328 ROAD HARD AND PUT AWAY WET!

328 ROAD HARD AND PUT AWAY WET!
Netflix just happens to be killing it in the anime department, but what does that mean to us?
Also discussed: Ballerina, Back Rooms, Marshmallow.

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It's a great movie. I was really glad, happy I watched it. Oh, I'm sorry. Did I break your concentration? Somewhere between science and superstition, such sights to show you. Strange eons. Welcome to strange eons. Radio that is Eric over there, hello, that is Vanessa over there. Hello, and I am Kelly. You guys. I read this really interesting report that I wanted to share with you. You know that I am kind of a poo poo, er, of anime and animation, yeah, all of that stuff. So I just read this really interesting article Netflix showed up to the Anime Expo in Los Angeles, with some pretty impressive viewership numbers for anime, while Crunchyroll built their entire business around anime fans, Netflix quietly became the place most people actually watch anime. Wow, over 50% of Netflix is global user base, which is 150 million plus now watches anime, which is a three times jump from five years ago. 33 anime titles cracked. Netflix is global top 10 in 2024 which is more than double than 2021 and Netflix leads with 48% of anime viewers, followed by Disney plus at 32% and Prime Video at 29% Crunchyroll comes in last two focused I guess. Well, they say like, what is their Top Animated No, but they did kind of get into what that really means. Netflix becomes the biggest simply because of the viewership, yeah subscribers, and their process is to drop their anime titles right next to all of their other big shows. Yeah, and so people are just like, you know, oh well, check that out, I guess. And I've done that with a couple of their things. Even, I think attack Titans, I'm sure is one of their big ones. And that's when I watched a little bit of and I'm gonna, okay, I like some anime movies still, but I don't know if I'm into the shows. The shows are still, yeah, yeah. I wonder if some other things like Castlevania and stuff like, does that count? Yes, yeah. That makes a lot of sense, because they've had a couple that are really strong or blue eyed Samurai, you know, like, there's some, okay, that one was pretty right, yeah, even the he man, yeah, Revelations, or whatever that was, and the Transformers one they did, yeah? So when you're when you're dropping those right next to your your big movies that are dropping that weekend on Netflix. The same viewers are going to see all of that stuff. So, yeah, I just thought that was kind of interesting, cool, because you know, you, if you don't know what Crunchyroll is, you're not going to only people who are into anime are even looking at crunchyroll, so you have such a finite audience already, like from the get go. But so does that change your viewpoint or your thought process around? No, I'm discovering stuff the same way that all these other people are. As I turn on Netflix and it'll say, you know, it has its various things, and I come down and I see the animated thing. So Castlevania, I gave a watch to just for nostalgic reasons and stuff like that. I just don't think that I love the the series animation. I'm with you on that. I tend to I've liked some films, quite a bit, but, but not a lot of series like the he man one is interesting because isn't that Kevin Smith written? Yeah, so it's, it's just, they'll say it's anime, as long as the studio is an Anime Studio, as opposed to who the creative team is. Yeah, sure. Why not? Wow, interesting, yeah. And the one I really liked, I think that was on Netflix. I'm forgetting the name of it, but the one based on League of Legends, arcane, right? Oh, that's, yeah, that's really good. Yeah, that was so. So I feel like, when they take swings, they take pretty big swings. I don't know how much anime I like or don't like because there's so much of it. It's like, it's, it's like, saying I like TV or don't like TV. It's like, well, what, what do you the range of content? Yeah, there's plenty I really don't like. I a friend of mine. I visited him and his boyfriend's place. They were. Watching this, like, big breasted volleyball anime series where they're, like, these chicks with crazy large breasts. Were like, playing. And it was like, you know, who's gonna win the big volleyball champions? A zillion episodes of this thing. And I was like, I am uninterested, and I know you two are as well. You're only watching this for camp, but like, it's, yeah, you're talking to your gay friends. Yeah, not us too. No, I don't genuinely interested anime. I Okay, look, there's like, big breasts where it's, like, nice, then there's like, comical, like, you couldn't walk down the street, you'd put them in a shopping cart. Like, this is not, this is like, do you have tumors? Do you need assistance? Reminds me of an ex. Anyway, yeah, there's been some real winners. We all have quite a you know, I don't know about Eric. I have a catalog to compare, so you're good. Sorry. I got married for 9 million I know 26 years sounds, of course, he was 28 when I got married. So, yeah, no, all right, how about we get into some movies? Yeah, I saw ballerina. Oh, gosh. How was it? Has anybody else seen it? No, okay, so it was confusing. It was good. I'll just say that it was good. I was watching it going. When does this take place? This ballerina is a spin off of the John Wick universe, and it deals with the group of, you know, Black Widow type characters