamn creepy that I was like, Okay, I like, I like the idea of not showing us a bunch of the film. It's a nice change, yeah, because before the damn movie started, I swear to God, there's more than 20 minutes of trailers. I have not seen that many trailers before a movie in a long, long time. The alien one was good, though, yes, can't we? We'll get to that. Why don't we take a little break, though, and then when we come back, we're going to be notching another one off of our to watch lists. 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This is last time you both picked movies off a list that you did not like, true. So I'm hoping this time you picked movies you might have liked. Oh, okay, give it another run through Awesome. Well, why don't you start us off? I'll give you 10 minutes on the buzzer. Nice. So this, this continues my dive into the coffin. Joe world, with this knight, I'll possess your corpse. Oh, God, You the second one in the series there. This is from 1967 no critic score, but a 69 from the audience, which sort of fits the it's available on shutter. It's also in a spectacular arrow box set and for rent in various places. Directed by Jose mohica marins coffin Joe, who's been in several of the movies. He's directed several of the movies, he's written several of the movies. He's also been in this strange host, the strange, hostile of naked pleasure and hell, fish flesh. Oh, my God. Written by alendoras de seporta, and the only film he's written and coffin Joe acting. Coffin Joe, he's also been in embodiment of evil, Ed mort, Cinna trash and Tina Wallers and Nadia Freitas, both, basically almost everybody else in this movie. This is, like the only film they've done. Movie starts with a saying that it takes place immediately after where at midnight I'll take your soul ended. So he's kind of writhing around, messing around with coffins and doing stuff. It's it's a weird film. The opening credits indicate that this is going to be one batche crazy movie, because it's filled with scenes you can see are going to be upcoming in the film, little flips and moments from it, plus then it'll stop and tell you a little bit of the story. Then it keeps going again, so it's a long credit sequence, but it's also telling the story, so it's not hard to watch. Shortly after the movie starts, you coffin, Joe comes riding into town, and everyone runs yelling. Doesn't want to see him. Go on and confront him. You're not a particularly well liked person. By the time he gets into the town, there is not a single person in the streets. He eventually, you know, finds some people and starts talking to them about how he feels that children are the most superior creations in the world. Too bad they grow up to be idiots. Is his line. There's a guy on an out of control during this shortly after the speech, you see a guy in an order out of control motorcycle about to plow into a group of children. So he runs over, scares almost all the children away, then the one kid that was left cough and choke grabs and takes to safety, and motorcyclist comes up to him, Oh, that's wonderful. It's so glad that God intervened to help us save this child. And coffin Joe turns looking, why not the devil already. So coffin Joe continues to be strongly anti religion. This is in this film. So by about this point, I don't know, 1520 minutes in, maybe a little longer i write. I'm not entirely certain what's happening in this film, cutting around to various women doing various things, maybe somebody's stalking or grabbing them. It's not really played real well, although, as the movie comes on, this comes to light, because nobody can figure out why all these women are disappearing. They all decide it must be cough and Joe and they are correct. Oh, he has decided, as the Superior Man, that he needs to find a superior woman to have his superior child. Oh, this is a man who, if he had x today with an alpha male in his description, because he isn't that's kind of a dick. So his idea he's got to find his perfect woman. What he does, he kidnaps all of them, puts them in a room wearing various shades of negligees, and unleashes a torrent of tarantulas. There are a lot of spiders in this scene, and as all the women are laying perfectly still, you can tell it is real, spiders crawling over them, some of them five or six at a time. And then as soon as they start to move that somebody came in and swept all the live spiders away and replaced them with little dangly spiders and stuff. So it's like, well, that was nice. They did that favor for them, but very impressed by the people who could sit still while seven or eight tarantulas are walking all over their nearly naked bodies. But one of the women does not get scared. So to coffin Joe, this must mean she is the superior woman, sure. And so he takes the rest of the women and gives them this weird