306 COLLETTE'S GO!

306 COLLETTE'S GO!
The gang goes wild with movies featuring Toni Collette!
Also discussed: Frankie Freako, The Primevals, Matilda the Musical.

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We had one really silly problem with our kitty litter box, where, once it starts moving, if a cat touches it, it stops. Yes, I have a cat that will leave nothing alone. Months into having this thing, every time it would start to go, we'd go, pop. Oh, I'm sorry. Did I break your concentration somewhere between science and a superstition. We have such sights to show you. Strange eons. Welcome to strangeeons radio. That is Eric over there. Hello, that is Vanessa over there. Hello, and I am Kelly. Hey guys, great to see you in person again. I love that. We are busting into February here very shortly, and the year is going by quickly. I was reminded that, you know, cryptocon is only a couple months away now, and you just did something screening, right, that had crypto logo on it. Yeah, good old Steve Lang, the guy who handles the guest for crypto town, Seattle, put together a little screening of sleepaway camp with Felicia rose coming up and doing live commentary during the movie. Is Steve throwing in this couple wonderful one liners during the event, because, you know, Steve's a pretty funny guy, Canadian and the so I, he asked if I could help out. Sure, I'll help. Like, okay, you're gonna sit with her and take the money for the autographs. Like, I've never done that before. But okay, luckily, she is a wonderful person, very sweet. I was reminded of when we saw Clive Barker all those years ago. Yeah, because the the line was really slow moving, just like Barker's. But nobody cared, because you could see that he was spending great time with everyone. It wasn't like he was paying a whole lot of attention to that one person, then ignoring everyone. And she did the same thing, neat, and she was just a joy, and pointed out things in the movie I'd never known, like a replacement actor that shows up at one point, and a few things like that. Like the lady that goes over in the canoe goes upside down, is one woman, but when they pull her out of the water after rescuing her from the canoe with somebody else. There's a lot of accidents on this lake. Yeah, there's not a lot, not a lot of money in that movie. But it was a great experience, and it was sold out show. Oh, good. So I'm hoping Steve will do this again with someone and just was a lot of fun. Well done, Steve. Yeah, if you're local, cryptocon has been doing stuff like this all through the year. So the festival, the convention, happens in May, but then throughout the rest of the year, they're sponsoring stuff like this. And so you should really be on the cryptom page or on Eric's page, because I know you promote the heck out of all that stuff too, and look for these really neat opportunities. Okay, guys, I have seen some cool stuff. Oh, good. First one I'm going to talk about is a movie on shutter called the primevals. The primevals. This is a funky movie that just came out. It says 2024 on it. I saw the trailer for it, and it said coming in, 2024 and I was watching this movie, and I was like, this is definitely not from 2024 the hairstyles look like the early 90s, and the stop motion looks like the 60s. And it just looked like a lot of fun. So I watched it came on shutter, and it is a it's a full moon and but it was originally supposed to be an empire film, because it filmed in 88 and all the stop motion stuff is the stop motion students who were making this film back then, or actually it was a big stop motion effects guy that was making the film back then, who died, and the film basically got shelved. And then through some kind of Kickstarter, they brought in these stop motion students to finish the effects and use the footage they had shot. And then, you know, added some stuff from like last year to make this really neat movie about yetis. Oh, okay, and I know what you're talking about now, okay, and it is available on shutter for free now, and it is so much fun. It is really a neat little movie, is it? You know, a great movie? No, but it is very serviceable in the story. The acting and all that, and it's just a ton of fun. And the back story is really, really cool. So finally, decided to sit down and watch it. And I was not disappointed. Full Moon is new stuff, real rough, so it's neat to see them doing something like that. Let's figure out some way to do something interesting. The only way they did this is because they had this footage back when it was empire. That's very cool, but it is on shutter now, so I would say, check that out the Prime Evils. Wow, very cool. Well, I finally watched a art work movie as well that was recommended to me by Kelly. I saw wild robot. Oh, the wild robot. Yeah. How many times did you cry? Probably, I definitely teared up a number of times. I don't know if I was like, bawling at any point, but it was, it was so sweet, so good. Yeah, I really, I really love that. And now I know what you're saying about, like, it's not just about like parenthood or motherhood, but also about like being a shit kid to your parent. But no, it was. It was just a great film. I know why. Like, it's on a lot of people's favorite lists for the year, and, yeah, I don't just loved it. Very cool. Did you watch it with the child? No, she was asleep. She's asleep somewhere. Why would I watch a cartoon with her? She's not as interested. I can, yeah, I can only get her to really get into Miss Rachel and bluey right now. So, yeah, yeah. Well, it is an amazing movie. Probably going to be on my top five too. Did you rent it? Did you buy it? It was an Amazon purchase. But I think I'll get a actual physical version. They have a one of those big the art of the wild robot books that has all the production sketches. I might have to pick that up. Yeah, yeah. It definitely feels like beautiful. Yeah? No, it had a lot of, like, great details and, like, just