305 USE THE SCHWARZENEGGER!

305 USE THE SCHWARZENEGGER!
Rob Corless and his amazing artwork is on the gang's minds today!
Also discussed: Nosferatu, Kraven the Hunter, Werewolves.

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How long do we want to do this actors thing? Because we could just keep doing it in circles. Oh, I'm sorry. Did I break your concentration somewhere between science and superstition. We have such sites to show you. Strange eons. Yes, I'm good. Welcome to strange eons, radio, that is Eric over there. Hello. That is Vanessa. Hello, and I am Kelly. Hey, gang. Great to see you guys in person. I am over my cold, as far as you know. Wait a minute, the greetings were a lot more close. I like a little grab ass when I have people, but I can't tell now if I still got a lingering thing or allergies are starting to kick in. Yeah, I just want to say right off the bat, last night, we had a little freak out because friend of the show and friend Rob Corliss, the artist who has done Anna carcasa with me and the Ballad of Eric Zahn. He surprised us with a little strange eons radio animation with the three of us in it, and the the mascot squid radio and all of this stuff. And I mean, I sent that to you first, I think Eric, and then SARS, DMS with access, okay. But then you were like, well, this is really cool, isn't it? And I think you and I, Vanessa, were like, what, what are we? Did you Was there something tagged, what do you mean, sir? And then when I saw it, my brain exploded. So cool. He is obviously also a regular listener, because if you once you see if you haven't seen it, we've got it on our Facebook, it'll be on our Instagram, it'll be all over the place, because it's so goddamn cool. Yeah, cool. The background has little movie references and stuff, and they're all completely relevant, yes, yeah, they're different. Yeah, they're different. Things we've talked about in there, I was just like, I was trying to zoom in and see, like, every title I could, and be like, Okay, what's that one? Oh, what's that over there? So fun, yeah, and it's a, it's a cartoon likeness of the three of us. And it's really, really neat. I love the expression on Vanessa's face. I was like, boy, he really caught her attitude. I love that. Like, Eric looks like the only one who might suspect there's something strange going on behind us, and then you are like, so like, I'm a man with a flashlight. This is my story. It's so good. It's so good. I didn't know if the flashlight was a reference to the blackout story from when I lived at the other place and I was terrified. But it's, you know, I've been lucky enough to have some cool artistic friends who have immortalized me in a drawing once or twice, and that's always a really neat, flattering thing to see, but hopefully not offending anybody else. But this is absolutely my favorite. I was like, This is so much fun. I mean, he's even done you before for like, other like, there and stuff. Yeah, this was even more fun. Well, this is a pretty somber story. Hannah said the illustrations of us at the end reflect that, but serious, the one we did last night is fun. And I mean, I, I must have watched that animation 500 times in a row. I had the weird experience of not being able to access the animation till last, so I had to ask his permission to see on Google whatever, for every single image first. So I clicked on, like, all six of them, and I was like, Oh, this one's kind of dark. Oh, this one's interesting. It's got, like, just a reflection of this. And it was like, Oh, this is kind of cool, huh? I wonder what the animation looks like. And finally, I was able to click it, and I was like, yay. Motion, yeah, black and white version in one of those stills, yeah? Well, Rob, thank you very much. Incredibly sweet. What a cool way to start 2025 Yeah. And speaking of which, I wanted to kind of bring up a few things. It's always neat, like getting Christmas cards and gift cards from my friends and all that stuff. But, you know, we got a postcard from Danny Williford from New York City. We got Christmas cards from Danny Williford. I still don't quite get this. How come nobody's dressed like Finnish? Ferb, I mean, it's tough. It's tough to dress as such incredible Danny, your cosplay is gonna have to be worked on. I got this lovely Christmas card from from Andrew Byers, who we know from listening to this, but also he does the Friday night Frightmare podcast and everything, and it says, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to strange eons radio wishing you 300 more episodes your pals of Friday night Fright Fest, and then names of all the dogs. Oh my God, his wife. And that was really sweet. So many got this lovely car from Wade Chitwood that has the cover illustration of his book. And wow, just feeling the love. Very cool. Yeah, it's almost like with that and the ROB thing and all that stuff. Every once while I get this can become a slot, something you don't say, and that thing popped up last night. I'm going, Okay, let's go three energies, yeah, I showed it to my husband, and his immediate response was, you need a poster of that. You need a poster of that. And I was like, I we do need a poster that. I immediately went online, and I was like, How do I turn an image into a black light. Poster, so cool, yes, like a velvet black light. Okay, well enough of that stuff. We are grateful only for a small amount of time, and then we get back to the show, yes. Then we do it. We hope you're grateful for thank you and moving on. But talk about value for value. Oh my god, wow. And that's the thing is, like, what people are able to do and like, you know, sometimes that means incredible art. Sometimes that means a like and a share, you know. Sometimes that means boasting about us and like, how cool and foam we are to your friends at a party. Like, not just calls and calls and all the all the fun stuff, all the interactions online. Well, for my mom, like a crisp 20 on the ferry boat, like something out of my wallet. What is this for? I keep needing to give money to your show. I'm like, Oh God, now I'm gonna hold on to this $20 bill for like, three days. Okay. Well, besides all that, I have seen some movies and you guys, yeah, I got to talk about Craven the hunter. Oh, I have not yet had the time nor the energy to put forth to Craven. I believe I texted you guys, that you would both love the show, but that Vanessa, I was afraid you might get pregnant watching this movie, because that's how manly it is. Good word. Aaron Taylor Johnson, I've never quite thought much of I always get him confused with the other guy who plays kind of the same roles and everything. This movie is not good, but it's fucking amazing. Oh no, it i i wanted to, after watching it, I just sat there. I was like, How bad would it be if I just played this again right now. Starting from the beginning, it was by far the best of the shitty Sony Spider Man spin offs, way better than any of the vet and movies, so much better, really, yes, which is I mean, but Aaron Taylor Johnson is so freaking handsome in this and I don't understand what the point of this movie is. If he's supposed to be