choice of you can, like, die this way, or you can go through this door. So they all go through the door, and of course, then he closes the door, traps them and draws a whole bunch of snakes in there with them. And while he decides he's going to he's goes upstairs to impregnate the superior woman and to entertain during this action, he opens a hole to this cavern with all the women yelling and screaming while the snakes attack them. So the superior woman there decides, you know what, this ain't for me anymore, and she leaves. He doesn't kill her. She gets to just leave, because at one point she was the superior woman for him. But obviously she's not the woman to bear his male superior child only. Male, of course, this is quite a movie. I hate this film. It is crazy. This fucking sucks. He might want to avoid the coffin Joe movies because he's not the greatest person. Jesus, let's see. Then another woman shows up in town. Oh, do you suppose cough and Joe will be interested in this lady? They all look surprisingly similar. But this woman has no fear, says she has no fear, and is very similar to him in the way she acts and does things. So she must be the superior woman for him to impregnate. So he goes on to seduce her, which she completely wants. She wants to join with him and be with him. And she is all for it, because she likes the extreme evil you know, women never go for bad boys. So he had to work really hard to convince her to like him, but he has this horrible nightmare during the nightmare, or like premonition. What do you call it? The now, it's definitely not premonition, but the when you get fro. In and you see a demon, night terrors kind of like that are really creepy looking person painted up and in there, and then he wakes up in what appears to be hell. And suddenly the movie's spectacular color, incredibly vibrant, crazy color. And I say this movie's a little surprising for a film from 1967 because I don't know Brazilian standards, but there's a lot of nudity and a fair amount of not graphic, but implied sex and some really strange violence. This seems weird. Nothing blatant, though, just see through negligees or clay covered men and women butts and all this weird stuff. It's very strange. Phil, and he goes through there and gets in an argument with Twitch, who seems to be the devil, who is him in a different outfit. Oh my god. And I'm not entirely certain what he got out of doing this trip to hell, because he goes back to doing exactly what he was doing before. Anyways, so, but it's a neat scene. Boy is a cool looking scene. But do you gotta wonder, will he prove himself to be the superior male get a maybe baby made from his spawn and the perfect woman, or will she go really wrong for him by the end? Excellent. This is the 2023, reissue of the film from Arrow. And incredibly well issued. Of course, just looks spectacular, especially the color scene is just crazy vibrant. A Brazilian association of Film Critics lists this as one of the 100 best Brazilian films of all time. I'd be very curious to see what their number one choice is. Yeah, it is a much better constructed movie, as far as a story and things going together as convoluted is, it definitely makes a lot more sense than the first film. The first film is basically, I'm just wandering around being an asshole this one, no matter how bad his intentions are, he does. Character does have a motivation other than just being a dick, just kind of all he is in the first film. But yeah, so I'm curious, how did this film end up on your list of films to see you one day, coffin Joe. I've been curious about coffin Joe as a film character. He's kind of the Vincent Price of Brazil, and he, I mean, he has a, can't remember how he's got, like, six or seven coffin Joe films. He was a horror host for short films and on TV and stuff. He's just this bizarrely interesting character out of Brazil that's very reminiscent of a if Joe Bob was played he played himself in movies. That's just, why? Why do you hate women so much? There? That was my follow up question. I didn't make the fucking movie, and I'm also not recommending the movie necessarily, unless you're interested in Brazilian coffin Joe films, which I know, I know a few people are that listen to this absolutely. But you know, if you're going to avoid heavily sexist films, your film watching catalog is going to get very small very quickly. No, I understand. I'm just, I'm just saying I'm allowed to react to, hell yeah, shittiness of the situation. Oh yeah, he's a fucking dick. I mean, I don't know if she's seen some of the guys on X that call themselves alpha male. I have not. Oh, they are treats. Holy, smoke, a source. Vanessa, I'm giving you 10 minutes. Good call. All right. Well, I'm going with a film that I think blew both your socks off that I had not seen, which is the film The Crow you