that are introduced in, I guess, episode three of John Wick. It's It also reminded me that I have not seen Part Four of John Wick yet. John Wick is in this movie. And I was like, when, when does this take place? And I thought, well, it must take place. You know, if you follow the John Wick universe, can't be after one, right? Because he's into all this stuff. Well, it does turn out to take place between scenes in episode three. Oh, okay. Oh, okay, so it's like, I am about to die, but here you go. But there's a very, I mean, important sequence with him in it. And I was like, this doesn't quite make sense for his character arc. So, you know, that kind of stuff. I almost wish that he wasn't in the movie, because it was drawing my attention. As I was like, let's see what happened. And I'm gonna have to watch those movies again. And part four, finally. But I will say that, you know, Anna de armas is just fucking gorgeous, and she pulls off kind of, you know, Assassin, cool. Didn't she do that one amazing scene in a James Bond movie? Yes, that was her, yeah, yeah. And she's also great in she was in the gray man with Ryan Gosling as this kind of character, also just a real badass. And so she's kind of, I don't know if this is the direction she's trying to push her acting career in is just kick ass action star, but she's doing it right. So ballerina, I thought was better than, you know, I remembered I started John Wick four when it became free to stream. And I was like, Oh no, I'm kind of bored. And so I don't think I finished it and I was able to finish this one. So if that tells you anything, this is available as a rental right now, but it's been out for a while. I imagine it's coming to a streamer very soon, and it's called ballerina, nice. Well, I hate myself sometimes, Winnie the Poop, blood, honey, too. Shockingly, no, sometimes I don't know, like, I like to watch things that are gonna emotionally distress. Oh, that kind of and it's like, I know it's probably cathartic somehow. But I watched a show called made which is really interesting, because it stars the hot version in substance, the hot version of Demi or Yeah. So I was like, Oh, my God, you're so familiar. Oh shit, it's you. And the story follows a mom who basically has to escape an abusive relationship and steals, takes her daughter with her and then has to work her way through the system. It's based off a book which is based on real story of, yeah, just how hard it is to survive when you have no money and you're trying to not be abused and keep holding your kid and yeah, it made me cry constantly and hold my daughter very. Close. This is M A, I D, yeah, okay, yeah. But it was really cool. I mean, I realize our listeners probably are not that interested in this show, but it was cool to see her acting in a different role, and I know that she's going to be coming out in a seems like a really cool movie pretty soon, against Chris hams fine Pratt would perhaps Evans winner. A lot of Christmas. I was like worrying up like I can see his face. I know what he looks like. But yes, so if you want to see her doing more and you just want to cry a lot, feel free to check out me. Wow, I just looked this up this. This came out in 2021, so before the substance, yeah, yep, I think this is how they knew she existed. Okay, she can act. So I was reading an article about eight to four signing this 19 year old kid to direct one of their films. His name was Ken can Kane Kane Parsons. I was like, What the hell is this kid done? So I looked up and he did this series on YouTube called back rooms, aha, which is 25 episodes ranging in length from 35 some odd seconds to 40, almost 50 minutes. I think it's a little bit of a victim of its success, because, man, it starts off strong. The first few episodes, there's some creepy shit going on, yes, and it drags a lot as it gets towards the end, it wraps up fairly well, but I think, you know, 20, maybe 20 episodes might have been it's like it started being successful, and then the more they tried, they had to explain what was happening. And I think it got stupider and stupider the more they filled in the blanks. Yeah, yeah. But the first few episodes, it's kind of this. The idea is there's this area someplace, not entirely certain where it is, that looks like the most neutral office you've ever seen. And I don't know where they found it. I know there's videos talking about where it is. I haven't watched those yet, but it's great, because the way it's shot, it looks like it's cavernous and gigantic, and rooms alter slightly. But then they they set up like observation area to figure out what's going on, and they start sending in people in hazmat suits. And we're just weird shit happens. And every once in a while there is a wonderfully well developed scare, yeah, and it's, it's pretty good, yeah. I mean, especially the way I watch, where I just, you know, watch a few, yeah, went back, watch few later. And, you know, watched all of them eventually over, like, I don't know, a week or something, but I get why they hired him, Yes, and he had to be like, 15 or 16 when he started this thing. Yeah, no, because he was 19 now. No, I mean, he's really young, and he actually, I mean, he, I don't want to say, invented liminal horror, but he re popularized liminal horror, like it was just a crazy dynamite success. I think it started as like a school project, like you just wanted to leave it did, yeah, and it's so well done for a kid in high school. Yeah, it's, if you have any, it's