326 1960s SCI-FI!

326 1960s SCI-FI!
The dream is over: Kelly finally abandons Zune! And the gang talks 1960s science fiction flicks!
Also discussed: Mickey 17, The Drop, The Severed Sun.

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It's always good to double check things. If you double check, you won't screw it up. Let's not go that far. Oh, I'm sorry. Did I break your concentration? Somewhere between science and superstition. Oh, I have such sights to show you. Strange eons. Welcome to strange eons. Radio that is Eric over there, hello. It is Vanessa over there, and I am Kelly, you know, I'm really glad you guys are here, so I can share with you a big piece of news that the audience will also be very fascinated with. We no longer have our one zoom. Listener, oh, my God, you got rid of this. No, I know eras. Eras are ending your identity. Kelly, who are you now? Second, zoom, I gave up the Zune. Well, the Zune was dying anyway. It was starting to skip pretty regularly. It's been true for like, five years for you. The the new work truck I have doesn't even have a jack for the 3.5 millimeter plug. Oh, wow. So and of course, the Zunes Bluetooth doesn't talk to Bluetooth of this century. So all of these things, then I decided, well, let's see. I'll check out one of these new podcast apps. And I ended up loving podcast addict. And I started downloading those and everything. And I just decided, well, I'll just use the Zune in the car. And then I was like, Well, if I want to keep listening to the episode I was listening to at work, I've got to have it on my phone. And I stopped. Here's the sad part. I kept the Zune updating and coming with me to work for the last several days. And then I was like, I'm not even using this. I just have it in the car. And so I I unplugged it from the computer, and I grabbed all the Zoom stuff I had, which was a shocking amount, five zooms, and I have five zoom motherboards, in case something happened. And I was just like, you know, end of an era. Pick one, replace, encase it in acrylic, and then get rid of all the rest. Really sad about this, I'm like, deep if you don't get a Zune tattoo, that's an awesome idea. Dude, right here, right back here. Yeah, right there, lower back, dude, if you guys do stamp, tramp, yeah. I feel bad for the other podcasts that I listened to, because I would hear, every once in a while, they would talk about it. They like, we still have one guy who's listening on Zoom. Somehow, whoever you are, we thank you. And I'm like, That's me. I'm no longer special. I have nothing distinguishes me from anybody else. The technology outran you. It took a long time. I was a, you know, an adopter of that when it first came out, and then when everybody went to iPods, I was kind of like, I still like this one better. I got myself an iPod, and I was like, I don't like the way this works, and I don't like the Apple podcast app that would, you know, so I just kept going with it. And then after it was discontinued, and if mine would break and I couldn't repair it, I would go on eBay and buy a new Zune. And there it is, end of an era. I don't know who you are anymore. I am a pod person now. You just listen to your device, your handheld fancy. It's like a new iPhone, isn't it, or something? No, this Samsung Galaxy. Oh, well, la, la. If I could transfer out of Apple without losing my ability to cloud everything, then I would too. But whatever, I went the other way around. I was in Android for long. I actually came across being of old tech I read the other day of I had the first Android phone ever made. I came across an article talking about that. It's like, it was pretty cool. I like, Oh yeah, I'm, I don't know I I'm part of the apple plan where I get a new one every year. And I have to say, the last three years, I don't know what the difference is. Like, yeah, nothing. That's pretty true of all phones. Now, if you keep, if you're if you'd like, if you've got, if you did Samsung, it's basically, it's like the because I watch a lot of tech videos, and they're all like, Hey, new one out. Slightly better camera, slightly better battery life. When I, when I moved to this, this was a big jump, because my phone before this was like an s8 and this is 22 that's how you do it. Turn off their annual one. Wait five years, then get an apple. I noticed a huge jump in quality in my pictures and stuff like that. Yeah. But I also noticed, I went up to Bellingham this weekend, and there are patches up there where, you know, you don't get good service. And so I'm listening to my podcast, and it suddenly just stops. And I was like, this would not have happened in the Zoom Yeah, because it's true. I mean, and that's also down to your network, because they're assholes. Are the kind of app use, like the the one I listen to, downloads and stores them. So every once was like, why is this? Oh, this one, I got a bunch of friggin podcasts. I need to delete five gigs worth of podcasts. Yeah. So well guys, thank you for being here with me on this thing. I wish you luck in your new transition as you become a butterfly. Who knows what color you'll be when you get out of this pod, but I'm zoomless. Fly away. Little creature. Fly away. Hi, you guys. I have watched some stuff quick about I guess I'm going to talk about the severed son, okay, which is a folk horror movie that really, really badly wants to be the witch, and I was rooting for it. It doesn't have the budget and did not have the cinematographer or director or writer. There was a lot to not like about this, but it is set in, you know, whatever. I don't know if it's 100 years ago or 200 years ago or what, but it's a young girl with an overbearing father who is also the the pastor of this small village, and they start seeing this dark creature who keeps tempting her, and eventually she goes for it. And so there's all sorts of witchy stuff happening, but I just like, Man, I really want this to be a little better, because I think it's a first time