people once believed that when someone dies, a crow carries their soul to the land of the dead. But sometimes, just sometimes, the crow could bring that soul back to put the wrong things right. I You're all going to die. Is that gasoline? I smell you. Victims, aren't We all should yes, this was a surprise to find out you hadn't seen the crowds, 1993 1994 Rotten Tomatoes. Score of 86% from critics and 90% from audience. Budget of 23 million. Box office of 94 million. Nice did very well. Directed by Alex Preuss, who has 39 credits, including Dark City, iRobot knowing and Gods of Egypt. What a shotgun of films I have seen. Dark City, I think I might have talked about it for the show, but it's a pretty cool film. I think this is more in line with that film written by James O bar who did the original crow comic. David J schroe, who has 18 credits, including Leatherface Texas. Jane Saw Massacre, three critters, three and four and five episodes of The Hunger show. John Shirley, 19 credits, including a lot of cartoons like The Real Ghostbusters, Robocop spawn and the 2014 TMNT series. Also wrote on Star Trek DS nine for like an episode starring Brandon Lee as Eric Draven, son of Bruce Lee. 10 credits to his name, including rapid fire showdown in Little Tokyo. I know I've seen one of his films, but I can't remember which one. Sophia sheenas as Shelley, 13 credits, including terminal velocity, hostile intent in ripperman, Ernie Hudson as the cop in this 261 credits, including Ghostbusters, the reboot of Quantum Leap, transformers, prime Oz and Leviathan, among many others. Michael wing caught as top dollar 68 credits, including Strange Days, Three Musketeers and what I was going oh my god, oh my god, oh my god. During which is he played antlers Holst in which is the DP in nope, like I cannot get out his rendition of the green eyed, three eyed, whatever that song, anyway, Purple People eaters, Also in this film, Tony Todd, Michael Massey, David Patrick Kelly, Lawrence Mason and John Pulido plot each year on Devil's Night in a crime ravaged. I think alternative universe version of Detroit. People light things on fire, destroy things, and crime is just crazy. Criminals take full advantage of the night. And we know this because the cops who after we see a pan through the city of about 50% of the buildings on fire. The cops say, hey, crime is down this year. Weird. A young woman, however, is raped and killed while her fiance is shot and thrown to his death from their loft apartment window police sergeant Daryl Albrecht. Albrecht goes with Shelly to the hospital, but she succumbs to her injuries. We hear from a vo done by a little girl that a crow carries the souls to the land of the dead, or it is said to be but if a person dies in a tragic circumstance, the crow can resurrect that restless spirit and bring them back to set things right one year later, which is kind of confusing, because I don't think it's said one year later, we just know that we're coming back around to that night again, and the little girl seems a little bit more chill than she was in the previous scene, Sarah, the young girl who Eric and Shelly basically took care of, goes and visits their grave and is like, oh, man, sucks. Miss you guys, then goes and gets a hot dog with police officer that we had seen from the year previous, a crow then lands on Eric's grave, taps it and resurrects Eric. He returns to his apartment and experiences flashbacks of the murders. He gets the visions of what happened and the gang who killed him and Shelly. Eric realizes that he also has the ability to immediately heal from any injuries. He puts on some black and white face. Paint and sets out to avenge himself and Shelly with the help of the crow. Who can he can see through the eyes of so it kind of scouts things out for him. We also meet top dollar, who is the crime boss, who has set, had set the gang on the couple to basically evict them from the building in the most really uncontrollable way possible. They could have just said, Hey guys, could you get out? Nope, I do rape and murder them. He and his girlfriend, top dollar and his girlfriend, slash, I guess sister, as he says later, are surrounded by drugs and a dead woman, whom the sister carves the eyes out of and uses as a kind of fortune teller thing to tell top dollar that someone is coming for him. We then see Eric, of course, go through take revenge, one person by one person at a time, all the way through the gang until he gets to top dollar himself in a final showdown. In the meantime, he is, of course, getting help from the cop and the kid the did this film is way more like the character of the crow. Is way more cocky, funny and personable than I thought he would be. I thought he was just like an unstoppable killing machine in goth makeup. No, he's like, really fucking fun, really cool. Of