really making that whole island come alive, and just every little section of it just really neat. They did such a good job. Yeah, and then just every 10 minutes, I was like, Oh, this is a this is where they're gonna end it. Oh, no, there's a forest fire. Oh, cool. Okay, we're still going. I'm fine. Yeah, I mentioned this one to Dina, and she's like, I don't think I want to watch that one. Let me end up watching without her, but not quite ready for the mom stories of pie. Emotion. Totally understandable, totally understandable. Well, I finally bit the bullet and gave up my illusion of hoping you would show up in theaters randomly for some reason, but and watched dune two. Oh, I fucking loved it. Yeah, it maintained everything that I liked in the first one, and then just amped everything up with the the action and the war going on and all this stuff along those lines. The I still have a hard time pronouncing Harkonnen the way they do, just because I watched Lynch's doing for so long. But the development of the Harkins and what they are, and the fact that they introduced stuff about politrades That was sort of glossed over in other versions, was neat. The sand worms, I so wish I'd seen that. If that comes back, if sift does some kind of a yeah, see dune one and two. Oh, okay, yeah, because those are, those are, those are amazingly large, well done for on screen dynamics, as I call shit. But yeah, no, I thought it was great. Yeah, that, I think if you get a chance, for sure, because that whole last third of the movie is so stellar in theaters. And yeah, there was one weird thing that pulled me out a little bit hiring Christopher Walken to be the Emperor. A lot of people found that, because as soon as you hear His voice, it's just all the other characters are are lost in the people they are in the movie Sendai is maybe a little bit less so, but boy. Christopher Walken. It's Christopher Walken, doesn't matter what movie he is in. I think it helped me a lot that he's like, pretty old now, and I think that allowed my brain to be like he's he's sort of a muted version of what once he could be. Oddly, when I could see him and hear him, it was less thing. But when his voice came out and it was like, oh shit, walking, but yeah, like, Okay, same man. Love this. Love this series, this, I can't wait to see what he does with the third one. Yeah. Guess is some kind of pre production already. Yeah, amazing, cool. Not my thing, but I'm glad that you're loving it. Did you end up seeing this like Ellen? No, okay, based on how much I dislike, no, you don't remember the what two month saga? Do I do? Not was it Charlemagne? Was that a big part of it? That was a big part of it? Yeah, I can understand that. Not attractive, but an interesting guy. I think he's very attractive. See, he's another one. He's a girl. There's like, three or four of those guys, and he's another one with that look. I read something somewhere the new look of Hollywood. It's all these kind of twixy, creepy snake like looking guys. I mean, Adam driver has, I mean same, and even Benedict Cumberbatch, like, they're not like, when you first look at these humans, it's like, Huh? And then, like, their acting is so good, you do start to come around and like, I definitely love Adam Driver now. But initially I was like, why is yeah, he goofy everywhere. He's a goofy looking dude. It's the, as the kids say, and age myself horribly there. It's the Riz. Those guys have term for charisma. Oh, sure, I feel very old right now. This is the thing I was complaining about with the new Salem's Lot. Is that we have evolved as a species, just in 50 years, we look a lot different than we used to. And so watching These Kids in, you know, kids, adults who look like kids in a period piece, I'm like, okay, that actor is playing a 30 year old. And he probably is 30 years old, but he looks 18. So yeah, like the things that pop up in Facebook or whatever. Every once in a while, it's like the ages of the Golden Girls when you're watching it on that kind of sounds like, Hold on What I'm both now older than fish. It's weird, and he still looks 20 years older. I had a moment where I had to explain, like an over the hill birthday party to a friend of mine. I was like, no, no. I remember back in the day, when you turned 40, there were black balloons all over people, yeah? People would like, it was like a funeral birthday party mix. And now we're like, ah, 40 is fine, yeah? So, yeah, 70s, the new 60. Good Lord, living with an 83 year old guy, you might have a point. Okay, I saw something really fun. So a couple weeks ago I talked about the yacht rock documentary, which was based on a YouTube series from the early 2000s called yacht rock, where these guys would put together actors, not actors their friends, put fake beards and mustaches on them, and they would play Michael McDonald and Kenny Loggins. And they would make these very funny, like skits of how these guys would meet and everything. I decided to sit down and watch all 15 episodes, which is very easy because they're about they're anywhere from 10 to 20 minutes long each episode, and it is hilarious. I don't know how I missed this back then, but they deserve all the credit they've been getting, and they really they knew their music history, and they have a good sense of humor, so they were able to twist things and make them funny. If you know what they're talking about, you're like, Oh my God, that's not how it happened. But that's amazing that you would say that's how it happened, and a lot of very, very funny things and a lot of really neat little insights that I don't know a lot of people know about. You know that, like Michael McDonald wrote the lyrics for hallway for Van Halen. And so there's a little minute there where he's sitting there with Van Halen, you know, a bunch of guys and long hair, and David Lee Roth just being an asshole, insufferable, and all this stuff. And so I just really, really appreciated this little web series from 