318 ANIMALIZE!

318 ANIMALIZE!

The gang chimes in on the hubris of using AI on classic films before getting into their picks for Animals in the Movies.

Also discussed: Novocaine, Black Bag, Shadow of God...

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The worst, though, is when the cat wakes you and you know that they have like a bowl full of food. Oh, I'm sorry, did I break your concentration somewhere between science and a superstition. We have such sites to show you. Strange eons. Welcome to strangeeons radio. That is Eric over there, hello, and that is Vanessa over there, hello, and I am Kelly, and we are all in person, which is how I would prefer it? Hell, yeah. Definitely better. It is better. Yeah. Eric had something he wanted to talk about, though I did what do? It's a it's a new, stupid level for of AI, okay. I was looking through some media thing, and somebody I saw this post said, what if you could adjust the camera angle? And it looked like it was in the original. And this idiot had chosen stalker by Tarkovsky, one of the single great films, art films ever made, oh my God, and decided he could do better camera angles than Tarkovsky could. Oh, interesting. What it is there were is like three different shots, and one of them was the main guy standing there with somebody behind him. But then when they added the go around shot, the guy standing next to him disappeared. I'm going, Well, that didn't work. And the other one is, there's a very pointed image of these two children in this grouping of arrows and stuff that are all pointing down to them, kind of making a point. And I guess they felt they could belabor the point by making the outside rim spin. I forgot what the other one was. But first of all, they did not look seamless. They did not look like they belonged in the movie, even if you hadn't seen the movie, but if you had seen the movie and watched a lot of Tarkovsky, which I have gone, I think Tarkovsky knew one, what a Dolly was. And if you wanted a dolly shot, guess what he did. One, it's not like he never used the dolly shot. He certainly did. It's not like he never used moving shots. The sci fi one we mentioned earlier, Solaris. Solaris, he has a massive moving shot in that that goes on forever, and it's just it to me, it hit me about the same level as Ted Turner in the 80s, with I'm going to colorize Casablanca. It's like, first of all, colorization looks like shit. Second, No, don't. You don't need to do that to a classic. It's bad enough with the remakes and stuff, if they're not done well, but to just look at original and just do that and to think you're improving it. What is this on? Was this on YouTube or, like, where did they post it? I don't know if it was Instagram or some AI heavy thing, but, oh, it hurts my soul. It was actually and it was a couple weeks ago that I saw it. This wasn't just recently it, but it just stuck with me and just sat there going so, so many things wrong with the thinking it's like, the biggest problem. I think, I think that a lot of kids who grew up more on Marvel movies and stuff, and in this era, when they're watching older movies, feel the camera always needs to be moving. Because nowadays it's always moving. It doesn't matter what the movie is. But, yeah, it's just like, No man, come on. Wow. Oh, that's truly awful. I've kind of gone in the opposite direction, where I've started communicating with chat GBT, which I'd never done before, but I was trying to figure out I had a bunch of plant questions, and I kept googling it and going deeper and deeper into weird like plant websites and plant communities and getting all this, like, contradictory information. And I asked some people on Facebook about some stuff, and I got some real weird, mixed responses. And so I started, like, what it was very weird. I was like, I do not want to plant this one specific plant, to which somebody said you should plant this one specific plant. I'm like, you fucking did not read my post. No, don't respond, please. Just saw the headline. Oh, my God. So I just started talking to chat GBT because a therapist friend of mine was talking about how she uses it as a tool. And I was like, I don't know. I'll fucking talk to it about and it was really helpful. And I was like, You know what? I don't need Facebook. I have my own friend now. Just hang out with chat. GBT, we can have a nice conversation. Do that on Instagram. Like for real. Have you seen those when you're scrolling every once in a while, it's like, did would you like to chat with, I don't know, a filmmaker, or some generic term. Yeah, oh, can you click on it and it's a interactive AI, it's very weird. Whoa, uncomfortable. Well, that that requires me to be on a social media platform, which I feel like I'm just getting further and further away from. Join me. I know, day Exactly. It's a little easier for me, because I have become absolutely cutthroat with blocking people. It's just not worth the time. Literally hundreds of people on freaking X because, yeah, that's easy. A bunch of people, some people on Instagram, and finally started to do a lot of people on Facebook. I don't care. Yeah, I do have two good things though, we got our first text message. Oh, nice. And David was gave us a nice donation. Oh, then is he the one who texted as well? No different people, I think. Oh no. He's the same person, okay, but his, his note on the donation was long overdue for all the episodes I've enjoyed. Thanks