film for this guy, and it just, it needed either a more experienced well, it needed another pass on the script. It needed a more experienced PP, and it needed probably another $15,000 in the budget, just to, you know, to make it look nicer. It's one of these things that occurs. You know, every shot is a daytime shot, and all that stuff. And I'm like this, this would amp up a little nicer if it was a little darker, or even if they had gone in and color corrected it a little differently, something to make it I don't know. It's called the severed sun. The trailer was really, really promising, and I didn't, I ended up not loving it. That's too bad. I do remember seeing the trailer for this and being like, I'm definitely going to see this film. And then just it came and went. So, yeah, well, you should see it and tell me if I'm wrong. Okay, there you go. Yeah, I have have time. Well, I so I'm halfway through the latest season of Doctor Who with inshutti gatwa, and I'm a huge fan of his. I watched all of sex education like I really like this actor a lot, doctor who's been very weird with him in that season one, he seemed to not be in like two or three the episodes. And in this season, there's like a couple where he's barely in them too. And bearing in mind, each season is eight episodes, which is like the shortest amount of any series. And I just found out, because somebody was like, I don't like him that much as the doctor. And I was like, Fuck you. He's great, but it is Doctor Who, so some of it is shit, because it is Doctor Who, sure, yeah. So that's just part of the territory. And it's, he's not, it's, they're done. They're done with him. Is it normal? So he's the doctor and he hasn't been in several of the episodes, yeah. Is that normal? I not this normal? Yeah. I'm not sure what was going on. If, what happens in the story when he's not in it? Well, his companion, oh, they fall around his companion, or he'll be like, in one shot in it. So there was one where his companion, like, gets out of the phone booth and like, sees somebody on the other side of the hill, and then goes to that hill, and then she has to try to find her way back to the booth. And, like, basically a lifetime, essentially goes by and she can't get back. So that was one episode, and there's, yeah, there was a couple where it was just, like, really focused on her, which was a little frustrating, because she's sort of irritating. And then season two, they have a totally new companion, which is pretty quick, I feel like, and then at the end of season two, they've canceled him out. So yeah, and he's going to be the second shortest run of Doctor Who I don't know why. I don't think it was his choice. Because of the messages he left on Twitter. It sounded like, hey, fam, we had a great time. And it almost sounds like, I mean, was he in a big movie or something that took him away from filming? No. I mean, he finished up sex education. I think that might have been his contradicting schedule with the first Doctor Who series. But I don't know what. I don't know why on earth they don't it is a little strange. Maybe people just don't like a very gay, very black actor being Dr Who, he's very woke. There's a lot of woke storytelling. So that's not that unusual for doctor, who I was just gonna say, the fans don't care, though, right? I don't know. The fans are getting older. Maybe the fans are not liking this version of it's very teen friendly, like it feels like the same audience is being spoken to that sex education was speaking to. So I'm really sad. I think that they overuse his trope of crying. I think he does cry in every single episode, which is very unnecessary, but at the same time, he's really energetic and interesting. And I don't there's, well, there's a definite problem with I'll say this as being a member of this group, sci fi geeks that are getting older, yeah, and not understanding that shit isn't going to grow up with you, yeah, if doctor, who's always really been a kids directed show, yeah, even though that period in 2000 say, got away from that a little bit and amped it up more towards, I don't know, 20 year olds, but um, so it's going, you know, the original Star Wars was made for kids. Yeah, yeah, the first of the new trilogy of Star Wars was definitely made for kids. But so, you know, feels like, maybe watch it a doctor. Maybe it's like a Disney plus, like, ratings issue or something, because I know Disney was heavily involved in this, and, yeah, it's just a bummer, because I feel like, I feel like you're right, because Peter Capaldi was one of the doctors. I did not see that series, so I don't know, but I feel like maybe that was maybe aimed a little bit older, and Matthew Smith was probably for 20 somethings. And this 100% feels like people who are 18, to 21 like it feels like a really specific coming of age. Storytellers, Gen Z, Gen a kind of, yeah, for sure. But so anyway, I'm sad I'm only halfway through the season. I just got to a really lame episode, and I'm like, Well, I hope the Final Four interesting because then I have to change gears, and I don't know if I'm going to watch this for another two doctors and then pop back in. Oh, already, sorry, continuing on the watching shorts. Thing I did with the last one, I did a I read, somebody someplace said something about, well, you think Ari asters movies are tough. You should see some of his short films. Oh, well shit. I'll go watch his short films. And he has 12345678, short films. Wow. Okay, most of them pretty short. Some of them like, there's basically in c'est la vie. Are pretty much just two people bitching at Cameras about things, one being a homeless man, one being a debutante woman. They're fine. Now, a couple of them are really interesting. The turtle heads a little weird. Tinos, Dick fart is descriptive of what actually happens in the short so it's unique. There's a Herman's cure all tonic, which I think was his first short it's pretty good. It's just some guy made a cure