2005 actually, it's like from 2005 to 2008 so Wow, 15 episodes in three years, and it is zero budget, sure. And just, very literally, just friends with their cameras. Yes, that's cool. Yeah, check that out. Very funny. You would love it a lot. Eric, I watched a kind of a reaction video, I guess he'd say the yacht rock, you know, Rick piano, the music guy who does YouTube stuff and talks a lot. He's an older guy who does music training and talks about music. His reaction was kind of funny, because he really hates the term. Yacht rock. And it's almost like, but did you watch? Did you see that? They, they kind of also hate the term yacht rock. In the movie, you get the people who overdo it and do the live show dressed all this, yeah, guys and stuff, but, but he was talking about that's not that's like rock and roll. I'm going now you're a little older than me. I can tell, because by the time I was discovering that music that was, like the Adult Contemporary, easy list, it was soft rock, yeah, it was losing its glamor in the world when it was in the 70s. Yeah, yeah. Boston and the yacht rock kind of guys, not like Boston was the hot rock. But you know what I mean, where the rock and roll, then they weren't, but then they got rediscovered and re appreciated by a strange term. So it's like, who cares? They got re appreciate rediscovered. Mike McDonald can now tour probably quite successfully. Yeah, I told you I once saw train and REO Speedwagon, oh, yeah, a couple months ago, and the opening act was a, it was called yacht rock review, and I was just in heaven, all right, so they're really good. Yeah, they were amazing. And I was like, Oh, this is, these guys are great. And they're just playing hit after hit. You know, I can't argue with that. No. So anyway, that's on YouTube, just called yacht rock. Nice. I have nothing to contribute here. So speaking of awesome music endeavors, so on New Year's Eve, I ended up watching Matilda the musical because I'd heard that it was really good, and I there was nothing initially really appealing about it to me, but I was like, ah, every so many people have said, This is great that I'm I'm gonna sit down and check it out. It is like a perfect kids movie. Oh, cool. It is so well done. It's well acted, well danced, well sung. And the art design is like if you took Wes Anderson's talent and then scoped it into a child's imagination. Damn, it's so fucking cool. Like every scene is how you would imagine as a kid that would look like their their school when it feels really oppressive and strange. They've got like, chains hanging down. Space is like cemented. And then other times, you know, when things are fun, they've got things painted all over the walls, and there's, you know, flowers and stickers and whatever like, it just is so perfectly lived in. Plus, you just get the benefits of it's a really fun, well told story. I love the way they set things up. They've got, oh, I'm forgetting her name now, who plays the baddie? Gosh, sorry, Emma. Holy crap. Go ahead, keep talking. Oh, thank you. She does such a good job. And she's almost unrecognizable, frankly, because you get so lost in the way that that she is playing that character. Emma Thompson, yes, Emma Thompson, who plays this like big, gruff mountain of a woman. But you just, she's just doing it so convincingly. But anyways, check it out. I have to say, if you want to feel good for a day, check out this film. It's awesome. I have a weird they did the you've seen the Rob Zombie, where they insert Rob Zombie into the I think it's the one where they rebel and the dancing down the halls and they topple the statue at the end of that song that and they inserted Rob, the Rob Zombie, or White Zombie song in there. And it's fantastic. It works so well to the kids singing and all this stuff like. So I went and I watched just that scenes like, what is this? Holy shit? Yeah, that looks really good. My expectations were. I did not. I don't know what I thought it was gonna be, but it just blew my dang stocks off. So fun. What is that on? I think it's on prime. It's on something for free. Okay, cool. Matilda, the musical, all right, okay, well, if you were a big fan of psycho Gorman or, I guess maybe the void, his new movie, Steven, whatever his last name is, where'd it go? I just had it. It was Netflix, by the way, Netflix for free. Oh, cool. Steven kotan ski has a new film out called Frankie Freako. Oh, okay. I kind of wish I'd known it was him before, because psycho Gorman didn't really work for me. The style of humor just didn't. Click for me. I know a lot of people love it, and I get that because it what it does. It does well, it just doesn't work for me. Unfortunately, this is kind of the same kind of humor. The idea is there's this workaholic guy, and this is where the movie worked for me a lot. Is the the main character is this goofy guy who's always doing the right thing and never perfectionist, weirdo or something, and calls a one 909 of Ricky Franco, which allows these creatures to take over his life. Oh, and it's fun. It's really fun for about 20 minutes. And the Frankie Freako retribution story ends nicely. His ending, well, not, not Frankie Freako Connor the workaholic ends well, so that's nice. So the wrap up, but it's just not my humor. I'd say, if you like psycho Gorman, though, definitely, definitely check this out. It's on Prime right now, but it showed up on a few lists of best of horror. I guess it's kind of horror. It's more comedy. You know, I wonder how old this guy is. I guess he's probably about 10 years younger than you and I, because everybody I know who loves psycho Gorman is about 10 years younger than you and I, and grew up with a certain kind of, like, Power Rangers, esthetic and stuff like that, that you and I missed. Yeah, yeah, I didn't have. And it definitely has, it has that. So, yeah, I'd say there's, there's definitely an audience for it. The scores aren't great, but neither necessarily for all of his films. But