for all the great listening. Oh, thank you, David and his text message, Hey Kelly, Eric and Vanessa. David here, I'm a long term listener. First time texter. You're the first, first ever. We shall engrave your name upon our mics in your honor. I've been meaning to reach out for a while, and as I just finished listening to your atomic monsters episode and you covered three of my personal favorites, that's pretty cool, this seemed like a good time to do. So I've been a fan of Kelly since he was a regular panelist on the Lovecraft it's been great to follow this podcast and get to know you all. Keep up the good work, everybody. Fun. Fact, my ex used to call me H man whenever I got a cold sore, I am stealing that fantastic David, thanks for thanks for reaching out and thanks for listening to the show. That's amazing. I appreciate that and the donations. Yeah, that is always really, really well appreciated. Eric, you have some news on our film, the connoisseur? Yeah, we've got we were selected by the Seattle Film Society to scream in their screen, scream and their locals only. It'll be the connoisseur, along with three other shorts, bubblegum bench October and ensure domestic tranquility. I think it's a two hour and a half or two hour event. They show the things and then the four of directors from those four shorts will sit and answer questions for a while. And it's pretty cool, because it's invite. Like I said, it's invite only, so it's going to be at the Northwest film forum if you're in the Seattle area. I think it's $15 to attend, but should be 7pm that night, and yeah, Q A, and wrap up at nine. So it's a two hour event. Plenty of good, fun stuff to do, and Northwest film forum is pretty cool. What a cool place. What was that? Date again? April 23 april 23 Okay, cool. That's very cool. Yeah, be selected one of four films selected for something like that. That's very neat. Yeah, they do one every couple months or something like that, and it's just all picked out invites. So I got a email two or three months back that said, Hey, can you get us your short for us to check out? Oh yeah, so, and this is the result. Wow, that's so cool. Oh, my gosh, yeah. Oh, is it going to be filmed or anything? The Q and A, I don't know. There's some post like little mic interviews or whatever. I know you've seen those with the somebody's got these tiny little mics. They're always like the mariners do em all the time, or a few other places I've seen so, okay, I don't know if that's a large group or everybody's just calling them that, right, nice. Okay, well, let's get down to what we actually talk about here, which is movies we've watched. And I don't think I have talked about that. I finally saw the monkey. No, he did not. What did you think I liked it cool. I didn't love it it. I think I fell more on Eric's side of it, in that it tonally, was all over the place. But I was like, I wish this was funnier if they were going to be funny, or I wish it was scarier if they were gonna be scary. But overall, I thought it was pretty good. The acting was all fine. The monkey itself was great. Some of the shots of like, when it was looking at its eyes in the dark, I was like, wow, that is really cool looking. And, yeah, overall, I thought it was. Is some pretty good fun. There's a stab at the end with the cheerleaders and the bus that I thought was wildly out of place and a really bad effect and a bad way to end the film. It was very random. Yeah, that was super random. But other than that, I was entertained. Did not hate it. Nice. Nice. That's what you want our movie, at the least for Stephen King adaptation, yes. Good point. I would say that it falls on the plus side of those. Oh, yes. So that's the monkey that is available now to stream as a rental. Oh, cool. Well, the movies have been kind of sparse lately, like the theater. So I went ahead and watched black bag, which is not something I would normally seek out, which is a recent Steven Soderbergh joint. It's sort of spy versus spy married to each other. Situation. It was, it was really good. It was like a nice little sort of almost, who done it mystery setup. It's actually kind of smaller spaces than you'd think in the trailer. It's, it's centered around, initially, this dinner party where a bunch of people within an agency are invited because the lead guy has been asked to find out who has turn coded in their agency and is going to potentially set off a big device or do something that's going to kill a lot of people. So he invites them all to dinner and slips in a truth serum into the curry. Just turns out that everyone's sort of sleeping with each other and has all kinds of problems with each other, and so a lot more kind of comes to light, and then he's got to parse through that and figure out what's happening between going to work each day and how things are playing out there, versus weird messages he's getting weird individual conversations he's having, and then the relationships everybody have with one another. So it was, it was just like a fun, easy, easy, breezy, who done it movie? Is it? Is that a rental, or is I saw in theater? So I don't know if it's available yet, but if it's a free thing, then I'd say, go for it. Like I don't know if I'd pay for it, unless you're really into that kind of thing. The trailer looked really cool. Yeah, yeah, I would say it felt smaller scale than the trailer led me to believe, but it had more talent in it than I