kind of found footage, E but it's not at the same time, although some episodes are really found footage, but some are investigative. So it does a wide variety of stuff, and he does a nice job of I'm assuming most of the cast members are probably schoolmates of his, with the occasional teacher or something, maybe, but with the hazmat suits on, you can have these people seem like they're the knowledgeable scientists and stuff they need to be for the story. When reality, there might be, you know, some 15 year old, right kid, but would look really weird talking about the stuff he's talking about. I never thought about that. That's really true, yeah. So I, I'm very curious to see what he's gonna do, because the when the stuff, when this was good, it's really, really good. Bucha, did this start out as, like a creepy pasta or something like that? Yeah. I think it was, yeah, as, I mean, it was definitely, like a it was during that time YouTube, maybe a little bit after the beginning of the creepypasta. But he definitely took things in a different direction. Yeah, did? Is he doing a film or something? Yeah, 84 has hired him to direct something. I don't know if it's his writing style as well, or if they brought him in to direct something. Yeah, I heard that. So that's, that's right, that's back rooms, and it is available on YouTube. Yep. Whole thing i. Okay, I watched a kind of cool little movie. I don't think it completely nailed the ending, but it was called marshmallow. Anybody I've heard of this, haven't? It is about a group of kids who are sent to a summer camp, and our lead kid is kind of nerdy, and I'm very shy, and maybe you know, he definitely does not want to be there for two months, but his parents are, you're going to have a blast. He keeps having this recurring dream of drowning, and, yeah, and these dreams are really visually gorgeous. Something starts happening there is the legend of this serial killer at the camp, you know. So it kind of starts off feeling a little bit like a Friday the 13th type movie, and then it turns into something much, much different and much deeper and darker, as you start realizing these kids all kind of have a connection, and there's something bigger going on than this serial killer who is definitely there at the camp, But Not What He Seems also. So I gotta say, doesn't completely nail it. I mean, once you realize what's going on, you're like, Okay, this is wildly complicated. So you know, how could this possibly have ever happened? But it is also a thing where you like, oh, well, I'm definitely more interested in this than I was if this was just a Friday the 13th ripoff. Oh, wow. So, wow. Yeah, it's a cheap rental. It's called Marshmallow, and I assume it's coming to shutter in the next five, six months. So, but I will say that I thought it was a good way to spend 90 minutes, nice, awesome marshmallow. Well, I'm going to talk about something that I just remembered that I saw, which is a film called 100 yards. Have you guys seen this? No, sounds like a football movie. It's a martial arts movie. I missed it at Fantastic Fest. I wasn't able to get in and so watched it recently. It is a very, very, very strange martial arts movie where it's taking place in like, it feels like Chicago or like turn of the century. It's all steampunk. Oh, wow, yeah. It's like a weird mashup of, like, gangster, old American, plus steampunk plus martial arts. And I'm a little I felt a little bit like the style got in the way of the story, because there was so much spent on clothing and on like cool glasses and hairdos, and I was very confused as to the main character. There's two, well, there's two rival characters. There's trying to inherit this dojo. And one is the son who needs to learn some very important lessons that the son of the previous like Master and doesn't quite do it, and so he doesn't get it, and then the old, like, master student gets it, but turns out, maybe he's not a good guy after all. So there's a lot of, like, battling and like, What is your secret fighting style? And then there's these women who are involved. But like, I was really confused as to, like, Which woman was which, and I kept feeling like, is that the actress or the teacher woman, or is that the someone else woman I'm it's very confusing. It's cool. It's the fighting is incredible. I will say the fights are amazing. Like they do such a good job showcasing just intense, large scale martial arts battles as long as well as, like, individual talent. But, yeah, the story is a bit much for me personally. But I don't like steampunk, so that's me. What'd you see this on? I think it was an Amazon rental, okay, yeah, 100 yards. Why is it called 100 yards? So they have in this town, no crime can get committed within 100 yards of this dojo. And they basically act as, like this sort of the students there act almost like a military for the town to ensure that no crime happens within this area. So there's like a market that's built within a certain number of feet of this place so that it's kept safe by them and but if anyone crosses that line, then I don't, I don't think they kill them, but they, they get beat to hell. So weird. Yes, I kind of dig that. Yeah, yeah, I would say it's, it's fun, it's interesting, it's fresh. But also, don't, yeah, ah, don't be surprised if you get a little bit lost. Much along the way, looking up what you're talking about. At one of the reviews, headline was incomprehensible. Yeah, you I'm not like, I don't want to say that. I am