course, Brandon Lee does a great, great job. Also, of course, the villain, who I had just mentioned was the DP guy from Nope. He's so fucking fun and cool as the villain, I mean, he's horrible, he's absolutely horrible, but he's kind of also hilarious and the the lines he presents, and it feels like there's some improv going on. Tony Todd is also great with his bendy glasses. At one point he's just like, puts on glasses, bends around ear. Fucking great. He doesn't have to say other thing in the entire film, he's already so fucking cool. This The only downside of this film, which, by the way, I absolutely love this. This was so good. This was so fucking good. Only downside is, this is the birth of so many pretentious, irritating guys who then went on to mimic themselves as thinking they were outsiders, but also so fucking clever. And above it all, I have met guys impersonating the crow so many times in high school, and they were all fucking dicks. They were not as good as this guy, and fuck them for trying. Oh god, that is the only bad part. However, I did enjoy the 90s. She Shelley's wearing at one point, this black velvet long dress so cool the evil sister chick was literally wearing a pair of heels that I owned. And I was like, Oh, those were the best heels. I missed those. There's leather, long leather coats. There's skinny black clothes, chunky duck Martin boots, candles, fucking candles everywhere, red painted rooms. I don't know why we were into it in the 90s people, but we were, there's cat, there's goth. So much goth, there's a lot of Goth. You know, this film could have been irritating as hell. It really could have just been on the nose and just not good. But the way that this film is done, I feel like it creates a world that we then spend time in, and it's not the place we don't want to be. It just works. The shots are really fantastic. And even though it's early CGI and a lot of it, it's still really fun. And I think they did a pretty good job close ups of the crow. Crow is best crow actor I've ever seen, even though I know he's a raven, but still, good job story, of course, this the story behind this is super tragic. Everyone listening already knows this. However, trivia, Brandon Lee died during the making of this film. It is from a mix of the low budgetness, the changing of the scene at the last minute, the armorous, winning going home early, all of this kind of resulted in a horrific tragedy in the flashback scene of Lee's character, Eric being shot in the apartment and Shelley getting raped. There was a dummy cartridge and a prop gun that had blanks in it, but unfortunately, had a mix of this sort of primer and bullet from the dummy round still being in there is a very complex set of things that occurred that essentially meant that when the shot was meant to go off, instead, it acted like a live round, and it shot Lee in his abdomen. He was taken to hospital, but of course, died. Lee was just like his character, engaged to be married about a week after filming was meant to commence. Just to add to that, O bar, the comic author, had made this based off of his fiance, who had died in a drunk driving accident. He said he regretted making this film because it felt like losing his fiance all over again, and he wished he'd never written the comic in the first place. Wow. Yeah, the filmmakers had decided to go ahead and. Finished the film. They actually only had three days of filming left that had not been completed. Lee's fiance gave her blessing, and Miramax agreed to release the film. They added the narration scenes and used Lee's stunt double as a stand in and then did some digital face replacement. I actually thought it was really well done. I couldn't tell, I could tell maybe a couple of wide shots, but most of the time I couldn't tell which scenes he'd been replaced in. They also got rid of, they fully got rid of a character to make it just work. There were also several other accidents that befell the production crew. A carpenter suffered serious burns in his upper body during the first day of filling a manual worker had a screwdriver get embedded in his hand. An equipment truck burst into flames. A stuntman broke several ribs after falling through a roof. A rigger was horribly electrocuted. A disgruntled set sculptor went berserk and drove his car through the props room, destroying it, and hurricane destroyed several of the sets. Also, Coke was rampant on the set. Shockingly, a sequel was released called, of course, of course, the crow City of Angels. There were plans to remake it starring Jason Momoa in 2018 but Momo left the project, as did Luke Evans. Evans didn't want to ruin Brandon's iconic role and felt unworthy. It's okay. No one will ever remake this movie because it is such a specific of its time piece that we don't we don't have to worry about that part of what so many