all tonic. And what makes it the cure all tonic is not pleasant, and it's interesting, and it's kind of well executed. It looks like shit. I mean, he looks almost like it was shot on VHS, Bo, which I haven't seen. Beau is afraid. So I don't know if there's a relation. It's an obviously, it's not the same actor, that's for sure. But that's what it sounds like, because the short film is Bo being afraid of somebody breaking into his apartment. Basically what it is that now the two that are the most uncomfortable. There's Munchausen, which is Mother Son story that's fairly dark and disturbing, not real fun. The I think for me, the best one he did, and it is fucking haul. Hardcore. The strange thing about the Johnsons, and the strange thing about the Johnsons is the relationship of the father and son, and it is disturbingly dark. It is uncomfortable, incredibly well done. That is that that feels like the guy who made hereditary that short more than any of the others. If you're a big fan of his stuff, and he's well worth watching. None of them are particularly long. I think the Johnsons one is about 15 or 20 minutes is that long, yeah. So they're short shorts overall. And Munchausen is a little bit longer as well. Oh, yeah. No, oops. No. Strange thing about the Johnsons is half an hour, I guess it just moves well. But all on YouTube, does he have, like, his own YouTube channel or something? No, I just put in his name short films and then went to letterbox and just okay, type in this one. There it is. Type in the next one, and is able to watch all of them pretty sure they're uncut. Speaking of short films, we have a short film. Is that coming to YouTube anytime soon? Probably will the we got turned down for another festival this week, and I there's one more we're in the running for, and I've got to check with the guy if it's okay if we're on YouTube. And you know, I don't if we're gonna I'm not saying if we get in or not, if we get in, can we be on YouTube? And if we are, then I'm gonna just post it. Okay? So soon as it's up, believe me, I will give you all links, yeah, let you know where it's at, and you can all finally watch this, the brisk, easy, easy watch. Yeah, I let my brother watch it while I was up there, and he watched it for the first time, and it was, you know, the expected response, oh, my God. He was cracking up. I just realized my family might watch this. Maybe we should not put this online. Well, you didn't have anything to do with the story, so you don't have anything to be ashamed of. That is, you know what I will take that I will run with it. Let's see. What else did I watch? I I don't know. Was it you guys that suggested I watch the series duster on prime? Or no, I just that's the one with the guy from lost, right? Yeah, I just figured you would watch it. This show is up my alley. It is called duster. The guy drives looks like a 71 or 72 duster, and it's all classic rock muscle cars and 70s clothing and everything. And it's a really interesting it's a crime drama, and the other lead is a black female FBI agent, and probably the first black female FBI agent in the 70s. So she's getting zero help from the rest of the Bureau there, actively wanting her to fail. And so there's some really interesting stuff going on in it, double crossing and all of that, and I'm just like, oh shit, yes. This show was written for me. Is actually created by JJ Abrams, so it's not as weird as I thought it was going to be, but it's got a lot of the kind of lost feeling to it in that you'll see a scene, and you'll just be like, holy shit, what's going on? And then it goes 17 hours earlier, and everything in the episode then starts leading up to this scene you saw. And a couple episodes have started that way, and I'm like, Okay, I'm I'm digging all of this. So how is the because he left acting for a long time, didn't he? I didn't know what his reasoning was. He's great. I didn't know if he just made enough money. And I was like, fuck it. I will say he looks a little weird because he's still got the same shoulder length hair. He's still an attractive man, but he's now, you know, my age, so he's maybe shouldn't have hair like this. It's a little further up on his head than it used to be and lost. And I'm like, but it works for his character. So that's cool, yeah, so I'm liking it, and a lot of people show up. There is one episode where he is at a party and he runs into Adrian Barbeau, the person playing Adrian Barbeau, and he kind of helps her get her first movie role. And then Adrian Barbeau shows up in the episode playing an older woman. And I was like, Whoa, wild. That's crazy. So, yeah, I like. Like it. And I can't remember if it's on prime or if it's on HBO Max. Okay, yeah, I've seen the thumbnail. I think it's prime. I think it might be prime also, but I'm really liking it. It's called duster. Nice, nice. Well, I checked him out of film that I know that Kelly has seen. I don't know if you've seen yet. And Eric drop, I have not, okay, yeah. I mean, it's pretty uncomplicated. It's like, just a fun way to waste some time. Yeah, so I don't know, like it was, I guess part of me wished there was a little bit more to it. Maybe I don't know if it needed to be longer, or if, like, there need to be an additional twist, or what, but it was fun. It was decent. I didn't, I wasn't mad, but it wasn't like a it wasn't a thinker. This is the movie. I think I was saying I needed something else in it, that everything in it is good, but there was something missing to make it great. Yeah, for sure, yeah, because it felt like they're just, I don't know. Like the beats that happened were good there. The acting was great. I like the way the text messages were popping up. Was really that was fun. That was super fun. And then you kind of get to the end and you're like, Okay, I don't, I don't know, that's fine. This was a well made movie. Yes, this was played by numbers. This sure was a movie about drops. Let me get out my save the cat book. Exactly. Perfect. 