not great with like, race or, you know, I'm not trying to say like, oh, everyone looks the same. That's not the case. It's just the plot is so conf, you're like, one minute you were wearing this costume, and now you're wearing that costume. And this chick, they're not well defined in spaces. So that's my little mini defense for myself for the day. Sure? Why not? All right, a few episodes back, Kelly talked about the studio, and his description, although harrowing, intrigued me, so I decided I'm all check this out. And I ended up watching the whole series, enjoying it quite a bit. There are some most of the series. The entire series was shot with one camera, except when Martin Scorsese is going to be on set, is there paranoid that he was going to get annoyed with, Oh, you gotta. So they got a second camera for that day, and they told Scorsese what they're doing is, like, that's great. Let's go for it. One camera, let's do it. Yeah, Scorsese, he's gonna Yeah. He's not in charge of it. So what the hell? Let's have fun, yeah. But, and Scorsese is in Ron Howard's in it. There's all kinds of cameos that are insanely good. The they do silly little things that work really well, like one of the guys gets thanked enough comedic way at the Golden Globes. So that becomes like the catch phrase for the rest of the globes, which drives another guy absolutely batshit crazy. They mistake the amount of of mushrooms they take, thinking they're taking micro dosing when they're taking like seven grams multiple times. And that's an interesting episode, because it's it all happens behind the scenes of them getting ready to go on stage to announce the Kool Aid man, and the slate of the other films are showing for that, creating for that year. And that's a that's a neat episode, that's one of my favorite episodes. And then another great one was with Ron Howard, where they had a note, and the guy didn't want to give Ron the note, so the whole movie is him trying to figure out how to either try to pass it off to somebody, and they're like, I'm not telling him anything. Nope, not me. And they explain why they don't want to tell this note because of this the part of the movie, it is what it means to Ron, and it's really well done. But, yeah, I could see anxiety inducing in several of the episodes, but it Seth Seth Rogen did. He also did a very smart thing. He doesn't show himself laughing very much. Seth Rogen, weird ass laugh is not featured. Stoner, yes, exactly. But Oh, and one of the really fun episodes of for modern thinking was them trying to figure out if Kool Aid man can be played by a black character, by a black actor. And then they go back and forth trying to balance the the cast and crew and all this. It's pretty good. Ice Cube is the the guest guy is the person that did already cast to be the Kool Aid voice. And they're like, is that okay? Should we? And it's crazy, very fun. It's so funny because the trailers for this looked so god awful to me, but everyone who's seen it loves it. So that's on Apple. It's, yeah, I think so, yeah, yeah. It is apple. It is incredibly well done. It is the scene that, the one that that I could see, why drove you nuts, especially because the character that, when you've been on set, you'd be much more those two guys who are in the middle of fucking everything up. Well, I identified with the director in that and she was her whole thing was just trying to placate those two guys and figure out how to get the damn shot done that she needed done. So it was less intense for me, because I the way I watched it, that's but, yeah, those two guys were, oh my god, yeah, I will have to, you know, move on to the next episode and see if it catches my interest again. It seems like a show that I should love. Yeah, the studio I was going to mention when I was talking about the Netflix stuff, I don't know if you saw this Vanessa, but they just released the teaser trailer for Alice in Borderlands season three. Oh, my God, I saw it, like, from the Netflix like event, or whatever, the big party they threw themselves, but they, I think they announced it. I was like, I. Thought they finished. Well, remember we had talked about that, and then that last scene there was, like, something on the jack, or something like that that he had turned over and it, it opened it up for a season three. But I was like, how, yeah, I am very confused. I still haven't watched, is it hell bound Season Two that can't like, and I was very invested in it initially, but it's so long now that I don't remember where anything's at. So it's just, I think I only made it through one episode of that, so I didn't get caught up. And of course, as the squid games is on, I know I haven't finished, I haven't finished either squid game. I mean, how about we take a little break, guys, and then when we come back, we're going to be talking about road movies. Maybe, who knows? Vanessa has come up with you. Ah, the father and son, road trip, just a little imagination, and you're good to go desert highway, scenic vistas, overly active wildlife. Did they just build a souvenir stand that sells extra hair, nice. Yes, when you build together, the possibilities are endless. So gentlemen, hold on to your hats and start your Lego road trip today@buildtogether.com you and we are back, Eric, this was your sub genre pick. Yes, talking about, I am talking about road well, we are talking about road movies, road movies. And I think you know, we all know the concept of most of us know the concept there was a