Spider Man's villain, he is. I'm like, this is a big jump to make to now. You know, hunting Spider Man because he's going after bad guys in this movie, he is absolutely the hero, and he's a killer and all of that stuff. But he's no different than Jason Statham in any of his movies. He has the ability to see through the eyes of animals, oh my gosh, in a very 70s kind of way, where he's like, looking at something, and then there's a hawk, and he says, Oh, my God. Animal wiser, whatever that animal, and he can run as fast as a car. And I was like, car this pretty fast. I don't care what anybody says about this movie. I fucking loved it. So wow, this is a strong recommend. And it's not just like, it's so bad, it's good. Oh. I mean, there are points where you just about rolled right out of my head, but the rest of the time I was like, this is a cool looking movie. Yeah, some of the effects I. Are really bad. There's some CGI animals that are so dumb looking. I was like, wow, what is going on with this movie? And then at the end of it, I was just like, I fucking loved that. Now I had taken mushrooms earlier, so wait a minute. Now, all coming into perspective. I have noticed that that these mushroom gummies, they don't do much psychedelic stuff for me anymore, but if I watch a movie after I've taken them, I am really invested in this movie. So, you know, free stream anywhere at this point, or do you still have to pay for it? Well, you don't have to pay for it. I mean, do they? It is a rental, damn. However I I feel like buying it. I'm going to watch this again, maybe tonight. You know, that's kind of how I felt about madam Webb, because it was so jaw droppingly Bad and weird that I'm like, I kind of want to re watch this movie, because it's so surreal and strange. Oh, that one is out now on like, primer, yeah, yeah, it's definitely available out there somewhere. You may sound intriguing. I tried to watch that, and I was like, I think I'll pass it's you need. You need to be at all points, asking questions as to why they have made every decision you're seeing and just be stumped over and over again, because that's where the joy is. You're like, somebody made a decision constantly to do the wrong thing all the way from beginning to end. Oh man. Well, actually, on your recommendation, maybe after hearing you talk about it, I went and checked out skeleton crew. Oh yeah, which is the Disney Yeah, the Disney star wars kids show. Did you end up watching any more of that? Yeah, I finished it. Okay. I think is it did the last episode drop? Yeah, it's only it's a weird number. It's like seven episodes or something. I think it's nine or eight, I don't know, but whatever it was, I was unhappy with the ending because I felt like it was starting to get good. Oh, no. Several of these for you. Yeah, because I've got like, one more episode to go, I'm waiting for the season finale, like we've gotten the key the kids to a place. Eight episodes. Okay, okay, um, I really enjoyed this. Yeah, it had a lot of, oh, well, let me ask you this, yeah. How do you feel about the Goonies? Okay, I barely remember the Goonies. I don't have like, a big heart on for like, the Goonies, because I watched it a bunch as a kid, like, whatever. I don't care. But it has that vibe. This is definitely Star Wars Goonies. It is 100% Do you remember being a kid in the 80s? Do you remember mine cart races and falling down tunnels and bad guys who were just so two dimensional. And yeah, there's, yeah, there's obviously a lot of stuff going on there. There's tons of Spielberg feels to it, and but at least it feels like a show I can watch like there's so many of the Star Wars shows have been so intolerably bad. Yeah, this one is definitely aimed at young kids. You know, 1112, year old kids, but that's what the original Star Wars was aimed at. Also, it's just that when we were 11 and 12, we wanted to watch not movies about kids, but movies about adults that were fun for kids, yeah, and this is definitely kid centric, but after about episode four or five, I was like, I'm getting into this. And Jude Law is fantastic. He's so fun, yeah, oh my god. He's so fun. And like the the their robot friends, yeah, holy crap. I love that thing so hard. The only thing that I didn't love was the lead boy I find pretty irritating. But yeah, well, you know, this is my my problem is precocious children in films. This is five precocious children and then a cranky robot with a Rab living in its eye, and Jude Law as a force sensitive, but not a Jedi person, yes, and that is so interesting to me that they're that they gave this guy who's clearly not a Jedi force abilities, yeah, I'm like, This is the story I want. I want to know all about him, right? I want to hear the pitch meeting for this one, because what you're describing sounds batshit crazy for a Star Wars production. It is. And Kelly hit the nail on the head. I mean, it's Goonies. Like, that's all the pitch meeting was. Was Star Wars, but Goonies, yeah, like, but it just really works in this beauty. Way, because it's all about, you know, kids on an adventure that is gone out of control and is out of their hands. That's all you need for this kind of story to work. So Star Wars is the perfect setting for that. Wow. The very cold, detached adult that I am also looks at this like, this is going to make an amazing ride down at Disneyland, because it is just one of those rides in an eight episode. Yeah, yeah. You go for sure. No, you're not wrong. I mean, Disney, Disney gotta eat, so see that they're finally recovering, destined to making a few bucks skeleton crew, and it is on Disney plus, so I I venture down to the theater. Nobody, nobody the household I'm living had any interest in watching this film. So Friday or Saturday morning at 9:50am, I went out and watched Nosferatu the perfect time, like four people in the video. Well, that's also Perfect, yeah, what did you think I I think it's my favorite film by him, by Edgar. I would absolutely agree with you, dude. I'm so happy you said that, because so many people I see online are like, not loving it. And I was like, I fucking loved this. I don't know what you could have watched and thought and gone away thinking I could see everybody's got their own tastes. I get that. But if you leave this movie thinking it was poorly done or something wasn't educated, executed correctly, I don't get I don't understand that. Yeah, like it was just so atmospheric, and there was so much care put into everything from the costumes and the set designs to, like, the specific shots and like, just the scenes were hitting one after one after the scene when he was got to the point where the carriage came to pick him up, yeah, that shot down the lane crossroads. I was like, this is one of the most gorgeous shots I've seen in a film, yeah? And it's just like, stunning. And people have said, which is true of many of Eggers movies, it's kind of slow. I didn't think it was slow at all. No, I did not find a good clip. Bored by this film. Yeah, I didn't think it was slow. I thought it was absolutely gorgeous. Could have been a half hour shorter. I thought it was pretentious as