of the sequels miss. Yeah, is, and it comes up with the people you're talking about that were doing the crow and as a as a real life person, what makes this movie work so well is not the revenge, it's the love and the caring that the cat that he's got that sends him into the revenge. Yeah, there's plenty of movies where guys just go out and shoot people that wronged them, but this works differently because the motivation and the pain and everything that Brandon does in that role, yeah, is it's hard to watch. It is times, you know, I tried to watch one time when my head said my head was not in a great place, and I couldn't finish it. I'm like, Nope, this is too much angst right now, but I'm glad you liked it. That is very cool. Yeah, no, I'm really glad that I liked it too, because I was really worried. I mean, especially with these classic films that are super stylized and a bunch of douchebags tend to obsess over I worry. I worry not you guys. I'm just saying the guys from the 90s that we are in my high school. We've all know those guys too. Yeah, from high school at that time later. Yeah. I mean that just layers on an extra level, level of intolerant ability to it. But I'm it was so it was so good. It was just such a such a great film, and I can see re watching it in the future. And like you said, I mean, not only his love for her, but his love for the little girl, and his showing up for her over and over again, his hanging out with the cop and just having funsies times they're just chatting away like there were just really good moments. He was not an unstoppable killing machine. He was like a dude. I think the real tragedy is that this would have turned Brandon Lee into a superstar. Yeah, everything because he could. He was a better actor than his dad. And, you know, basically been taught by his dad. So, I mean, you can tell, like, when it turns more into his stunt double doing work than him, because his, I feel like his stunts were really smooth and looked really good. And also, yeah, he like, lost 40 pounds for the role. He looks incredible. He's loving it. He's having a great time doing it. Yes, it is so unfortunate. So so unfortunate. Yeah, yeah. I'm glad that you were able to not just one off. This is one that I would have thought every goth girl has seen, no but I had seen, you know, like fucking nightmare before Christmas I set out in theaters, I had the watch from Burger King. Well, that's the same guys. I don't remember a crow Burger King watch. So although they think they were, there were tie ins to this film when it came out. But not like that, all right, 10 minutes for myself. Now I am talking about a film called death in Brunswick. Let's start at the beginning. That's car. Now, the one thing that everyone agreed on was the car was slightly unusual. Stupid bastard. Make a decision. Yeah, hopeless. Car. Hopeless. When are you going to grow up? He would have been a better man if he'd finished university, but the one person who never put him down was Sophie. Oh, Sophie, Carl. So it was obvious when Carl and Sophie got together, we all thought you were a poor it had to be something special. What are you doing? Oh, nothing much, just sitting around thinking about you. Like all true romantics, they thought the world belonged to them. Not everyone agreed. How old is she? She's beautiful. Very beautiful. She's exceedingly common. I can imagine. How old is she? She likes me. Why don't you tell her the truth, just for once. How old is she pal? Try to think of it, not so much as losing a daughter, but more like gaining a son. But something rather magical have happened to Carl as this movie so clearly proves come I didn't met you years ago because I was still in school. There is love. They've met me now, laughter, this is how you do it, and life before, after and during death in Brunswick. I don't want to look like this anymore. Look at me when it all hits the fan. What's happened to you? Poor old Carl just forgets to duck. Fell over Sam Neill, Zoe carides and John Clark an award winning performance, probably was that you must have been me sorry, death in Brunswick from 1990 I could find no budget. The box office is about. That can't be right. I'll get to the box office because I have some trivia about it, the Rotten Tomatoes. Critics give it 67% the audience gives it 62% Written and directed by John ruling, who has seven credits, including Queensland blood money and dead letter office. And it is based on the novel by Boyd oxlade. Have you guys seen death and Brunswick? Have you even heard of death and Brunswick? I have no idea what this is. Starring Sam Neill. 