realized. Like, there are a lot more actors in there that I was like, Oh, you're in this. Oh, okay, you're you're in this, like, Pierce brosnans in it. It's like, Oh, hello, there you are. So, yeah, I don't know. I enjoyed it a lot. I was really glad that I checked it out. But you know, I guess maybe I'm not the right audience to be the person who like goes forth and is like, I'm not the Agatha Christie Pluto, whatever person. So, okay, okay, wow. Black bag. Black bag. That's a new one to shutter one of those drop in. Let's check it out from this year, Shadow of God. I have heard of this one. It's another exorcism movie, but it goes really different places. I'll keep subtle, keep little quiet, because it really goes some weird places and does some interesting ideas for an exorcism film. I it's one of those I'm watching going, I can't tell if I really like this or if I just find the idea very intriguing, but the lead guy, Mark O'Brien, is really good place I preach, who's the preacher who's doing an exorcism, and the guy, he's the city opening scene, is working with, gets killed, and he gets a call from the home office. He's like, don't talk about this, but six of our exorcists have been killed tonight. Oh, like he's gonna go and find out what's going on, and runs into his supposedly dead father. Oh, so it's, it was interesting, and I do enjoy where it went. I'd be curious after you guys see it. If you're like, that was just silly morph, you're like, Okay, that was a nice, interesting twist for exorcist films. Is that foreign or no? No, it's, it's in English. But I don't think it's Canadian or Australian. I'm pretty sure, oh, God, that sounds very cool, actually, yeah, yeah, that's a good title. Yeah, very strong. That's Canadian. It's Canadian. Them, Canadians. Okay, well, I did see a new movie called Novocaine. Oh, my god, wow. Okay, how is it? It's fine, okay, I watched the first trailer, the first time I saw the trails, like, oh shit. Then the second time, going. Yeah, so this looks fun, and I like that lead actor so much that I'm like, I hope it does really well. He's, he's very good, cool. The the problem, I think, with it is it's kind of a wacky premise, and that he feels no pain, and so he's going to be fighting these guys, and he's really not equipped to deal with them, but he's almost super powered, because they can't really hurt him. But with that kind of premise, you want it to be a little wackier, and it's almost treated seriously. And, I mean, there's, there's a good level of humor going on, but I felt the entire time, like I wanted it to be just a little bit more. It reminded me of the movie. Nobody, oh yeah, I like that one. I did too. And I was like, Wait a second, this is reminding me of this, but I remember loving that movie and this one, I was so, so on. So, you know, your mileage may vary. Jack, wait is really good. I like him in it, but he he was looking pretty weird in this, really, because of all the damage he was taking. And some of the damage he was taking was pretty gruesome. He just looked very thin and drawn. And I was like, okay, buddy, I want you to stay healthy now, sandwich is his character. He didn't seem like his character is a great departure from what he plays in the boys. Well, I think that's just his delivery of everything he's he's a banker, okay, so and, and he's slightly embarrassed because he knows he has this issue. And so somebody asks him out that he's kind of got a crush on and he goes out with her, but for a meal, but all he gets is milkshake. And then he starts telling her, you know, I can't chew on anything because I might bite my tongue off and I wouldn't feel it, and I joke on it. And this is how he starts telling the story of what is happening. And I was like, oh, that's kind of a wild thing. Yeah. So yeah, it's, it's okay. It's called Novocaine. And in the in the story, can he just not feel pain, but he can feel everything else? Well, not necessarily they it doesn't follow a lot of great rules, because he, he doesn't feel pain. He does have sex with this girl, and he's having a good time there. But I was also like, okay, not feeling pain only gets you so far. If you've taken a bunch of head blows, yeah, you might not hurt, but you're going to be out bleeding a lot. So that kind of stuff, huh? And is that out for streaming at this point? Rental. Okay, cool. Very cool. Well, I was just trying to find something to watch the other day that was very low risk. So through on I've never watched it on shutter, hell health, Hell House LLC, and they just released the Director's Cut. It's in the carousel on the top. I have no idea how it differs from any other cuts. No, there's like, four of them out. I think, yeah, there's four. Yeah, there's definitely four. I think it's okay. No, four movies, okay. I think it's an okay, one of the better found footage films. I don't know if I need to see the directors cut. I think they have, from what I read in the synopsis, has eight additional minutes, so hold on to your pad. Yeah, it was, you know, I liked the characters. I like the setup, I like the general idea. I think that that all worked really well. But then once they started explaining what was happening. You start seeing what was happening in this house. I was like, this, this is stupid, like the directors, because I don't remember them explaining that much in the original there's a lot of like, little hints here and there and then, and the last 10 minutes, you