10 out of 10. Yeah, no, it's, you know, it was fine. I'm actually kind of glad I didn't go to the theaters to see it, yeah, yeah, yeah. Is it? Did you rent it free, some stream free now? Yeah, I think so. I don't think I paid. Well, you know what? I take that back. I think I did pay like, a couple bucks for it on the Amazon pretty sure it's rental still. Yeah, okay. Oh, cool, cool. I checked out one of the cool ones, the new one from bonk, John Hope. Mickey 17, Yeah, what'd you think? Dude can make all kinds of movies, man. It's just insane. Yeah. Did you like it? Yeah? I mean, it's weird. It's Robert Pattinson. Is impressive as hell in this film. Good actor, because he is playing such a dork and such a weird guy to look like. He looks but act very differently. And I it's, yeah, I thought it's pretty good. It's, it is a boy. I think it will bear repeated, repeated viewing. There's a lot going on in this that is really interesting to have either of you seen it. Yeah, no, you saw it in the theaters. I think, yeah, I it's streaming free. I max haven't finished it yet. I was like, This is a movie is not grabbing me for some reason, but I do think he is a great actor. Yeah, yeah. I didn't watch it in one sitting, so maybe that might make a difference. I watched a bunch of it and then watched it later. Yeah, I can see how that might help, just like sitting and watching pieces, but because it does feel like almost Chapter II, but oh yeah, because it's based on a book that makes a lot of sense. Oh, okay, but I think I mean nuts and bolts of the story are pretty basic. Yeah, I think it's largely Robert's performance that kept me interested in watching what was going on, because it was, you know, there's little spoiler two of them, and he's very 17 and 18 are very different, and he's pulling both of them off really well. Did you like it at all, or was it just too I really liked it. Yeah, I liked it very much. And I think that that was a big part of it, for sure. Like Robert Pattinson is such a joy to watch, like his fluidity in that you feel like you're watching two different coned versions of a guy, yeah? And then, you know, there's moments where you see flashbacks to other the previous 17, or the previous 16, and you're just like, man, like, you can see this weird difference between them, where it's subtle, and that's a really fucking hard thing to pull off. And like you said, he's a normally very attractive guy, but like the way he plays it, you can see how much attractiveness builds on a personality. Because you're just like no man, you're a fucking loser. Girl wants to have sex with you at all good for you. Take that win and run with it. But yeah, no, I really enjoyed it, and it reminded me more of the sort of Okja stuff. Yeah, I did also enjoy uh, Mark ruffalo's and Tony Colette's stuff. Was weird. It was interesting. It's a lot, yes, exactly. That's why it was kind of fun. As I thought, Okay, this guy is going something specific here. Do you kind of feel like Tony Colette has been playing like the same character? Like, two or three films in a row now, because she's also in that unicorn film as like, let's eat this unicorn and get its properties, or whatever. So, don't know, I think that I the trailer made it feel like a a kind of wacky, zany movie. And the movie is not nearly wacky or zany enough. I guess for me, I was like, I wanted this to be a little broader comedy. I did not see the trailer, so I again, sort of like, Oh, let's see what this is about. Yeah, I think the trailer did it a real disservice. Like, it's such a weird tone that maybe they just couldn't figure out how to tell that it seems like, almost like something, oh shit. What's his name? Director of 12 Monkeys, Terry Gilliam. Terry Gilliam would have done, like, 20 or 30 years ago. Yeah, I can see that. But, yeah, okay, I think you should finish it though. Kelly, I think, like, it does speed up near the end, like, there's really strange. Yeah. It gets really weird. Like, there's, there's, like, a long period, and then all of a sudden, it's like, fucking, we're out. And it's, yeah, it's kind of neat, okay, yeah. I mean, I didn't finish it because it was slow or anything. It was, it was just like, oh, this is not what I was in the mood for. I was in love for a comedy, and I was not getting it out of that. My ultimate one of that ever was Slumdog Millionaire. Oh, let's go watch this fun comedy, as the trailer made it look like a balls out comedy. Oh, I know, wow, that was Yeah, so I know what you're talking about. Yeah. Slumdog Millionaire, the famous, like, poster of him, like, winning with the confetti. And you're like, what this is gonna be a feel good drama. Well, okay, cool. That's Mickey 17, and it's available, I think, on why don't we take a little break, guys, and then when we come back, we're talking about sci fi movies again, from the 60s, though. I you. The zeroids are here from the planet zero the zeroids. Xerach, the zero commander, frees himself from his own zeroid capsule. Advance so boy the zeroid transporter, change his zero capsule into a cosmobile for hauling Centaur the zeroid Explorer. Change his zeroid capsule into a lunar sled. Command, the zeroids to defend, move forward, backward and transport. Command, the zero and we're back, Eric, you had said something about encasing one of those zoons. And I'm like, You know what? I think I will actually take one of those zooms back out and just have it sitting out on the There you go. On the oddity, smooth. I love that. Vanessa, this was your sub genre pick. It sure was. You went right along with the Sci Fi stuff again. You know, I love sci fi. I gotta say, out of this run of stuff we've done, I've been mostly like, Oh, I've had good choices. Check the 90s out, and is a pretty good about the 90s. But the other, I think the 60s has been my favorite so far, because i There were so many on my list that I'm just had not seen yet. So now I'm gonna have to try to conquer this