fuck. Oh, yeah. But there was no point where I was like, you know, like, this looks awful, or what a stupid shot, or anything like that. I was like, God, what a gorgeous shot. And and who has the balls to do a remake of a 1922 silent film and make it look this fucking amazing? Yeah, that being said, the complaints about Nosferatu looking like Vlad SAP ish with the big mustache and everything, totally legit. I think it's a ridiculous look, really. I thought it looked really cool. I would think that you would be pulled out of it by the same thing I do. Because so everybody's saying, you know, oh, this is period correct and everything. I'm like, yes, okay, but stylistically, you have to understand, when guys watch this, especially if they have facial hair, you're looking at that going, am I to believe now that count or lock, this rotting flesh of a human is also taking care of the rest of his facial hair, but leaving this big Bucha, which is all I could think every time I was looking at it, what is going on with them? I was I was lost in the majesty of it. I was just like, yes, all men should have this mustache. It's so tailored. No, if anything was going to bring me out of it. It was like, how did you get from this location to this location? Either on horseback and or by ship, neither of which makes any kind of sense, really, but that's okay, so I don't know. I was just like, I'm in the story. It doesn't matter. Yeah, I get the thinking what you're saying. But for me, the whole film played outside of the real world in a way, oh, it had to, yeah, so that that things not working out for hair stuff didn't bother me. Because of that, I sat in this UN real world, yeah, and went just it just, I was just able to go with whatever weird choices they made. And there was, I mean, you know, not everything's perfect. The him being completely naked, out of it, in the coffin, was like, That's a strange choice. But all right, especially on a big screen, Did either of you know going in that, it was Skarsgard. I did. I did. Yeah, I did not. And though I spent a long time trying to work out who the fuck that was, and it was such a fun surprise to me, also part of the thing that I kind of scratched my head at, because a lot of people are like, boy, scars guard unrecognizable in this. And I was like, exactly, so why? Why did it have to be him? The acting of Nosferatu was minimal, minimal because he was just scary. Yeah, right. So that really could have been anybody. Why such a high profile, attractive actor, too strong. He's the he's kind of that current bad boy. Good luck with the weird, yeah, eyes thing and stuff, I would not talk to this guy at a bar. I'm sorry. It would not be, it would not be a person I'd be interested in chatting with. That's fair, but yeah, my other second thing was that seeing some of these actors like I do not like is it Lily Rose, Depp, yeah, I do not like her, and I didn't like her in this I thought she was way over the top for how, how beautifully subtle everything else was. But who's who played Thomas Nicholas Holt? Yeah. I was like, Wow. This guy continues to impress. He just gets better and better. And then Aaron Taylor Johnson in this film too. And I was like, Look at this guy. I mean, this movie was no craving the hunter, but I was really kind of surprised at how good an actor he was. Also in this everybody was really good, a little over the top too, but he was fun. He's always that way. I think every Eggers little he's had, he's just you needed that levity, because everything else was so dark. You needed that moment to, like, have a little chuckle when he, like, snaps out of his weirdness and is like, oh, friend, gives the dude a big hug. I was like this that that really felt so good to watch. Yeah, and I comment on depth I agree with, because I thought she was really good for except for like, four scenes, Yeah, where's like when she was trying to convince him not to leave unless a couple but I thought she was fine for most of the rest. But yeah, she was outshined by the rest of the cast. Yeah, the thing that won me over with that was just that, even though she was over the top, and it was a little frustrating, I loved what they did with her character and the way that they used that, and it's been a long time since I've read the book, so I don't remember how big of a role that character has in it, but I don't think it was that. And she just, I don't know, I love the way they twisted the story to include her part in it, yeah, yeah. Well, yeah, the original Dracula book. She's, yeah. She's more of a minor character, yeah. So walking out, I was like, boy, that was really cool. And my favorite movie of his, I still think I like Coppola's Dracula better as my favorite Dracula film, Dracula adaptation. And then the other thing was, would I have rather seen this budget go to an original period piece vampire story than a remake of Dracula. And the question, or the answer is yes, because I do not need another Dracula adaptation. Funny that you say that because I was sitting in the theater watching it, thinking how amazing it is going. This is so cool, but seen somebody adaptations of Dracula, yeah? But yeah, it's like especially with him, because the movies he's done up till this have all been wildly original, yeah. But one technical thing I thought was really interesting I was read about the other day. They actually developed a lens for this to shoot this, to pull the red and yellow out of the scenes to mimic the way the human eye actually sees things in moonlight. Oh, that's so cool. That's why some of those shots were so blue and unique looking. It didn't just look like a blue filter usually looks there's something deeper in that. Wow, wow. Yeah. I mean, I read a interview with him saying that Eggers was just like a huge fan of the story, and he was kind of waiting for an opportunity to do it. So it is unfortunate because we've had so many recent like throwbacks to original Dracula stories that you know the whole ship time. I was like, I'm kind of glad it was short, because I was like, I already saw the voyage. Demeter, Yeah, I'm good to go. We don't need to spend time here, folks. Oddly enough, I always, I never look at the filmmaker. Go, why'd you do that? Because I know some reason there. I often just, it's more like the producers, like, why would you give this much budget to have this done again? But you know, it's kind of like, what's his name? Who did the psycho? Shot for shot, I'm like, good on you. For goodness studio to give you millions of dollars to do this, yeah, shot for shot, or, like, a like, remakes are so fucking weird, very weird. I mean, at least, I don't know, there are a lot of images from this that just stick in my brain so hard, like, Oh, I just the it is so beautiful, and it's funny because we're picking it apart. But and people listening might think, Oh, you guys, this does sound like a not very good movie, but there's literally so much good in here that you just focus on the tiny little flaws, because that's what you know, that's what you have to grab onto. But no, it's fantastic, really. Yeah, and, and, just like, stunningly gorgeous, yeah? Just