see so much like, you see a lot of these shapes and people, and, you know, kind of roughly, you can fill in the blanks very easily. And I think it's a little hokey and a little, I don't know, it's just kind of a dumb I think they it would have been better served if they'd let it, left it much more vague and not had like, a stinger of like, and it's still out here. Oh, well, yeah, three more movies I know exactly. I don't even know what those are going to be about, because I don't know how that company exists after the first one, surely they went bankrupt. Now, like, how do you transfer that legally? Like they're all dead. Usually an LLC has provisions for if the deaths of all the members happens. There's usually verbiage put into LLCs for that. So hopefully I'm gonna have to watch the rest, probably in October, and find out just how the legality of this works out, because that's my biggest question. Because we'll answer that. It won't just be like and then three years later, it was back in the public domain, and somebody else bought it. Explain to me how a low budget, self financed, self distributed film is not the Director's Cut. Right off the bat, I also was curious about this. I was like, so who is, like, really pressing you in the direction you didn't want to go the first time around? Who is like, sticking their thumb on you going, like, Nope, no. Artistic creativity for you, sir. I gave you$100,000 you're not going to go there. I gave you $100 that's sort of like for me, like, I really enjoyed Donnie Darko, yeah, there is a director's cut which I have never watched because people said it explained about half. It's like, you know what? You know what I liked about Donnie Darko, yeah, it was left ambiguous. There is just like, I'm good. Literally, one scene in the Donnie Darko Director's Cut that's helpful, because it bridges the gap between two other scenes where you're like, Wait, why is this couple like, why are they mad at each other in the scene? That's like, the only useful thing is, you see how they, like, get into this argument. Everything else. I was like, I know, please. There's also strangeness. Like, you know, buffet films Amadeus, and they did a director's cut years ago, and that was the only one available until January, when they released the theatrical cut with the notification that this was never the director's cut, the director we did not like the Director's Cut. It was released without his authorization. So crazy, yeah, but so they finally released that, which I think is superior. There's some real problems in the director's cut, but you just never know. Maybe somebody came along and said, nice to add some shit. Totally Hell House LLC, that's on shutter, all right. I saw one totally, very different than we've talked about Sing. Sing, which I believe is an Oscar nominee for something, but I don't know what, but it's, it's really good. It's a really it's a feel good prison movie. You know, you don't get a lot of those. Every once in a while you get a Shawshank Redemption. But this is much more low key. It's based on a true story of a group of prisoners who formed a theater group in Sing, sing, and they put on, they did some Shakespeare, and then that this one time they're sitting around, they're starting, they're pitching for what their next one will be, and they just throw these crazy ideas. So the guy who is not a prisoner, but is like, helps them run the program, says, I'll go out and I'll write a storyline to fit everything. You're going to get time travel, you're going to get Freddy Krueger, you're going to get pirates, all the stuff you want. And he goes and he writes this play. The group was called rehabilitation through the arts and incredibly successful. I believe the lead character in the movie is not is a fictionalized character, you know, amalgamation of a bunch of characters, but most of the actors are prisoners, actual prisoners. The credits at the end, end with so and so played by themselves, and it's all interesting, all themselves. So I looked up and said, Yep, those were not necessarily, maybe not current, but some current and some former prisoners, wow. And it's insanely well acted for a movie with very low budget, and the budget leaks on the scenes at times, and you know, some of the prisoners are, it's obvious they're not actors, but they they encompass their role well enough they understand what they're doing well enough that it really works. And the lead is just charismatic. It's all hell like this guy needs to do a lot more stuff. He is. It's what was his name. It was, I closed the wrong door. Where'd he go? But he is, he the one who makes story lines? Is there's two guys. One is the guy who started it, and then this other guy comes in, who is more prison tough. So they kind of conflict, but then they end up becoming incredibly good friends. Coleman Domingo placed the lead. And just phenomenal. He was in Lincoln and Selma and euphoria. So been in a lot of stuff. What we're seeing, if you kind of want, you know what I need, a feel good prison film some, sometimes, yeah, sometimes, that's exactly what you need Sing. Sing, what's that on it was, I believe it was a HBO or max, or whatever the hell those things are. I know I was go the wrong one was this, you said Oscar nominate. Is this a new movie from like, last year or last year? Okay, I have not even heard of this one. Yeah. I remember hearing a little bit about it, and it sounded like people