outside of Sar. But yeah, there's some great stuff I have not seen. I did not realize how untapped this was for me so well. And then, of course, the dirty little secret is, if you, if you watch a movie and you like, you just have to figure out what sub genre that is, so you can make us all watch a movie so you can, how do I make this work? Well, you're gonna go first then, because this was yours, and I'm giving you five minutes. So I went with a film that sounded so interesting I'd never heard of before, which is Akari XB, one Smith, eons. Easter, maybe. Julie Smith. To set US you 1963 Yeah, it's also goes by voyage to the end of the universe. It's a Czechoslovakian film, pretty low. Well, I don't know if low budget this era or not, 6 million. It was free on YouTube when I first heard about it. It is now not free, and it is on the criterion channel. Oh, interesting. Scraped it off of there. So this is directed by Jindra Pollack, who has 29 credits, including skyriders, death of hitchhikers, the visitors TV series, and also tomorrow, I'll wake up and scald myself with tea. The octopus is from the second floor and Merry Christmas. Octopus, yeah, written. It's based on a novel by stancila Lem, who also wrote Solaris, and it's called the loosely based on the Magellanic Cloud. So the story is in 2163 the starship icari XB one embarks on a 15 year journey. I was like man that's convenient to Alpha Centauri, like to Alpha Centauri and back to Earth, where they believe there may be a few planets with life while their loved ones on earth will age 15 years, the people on the ship will only age 28 months. So there's kind of a tension between them and the people they're leaving behind. The captain, who I think is maybe in the narrator, is expecting a baby, but his wife is staying behind. So there's a really sad video chat in this. Um, definitely not. Early face time, very cool. 40 people are on board the ship, and it boasts a super funky, cool gymnasium, a cocktail, cocktail dance floor, a lunch room, a small movie theater and lots of large rooms with buttons. On the journey they do encounter a derelict 20th century spaceship armed with nuclear weapons, and also a radioactive dark star whose radiation, radiation causes a mental breakdown of one of the crew that threatens to destroy destroy the spacecraft. The rest of themselves end up very lethargic and exhausted from this dark star thing, and they slip into sleep, where the captain is fighting with the crew members as to whether or not they should turn around and go back to Earth for fear that once they've fall asleep, they will never wake up again. But he is told that it's important to have faith that they will make it through. Will they ever wake up from their radiation sleep? Will Michael destroy them all from level zero. That's the guy with radiation poisoning who's trying to kill everybody. Will the triangle gym ever be used again? Who knows? Stay tuned. This is Star Trek, but with existential dread. Yeah. Oh, wow. Deep movie. It's a deep fucking film. It's crazy because it's got all the Hokey swinging 60s, like silver shit, with, like the crazy 60s sci fi costumes, but with, like, czechoslovakians, who are super down to earth, like one guy has this like, weird robot good friend who shows up and he looks like He came right out of Lost in Space. But he's like, they make fun of him for it. And he's like, Hey, that's my friend. He's got all this stuff in him. And it's like, Burr, Burr, Burr, Burr, Burr. And everyone's like, yeah, the fucker. Why'd you take this here? It's so like, interesting. The tone is bonkers. I just love the way that it feels. It's just so unique to me, I don't know. Like, they also have a lot of weird conversation pieces, so they find the vessel that's floating out in space that's left by humans, and they're talking about, like, we don't know what's on this thing. And they're saying, Okay, well, why don't we send out a ship full of robots to, like, probe? And one of the guys is like, Well, how would we feel if a ship full of robots showed up here to investigate us? And you're like, Oh, that's cool. I like that. And there's, you know, just other things in there, like they think when they go into sleep, that maybe they should send off a probe to let earth know, like this dark star thing they ran into, and how it's. Like, a big problem, and somebody is like, oh, yeah, that's kind of like, sending off. You know, back in the day, people would just throw a bottle into the sea, and the captain's like, so does that make us castaways? What the fuck like, that's so good. It's also beautiful, beautiful, beautiful cinematography. This is before 2001 A Space Odyssey, and like it, it's they were inspired. Like, there's shots that are directly taken from this thing I'm almost done. And just really interesting idea. They have Gravity Boots that when the Gravity Boots, like, hit the surface, they just light up. So they don't really show you, like they're doing a lot of showing rather than telling. It's really neat the way they do that. So anyways, I just, I totally dug it. I love it very little. Trivia tagline, do you dare take the trip to the 25th century? The version titled voyage to the end of the universe is the American version, where they took about 26 minutes out of this 86 minute film. They stripped them out finding the abandoned ship, since it seemed to anti capitalist, as well as making them go towards Earth instead of away from it. And they also altered the cast and crews names on the credits to make it look more English. Wow, yes, I was like, Are you kidding? The newly restored original, the new really stored version that you can play on criterion, is the Czech version. And it was screened at Cannes classic The 20 as part of the Cannes Classic series of the 2016 Film Festival. And it was actually done by the Czech Film Archives who helped put it together. So it's very authentic, like they did a lot of like work. There's like five pages of text at the