like, wow, so glad I saw it in the theater. Yeah. Oh, my God, same, same. Okay, well, along the same lines, why don't I believe I watched the new Frank Grillo film werewolves. Oh, snap. And I fucking loved it also. Oh, cool. Not, not a very good movie, yeah, okay, it's Frank, though it is Frank, and it is all Frank. He it is called werewolves. It was originally called year two, which I think was too confusing for people, because they thought it was going to be like in the past, or something like that. But what that refers to is the year before this movie takes place at a supermoon event, 1000s of people turned into werewolves and killed people and infected people and all this stuff. And so now they're coming into year two of a supermoon event, and they've got a vaccine that they hope is gonna work. Oh, my God, got everybody boarding up their houses and were proof, werewolf proofing, wow, and all this stuff so awesome. And then, of course, it all goes awry, and Frank Grillo has to get back to his brother's family. His brother was one of the people who was turned into a werewolf last year, and he has to protect them from all the shit going down. And it is an 80s action movie with werewolves in it. It's, it's actually a lot like the purge with werewolves, yeah, when you're describing it, that's exactly the movie that popped in my head. And he's the best character in the purge, right movies. And I just like him. In fact, I love him, and I hope that Hollywood will finally pay attention to him, now that James Gunn is using him for Rick Flag. Can you wait for this to become free? I would say yes, but there is Vanessa. Well, I don't know so hard to tell with Vanessa, she's not attracted to attractive people. So look, we all have our tastes, right? You know, if we all agreed, we'd be fighting over the same dude. Yes, you know, there's a final scene here where Frank has to take off his shirt to fight, and the movie ends on him with the morning sun coming up and him kind of stretching his body, listening and ripped beyond belief, and then it just fades to black. And I was like, Well, that was an odd place to end, but also fucking amazing. So, yeah, it's really goofy, and I had a lot of fun with it, Eric, I know you will love it, and then as I think you would love it too, because it's, it's fun. Yeah, it is a lot of fun. Do you think that they're do they set it up for like, a future sequel? Oh, it has to be, because this vaccine did not work. Oh, so there's gonna be year three. What they don't mention at all is that, like, last year, we had three super moons in a year. So they're acting like this happens once a year or something, and it happens multiple times a year. It sure does. It sure does werewolves. Oh so cool. Well, I am still like talking about the stuff I watched around Christmas, because I really blasted through a lot of things, but I saw the Doctor Who Christmas Special with n shooty gatwa. I might have misspelled or misspoken his name, and I'm sorry if I did, he continues to be an incredible Doctor Who, it felt like a very Doctor Who, story, I mean, just feels so much like there's, there's a feeling to the Doctor Who, verse, where it's not really good, but it is over the top, and it is, I. Uh, too much. And then it has this little silver piece of extremely good that pokes out, and you're like, oh, fuck, that was incredible. Yes, even though I just spent 90 minutes being like, that's weird, that's weird, that's weird. No, it's all awesome. I really enjoyed it. Really, really good description of Doctor, yeah, no, I thought I did not like Dr who for a long time, and sometimes I wonder if I do. But then there's those moments that it's worth, like the 30 hours you put into, like the season or whatever, where you're like, yes, yes, it's paid off with dividends. So yeah, it was really enjoyable, and had one of the leads from bridgerton in it as kind of a plucky female with him. Again, it was such a weird story, but such a doctor historian, a fun a fun watch. And I don't know how many more seasons they'll use him for. I hope more, and I hope the next season has a lot more episodes in it, because I feel short changed from this year, but I don't know. I feel like he was booked on doing other gigs and they were shooting around his schedule, because there just was so little, and there was a couple episodes where he was hardly featured. So I don't know, got me Doctor Who Christmas Special? Is that on Disney? It is on Disney? Yeah, you do have to flipping search for it, because fucking Disney Hulu, mash up insanity. You can't find anything you're looking for anymore. Fucking hate it. Why are you? Why are you guys just kill Hulu? I don't care about it. Okay, sorry. I just watched Thelma on it. Does have, like, a few good things on it, but most of the time I wonder why I would pay for it, and then I'm like, oh, but pray, cool. That was worth one year worth of payments to Hulu calories. I know. I think those were separate years they were see one a year. Kelly, see anything cool? It was interesting. Daddy's head. Daddy's head, okay, oh, my god, sorry. Just remember the trailer. I did not see it is it is weird. It's really weird. The story is a kid's dad gets killed in a car wreck, and this thing comes back saying it's his him and talking to his son and building nightmarish, weird shit. It has incredibly creepy stuff going on. Overall, well done. Some really neat performances. The biggest thing that pulled me out was the kid. He was actually acting wise, not a problem directing wise problem. It's kind of like every time it's and I don't know maybe he was his acting. The director just did what he could. But it every time the kid sat at like 11, anytime anybody question anything about what he was talking about. Will you chill? Just chill. And his How old is the kid under 10? Oh, okay, pretty young. So, right, what you gotta do. But the so much of the storyline was him trying to convince adults of this absolute insanity that was going on, and him having absolutely no patience to explain anything to anyone that would actually try to convince them. And it was, it got a little old, but it is creepy. It is weird and oddly uncomfortable at times. It's one of those films. That's what was the story? That's about all I can say, because the rest is just weird. Yeah, so if you enjoy weird, creepy shit, this is a really good one to check out. That sounds shutter, right? Yes, I saw something about it, and I was going to look at it, and then the reviews were not very good on it, but you're saying it's got some creepy imagery. That's all I really need. That's need. Yeah, it's got the the, there's a thing involved with the woods and the the daddy's head, that is just what the fuck is really interesting. So it's definitely enough to to what. I avoided it for a long time because I just this, just looks weird, dumb, right? But I like, weird, yeah, dumb. I have a hard time with sometimes, unless it's really dumb, yeah. But so yeah, but well, to 2024, lot of people, a lot of lists of really good films for the year. So it's like, Oh, all right, I'll check it out. And I, I'm glad I watched it. Is interesting. I'm, yeah, I'm gonna have to check this thing out. My biggest hope is that the twist is that it really is just his dad. It's hard to call it a movie with a twist. Oh, really, huh. Okay, strange. All right, okay, well, daddy said on shutter, let's take a break, guys. And then when we come back, we are talking Arnold Schwarzenegger movies, I can't say it, Terminator, revived endoskeleton. 