were really loving it, but I just assumed it was, like, a dark, intense indie film. And I was like, I can't, I can't take it. I'll be honest, I was looking because I was interested in it too. But you know how IMDb has those content things? I'm gonna look up and see if there's, like, any rape scenes in this. And I just don't feel like watching something that intense, and there's nothing. It's probably our rated for language, but yeah, I was on max and for rent on other places. Fantastic. All right, that sounds cool, guys. How about we take a little break and then when we come back, we are talking about animals. Sure. Okay, you can anything stop the animal? The animal is a big, powerful four by four, but when the going gets tough, it bears its claws to climb over things that get in its way. The animal drawing its way to the top. The animal needs sold separately, batteries not included, new from Galoob, and we are back, Eric, this was your sub genre pick. What are we talking about? Talking about animals, you know, if you wanted to do Air Bud or something like that, sure. But either animals are pets, whatever we're just chilling having some fun, watching some weird shit, nice and generic. I appreciated that you want to go first then Eric diving in five minutes, all right. My movie was rats. Night of terror. Rats. What do they want from us? Rats? Why are they man's enemy rats? They are watching, waiting rats, that time has come. Why do rats repel us? What is it about those little furry bodies that's so frightening? Just think they're here. They're coming. God, no. Who could stop them and how rats are here under our feet, all around us. Come on out in the open so I can smash into pieces. Come to the slaughter. Strange rat from another community came into it, soon killed, and that's what's eaten. See The teaming millions their little red eyes gleaming with rage and hunger. I don't want to die like that. The last time I warned you, Drop the guns. Kurt go on. You'll never get away. You two, move that console and barricade yourselves in. No, I'll try to stop them. You rats, they're waiting for you night because this is your night of terror. Come the room. Rats a Bruno mate joint, which about 20 minutes in. I realized this was one of the early ones I watched with him. From him I'd already seen it. But this is the new Severn remastered and re released with an insane number of extras for a movie by this filmmaker, but I love it. BRUNO matte, you might know from island of the Living Dead, Terminator two and jaws five. He also was there's another director listed, Claudio frugasa, who is known for the stellar hell of the Living Dead and troll two, oh, boy. So you know, powerhouse is coming together to create written by Rosella drew D who worked with the both directors quite a bit, and also both the directors are listed as contributing writers, starring Octavian del aqua, who's in 30. Coins. Enough killer. John Wick two, 327 stunt credits, whoa, and that shows up a little bit some cool stuff. Oh, nice. Goretta gureta was in Terminator two demons buy and sell Massimo van I, whose gangs in New York and Robo war and Strike Commander two. He is also over 100 stunts in movies. So he went stunt guy heavy. So this is a in the world named in the period of the world after the bomb. So, you know, instead of BC, it's now a, b, Oh, okay. People live in kind of a separate kind of have, have, have not worlds, which they really don't get too much into, and you're pretty much in the have not world the whole time. And looks like a 1980s post apocalyptic film. If you've seen any of the ones that were not high end budgeting, you know exactly what this movie looks like, strangely altered cars, motorcycles that are completely impractical and kind of punk esthetic. Vincent, directed by Vincent Dawn, is in the credits, but you know, we know it wasn't him. Also got weird guns, leather boy looks colorful scars, a guy who looks like he's straight out of the TV show Kung Fu for some reason, or one of the Mooney guys that used to have in the airport years ago. And women with headbands and weird outfits that make no sense, nice, but all it is are starving and stuff. So, you know, in the grand tradition of starving people in movies like this, they find a huge staff of food and then immediately go into let's throw the food all over the place and have food fights like I don't think that's what they covering themselves in flower. Let's hold back. I do love part of what I like about Bruno movies is they often make absolutely no sense. They're set up and blockings the movements. There's a weird shot where somebody shoots a gun and everybody reacts like they heard the gun, and they're just around the corner and they're gonna go see what's happening, and they go around the corner. It's a completely different part of the building, nowhere near where the gun was going off, but bottle of J and B does show up. So, you know, he's recognizing his Italian roots, although the label was taped over because apparently this was so low budget they couldn't use that. And so the whole idea is the rats are intelligent. The rats go on the attack with organized and effective attacks, all different depending on the situation. So will they survive the night? And yes, unfortunately, the film did have some animal cruelty. Some rats were killed and continued to be used in the movie, you actually can see one or two of them, like there's one of the dead ones. Oh boy, oh