so it's okay. I'm not, I'm not upset that I watched it because it still had enough moments and there's enough fun stuff in it to make it worth watching. Frankie Freako, did this look like it had a bigger budget than psycho Gorman? No kind of look like it might add a smaller budget, almost, because I always want to see these guys that get a little bit of success in this, you know, just continually build up until fucking Gareth Edwards is doing a new Godzilla movie. I mean, it's hard to tell because it's limited in scope. It's a lot smaller movie than Gorman was, because it's almost all in this guy's house, so he might have had more money to spend on his the creatures look pretty good. Okay, so, okay, would you call it a Creature Feature? Oh, yeah. Oh, okay, very much. So I'll check that out. All right. Well, why don't we take a little break, guys, and then when we come back, we're going to be talking about the lovely and beautiful Tony Collette, and the night has come, and the land is dark and the moon is the only light We'll see. No, I won't be afraid. No, I won't won't be afraid just as long as you stand stand by me. So darling, darling, stand by me. Oh. Stand by Me. If the sky we look upon should tumble and fall or the mountains should crumble to the sea, I won't cry. I won't cry. No, I won't shed a tear, just as long as you stand stand by me. So darling, darling, stand by me, oh, stand by me. Stand By Me, stand by me. Stand by Me. We are back. Hey, Eric, this was your sub genre pick. Remind us who we're talking about. Okay. Today we'll be discussing Tony Colette. Amazing. So amazing. Wow, so good. She's fine, yeah, never seen anything. She's interesting. She was born November 1, 1972 Oh, a little younger than us, significantly older than you only, yeah, yeah, okay, significantly started out. She's a Australian. She's also a singer and song composer. What started off in television, independent films, of course. And she's done Golden Globe Awards, prime time. Emmy Awards, five AACTA Awards, with a nomination for an Academy Award. She's been awarded, and she has a Tony Award. She has won a Tony so she's on the border of an EGOT, but few to go, She's the eldest of three to three kids with both all women, all girls raised in Sydney suburb till about six, when they moved to New South Wales area. Father was a truck driver, mother was a customer service representative. Did not say for what company, but later learned on an episode of Game show called Who do you think you are that her dad was possibly born as a result of his mother having an affair, oh, with a Navy Petty Officer during the World War Two, and to this day does not know for sure. Oh, my God, grandfather, grandmother. Whoa. Like Well, hey, welcome to this game show. Her career kind of kicked off in 1988 when she appeared in burger brain, the fast food musical Wow with Sydney Bob Evans calling it, she sings like a dream. Made her television debut that same year on a variety show called blah blah blah as a singer, and Her first acting was in 1990 on a show called Tracy. And 92 made a feature, feature film debut in the ensemble comedy Spotswood, known as the US as the efficiency, which I don't know either of these, but that started Anthony Hopkins and a virtually unknown Russell Crowe. And let's see, Muriel's Wedding was kind of the one that really put her on the map. And she did a fair amount of jobs for and then, of course, six cents, which was her Oscar nomination and cemented her career and talent, and has gone on to do just a crap ton of stuff. I mean, not just movies, but television and Broadway and just all kinds of work. So cool, busy worker, well, all right, you want to go first then Eric, alright, I'm putting five minutes on the strange eons radio buzzer, yeah, I will be going with one of her I guess it's not that recent, but more recent films from 2019 velvet buzz saw. Critique is so limiting and emotionally draining, I am hoping you find something to explain what's happening. Which one's better? One or two better, worse. No different. No different. I'm quite curious to know Ethan, I think sober hasn't been good for him. Pierce was in the full bloom of alcoholism here. Exactly never should have quit drinking, no originality, no courage, my opinion, I can't save you. I found something who did these mesmerics. Guy upstairs, he died, and you just took them. He had my family or friends. I can make you rich. It's brilliant. Demand has people ready to kill? Have you ever put in Arsenal D's, no, not in our records, and we have everyone the artist used blood to create the reddish blocks. You ever notice anything about this painting. Look at it long enough it moves. As I research these I'm starting to think there's a disgust for the world of money. We spent decades in a psychiatric hospital for the criminally insane. I there is some sort of power, some spirit, it's connected to his art. He. Something truly God damn strange is going on. This is a slaughter house. Are you aware that these ask that all his art be destroyed? Get rid of it. Boxing off, I can't save you. People thought she was part of an exhibit. Music. We're trending on Instagram. It's a major hit. I remember when this popped up. It was kind of one of those everybody talking about it movies for a little while, although I know we don't always do rotten but this one amused me. Some reviewers, 61% audience, 36 Yeah. Wow. This is currently available in Netflix, directed by Dan Gilroy, who also directed the mind boggling combination of Nightcrawler and Kong Skull Island. Written by Dan Gilroy, starring Tony Colette, who's currently in the I think it's opened juror number two, knives out. And movie I heartily recommend if you haven't seen and you want a good feel movie. Hearts beat loud. Phenomenal film, also starring Jake Gyllenhaal, who's in Nightcrawler and enemy, fairly recently talked about by me and Donnie Darko, also Renee Rousseau, who's also a Nightcrawler. Thor movies, and the wonderful