road. No, they needed to get to the road. The whole time they talked about the stupid Road, usually a movie about traveling. Yes, they traveled through the cornfield to get to the road. Okay, that's that is. Okay, sure. Anyways, Eric, would you like to start a side thing? I should dive in quickly, five minutes on the buzzer. Thank you. Thank you. Stop doing a movie called butterfly kiss. Not what to say about me. I mean, live with my mother till I met you in this she just did things I I'm a human bone today, covered in petrol, but she's mean to me, oh, but she's just being humanist. Oh, I make evil before you make me good. Are you clicking at all? Ah, that'll be me. It'll be me. Chains set out to do wrong, just things went wrong. Sorry, God has forgotten me. God's forgotten me all the time. I was with you in this I never stopped looking for the good in it. You got to look for for the good in people. I mean, this good and bad in everyone, from, depending on where you look, came out in 94 or 95 I don't you know, we don't do the runs regularly, but I'm always curious what, just to see what they are. And there's a big divide on this 180 from credits, critics, credits, credits, and 60 from the crowd. So it's not particularly well liked by folks. This is available on prime and Plex, or I watched it. House of psychotic women. Box Set two from Severin. I'm not familiar with this movie. Yeah, that's the box sets are put together with that in mind, precisely directed by Michael Winterbottom, who has directed welcome Sarajevo, the shock doctrine greed like 53 directing credits because he does music videos written by Frank cortel Cottrell voice two episodes of Doctor, who the London 2012 Olympic opening ceremony island of wonder. And Michael Winterbourne, who also wrote a documentary about Ingar or produced at Ingmar. Bergman. Documentary and starring Amanda plumber, so not too far off of being in Pulp Fiction, obviously, she did six episodes of Star Trek Picard 1001 ways to enjoy the missionary position and a locally produced film called Satan's little helper, which was produced by the original owners of scarecrow. Video, yeah, but she's 114 credits. And Kathy Jameson, best known for TV shows, Mary C beat, 25 episodes. How we used to live, 15 episodes. Do you know these? And Saska Reeves, who was in Vera several times, so I saw her that, and Patrick Stewart's Christmas Carol, which is pretty good, three episodes of dune and of the other Dune, not the current mini series, and Luther six episodes of that. So this is these box sets are put together by Kira laje Nice, the author of House of psychotic women, and she's the curator of these box sets. And they're both quite interesting. I talked about bats from the previous one a while back. This is kind of a inspired by film with a little bit of pulp fiction, a little bit of thumb and Louise, but not a lot. The it also borrows from stuff like Bonnie and Clyde and My Own Private Idaho, because the women are in a same sex relationship. The opening credits are these neat black and white images of a woman who you don't know his yet, going through thoughts, and it's just images of her face as she's reacting to whatever's going on. And this opened up with Amanda plumber is doing a British accent. She's not British. It sounds fine, but I don't, I'm not the best judge of how accurate her accent was, but it was shot in Britain, so all the other actors are British. And she goes into what she does is she goes into gas stations and has this song she's trying to find. And she asked the women if they know first what their name is and if their name's wrong. She then asks, What about this song? And She hums a little bit of it and says, Do you have this that I can buy here? Like, well, we've just got the cassettes that are over there. If it doesn't go well, she kills the person behind the counter. Oh, wow. And her segment is her part of the road. Some of her road movie is walking, although she does get into cars later. At this point, she's just walking from gas station to gas station. For some reason at one of the gas stations, the attendant is very intrigued by her and also has very protective manner. So she starts, kind of following her around, and finds her at another gas station and sees she's going through some shit. Kind of stops her from not directly. She has no idea. She stopped her from killing this gas station agent, but then invites her back to her house and where her mother, who she's taking care of, is living. And so it definitely establishes her character as being a caretaker, kind of thinker and a person who's going to try to protect people, which works great for Amanda plumber, because she needs a lot of protection. Some point she takes her shirt off and she has chains around her chest that have receded into her skin in pain, and there's all kinds of stuff. So she plays a messed up person. So they go on road trip from here, running into people, you know, figuring out what's going on and trying to make it work. And this is pretty good. There's a really smart, really interesting film, their performances. I'm so so on a man to plumber. I think she's done some good stuff. I've also think she's done some really terrible she can overact, yes, and she does a little bit but it works. This character is extreme, so that aspect of her works a little better. And the other woman in the movie is phenomenal, and shot for a budget of about half a million dollars, with a crew of less than 20 people. And I think benefits this