beginning of the film from criterion about how hard it was to put it back together. So yeah, Bravo guys. It looked great. What's the So, what's the name of this? Again? XB, what? So it's called Ikari, i, k, A, R, I, E, X, b1, it's from 1963 1963 was it in color? No, it's black and white. Okay, man, I'm gonna search this out. This sounds very cool. It's crazy. It's really it's really fun. I highly recommend it, Eric, if you don't mind, I'll go next dive in. Did you guys know that there is a sequel to Village of the Damned? Oh, shit, what it is called children of the damned from 1964 beware. These children. Behind their fiery, hypnotic eyes lurk the demon forces of another world. It's them or us, for these are the children of the Damned. I children of the damn even more eerie and startling than the sensational village of the dam, I think they are the cells of man advanced maybe a million years. Would they actually be creatures from other planets, centuries beyond us, scientifically invading the earth, disguised as children. There's Paul from England, Nina from Russia, Rashid from India, mi Ling from China, ago from Nigeria, and Mark from America. Who are they really? As we of the earth push further and further into space, are they the answer to our probing? They're not kids. Have you ever seen them laugh, run, play? No, by God, but you've seen them kill the ambassadors of all the earth's nations experience their defiance, Paul, we must know how to make that machine we'd never think of trying to force you, of course, what? Theirs is the power of evil, turning friends against strength, hating killing, yet armed with no weapon you can see or touch. Unless we can learn to live with them, we may cease to live it all can any force on earth stop their fury at this very moment they could be making all those men out there turn their guns on one another. You Oh, geez. Directed by Anton leader, who has one of only. Two films. This is one of them. He also did the cockeyed cowboys of Calico County, nice. And then tons of television episodes, like Lost in Space, Star Trek, Gilligan's Island. Orange side. It was written by John brightly, who wrote Hammerhead the Medusa, touch Gandhi and cry freedom. And it's kind of based on the book the mid itch cuckoos by John Wyndham. He also wrote the novel Day of the Triffids and many others, starring Ian Hendry, who is in Journey to the far side of the sun. The original tales from the crypt and tons of British television, including 26 episodes of The Avengers. Also stars Alan badel, who was in telephone force 10 from Navarone Shogun, and tons of British television. And then finally, Barbara Ferris, who was in terms of trial, a place to go, the craze and tons of British television, if you didn't get it. This is a American British film. We open on a group of five or six children in a classroom setting, and they have been asked to solve a three dimensional puzzle with blocks that have been set in front of them. There are two very serious men watching the children who are either slowly figuring out the puzzle or not figuring it out at all, except for one, Paul, a little blonde boy who has put the puzzle together. In record time the two men, Tom and David, go to visit Paul's mother, who clearly hates the child and insists she was never touched by a man. Oh, oh my. If you've seen Village of the Damned, you will recognize Paul. He is one of the kids from village of the dam. Oh, wow. She wants the mom. She wants nothing to do with Tom and David, and after they leave, Paul comes in and stares at her. She walks out of the apartment in a daze and is quickly hit by a passing vehicle. Paul is then introduced to a group of other children from various countries, China, India, Nigeria, the Soviet Union, the United States and the United Kingdom, and they are brought to London for a study into their advanced intelligence. Quickly, though, the children seem to form a telepathic connection and then escape and hide out at an abandoned church in London. Paul's aunt is his only living relative, and she wants to help, but the kids end up, kind of taking telepathic control of her, and they make her help them survive in the derelict church. So they send her out for supplies and stuff like that, and she's kind of okay with it. She really wants to help them. She also is like, Hey, I would just do this. You don't have to make me do this. Meanwhile, the army and intelligence service debate whether or not to destroy the kids. The children have teleconnected, telekinetically constructed a complex machine which uses sonic waves as a weapon, which kills several government officials and soldiers. It is far beyond our understanding, but the army realizes that the children only do this when they are being attacked, so Tom visits the children and pleads with them to disband and return to their respective embassies, which they all agree to do. However, as soon as they arrive, each of the ambassadors from their respective countries start threatening them for information on how to make the weapon that the children had constructed. So the children murder all of the Embassy of military officials before returning to the church. Meanwhile, one of the scientists thinks he has discovered something in the children's blood, not alien blood, as suspected, but human blood, only a million years more evolved than our own. And how the fuck would you ever be able to prove that? Yeah, what does a million years in the future blood look like, right? Of course, the authorities have decided that they must destroy the children, so the church is surrounded with tanks, bombs and soldiers, and so begins the final siege. The movie is interesting, not nearly as good as the original village of the dead. It's not actually really a good sequel to that movie anyway, and it seems to more be a sequel to the book The Midwich cuckoo. So there are moments that I really liked and an ending that I did not see coming, but I also wish that they had kind of explained