guest shorty, great artistic kind of opening credits with this, with the art being used to lay everybody's out, kind of like that sets up the movie fairly well. Got to say, right off the bat, Jake Gyllenhaal is awesome at being an asshole. Critic, I believe it. He is a phenomenal performer because he's playing a complete dick, but you still kind of go with him, yeah, you know, and it's, and that's his beginning for the movie. This was a hard one to write descriptions about. It's a fairly unusual film, but I do like this. My one of my favorite sayings in this was, everything's been done and nothing is new. So it's like a very late 80s, early 90s feel to a lot of what's going on in this film, but it was recent enough done that the artists or the owners of the galleries were talking about a logarithms to help sell their stuff. There's an undiscovered artist is found dead in his the hallway of the apartment building where one of the aspiring art agents lives, and she basically steals all of his art and starts to sell it because it's dark, disturbing. It's really good. It's actually incredibly well done art, but it's haunted. Yeah, the artist had in his will that all his work should be destroyed upon his death, but obviously she made sure that didn't happen. So as the movie goes on, people start dying and some very interesting ways. Now, full disclosure, Tony Collette is not in this very much, but when she is in it, she is, of course, very good. She plays the owner of a competing gallery with Renee Rousseau. So it's a lot of that battle of between the two of them and her and the art critics. There's a storyline where Gyllenhaal gives an art critique so bad that this guy ends up like getting in a car wreck. I can't remember if he dies or gets arrested, but just kind of ruins the guy's life because it's the ex of the woman he's dating, Jesus. So to I was really curious about the art, as I always am in movies that featured art. You know, listen this long time, I love movies that deal with the dark side of artistic creation, and this certainly is that the company hired art advisor David Hundley, who worked with digital artist Saxon Brice, to conceptualize the works, and then Alexander pavnov actually painted them. These are all real, painted, created art pieces featured in the film, which is good because they need to be if they tried to do anything digitally, it would look really weird. It loosely resembles the life of Henry Darger, who was a recluse that created an enormous volume of artistic work, which was. Not celebrated until he died, and spent time in an asylum while he was alive. Oh, wow. He's largely known as an outside artist, which is kind of what this movie is about. Let's see real quick here. Dan's ultimate goal in making this movie is kind of like, I hope people look at art in a slightly different way. Uh, look at a piece of music, look at a sculpture, a painting, a film. We realize the artists behind that have invested what I believe to their creative soul into the work. To me, it's a bit of a sacred thing, and I think we've lost that a little bit, maybe even a little more now I and all that, I would love to return to that. So that's kind of what this movie is about. And this one, I definitely fall on the critics side. I really thought this was an interesting film. It has it's not a great movie, but it's an interesting movie. So Have either of you seen this? Or, yeah, no, I have not. And I'd spent on my list for a long time, I didn't realize that it had those kind of horror elements to it. Yeah, that's weird, haunted. Wow, killings, that's Alex. Killing is quite elaborate. Yeah. I was ultimately very disappointed by this, because I wanted it to go in a different direction, sure, but I thought the performances were all really nice, and I thought the art was really cool. I think that's why I was mostly disappointed, was I was like, Oh, I love all of the elements of this. I just want the story to be a little darker and a little more supernatural at the end, gruesome the that was, that was part of the downfall for me, a little bit. I mean, I enjoyed it, but the the the ghost element seemed like, like one interview I read with the guys like you wanted, oh, what a neat idea for a horror movie. Then he kind of forgot, and did his art critics suck, kind of movie a little bit more, and the haunted was just an element for only a handful of scenes, yeah. But the the idea of the way the art world is, and growing up with a mama worked in galleries and worked in things, it's it hits me in the right area. So that aspect I liked, but yeah, it's definitely lacking a lot in the horror department. Yeah, Vanessa, you want to go next? Yeah, absolutely. We'll give you five minutes. All right. Well, I went with the 2000 film shaft. Where remember me, read my mind. Who delivers 10 times out of 10? Who's the cat that won't cop out? Cherry Ray, I might take you down, but I'll never let you down. Now, what's my name? Shaft, You're damn right. You are gone from this precinct for what I'm done. I'm getting my own way in a system where money can buy you freedom. What about the waitress? The waitress, she saw it, huh? So what'd you do? Threatened the next day. I just started running. I've been running ever since in a city where fear can buy you power, I need someone located. That's gonna cause you only one man will stand up for justice. You ain't even a pig no more. You think that makes me less dangerous or more dangerous? You're too hot, man, you got to step off bit. Got milk right on his ass, his mind. You know, something happens trying to come after you myself. You won't have to something happens to her. It happens to me any questions, which I do not know a lot about shaft, so I feel like it was a bit of an education for me. That's what I hear. Joel mouth, this had a budget of $46 million and box office of 107 directed by John Singleton, who has 19 credits, but most notably, Boys in the Hood, starring Samuel L Jackson. In 211 