film greatly, because it moves at a neat, interesting pace. But they spent some money on the cranberries. Patsy Cline jewel had songs on here. It's a hell of a soundtrack. Jesus, I don't know if, like the people who picked it up said, you need these songs. We're going to pay a little bit, but the varieties Review. Of it was an often breathtakingly original meld of road movie, lesbian love story, psycho drama and black comedy. What year did this come out? 9495 Wow. Just completely under the radar. And it's a great film. The curation that she has done that Kira has done for these two box sets. Is incredible, really, really interesting films. So highly recommend butterfly kiss. Wow, nice Vanessa. I can't wait to hear what road movie you did not pick. Well, I came very close to doing Master and Commander, very close. But after Eric sent me a detailed definition of road movie involving automobile, I went ahead and switched to Michael from 1996 Have you ever had an encounter with an angel? No, have you ever met an angel? Once, I had a flat tire on a deserted country robe and a man in a white robe suddenly appeared on the horizon. You're kidding? Yes, I am. Are you with the angel? Do you see an angel? I don't think I do. Then how could I be with them? We don't know exactly how it works with angels. If he's in the room, then you're with him. If he's somewhere else, then you're not and that's why we can't see him now, are you impaired in some way this winters? Probably has never heard of an angel living in a motel. You think I'm full of you? No, no, nothing like that. Michael, are you coming down? Dear? Yeah, just gotta find my smokes. Michael who's come to visit us. How do you do Oprah Barbara, the Today Show hard copy book, The works you guy. This is a written and directed by Nora Ephron, who has eight directing credits in 17 writing including things like When Harry Met Sally Sleepless in Seattle, Julia and Julia also starring John Travolta, 100 credits, including Pulp Fiction Greece and a little bit more recently, was in an on Andre Bucha Lee music video, I guess so. Good job. Andy McDowell has 92 credits, Groundhog Day, Four Weddings and a Funeral. And actually was in the TV show made so still going, and William Hurt is not still going, but he's 104 things, including altered states broadcast news, and he was Secretary Ross in The Avengers films, until Harrison Ford decided that he would be willing to take the helm. Also, Bob Hoskins, Carla Gugino and Richard Schiff had very, very weird, small roles. Because not Bob Hoskins, he's a major role, but the other two, because it's very weird to be like you're a random person who says one line in a wedding dress. Crazy, you're an Italian waiter. Crazy. The story follows Frank Huey and Dorothy, as well as a fun, precocious, famous dog. They are three Chicago tabloid reporters, and they are tasked with checking out a report of the Archangel Michael living with an old woman to find out if it's true. When they arrived, they discovered that he is, in fact, real, but not what they expected. He smokes, he's filthy, like physically filthy. He's rude, he's obsessed with pouring vast amounts of sugar on everything, and loves fighting as well as sex. But as he said, He's not an angel, he's an archangel, and a lot of his miracles that they talk to him about are just not in his field. So he's just not willing to help out on a lot of stuff. He agrees to go back to Chicago for a photo shoot to do the front cover the tabloid, but only if they drive and not fly, because he wants to see the world's largest twine ball and then the largest frying pan, and then et cetera, et cetera along the way, it becomes clear that he actually has other reasons for going in the car with the reporters. In fact, he may have lured them out in the first place and. And he has one final miracle he'd like to do before he has to go back to heaven, involving getting the two reporters, Dorothy and Frank together. But it is harder than it seems. This movie feels like having dinner at your grandma's in the 90s. It's very cozy. It's very 90s, but like old school, and it's a little claustrophobic, there's just something about it that feels like kind of walled in, like you're being smothered to death with a like slightly moldy teddy bear. Randy Newman is out of control, and he must be stopped. He does the soundtrack, and it is, I don't like him, and it is infuriating to sit through his music. It is awful. William Hurt is great, and him and Andy McDowell almost sell their romance, but it's pretty fast that they go from hating each other to loving each other. So I was a little whiplashy. Everyone thinks that John Travolta in wings is much funnier than it is him being rude. It just seems kind of stupid to me. I'm like, Oh no, he's in overalls with no shirt on. Watch out, guys. Wozer, little bit of trivia for you. Taglines, he's not an angel, or he's an angel, not a saint. John Travolta took 500 hours of Spanish lessons in preparation for this film. When asked why, he said, just in case there is no Spanish in this film, William Hurt refused to stop smoking cigarettes while shooting and re shoots were almost rescheduled. Eventually, the producers decided they would just have to edit it out in post. I don't think I saw anything of him smoking in it. So a sequel has been in the works for nearly 20 years. TRAVOLTA constantly calls it his finest work, expected in 2020 little piece of trivia there. Guess it didn't happen yet. The movie was a box office