God. When goretta was asked if Claudio actually directed anything, she said, Hell no, I hear the same crap regarding Dario and lumberto When we were all on demons. Is that really talented people like Bruno allow other people to have opinions, chime in, come up with stuff, but rats is Bruno's film. Good for you, Bruno. View some sets from Sergio Leone's once upon a time in America, which had deteriorated on their own. It was that time, distance, and they're just left to rot. This was featured on rift track, which is, you know, fine, and Greta took the role after her roommate turned it down. See, this is her second film made in Italy. She didn't speak Italian, and it shows but so it's, it's fine. If you know Bruno matte, you know exactly what you're getting in for it looks ridiculously good. Oh, it does. Oh, man, it's Severin. So they just remastered the hell out of it. I mean, looking good is relative the the film print looks probably like it did originally. I'm sure it's not like the photography is not slightly stellar, no, it's like the cell or something. We should probably know you kept saying Terminator two, but it is not, no Cameron's Terminator two. It is not Jaws, five, no cruel jaws. But I forgot what Terminator two one is called, but it's something completely different, yeah, but yeah, cruel Jaws got in trouble when seven release it not too long ago, and they had to stop putting out the it was a cover sleeve that said Jaws two. The inside was cruel Jaws, right? You got in trouble for that one. You. But this had to be from your own personal collection. Look, someone's got something I want to get. Oh, Bruno mate's got one. Vanessa, how about you go next? All right. So I went with a film had not seen before, which is 1997 the edge. You're the salt of the earth. You're the most excellent man. That's why I married you. And you're the only woman I've ever wanted see the lucky guy. You are a billionaire who has everything he wants to a good companion, a good friend, did a good sport, got it. Okay, great. A photographer who wants everything he has nice looking lady, your wife, yes. Why'd you ask? Just like to know who everybody is. Must be tough. All that money of knowing what people value you for, what you value me for, Bob, I think your wife's pretty cute. So are you planning to kill me. Now, two rivals lost in the wilderness are forced to confront nature. What are we gonna do? Am I supposed to have a plan? But they're about to discover nature isn't as dangerous as the nature of man. Academy Award winner Anthony Hopkins, you want to die out here, I'm not gonna die. Alec. Baldwin, money folk, sit up there. Drink some golf. You make me sick. Where civilization ends, survival begins. The Edge a pretty big movie, to be honest, starring Anthony Hopkins, 154 credits, such as silence of the lands west world, we talked about Elephant Man on the show. Alec Baldwin, 161 credits, Glen and Gary Glen. Ross, 30 rock and up and coming. Film, rust coming to a theater near you. Man, you pulled the nice Glen, Gary, Glen, Ross and then doom. Anyway, Harold perinau is playing Steven. We would know him from, from also is in Oz lost Romeo. And Juliet is Mercutio, which I was like, oh shit, okay. Well, it's all coming together now. And Elle McPherson, the actors, model from Batman and Robin is in this directed by Lee tamahiro, who has 15 credits, including Triple X day of the Union, next and Die Another Day, written by David Mamet, who has 53 credits, Glengarry, Glen Ross wag the dog, the untouchables, Hannibal, etc. And of course, also stare, starring Bart the bear as the bear, 21 credits, including the great outdoors On Deadly Ground, Homeward Bound, and 12 Monkeys. This story follows billionaire Charles Morse, who's accompanying his wife, Mickey, a model, to a photo shoot on a remote Alaskan resort. They are accompanying her photographer, Robert and his whole team of assistant stylists, other photographers, et cetera. When they arrive at the remote Lodge, the owner warns them not to leave any food out, as it will attract bears. On the first night, they have one man dress up as a bear Robert to surprise him and scare him, because Charles is having a birthday so they do a big surprise birthday party. Um, his wife gives him a watch. Robert gives him a pocket knife, very important things that will come into play later. Um, and he was also gifted by somebody we don't meet, a old school survival book that he carries around and sort of obsessively reads in the corner by himself on the shoot. Charles observes that Bob and Mickey seem to be flirting. He's a very jealous and paranoid man. He looks at response to basically any man looking her way. And we see this happen time and again, but not he doesn't confront him yet because Bob decides he wants to go find a Native American man named Jack Hawk, because he wants him to be in one of the photos. And so Mickey encourages Charles to go ahead and go on the plane with him when they have to fly quite a distance away to this guy's house and to go get him. He agrees, because he's like, fuck. Why not? I guess I might as well have an adventure. And on the plane, he begins to confront Bob when the plane hits a flock of geese and goes down only Bob Steven, the guy from from and Charles survived the crash. From then on, Charles takes charge, using his book smarts to help them survive. The only hiccup is a giant quote, unquote, Kodiak bear that has decided to hunt them down