credits. We've talked about him before. If you don't know who he is, I don't know what to tell you. Tony Colette, 96 credits. We've been talking about her, but she was also a nightmare alley. Hereditary Muriel's Wedding, which I still haven't seen. This one also has Vanessa Williams, is this returning, returning member to the show, 114 credits, including Ugly Betty Pocahontas, eraser, Desperate Housewives and a fair amount of animated stuff. And the one who owns my name, Christian Bale, Jeffrey Wright from American fiction last year, Dan hidea Busta Rhymes, Richard Roundtree, so has so, yeah, so Andre Royo, Isaac Hayes, John Singleton, and Elizabeth Banks is a background artist in one shot where she just smiles at everything everyone says, including the racist things and the cool black guy things. So I don't know which group she was with, but she smiled a lot. I was like, That's fucking Elizabeth. Thanks. The story follows shaft. Who is the nephew of the original shaft? So it's more of a sequel is called to a crime scene where a black guy has been bludgeoned with a red carpet, red carpet, rope pole, and is basically being resuscitated by the emergency services, where he then dies. Shaft, goes to a theater to question people and finds one man, Christian Vale, with blood on his hands, as well as a waitress who has some blood on her chin. Shaft questions the waitress, who won't talk, but she does point out the man Walter Wade Jr, as being responsible. He finds out from the girlfriend of the guy who just got bludgeoned that Walter Wade Jr, of the famous Wade family, made a ton of racist remarks at her boyfriend before the two had an altercation outside, but there were no other witnesses as to what happened. Of course, Wade is now taken in for homicide, and after being set a bail, he escapes to Switzerland for two years. He returns, but shaft does a arresting which seems like, oh yeah, he did this really clever thing, but maybe that's exactly what Walter Wade wanted him to do, and he's got his whole defense set up ahead. The only missing piece is the waitress who doesn't want to be found, and no one seems to be able to find her. To make matters worse, people's Hernandez, A notorious, dominical Dominican drug lord that shaft basically gives a hard time, teams up with Walter to help him find the waitress and kill her, so the trial will go in his favor. Shaft must find the waitress, save the waitress, fight against Walter the Dominicans and some dirty cops with a small group of cool ass friends to set things right. This film was way better than I thought it would be. It was super fun. It feels like a Mission Impossible movie or just some kind of great action film. It really doesn't even need to be a shaft movie. Has really good writing, great pace, fun characters and a ton of underrated actors who, at the time, of course, were a bunch of black actors who were not getting cast, but would go on to do incredibly awesome shit. It starts the credits with a nipple in there. And I was really worried, because I cannot imagine Samuel L Jackson being a sex symbol and having to watch him do a bunch of chips. Luckily, that's mostly downplayed. He clerks a lot, but I did not have to watch him bang anybody, and I'm grateful for that. Why Jeffrey Wright is playing a Dominican man? I don't know it's weird, but he does a great fucking job. Oh, holy shit. He's so much fun. I This show has a killer fucking ending. And yeah, I just, I really, really enjoyed it. I only have a little bit of trivia. John Singleton planned a sequel where shaft battles drug lords in Jamaica, but the film's mediocre box office returns, and Samuel L Jackson's disappointment with the film stopped any plans for a sequel. According to an interview with Christian Bale, one of the main reasons he took this role was because of a fight scene between Walter Wade, JR And shaft at an airport runway. The scene was filmed but then cut to make more room for scenes with Jeffrey Wright, who scored higher with preview audiences, which it should, because it was incredible. Will Smith was considered for the role of shaft. This was the first collaboration between Samuel L Jackson and Tony Collette, who would later work together on changing lanes and Triple X Return of Xander Cage. It is available on paramount. I've never seen this. Oh, you haven't. It's. A fun movie. I don't like you made a great statement. I'm not sure why it was a shaft film, yeah, per se, except for to use the music, yeah, because it's really very different from, have you seen the original show? I have not. Yeah. It's very different. I believe it a lot more violent, a lot more sex. It's, very good, yeah, but it's, yeah, I like both of them, but they are really different films. I will have to check this out. I just passed on this because it got pretty bad reviews. It was weirdly fun. And just watching people act circles around was I don't I just, I had such a good time. It was really, really enjoyable. It is definitely not quite but pushing the we're going to be over acting, but, oh, but it works. So it works. It's just a fun, yeah, it's just a fun setup, a fun story. And, yeah, exactly like, I don't know why it's a shaft movie necessarily, other than just a shortcut the way that he will proceed and like, be a cop without the rules and that kind of stuff. Jeffrey Wright must have been a baby in this movie. He is so young. He's so young. I didn't realize he'd been acting all that time. I know. I know. Well, I started looking through His credits, and I was like, I had no idea he was in the things he was in. He was just chameleoning his way through a great career. He was born in 65 and that's old, okay. Well, I'm gonna go last. Give myself five minutes to talk about a little known film called The Sixth Sense. No, the accident up there. Yeah, somewhere. Got her. They did a lady, she broke her neck. Oh, my God, but you can see her. Yes. Where is she? I standing next to my window. You Baby, worry, shaking, Cole, what's