it better. I mean, I got what it was, and I thought it could have been shot more interestingly and had a little more impact, if they had cleared it up. Tag lines, so young, so innocent, so deadly, they came to conquer the world and also beware the eyes, the paralyze, terrible, ouch, trivia. The opening title specifically announced, this is a film. They announced this film as a sequel to John windhams, the mid cuckoos. However, Paul is played by one of the kids from the original village of the Dan movie. So it's like we're we're making a sequel to this book, which is different from that movie by quite a bit, but we are also including one of the kids from that movie. It's just to confuse the fuck out of you, apparently. And then the other piece of trivia, I liked Iron Maiden base their song children of the damned from their 1982 album, the number of the beast on this movie. Wow. So I know that, yeah, it's it's good. It's not great, okay, so, and it's not nearly as good as Village of the Damned. How's it compare to carpenters village? Of the two, much, much better, Christopher Reeve and and Mark Hamill and who else was it was that, yeah, I mean, I should have been better than it should have been so much better than was. It's weird that it's a John Carpenter movie. Yes. I was just like, why are you doing this? Very, very strange. Yeah, Eric, you want to go, yes. Five minutes. Okay, so funny. You should mention Doctor Who in the movies you've watched, yeah, or the TV show. This was a surprise, surprise Severin release that I picked up a two pack of the Peter Sellers, Doctor Who, Doctor Who, and the Daleks, the first one from 1965 allow me to introduce myself. I am Doctor Who, and this is my time and space machine. TARDIS, off we go. It is capable. Of taking us to any age on any planet in any universe. Rather exciting, isn't it? They are protected and they have weapons which can destroy what are we going to do? I fight them. Hey, Peter Sellers, Peter Cushing, oh, okay, thank you. I was like, what I interested? Very interested. This was 1965 it's available rent some places on brick box and hope lock. And it's amazingly gorgeous, remastered blu ray from Severin, directed by Gordon Fleming, who also directed Daleks invasion Earth 2150 AD, the saint TV show. Few other things. Terry Nation is one of the writers. Wrote 14 episodes of the saint. Death becomes her and over 100 Doctor Who related shows, Milton savaski, who's producer of several King movies, Tales from the crick Dr terrors, house of horror. Good stuff. Sydney Newman, who is involved in over 130 Doctor Who related shows and videos the stars, I said, Peter Cushing, you might know, from Star Wars and direct all this shit. We even did a show about him. Look it up. Also starring Roy Castle, who was in sync the Bismarck and hello London, and Jenny Linden from old Dracula. I think I mentioned on the show, yeah, thriller, the saint TV show and nightmare. There's also Roberta tovoy, who's in the blood in Satan's claw and the beast in the cellar. Are the things I've been talked about here. Okay, movie breakdown. Well, this is a funky, Jazzy start to the movie. The opening credits look exactly like you would think in 1960 mid 1960s movies would look with color, psychedelic things moving around, and the music all fairy period. And man, it looks good. The restoration on this because it is colorful. This is the first Doctor Who in color. And why is it in color, techno color. It has, it looks good. It's got kind of a strange feeling to it, almost. It's very much doctor who is still a kid show, almost. I mean, it would did not veer far from that. The effect the lead, the person who does most of the stuff, is a like a 10 or 11 year old girl in the in the show, she's the one the the Daleks trust, and the one Doctor Who and them work with the most and side story she's involved with, Peter Cushing makes a pretty cool look in Doctor Who, while the same time being sort of generic, it's almost like it took me say, Oh yeah, that is Peter Cushing. It's a fun movie, but it is definitely silly. Mm. There's some silly stuff. Like the guy who, I guess you'd call his companion, kind of, for this movie, comes across a sliding door that only opens if you're sitting on this lever nearby. So he has to kind of sit on it and try to figure out how to run back and forth to get through the door. So it's got some real silly shit in it. It is very Star Trek. The layout of the city when they go to where the Daleks are, has just this original Star Trek, you know, kind of cheap sci fi look to it. The Daleks look like Daleks. They always have looked the same. You know, it's probably a better thing than like what Star Trek did with the Klingons, where, who knows what the fuck they're gonna look like in the next movie. The this is based on the, loosely based on the show that was the first appearance of the Daleks, which is like episode two or three of Doctor Who and even has little thing where the Dalek hand is seen when they pull it out of a out of its thing. I never realized there's creatures in the Daleks. I came to Doctor Who very late. I did not know that there's things in there, yep, currently. And they took one of them out, like wrapped in a blanket, and put it on the ground, and you see its hand kind of go, which is in the when I was looking at this, there's a photo that looks just like that in the original episode. The the original show is called the Daleks, but which they didn't want to do because Doctor Who wasn't supposed to be a monster show, but the dogs were so popular when they first showed and like never mind, this is exactly what the show is. And they for a publicity thing there during the cons Film Festival where this was shown, they dropped a giant squad of Daleks all over the theater area, the bears or whatever there, and John Lennon was part of the crowd that was admiring their dogs running around. He was Peter Cushing was offered to be a doctor in the show, which he declined, and later said that was a big mistake. You should have stayed with it and done it. This was a kind of a box set in that there's two of them, and you can get it with a box or not. I don't know, severance weird sometimes, so I haven't watched the second one yet, but this was fun. It's, I can see why. It doesn't sit high on the list of people who are hardcore movies, but it's still fun. It was enjoyable. And Peter Cushing is decent man. The ends the inside of the TARDIS is freaking weird in this like wires and shit hanging everywhere in this weird plexiglass with just stuff shoved in. It looks strange, but overall, definitely worth seeing. Wow. What, what year is this? Again? 