at. Every turn. Will Charles, Robert and Steven get out of the woods alive? Will Charles's book smarts get them into more hot water than if they'd probably just stayed still in the first place? Will Charles accuse Rob of trying to kill him, steal his wife and take his fortune, only to be proven wrong, then right? Then kind of wrong again? Will Charles and Rob bond over murdering a bear, eating it, wearing its head and travel across the vast wilderness, only for Rob to double cross him out of nowhere. Seems weird. And will Charles arrive back to see his loving wife with the knowledge that she cheated on him only to give her an incriminating the incriminating evidence and as the end the film ends, basically say, Fuck you. Stay tuned for the credit, for the credits. This one was not quite what I expected it to be. I did not expect to see Sir Anthony Hopkins say, today I'm good. I kill a mother fucker to the bear. That was pretty crazy. There was a lot of really good lines throughout. I think it was really well written, but it was really frustrated how it was directed. There was a lot of music leading us through different things. Every time we thought that maybe Charles was just paranoid and that Rob was actually a normal, cool dude just getting us through the situation in the most human way possible. They threw a music cue in to make you feel like Rob is actually bad. I was like, this is you guys, you gotta stop the bear. Is the serial killer. It's weird. He's also not a, well, the Kodiak bear. I think that's made up, because he's just a grizzly bear. People, I mean, grizzly bears are, they're rough, but they're not that rough. Young Anthony Hopkins is still very old is, I think I enjoyed it because survival movie, and that's kind of like an end of the world movie. And I was obsessed with hatchet as a kid, so the book, oh, okay, just a couple of really small pieces of trivia. This is one of Barthe bears final acting roles before his death in May 2000 at the age of 23 for all the chase scenes where the bear is seen Breaking branches, twigs, small trees, etc, the material used was made out of breakaway balsa wood. Several trainers were strategically positioned around the perimeters where the bear worked. The area was checked and cleared for all debris hazard to the bear, and moss and sawdust were laid on the ground to cushion his feet. Sir Anthony Hopkins almost died. He he was taking painkillers for a neck problem. He fell in the river. He didn't feel how cold he was, and he became hypothermic and had to be rushed to the hospital to be treated. And that's all I've got. Wow, how old was Harold paranow In this yet, was he a kid? He looks so young. I I feel so awful. I was like, Is this Chris Rock? He has, like, he's thinner, and he's, like, really got this energy, and his, like, the shape of his eyes look different. He is young. He looks young, so, no, he's to me, was pretty unrecognizable. I was just surprised in the credits. I was like, oh shit, it's you. I spent so much time with you this year. Okay, I've never seen the edge, really. I saw it. I don't long ago, like 97 or 98 it was. I remember being fine. Yeah, it was, it's a fun 90s action film. It's, it's in that long League of 90s action films that have a similar tonal, yeah, I don't know they feel like they're their own thing, but it's pretty well done. It's very over the top. But, you know, Mamet wrote some good stuff. Yeah, man, I heard some good stuff. Everything. Did some good stuff. Yeah. All right, five minutes, and I am talking about a recent classic, kiano, hey, man, how are you? How you doing? Nothing makes sense anymore. Are you okay? Daisy broke up with me. Well, it's gonna be okay. You're right. Clarence, I want you to meet Keanu. No, God, that's the cutest guy I've ever seen in my life. Why's your door open? Gianni, I'm sorry. Oh, steps up, bro. I'm here because my place got broken into. Has anyone shady come by here? I mean the 17th street Blips. The 17 street Blips. Okay. Where are they? 17 street let's just go check it out. What's the worst that can happen? One beer, please. I'll take a white wine specific. What you can't talk like that. You sound like John Ritter all the time. You in the right place? Did we in the right place? Um, tectonic, nice. My name is Shark Tank. Sick. Oh, every day I'm hustling. Every day I'm Muslim. Cheddar has got Kiana. We in the market right now for like a gangster pet. You serious? I am not breaking the law. We just feed him some bull about New Jack City, and we get Keanu. You ain't never seen nobody get killed before. I've seen people get killed before. Come on. Keanu needs you. I need you. Where are you? What do you think my idea phone was? Why are you talking to me like that? I talk like that sometimes. Check it. Bucha, so what you got me? Appendix. It took it out of my body. What? See, what we got here. What is this? Oh, this must shit right here. Yeah, from 2016 directed by Peter Atencio, who has mostly television credits, including 16 episodes of the Midnight Show and six episodes of Jean Claude Van Johnson, remember that one you don't? Oh, it's actually pretty good. And 54 episodes of Key and Peele, written by Jordan Peele, who has 18 credits, including, get out us nope and The Candy Man remake Wendell and wild, and 40 episodes of something called the last OG not familiar with it. And also Alex Rubens, who's got 54 episodes of Key and Peele, four episodes of Rick and Morty, and 25 