wrong? Did you ever talk to your mom about how things are? I don't tell her things. Why not? Because she doesn't look at me like everybody else. And I don't want her to I don't want her to know, know what I see dead people walking around like regular people. I don't see anything. Are you sure they're there? Sometimes you feel it inside like you're falling down real fast. You ever feel the prickly things on the back of your neck? Yes, that's them. They get mad. They get cold. How often do you see them? All Time. They're everywhere. They want me to do things for them. I think that they know that you're one of these very rare people who can see them. So you need to help them. What if they don't want to help I don't think that's the way it works. I need help for sure. Is anyone there? Look it up. Please, make them please. I'm working on it from 1999 you guys ever heard of this one? Really good, written and directed by M Night Shyamalan, who has 19 credits, uh, writing credits, uh, including praying with anger, wide awake. Stuart Little, and he directed the happening old and The Last Airbender. You're picking out some of the hits there I see, starring Bruce Willis. 148 credits, including the detective night trilogy, fortress and fortress colon snipers, eye a day to die, which seems like a blatant title rip off of a Good Day to Die Hard. It's a different movie. Also in this is Haley Joel Osment, who has 128 credits, including tons of voice over work. He was Forrest Gump Junior in Forrest Gump, and he's been in Pay It Forward in AI Artificial Intelligence. And the lovely Tony Collette, who has 96 credits, including Connie and Carla, Mary and Max and Diana and me, who. Cool also in this movie is Olivia Williams, Donnie Wahlberg and Misha Barton. So we open on a scene where Dr Malcolm Crowe, prominent child psychologist, returns home one night with his wife, Anna, from an event in which he was honored for his work. Very quickly, the two discover they are not alone. A young man has appeared holding a gun. Malcolm recognizes him as a former patient whom he treated as a child for hallucinations, and the man shoots Malcolm in the stomach and then turns the gun on himself. We fade out and fade back in about a year later, and Malcolm begins working with another young boy, nine year old, Cole Sear. Cole is experiencing hallucinations similar to Malcolm's patient that shot him, and we soon realize that there is something in Malcolm that is drawing him to the boy he feels like if he can help Cole get better, that might relieve himself of the guilt he feels over failing his other patient. But Cole is pretty difficult to reach, and although it seems that he and his mom, Tony Collette, have a very loving relationship, Malcolm is starting to wonder if she is maybe abusing him. See, Cole keeps showing up with bruises on his body, and it seems very clear that he's hurt and scared of something. Well, pretty soon, Malcolm and Cole have built up a pretty trusting relationship, and his patient reveals to him that he sees dead people in a scene that still managed to raise the hair on my arm, because this little boy is so fucking phenomenal as an actor that you really believe the torment he is going through when you close your eyes. Malcolm asks, lying on the ground, nope, says Cole, walking around like regular people. They don't know that they're dead. So Malcolm leaves that meeting very disturbed. He's sure that Cole is delusional and worried. He is having a psychotic break, but then he goes through some recordings of his old patient and starts thinking that not only is Cole telling the truth, but maybe the patient that he had failed also had this ability and it drove him to suicide. This happens shockingly late in the story, like at the end of the second act, and it is a weird scene that doesn't really work in the traditional transition into a third act. But Malcolm goes back to Cole and tells him that he thinks the reason that these dead people are so drawn to him is that they know he can see them and they need his help, which sets Cole on his way to hopefully being able to deal with his ability. Man, what a fucking movie. I have probably seen this a half dozen times, but certainly not in the last 20 years. So it was a shock to me to revisit this, not only how good Bruce is, because, I mean, this was his comeback film, and he fucking killed it, and his chemistry with Haley Joel Osment is something to behold, a really beautiful relationship, yeah. But also, you guys, know, I have a bit of a crush on Tony Colette, and this is the movie, why she is so damn beautiful in this movie, in a very believable, you know person you meet in your apartment complex kind of way. And I just thought she was gorgeous, and I fell in love with her all over again. Tagline, I see dead people. We all know this trivia. Toni Collette has said that she was so moved by the emotional resonance of the story while filming, she did not realize it was a horror film until after it's released. David Vogel, then president of production of Walt Disney Studios, read M Night Shyamalan spec script and instantly loved it without obtaining corporate approval, Vogel bought the rights to the script despite the high price of $3 million and the stipulation that xianlong direct the film Wow, the role of Malcolm Crowe was written with Bruce Willis in mind. This was the first of two movies that Bruce Willis owed Disney after he caused another production after Bruce caused another production, the Broadway brawler, to be shut down due to him firing the director. He was paid ten million to this movie, half of his usual salary at the time. He made a reported $100 million off the film when it was all said and done, the the scene with Colette and the kid in the car at the end. That's the same devastation she read for and when she read that scene, she was like, I want this movie so fucking bad there. I haven't seen it in years. There are scenes from it, and that's one that just sits in