success, released on Christmas Day. Michael finished number one that weekend, grossing 17,000,001st of all, congratulations. Oh, thank you. I'm very proud. I finally figured it out. How many episodes are we in? I'm just gonna turn this five minute buzzer off. Whoa, yeah, whoosh. I'm stealing your energy. I'm like, breathing it in while you sleep, much like Barry Manilow did. Did you like this movie? No, not really. I'm glad I saw it, because I think I missed it at the time. Yeah, it was really in like a wall to wall zone of those kinds of movies I remember, like phenomena coming out. And, yeah, how was it powder? And that one I did see. I saw this in the theater. Whoa, and did enjoy it. I have never watched it again. Yeah, I think it's just aged so much. It's like watching The Simpsons, like old episodes of The Simpsons now it's like, back then it was like, Oh, my God, they said that on TV, oh my god. Oh. How can they get away with this? The sensors, and now it's like, kind of mild, yeah. I think of this as the last of Travolta's good films after the comeback that Pulp Fiction afforded him, and probably the least of Nora ephrons movies, unfortunately, because she had a string of real big ones. And it seemed like this was going to be huge. And I remember it was kind of huge. Yeah, it did well, yeah. But yeah, it's, I feel like you would love this movie. If you're like, a middle aged church going person, you'd be like, Whoa. What are they doing with Michael? Wow, he is crazy, isn't he? I just, I don't know, like, I don't find that much funny anyway. And it was just Yeah, but it's cool to see William Hurt. I also don't love Andy McDowell. That's just me. It's a me problem. I think I had a big crush on her, starting with gray Stoke, sure. Oh, yeah, good starting point. I was irritated with her starting with Four Weddings and a Funeral. Yeah. Well, my crush continued with Four Weddings. I love that movie. I love that movie. I don't like her in it. That's fine. It doesn't matter. It's me. It's not her, it's me. I will go next. And I am talking about Kill Bill, the whole bloody affair. Bad woman desires her revenge. We deserve to die then again. So is she Where is now? I? Where is thou? Silly? Caucasian guru likes to play with samurai swords. It's mercy of compassion and forgiveness, I lack of rationality. She must suffer to her last breath. You uh, this came out in 2006 Written and directed by Quentin Tarantino written and directinoed by Quentin and tarantinot, who did Pulp Fiction and glorious bastards once upon a time in Hollywood, Uma Thurman is also given a writing credit on this because she created the character of the bride with him, starring Uma Thurman, who was in Henry and June, the truth about cats And dogs, Batman and Robin, red, white and royal blue. Also in this is Lucy Liu. Was in Charlie's Angels, Shanghai, noon, 73 episodes of Ally McBeal and 154 episodes of elementary Michael Madsen. Rest in peace. He was in reservoir. Dogs Die Another Day, Sin City, terrible angels, resurrection road. He has 346 acting credits, and even though he just passed away, he has 18 movies coming, Jesus, holy and David Carradine, who has 240 acting credits, tons of 60s and 70s television, including 73 episodes of Kung Fu, but also Death Race, 2000 Bound for Glory. Gray Lady down and the long writers, also in this is Vivica. Vivica, a fox, Daryl, Hannah, sunny, Chiba, Michael parks, Bose, Vincent and Sid. Haig, you guys have seen Kill Bill Volume One and two, but have you watched the whole bloody affair? No. Okay, this movie is the two films of Kill Bill put together as one, four hour and seven minute film. It starts with Uma Thurman, credited only as the bride, although we learn her name is Beatrix kiddo near the end, and when the film starts, we are at her wedding to a young man in a small chapel in the middle of nowhere. We can see that she is pregnant. But that does not stop the five people known as the deadly Vipers who interrupt the wedding, kill everyone and finally put a bullet in her head. When the cops show up, though, it's discovered that she is still alive and she has rushed to a hospital where she is operated on, but left in a coma. Shortly thereafter, one of the deadly vipers, El, a driver, sneaks into the hospital with the intention of killing her, but she is stopped by the titular Bill, who tells her over the phone to leave the bride alive, there is no honor in killing a defenseless opponent. Ooh, boy, that turns out to be a mistake, but not until four years later, when she comes out of her coma. She's distraught to find out she is no longer pregnant, and very upset to find that one of the orderlies has been selling her body for dudes to fuck on the slide while she's in a coma. I did forget that, yeah, she manages to kill both men, even though her legs aren't working, and she escapes the hospital with the plan of going on a road trip and exacting her revenge on those that did her wrong. She does this in the pussy wagon, of course, going after each of the deadly Vipers one by one. Some of them have left the gang and started new lives, and some of them have become criminal masterminds of their own. But the bride doesn't care, and she slashes through each of them with more and more difficulty, much like a video game. As she does this, the audience is given little flashbacks to who these characters all are, plus flashbacks within the bride's new reawakened life to show us what has happened between the chapters as they are doled out. There's even a