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You can use this bye if you'd like to call the strange eons radio hotline, dial, 253-237-4266, nobody hangs up on me. We have returned gang. I was so happy with the Gerard Butler episode that I said, let's keep this going. I wanted to pick somebody that was just as interesting, and so I picked one. Arnold Schwarzenegger going obscure. I like it. You ever heard of him? Wait, is he the guy who let me tell you a little bit about him. Vanessa, oh, yeah, tell me. Arnold Schwarzenegger was born in 1947 which makes him 77 years old today, amazing. Schwarzenegger began lifting weights at age 15, won the Mr. Universe title at age 20, and subsequently the Mr. Olympia Title Seven times after retiring from bodybuilding, Schwarzenegger gained worldwide fame as a Hollywood action star with his breakthrough in the sword and sorcery epic Conan the Barbarian in 1882 in 2003 he ran for and won the position of Governor of California, and served as such until 2011 and then in 2011 he returned to acting with, let's call it mixed results. Yes, good word for I am going to pick one of his movies from before he ran governor. I'm putting five minutes on the strange eons radio buzzer, and I'm going to talk about a movie called eraser. We told you there'd be risks. You also told me I would be under complete protection the entire time. Cyrix is selling weapons technology this disc and your testimony will help us put them and their CO conspirators behind bars. You've done a great service for your country. Miss Cullen. Now it's time to think about your safety. He is Special Agent John Kruger. You'll be handling your personal security. We have a problem. The Cullen woman is still alive. His coat. Name is eraser. You're in a extremely high risk situation, Miss Colin, that should have been explained to you. The only way to give his witness a future is to erase her past. Your new name is Deborah Elliot, you know the signal 911, I get out of the apartment. I work alone. If anyone comes to you and claims that I've sent them, use this. The disc, the girl, the guns. By dawn, they don't exist. Every person who knows the truth, $52 million arm cell is dead. I'll make them disappear, one by one, except the one the. Guarded by him, you are mine. I'll keep you that way, trust me. Arnold Schwarzenegger, your friend has arrived. I'll enjoy introducing him to you, sir, come and get me. Nice. Excellent. 1996 directed by Chuck Russell, who has 13 credits, including Nightmare on Elm Street, three The Dream Warriors, the blob, the mask, the Scorpion King, and that brand new witch board remake that has nowhere to be seen, Jesus, written by Tony per year, who has five writing credits, nothing much, but it is also written by Wallen Green, who has 38 including The Wild Bunch sorcerer Robocop two, and also written by Michael S shinachi, 24 credits, including eight or 10 episodes of every law and order series, which means 500 episodes. Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Look you guys. 88 credits. I don't know what else to tell you about him, Terminator the long goodbye, also starring that Vanessa Williams, not this one. No, no, you're the real Vanessa. I'm definitely not the real Vanessa Williams, I promise. 114 credits, tons of TV and voiceover work and her own music videos. Of course, she was in Harley Davidson the marble man score with chicks, and 85 episodes of ugly, Betty dressing. A lot of it also in this is James Caan, 136 credits, including godfather. Ever heard of it? No rollerball thief, misery and the dark backward, which I have spoken about on this show in this movie. Is also James Coburn, James Cromwell, James Conn every James never been an actor. And also Roma mafia. Have you guys seen eraser? I saw it in theater. I don't think I've seen it since. I think I saw it on like, pay per view kind of thing. This was the first time viewing for me. Oh, wow, eraser. We open on a scene where a man and his wife are tied up on the floor of their very nice home, and there are three mob thugs that are beating the man, and pretty quickly, we realized that the guy they are beating is Johnny castileon, a mobster turned informant, and that he had been in the witness protection program and had been found by mobsters that want him dead. It seems they're about to get their wish, when all of a sudden there is a knock at the door and John Kruger, code name eraser, busts in and kills everyone, saving the mobster and his wife. John is a US Marshal, and his specialty is in, quote, erasing high profile witnesses by faking their deaths and giving them new identities. After rescuing the mobster and his wife, he quickly sets a new scene, including two bodies to represent the dead bodies of the mobster and his wife. Then sets the house on fire and makes it look like the murderer mobsters turned on each other and killed each other. Johnny Castle, Leon is so grateful to Kruger that he tells him, Listen, man, if you ever need a favor, just call on me. I owe you big time. This is foreshadowing of the most blatant kind, and it literally offended me as I was watching like this is clearly going to pay off anyway. John Kruger's next case is to protect Lee Cullen, a beautiful woman who has stumbled upon a corrupt plan inside the corporation. She works for her company creates and manufactures weapons for the military, and Lee has come across plans to sell a top secret electronic pulse rifle to Russian terrorists. She has agreed to work with the FBI to record a conversation with her boss that will prove what he's up to, but he figures out very quickly what is happening and kills himself in front of her. It turns out that there is a much bigger conspiracy going on, and now she needs to be erased before the people higher up in the government have her killed. This movie goes exactly where you think it will, because, of course, Arnold's close friend and mentor is the mastermind of the entire thing, so pretty soon he's on the run with Lee and the pursuers seem to know all of his tricks. The one thing that sets this movie apart is that the weapon that would be sold to these terrorists is a crazy pulse rifle that has x ray capabilities, but shoot through solid brick walls. Cougar and Lee are on the run from guys who know their every move and have way superior firepower. You know, Arnold looks great, delivers a few good puns. Vanessa Williams is serviceable. Her acting is fine against Arnold's, and she is a very striking woman, no doubt about it, yeah, I'm gonna run out of time trivia. The John Kruger role was originally offered to Sylvester Stallone. He hated the script. Left, turned it down and starred in Cop Land, a much better film. John Milius did multiple rewrites as a favorite Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dr