6565 so it's before Star Trek. Yeah. And how long had doctor? Who do we know when Doctor Who started because the late 50s, a lake 50s. Yeah, it was. It's been around a long, long time. So they made a movie. Is this the first Doctor Who movie, I believe. So, yeah, okay, it's just the you said, it comes to a box that is this the only doctor who there's two, Peter, question, did two? Oh, Okay, gotcha. And then they didn't, I don't think they did particularly well. So they kind of just want to stick with the TV show, dude, do they tie into the series at all, like when they came out? Or no? Okay, just, just new adaptations of a similar story from an earlier Exactly. Thing that's interesting was this hammer that put these out, or, I know thinks I didn't see any hammer things or come across anything, but who knows? You know, hammer had their sub labels that sometimes could be different. Because if I feel like BBC is owned, probably right. So BBC production, yeah, could have been production, production with hammer. I really want to check this out. But I am not a doctor who fan, yeah, I didn't start walking to do Doctor Who until they the news, the new ones that started in the early 2000s or whatever. So the older stuff is and I've watched some since then, because I liked it so much them, I'll go watch. And so I've watched, like the first, like the first one, a couple others, I'm going, Wow, this is, this is different. I just don't know if I there's so many. Yeah, so many. What, 70 years, or something, 60 years, and British television in the fifth. Ease. I mean, that's got to be quite a bit different than very specific sensibility. Yeah, right, yeah, wild and it has sometimes when you're watching things like you're talking about the vampires and sinners and stuff, when something's weird. The first episode was about, I forgot the exact thing, but kind of a tribe that was based on things my mom used to have in her museum. And it's so historically inaccurate, and it's so far off, and they try to present it like we are being accurate, and I don't even think it's accurate to the 50s. This is, this is really weird, but understanding, I think, with Doctor Who they used to use leftover film sets, like, whatever, probably film had been not afraid of that, yeah. I think they just rolled in and they were like, All right, now they're going to roam. Now they're going to so I Yeah. I'm sure there's a lot of just BS writing in there to just Yeah, so you know, to the Whovians. If there's any listening, sorry, I probably screwed up some shit about Doctor Who again, because so damn much there's a lot Doctor Who fans are called Whovians. Yeah, that's the last one I heard. I don't know if they still do that or if they're if there's distinctive ones like Trekkies and trekkers, or whatever. Man, I don't even know that. Not truckers, they I don't know it may not have stuck, but there's a period in the 80s where they called the cut people who like next generation trekkers because they didn't want to be associated with the trek ease. Lord help us all. Jesus Christ. I'm thinking that did not stick. I don't think it's stuck. Yeah, yeah. I think it's like we're all just truckies. Now, you know, if you may, if you made it through to discovery, after next gen, after the original who fucking, it's all game. Now, I'm sure doctor who is very similar, yeah, oh yeah, okay. Well, I'm tempted. I'm like, tempted, but we sort of did the 50s a few episodes back. No, I'm tempted here to watch this movie, just because I love Peter Cushing so much, I guess I didn't even realize he had done Doctor Who movies. Yeah, I would say, if you watch it, give it like 1015, minutes. And if you're not into it, you're not going to because it is. It's done exactly, yeah, change, although part of the reason I said Star Trek, there's a kind of a, not a side thing, but a thing involving the planet of the people that's on the Daleks that feels so Star Trek. Oh, god, did you watch this? Maybe, but interesting? Well, I know that the natural inclination will be to go to 50s sci fi, but I'm gonna Zig when I should say, let's go. Or is it I'm gonna say when you think, regardless, I'm doing something different. Okay, cool. You know, we've been watching just a glut of these movies come out that are because the characters have come into the public domain. Oh, and it seems to be almost exclusively horror versions of these characters, for some reason. You know, there's a bunch of Mickey movies now. There's a bunch of Popeye movies. There was the Winnie the Pooh stuff and everything. And I want you guys to pick a public domain character movie for the next one. Wow. Does it have to be horror, or does it whatever it is, whatever you want it to be. But I don't think you're gonna find anything except horror. Probably not Steamboat Willie comedy show or something like that. Yeah, that's just it. They they have all, for some reason, been horror filmmakers, probably because they realize, if I'm going to take this thing, the only way I'm going to get an audience, the only people who seem to give these things a chance are the horror? Yeah, we'll give anything a chance. Yeah. So, so, so one of those movies for our next excellent film. Okay, well, so this is the end of the episode. 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