154 credits, including the final conflict, possession, Jurassic Park, event horizon and in the mouth of madness. Also starring Zoe karades, who has 90 credits, including the black balloon, the kiss, the real adventure begins and Terminus. And John Clark, who has 38 credits, including ghost can do it, Cracker Jack and 36 episodes of Clark and DAW also Doris Yunnan, a Deborah Kenny and Boris Merker. Okay. Wow. You guys, death and Brunswick, this movie has been on my two watch list for 20 years for one simple reason. It is Sam Neill. He's one of my favorite actors, whether he's Damien Thorne in the final conflict, or Alan Grant in Jurassic Park, or John Trent in the mouth of madness, or William we are in event horizon. You kind of have an idea of who this guy is going to be. Now, if I tell you that the genre of this film, it's Australian. It's an indie film. It's crime comedy, where Sam Neill is the lead. You already know what you're getting, right? He's going to be either a vicious crime lord who's on the warpath. We watch him, he's always cool. He's always very likable, whichever side of the law he's on. In this film, Sam Neill plays Carl, a 34 year old loser who's living with his domineering mother. He's somehow a drunk and a nerd at the same time, extremely unlikable. Right from Scene one, we first meet him as he is awakened by a clattering noise outside his window. So he groggily puts on clothes and goes out to see what the noise is. And it's a couple of empty beer cans that are being blown around by the wind. So he stomps them flat so they can't make noise anymore, and this is the example of the kind of character he is. He will he just stomps him flat, walks away, leaves garbage right there outside his window, and he will always take the easiest way out for everything. When his mother tells him that he really needs to get a job, he goes down to a local bar to apply as a cook. He gets the job, and is immediately annoyed that he got the job because they put him to work that day. And he makes friends with the other cook there, a man named Mustafa. But more importantly, he meets Sophie, who is a barmaid at the pub, and she's young and beautiful, and they hit it off. She's taking her little brother to the movies. Later and invites him along. And he goes home and cleans himself up, slicks his hair back, and puts makeup on his face, like, like, concealer, that kind of stuff, in an effort to look a little younger. And then he heads to the theater. He meets Sophie and her little brother, who immediately makes fun of the makeup on his face. And then they go to the movie while he's rubbing the makeup off, the movie they are watching is howling three the marsupial, oh, my God. Not sure why I enjoyed that so much, but I really did. The scene looked so funny. I was like, I might have to watch this movie again. I know it's bad, but anyway, Carl and Sophie hit it off, and she drags him home where they have sex. And we find out Sophie is 17. Carl balks at this a bit, but Sophie assures him it's fine. Her friend is 17 and married to a 40 year old, but also they better make sure her dad doesn't find out. Meanwhile, it turns out that Mustafa, his friend at work is also a drug dealer, and when the restaurant owners find out, they beat him up. And when Carl comes to work that evening, Mustafa thinks it was Carl who told the owners about his drug dealing, so he attacks Carl. Unfortunately, Carl is holding a very sharp fork tine thing for skewering meat, and Mustafa runs into it and skewers himself and dies. Oh, God, Jesus. So Carl is beside himself, but he also sure he will go to prison for murder. So he calls his buddy, Dave, who is a grave digger, and they decide to hide the body. The easiest place, of course, is in the open grave of someone else whose husband will be buried above her the following day. And Dave is like, we'll just hide him in the coffin of the old lady. She's got to have decomposed enough. And when they open the coffin, she is not decomposed enough. So Dave jumps in the coffin and starts stomping her flat so they can fit this. Ah, mom. It is a pretty uncomfortable scene. But meanwhile, Carl is making you hate him more and more every minute. The next day, Mustafa's wife and son come to the restaurant and ask Carl if they know what, if he knows what happened to Mustafa. And he's like, Oh, I have no idea. I haven't seen him, but he is so wracked with guilt that he gives his pay to Mustafa's wife, even though his friend Dave says, that's going to make you look pretty suspicious. And then the next day, Mustafa's son sees Carl at a pool with Sophie, and knowing that Sophie is also having a relationship with one of the Greek owners, Mustafa's Turkish friends, confront Carl, and this all kind of culminates in a third act that has Carl kind of on the run. It's a small town, and he's he's just kind of basically missing everybody who's looking for him. So he's not really on the run, and he's such a loser, he has nowhere to go, all this stuff. Everyone who sees him wants to beat him up, but the stakes are never really anything