director Chuck Russell and producer Arnold culpableson had a rocky relationship during the entire production. The only reason the film was able to go forward and ultimately be completed was that Arnold got along with each man separately, and was able to negotiate schedules and logistics at a point where the two men refused to speak to each other. Wow. One more thing here, Frank Darabont and William wisher were brought in mid production to revise the screenplay. Wisher was a guy who co wrote Terminator and Terminator two. And then this film is considered by many Schwarzenegger film fans to be the last good film of the classic Schwarzenegger period, studying in 1982 it was certainly less of his action films that was a box office hit. The film grossed about 242 million against its $100 million budget. It's kind of like, is a weird side. I was kind of like, the poster for this, the black and white with the kind of blurred image and stuff like that in the background. I thought it was a nice, especially in the 90s, nice, understated sort of poster. Yeah, it's, I had a good time with it. It was nothing special. I guess I can see why things started going south after this movie, because it was just nothing special. And after True Lies and all of his other gigantic hits just before this, it was like, Okay, I guess maybe the bloom was off the rose. Vanessa, you want to go next? Yeah, I do enthusiastic, maybe. How about you? Have five minutes? Excellent. I chose Hercules in New York, before the Terminator, before Conan. He was Hercules. He's only a demigod. Catch Arnold Schwarzenegger in his first feature film role. Does this mean I have Susan's permission to leave? It means you will stay. And I don't wish to hear another word on the subject. I have won't stay. He's tired of playing among the gods, and this will teach you respect for your elders. Now he's on his way to the Big Apple to meet new friends. Now, take in the sights. I don't have any money. That's my buddy. And enjoy some local hospitality you just got here right away. You run a mate. It's Olympic it's colossal. I am having too much fun. It's Arnold, Oh, wow. See it for the first time in its original form, with Arnold's real voice, smile. I like him, even if he is a big, crazy Mr. Universe, Arnold Schwarzenegger stars in this lady navs Hercules wrote in new chariot. He has been immortalist. I've been home Hercules in New York. I was gifted this in high school, and then I had my wisdom teeth pulled out, which is when I chose to watch it. And I have no memory of this movie. Oh, wow. So I wanted to see it. This was made in 1969 on a budget of$300,000 I don't know where that money went, because it looks like it was made on favors. It must have gone to film stock. There was nothing worth money in this directed by Arthur Allen Siegelman, who has 75 credits, including a Christmas carol the musical, and lots of TV stuff, five episodes of murder. She wrote, writer Aubrey Weisberg, 47 credits, including man from Planet X, son of Sinbad, return to Treasure Island, and this was the very last one before she died, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. You guys already talked about him. Arnold staying well, okay, one of you talked about and Arnold Stang, who has 162 credits, including, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World, Man with the Golden Gun and lots of kids TV voice animation from the 80s. He seems kind of recognizable, but and everybody else is nobody. So plot Hercules is really bored. Olympus is too small, and he already knows everybody. He wants to visit Earth, but Zeus forbids it. But in an argument, Zeus throws him down to earth, where he lands in the ocean. The other gods beg Zeus to save him, and he agrees. Sends a Navy vessel that passes by and takes him to New York City, but not until after Hercules gets into a big fight for no reason with the Navy guys that I still do not understand. He then gets to the shipyard, where people think he's escaping the military duty because now he's wearing a navy uniform for no reason and. And a pretzel vendor named pretzie helps him get a cab. They then go to Central Park, but I don't think they had a permit, because it looks like just the woods somewhere. He gets in an argument with the cabbie, because the cabbie wants money payment, and he doesn't have any, so he turns the cabbies car over. They then randomly meets some college athletes who are practicing for the Olympics, and Hercules walks on in and talks about how he can be better at all of these sports than them, and takes off his clothes to prove it. Then meets a girl who doesn't like him, but in the next scene, is on a date with him, and seems to be very smitten. They then end up fighting a bear. He joins a wrestling organization. He looks at every Greek statue in New York City and complains about the inaccuracy, and then continues to exhort ignore Zeus commands to return. He wants to stay on Earth just a little while longer. Um, there's a side plot where Juno hates him and convinces Nemesis to poison him, making him weak, so that he'll die on Earth and go to the underworld, which is not what Zeus wants. So will he enter a weight lifting contest where he can only lift 750 pounds and not 1000 therefore inciting a mob who placed a bet on him and now wants to kill him. Will he steal a New York City horse carriage and race the mobsters through Central Park? Will he end up in a newspaper storage room where Samson and Atlas will magically appear to help him? And will he end up leaving Earth to return to Olympus, leaving behind poor pretzie, who misses his friend in a weird, homoerotic longing, and then come back on the radio to tell him very eloquently and in a different voice that he had a great time, and they are good friends. Stay tuned to see this was bad. Oh, my God. I mean, like anyone who ever says they don't make movies like they used to, I always say, Fuck good, because who made this and why did people see it? It is un watchable. I only got through it because of sheer determination. And like my friend sat down to watch it with me halfway through, and she was like, laughing. And I was like, Okay, well, at least somebody's getting something out of this. So I will finish it. Let's forget about the I'm gonna run out of time. Let's forget about the obvious mixing of pantheons, where they start calling Zeus Jupiter and then Hera Juno, and randomly, then back to Zeus again. And I'm like, I studied this shit, and you guys are really frustrating me. It's fine. The music is so bad they only have one song, and it's a zany Greek andor Italian track that just plays horrifically, randomly, and I hate it. The sound design is so bad that I had no idea that Olympus would have so much nearby traffic. The acting is so bad that the Rando walk ons, including an athlete who has no name and Mercury deserve Oscars. I don't think they had a single filming location permit, because everything looked like it was somebody's backyard or they were not supposed to be in Central Park, and every scene just results in Arnie either taking his shirt off or getting in a fight. Very strange. Arnie has come a long