episodes of community starring Keegan Michael Key, who has 109 episodes of Mad TV, which I completely forgot. Wow. 55 episodes of key and peel and Bucky Larson and the Predator just recently. And Jordan Peele, who has 20 episodes of the new Twilight Zone. 81 episodes of big mouth and 55 episodes of key and peel. They were both in Weird Al's white and nerdy video, yes, driving the car right? And then Tiffany Haddish is in this, shoes and wishes the oath Nobody's Fool. Also in this is Method Man Darrell, Britt, Gibson Will Forte, Louise Guzman, Rob Huebel and Anna Faris as a very ridiculous version of herself. You guys have seen Keanu I have so the movie starts with a pair of assassins that kill everyone in a drug processing facility run by a Mexican cartel, everyone that is except for a ridiculously adorable little kitten that somehow makes it out while guns are blasting and shit is exploding all around him. And then we meet the main characters of the story, REL, who was despondent because he just got dumped by his girlfriend and Clarence, his best friend, who is married, RHEL, finds this adorable kitten, falls immediately in love with it and names him Keanu. And you guys, everyone would fall in love with this kitten. He is so goddamn beautiful. So while Clarence, his wife, is off on a weekend trip with some friends, Clarence and REL are going to have a guy weekend, and they start by going out to the movies. They're having a pretty good night, but when they get back, they find that rails place has been ransacked and Keanu is missing. Clues point to the fact that REL neighbor is a drug dealer, and the people he deals with might have thought rel's house was actually the dealer's house, so they probably have his kitten. And in judgment, that really only makes sense in these kind of movies, they both decide they're going to go find this gang and get Keanu back. The first place they hit is a strip joint where they are mistaken for the two assassins from the beginning of the movie, and they go along with it because they find that Keanu is there with the gang, but they can't get him safely out yet. So this leads to them getting involved with the gang, where they are expected to sell a new street drug called Holy shit. Get into misadventure after misadventure, trying to just make it through the night and get Keanu back. There are a couple of very hilarious moments in the movie, much of them concerning rel and Clarence having to be a lot more black than they actually are. They take on the names tectonic and Shark Tank and start teaching this gang of pretty rough individuals how to be Stone Cold killers. There's also an extended George Michael joke running through the movie with an amazing payoff and an absolutely bonkers cameo by Anna Ferris. This movie is a goddamn delight. Second time I've seen it, and I really, really loved it. Very, very funny. And of course, the two real assassins from the beginning are also played by Key and Peele. Trivia, seven cats and kittens played Keanu each one received a case of Fancy Feast and an assortment of cat toys. Since Keegan, Michael Key is allergic to cats, he had to take medication in order to interact with them. And then, in an interview with Ellen on her talk show, Tiffany Haddish stated that she kept one of the cats after filming Keanu. Reeves has a cameo as the voice of Keanu. This was a last minute edition just before the film was screened at South by Southwest. Reeves contacted key and peel directly and expressed interest in being involved, though his representatives had declined an earlier request from key and peel Reeves was intrigued by the film's first trailer. It's called Keanu. This is not available to stream anywhere, but I own it because it's so goddamn cute. Oh, excellent. Boom, damn. It's pretty good. Yes, Eric, I thought this was an excellent topic. Thank you. Yeah, did you like Keanu? You know, it's been such a long time. I saw it in theaters, and I remember liking it, but I would like to re watch it, because it's been a while. It is really cute. I did remember Keanu Reeves' voice popping up and being like, oh, Vanessa, that means that you have the next sub genre. Oh, gosh, you're right. Well, we recently lost a legend. Mr. Val Kilmer passed away on April 1, so a couple weeks ago. So I think if we each chose a film from his catalog, that might be pretty cool. I love this idea. Yeah, definitely. He's He's done a few films. Yeah, I think there's plenty to choose from in there, more action than you might expect, nonetheless. Well, I like that. Okay, that means that we have come to the end of the show where we're thanking everybody for liking and sharing posts, or thanking people like David who texted us and sent in a lovely donation. We're thanking people who are on the strangeeons radio Facebook page, the talk page, and we're thanking everybody who's talking about us on YouTube or however you watch this, if you're leaving us a nice review, we really appreciate that. Or if you want to be like David, you can hit the strangeeons radio hotline and text it at 253-237-4266, what have I left out? Value for value? Well, it's called value for value. There you go. If you get some value out of this, you give some value back. And we really appreciate that. Yes, thank you. You've got a prop here. Do you want to talk about it? Book out called thorns, if you are so inclined. It's been getting lovely reviews. 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