more than that. There's a boy loses girl moment and stuff that follows that is very predictable, but the whole thing wraps up in a way that I thought was mostly humorous, if not very satisfying. So in the end, I'm glad I finally saw this, but it's not making my favorite discovery list or anything like that. Tagline, his wife left him, his mother moved in, he killed his assistant, and now he's in love. Trivia, according to immendally at the website the island continent, this Australian movie, quite quote, has been credited as the first modern Australian black comedy. UNQUOTE, the movie features two male leads, Sam Neill and John Clark. This is an Australian movie. Both Sam Neill and John Clark are kiwis, not Aussies. Sydney Morning Herald film critic Rob lowing praised the performances of Sam Neill Zoe carides and John Clark. Lowing described the film as a gem of a black comedy, and certainly the best that Australia has produced in years now. Remember, this was 1990 so back then, the film's closing sequence is a reference to the biblical story of The Last Supper, with this visual esthetic being designed around the painting of it by Leonardo da Vinci. And it is a very obvious last supper image that they go out on. And then here it is, okay death and Brunswick gross almost 3 million at the box office in Australia. It was the second highest grossing Australian film of the year behind green card. Remember Gerardo and all that? So I decided to look up what green card made 38 million. So death and Brunswick would call a very distant second place. So yeah, it's off my list. It he's Sam is playing. So. Against type for himself in this movie that I was a little disappointed. Look at this motherfucker. I know, I know Jesus Christ. I know well, and now he's got some kind of horrible cancer and he's dying. He basically wrote a book talking about undying all that stuff. But he is one of my favorite actors. And this was just a very weird thing, because he always looks like that in every movie. He looks well put together and well dressed. He's wearing like a loose bay T shirt. And how old is he meant to be in this 34 Oh, god, yeah, okay. It's pretty funny when he's he's in the back of a cab, making out with this girl, and she finally, he says, you know, how old are you? And she says, 17. And he kind of pushes her away. And he's kind of stretch it, trying to come to terms with this. And he's like, she's like, how old are you? And he goes, 34 four. Look up the posters for this thing. Yeah, it's, it's, guys should look this up. These are two very different advertising, yeah, yeah. And the one that I saw was the knife one. And I remember seeing that years ago and going, Oh, I bet you, this is gonna be great. He's some kind of weird serial killer or something like that. No, that's too bad. So we're gonna have to do this one more time so I can get a movie I really like off of my list. Well, see the weird part for this one is mine was off, but it wasn't bad, but it was not good the movie I watched. So you got this one definitely have to do. I don't know that we can do another one, because what if I pick wrong? Again, wrong? No, you didn't pick wrong with tombstone. You just had a strange reaction to it. I You didn't like it. That's fine. Nothing wrong with that. And I'm assuming you at least like this a little bit better than the one yes from Poughkeepsie. I mean, there was some some pretty funny moments in this. You know, him pacing back and forth while his friend is stomping on the old lady's corpse to try and make room for the body that they could have put in there. That was very funny. Oh my gosh. He stomps on her head and Sam Neil Carl is up above it. He's like, Oh my God. What does that smell like? Oh no. So anyway, that means it's my subgenre pic, and I want to try something kind of different. Eric, you were talking about you saw the trailer for the new alien. Looks really fucking cool. I was thinking that every once in a while, we might pick a franchise that has a number of movies, and each of us picks a film from that franchise, and that franchise to start this off with, is going to be the Alien franchise. Nice, cool. So I would say anything but the first one, hey, it's got like, Walter Hill connections. That's true. That is absolutely true. Eric, how has he not directed an Alien film? Man, I Well, his connection beyond the first one has always just been executive producer, because he was smart enough to get in on that first movie. So he's had nothing to actually do with any of the other films. Just collect the check. Yeah. So, okay, so we're going to be talking about Alien films, you know? And there's some really good ones in there, yeah? Sure, there are some really bad ones in there. Choose wisely. Oh, man. Okay, so here we are at the end of the show. 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