fucking way. I'll tell you what that guy man, good on him. He learned a thing or two, just some little trivia taglines, boys, girls, it's big fun, all right. And see him topple two. Not sorry. See him topple two ton newspaper rolls. See him toss tough men like toothpicks. Cool. This is Arnie's film debut. Rolls right off the tongue, so stupid. That's how I found out they were in a newspaper room in the end, because of this tagline, because I was like, What are these big barrels I don't understand to help Arnold Schwarzenegger get the role that his agent said he had years of stage experience in playing theater, but in fact, Schwarzenegger only had appeared on bodybuilding stages. This was independently produced and financed film in the mid 2000s the copyright for this film ran out, and the ownership rights in the film negative then appeared on eBay with a starting bid set at $250,000 It is not known what the winning bid was, but this was a unique chance for a member of the public to have the opportunity to own writes to a B movie starring a very young and then unknown actor who'd become one of Hollywood's biggest stars many years later, due to his impenetrable accent, Arnold Schwarzenegger's voice was dubbed for the theatrical release. The DVD and blu ray releases are featuring the unaltered audio track with Schwarzenegger. Real voice, which is the one I saw, and explains why the ending has not him playing the film's title character, Schwarzenegger, because of his long last name and to play off the name of the fellow cast member, comedian, Arnold strong, strong. He is credited as Arnold strong, Mr. Universe. Sorry, he was credited as Mr. Universe. Also Arnold was saying Gecko, heavily, heavily, heavily regrets this movie. He will endlessly complaining about it, and at one point stopped it from being shown on TV because he did not want more people to see it. So just gets it more interesting. I remember renting this in the 80s, and, you know, after we all fell in love with Arnold, and it was one of those, even at the age of, like, 15 or 16, I was like, I am not going to be able to finish this movie. And we didn't have other things to watch? Yeah, sure, you rented a movie, but the idea of not finishing it was hard to fathom, right? I had a moment where I was thinking of the other things that I could deal with getting through besides this film, and I was like, I could watch like martyrs on loop for two days, Jesus, I could I thought you meant other Arnold movies, I'll stick with, which is 87 other movies. Yes, no, I was like thinking, Okay, how many football games could I sit through in a row? And no offense, I just don't enjoy it's cold. I don't like being on bleachers, etc, in person, in person, yeah, I just Yes. It was, Oh, don't watch this movie, guys, please, please. It's free on TV. Don't watch it too much. Enjoy the commercials on to me. I sure did, because that's gonna be better. Eric, did you watch our own sports? I did. Well, how about I put five minutes on the buzzer, alrighty, and let you loose. Somehow, this one falls into the group where they say he was still making good movies, I guess 1993 Last Action Hero. Oh yeah, a great classic comes to the screen. See thy hand, fear prince who said, I'm fair to be or not to be, not to be. Columbia Pictures is proud to present the screen's greatest action hero, Jack Slater, the governor gets you call me and Danny Madigan is his biggest fan. Jack Slater, but tonight, a magic ticket. It's a passport to another world. We'll get Danny closer to the action than anyone ever dreamed. Holy cow, who the hell are you? Oh, shoot me. I'm Danny Madigan. I'm a kid, and you're going with him. Who is this port and Where's that smile on his face? I don't even know this kid. To a world that's bigger than life. This ticket is magic, and it really works and better than real. You really believe that you're inside a movie, don't you? Yes, the bad guys are in there. I've seen it on screen. Could I speak to the drug dealer of the house? Please have a nice day. Heaven killed this summer. It's head on drills. I have killed people smarter and younger than you, head first excitement. I hate when it happens. He's got the ticket now I possess power, real power. He's going over my world. In this world, the bad guys can win. The door must still be open. Come on, if I go, how do I get back? And it's coming at you from both sides of the screen. Grandma, now this isn't the movies anymore, Jack, please be careful. Things were different here, damn it. Arnold Schwarzenegger is Jack Slater. This hero stuff has its limits, and Jack Slater is everybody down. The Last Action Hero, the big ticket for 93 i. I'll be back. You did not gonna say that, did you? That's what you always say. I do. I remember watching this in theater thinking, all right, and the rotten Dominos hits that they're both in the 40s. This is available though, on Apple TV and Fandango at home. Directed by John mctieron, who you might have heard of from Die Hard predator, The Hunt for Red October, tons of other great stuff, written by Zach Penn, who wrote free guy, recent film The Avengers. Electra, less successful, Adam Leff, who wrote PCU and bio dome, and Shane Black, who wrote predator, kiss, kiss, bang, bang. And the nice guys, incredible freaking writer, Arnold Schwarzenegger, as we've done, you know, F Murray Abraham from, you know, my favorite, Amadeus and Star Trek, insurrection and Scarface art. Carney, yeah, it was in fire starter, and the Muppets Take Manhattan, and, of course, the Star Wars Christmas special, and Bridget Wilson, which I think this was her first film. Was Mortal Kombat, Billy Madison, or she might have Billy before that. Anyways, so this is supposed to be a parody of action movies, and it starts off with a fine little bit of stupid action recreation scene of Arnold coming in and rescuing a kid that's being held by this over the top, villain looking guy with 4000 cops around and all the cops yelling at him not to do it. It is an excellent scene for making fun of the movies they're supposedly trying to make fun. Also to a struck the lead villain kind of looks like one of the guys from in the mouth of madness, in makeup quite a bit, but beautiful, retro theater. This was shot in I was while watching how I should look, what it is. By the time I got to the end of the end of the movie, I was like, I don't care, but, man, it was a huge theater. This overall starts off a little better than I remember. The idea is this kid gets invited to watch his favorite action heroes new movie at midnight when the projectionist is testing the the new film in the in the reels, make sure it works. And he gives him a magic ticket that, for some reason, this guy has had for like 30 or 40 years. I think in those tears, it little magic moment of, oh, something's going to happen. And then through series of events, he ends up in the movie, and for about 40 minutes, half an hour, it's a lot of fun, and there's fun little goofiness. And the fun is just as him pointing out, like when they go to the video store and Stallone is Terminator two and little things like that, and then the problem, where the movie