my head, just really, yeah, it's like real estate that's been taken out by this movie. Every time you close your eyes and imagine it's like, oh yeah. I remember being in the tent with the little girl and yeah, there's just yeah, this was one of those movies. I mean, look, we're gonna talk about a 25 year old movie, so don't tell me, Oh, I was gonna watch that tonight. If you're worried about spoiling, turn off. Now, come back and listen to the final like, I don't know, 10 or 15 minutes of the show after you've watched it. So re watching it again, you know. And now we all know the twist that Bruce is dead, just the masterful way that it is shot to. Ever show him talking to the mom or even approaching the house or the school or anything like that, he just is wherever he needs to be to talk to Cole. And Cole always comes into the scene a little late, so it looks like his doctor is waiting for him or something like that. And it just all works so beautifully that I was like, God, this is just a a brilliant piece of filmmaking and to pull in. And it's just a small bit, like, when the movie first starts. Like, is that Donnie Wahlberg? And, oh, my God, he is. Yeah. Well, everybody's amazing. There's, there's just not a real strong sour note in the film, I had forgotten that the the twist point for Bruce is him going back through his recordings, and Donnie Wahlberg's kid character was seeing dead people I had forgotten. Did not remember that. That was the thing that made him go, Wait a second. I have a patient who was saying the same things and then killed himself. So I feel like I need to, you know, really pay attention to this other boy. So that was another layer that I was like, oh, that's just a really nice little bit of writing there that makes Bruce Willis's character very believable. Wow. So I really want to re watch this movie, because it has been a minute since I've seen it, and it's hard, because when films have a big reveal at the end, I often will write them off and be like, I don't need to see this and just have big, big old twist. But I really feel like it would be such a fun one to look at. Yeah. I think your your point about re watching it, knowing, but watching for what Bruce is doing or what is happening in those scenes, like when Bruce and Tony were sitting in the chairs, yeah? And she feels like, Oh, they're talking. She's not looking at him at all. He's looking at her and she's looking down. And it's a shot that's far enough away that on first glance, you're going to be like they've been talking about her son. Yeah, it's movies a little frustrating too, in one respect, like, I don't know, maybe it was a weird ego explosion, but how you make a movie this brilliant and go on to, I mean, not just make bad movies to make some truly awful films. Well, I know you agree with me that his next film is his best film, which is unbreakable, unbreakable, phenomenal. Yeah, that one's really but I think that that one was not as not appreciated as much, but it did then set a precedent. So there's a big twist of the Sixth Sense, and there's a big twist and unbreakable and I think that he was kind of then like, oh, fuck, every movie has to have a big twist. That's what I'm known for now, trapped himself, which is too bad, because the talent display in these first two films, it's just phenomenal. Yeah, really something else. I remember sitting in the theater with my girlfriend at the time, and we're watching this, and there's a scene at the end where he is talking to Cole after he's seen him in his play, and Cole says, I'm not going to see you anymore. And Bruce says, Yeah, I think that you're going to be okay. And I leaned over to my girlfriend, I was like, I think that he's dead. And she was like, and then when it gets revealed, she looks at me, she goes, fuck. Why did you have to say anything? I just it just hit me. So good. Yeah. What a great movie. I was just engrossed in a movie I've seen many times before, but revisiting it. You know, 20 years later, was something else on a completely unrelated note, the 4k copy of trap arrived in my house. You bought the 4k version of trap, huh? Look, man, when something just grabs hold you that well. Josh Hartnett, Oh, beautiful. Well, Vanessa, you make too much money. So Well, you know, I ordered severance new blood Island series. So I'm not gonna have anything to talk about. Yeah, I did stop going to vinegar syndrome, full stop. So the last thing I ordered from them was the keep I think I have ordered there. They've got so many partner labels now it's hard to sift through, and I'm like, what you got going on? Yeah, I also stopped buying comics. I just get stuff from the library at this point because I have such a backlog. Yeah, we all love what we love. Money is actually a little tight this month, and I still did the pre order on the Micronauts, super seven, of course, beautiful. Okay, that's accurate. Okay. So normally, Vanessa, this would be your pick for the next one, but we are running a little late on this, and it is time for us to do our countdown of our favorite films of 2024, so that's what we will be doing next week, I'd say I we've usually done these late, and I appreciate that. I get so annoyed at the end of Best of December 1, still another month ago, and a whole lot of really good movies on December Nosferatu, for one. Yeah, you go, I imagine that'll be on somebody's best stuff. So with that in mind, then we are at the at the end of the show. This is where we thank everybody for liking and sharing posts, for drawing pictures of us, for sending in money, which they can do a number of ways. Eric, how can they do that? We've got PayPal. We've got cash in a check addressed to us. No, don't do that. Don't do that one has, but yeah, PayPal or buy me a coffee, which under ours, you get a pizza for us. And as we know now, Vanessa here gets notifications from pizza companies on her phone all the time, constantly. 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