kind of falls apart is it becomes the action movie they're all making fun of. And the it's not parody enough anymore to hold the humor, and just sort of becomes a bad action and the and it's like, every once in awhile, oh no, we need to remember. We need to throw in a joke, you know, like, oh, tar sticks to some people. Or, you know, things like that, where they've sort of left all that behind. At times, it's kind of like, Wes Cravens vampire. Was it vampire in Brooklyn, where it's like, is it a horror movie? Is it a comedy? You can't really decide. This kind of had that problem. And so ultimately, I was like, It's all right, there was an alternate ending, which I did watch and is really nothing more than the kid talking to his mom for a little few minutes longer. Okay, there's several script doctors came in, including Carrie Fisher. Yes, that Carrie Fisher, Larry Ferguson and William Goldman, wow, came in to work on it, but a lot of it was disliked by the original writers. They felt it was taken off. They eventually, I think they eventually, got changed from writer to story by credits for the original writers of the movie. It was the first movie to have a advertisement on a space going rocket. Wow, holy smokes. It was already when it was originally test marketed. The test markets were so bad that Sony destroyed all the test cards and refused to do any publication publicity of those test markets, but the word of mouth worked out anyways, and kind of heard the movie from the beginning. I don't think it's terrible. It's not a terrible movie. It's just forgets what it. Is about halfway through, and then never really gets that back. If it had stayed with the straight comedy, when Arnold gets to the real world, they spend way too short of a time of him trying to figure out what's going on, and it's way too serious too his adjustment to the real world at times is less funny and more like uncomfortable. It's really weird. It's got a very, very strange tone for that works better when he eats his mom and their interactions. Is fun. There's a pretty good movie in here, but it just somebody lost it in the way. But the album's awesome. Oh shit, great. Sound check. It's certified platinum release with ACDC. Allison chains, Megadeth, Queen strike Def Leppard, ans Rex, Aerosmith, Allison chain, Cypress Hill, fish bone and Tesla, jeez. So it's like, one of the great albums, if you just look at it musically, it's like, oh, here's going from the 80s to the 90s all in one album. But ultimately, I was hoping, with my tolerance for weird, silly movies now being so much stronger than it was when I was in my 20s, I might enjoy it more, but it's just, it's fine. Wow, I still kind of like this movie. I think there's a lot in it that I like you didn't mention Charles Dance, who is the villain with the eye, and I think he's fucking amazing. Yes, he is. He maintains the parody story arc. Yeah, much better. When he it's in the real world, he handles it much better, yeah. So yes, his, I think that might have been some of it. John kind of fell in love with this character. It's like, we're gonna ratchet him up a little bit. Arnold would be fine. He's Arnold. Yeah. And I do remember loving this soundtrack, yeah, yeah. I think, I think, like you, Kelly, I, I, I enjoyed this movie a fair amount. I wouldn't say it's like incredible, but it probably just bothered me less, because what you're saying is 100% true. I remember it like losing its way and becoming a very actiony movie. I think it just didn't bother me crazy. I was really, part of the problem was I was actually really, really enjoying it. And they Okay, boy, I was completely wrong on this. And then some point did that last 40 minutes, I'm like, fuck. I am getting really bored all of a sudden, and I don't fully comprehend why. And so it's like, damn. Because I actually was really, really liking it. So when it's like, damn, so it's more that I liked it, but it was just the point where it got bad. Was near the for me, was kind of near the end. Yeah, that's always a bad but, yeah, your point about the villain with the glass? I was, well, there is a scene that happens that promises so much more than it delivers. When Charles Dance goes through and when he realizes he can pull people from the movies, and he goes through the Now Playing, and he like circles Dracula and stuff like that, that he's he's going to bring these villains into the real world. And I was like, how hard, how much would it cost to have Gary Oldman show up and be Dracula for a moment, you know, something like that. I was really thinking, wow, this is going to be great, and then that is not what happens at all. Yeah, no, it just brings his characters, biggest villain back for a supposedly overly emotional scene. That doesn't quite work, because Arnold in the kid never bond, not as as a as him being a protector of him. He's more like, like he calls himself when he's on the bike, gonna go the I'm gonna survive because I'm the hero. He's like, I have comedy relief, and he is and that's what he maintains his relationship with Arnold. He doesn't become, oh my God, he's got to save the kid, right? I didn't have that feeling in that scene, and it would have been so much cooler to have, yeah. I mean, like you mentioned Dracula, if, if he was up to it, you'll Stallone show up as a t8, 100 or something like that. Would it or, I guess, so, this still the T, yeah, still the t8, 100 and t2 so that would have been like, holy shit, but yeah, they were still kind of at each other's throats. Yeah, at this point, yeah, I get it. I think I will not watch it again. Do not disappoint myself. Or, you know, you just turn it off about five minutes after Arnold gets in the real world. And the ending is very sweet. Anything sweet enough, I don't remember it, but the old guy thing and all that kind of Home Alone stuff. But yeah, well, okay, I had fun with this. Sorry. Vanessa, yeah, yeah. Way. Better than yours. This was my fault. I accept that. I accept and understand that, but I wanted to swallow my very bitter pill and just Well, you got it. I should I appreciate Arnold so much more. Now, though, I will say that like he's come so far, you guys. So he's come so far. Eric, it is your turn to pick something for us to watch. So we're keeping going with the people based, oh, the actor thing, performing thing, going here with, hopefully we'll be able to pull enough genre stuff out of her work, she's done some big ones, but not tons. But Tony Collette, oh. Tony Colette, wow. Who is, I'd say, as far as a thespian, probably one of the stronger ones above Arnold, or something like that, as opposed to the movie star that Arnold is, right, right. I've always had a little crush on her. So cool. Yeah, Kelly, if we ever went bar hopping together, we'd be in good shape. We would never fight for the same human being ever. I'd be trying to set you up with all the good looking guys, I feel like, No, this mousy guy over here in the corner. No, it's okay. Everybody stop talking. I get it. Okay. This is the part where we say thank you to everybody who is drawing pictures of us. 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