really gorgeous segment that is animated like a Japanese anime, but in a much more detailed way than you would be used to, especially back then. It's all very stylish, cool, violent, lots of blood and limbs being cut off as she goes because all of these killers use bladed weapons. Nobody has discovered guns, except for everybody in the first part of this movie, and never again. We're also finally given a flashback of the bride as she escapes Bill's gang when she finds out she is pregnant with Bill's daughter, she knew there was no way the child could grow up well, in Bill's world, and Bill didn't realize it was his kid. So that's what this entire movie about. Man, this movie is fucking fantastic. I forgot how good I. I remember thinking in the theater at the end of Part Two that I liked part one better, and watching it all together. I still feel that way. An hour could have easily been cut from the second half, and this would have always been one, three hour film. Still, it's so beautiful, you can let it go. This was Tarantino's movie after Jackie Brown, so there was a lot of anticipation. I really like, I remember liking this more than Jackie Brown when I saw it, but I have just recently watched, re watched Jackie Brown, and I think that might be my second favorite of his films. Now, a couple of trivia things here. The movie had a budget of 30 million and grossed 180 million for part one and 153 million for part two. But I couldn't find any box office info on the release of the whole bloody affair. Wow. The bride's battle against the crazy 88 is replaced with the Japanese version in this film, which is in color to show off all the gore and edited slightly different. It's in black and white. In the original Tarantino developed many of the bride's characteristics for the character of shosana Dreyfus for the film Inglorious Bastards, which he worked on before kill. Bill Dreyfus was to be an assassin with a list of Nazis she would cross off as she killed. But Tarantino switched a character to the bride and redeveloped Dreyfus character. Bill was originally written for Warren Beatty, but his character developed and the role required greater screen time and martial arts training. Tarantino rewrote it for David carrotten. Beatty says that he turned down the role because he did not want to be away from his family while shooting in China. And then finally, near the end of filming, Thurman was injured in a crash while filming the scene in which she drives to Bill according to Thurman, she was uncomfortable driving the car and asked that a stunt driver do it. Tarantino assured her that the car and the road were safe. She lost control of the car and hit a tree, suffering a concussion and knee injuries, according to Thurman, Miramax would only give her the crash footage if she signed a document releasing them of any consequences of future pain and suffering. Tarantino was apologetic, but their relationship became bitter for years afterwards, Thurman said that after the car crash, she went from being a creative contributor and performer to being a broken tool. Miramax released the footage in 2018 after Thurman went to police following the accusations of sexual abuse against Harvey Weinstein, whoa. What a great way to wrap that up. Yep, yep. I gotta say, this movie, watching it this way, was really fucking cool. I mean, even sitting down for four hours is not something I do very often, but I just popped multiple buckets of popcorn and fucking drank and watched this. I was just like, god damn it. You know, I have a love, hate relationship with Tarantino, you know, like, I don't care for a lot of his movies, and I never have to see Pulp Fiction again. But watching this for the first time since I had seen the first two movies in the theater, I was like, oh, god damn. I guess this guy is a fucking genius. So aside from the black and white being made into color. Are there any changes? Is it just like the two films smashed together? Yeah, because the, if I remember correctly, the second part doesn't even do like a recap, you just kind of come into the movie again. So this just is one solid film, okay, yeah, did it play in theaters? Or was it just a box set, like a DVD special. I think that it had a very limited release, but it did do some theatrical run. Who's gonna sort of say, I'll tie up my theater for four hours? Yeah, I know it's a long time. Maybe something like Sif might do as a special thing and up to not then, because it didn't own theaters at that time that I know of. But yeah, I'm with you on Tarantino, I don't think reading his book was the best way for now to maintain my feelings. Oh no, he seems cool to hear again, worse when he opens his mouth. His thinking on his knowledge of films is interesting, but is thinking that he's the only one that understands why certain films are good and nobody else gets them is really fucking annoying, Oh, for sure. But yeah, he also does some great recommendations, and he's made some amazing films. Yeah, I wonder what he's like on set, because, like every interview I've heard him, and I'm like, I would, I couldn't be in a room with you for more than one minute, like, one minute, I'd be like, I can't. I cannot, Yeah, apparently he's not a coke head. But then, what is the fucking excuse? Then exactly I could let it go if you were a coke head. I mean, anybody remember who's like, I'm a black guy phase? Because that was a very coke oriented phase. I remember that the one of the turning. Points for me and my attitude towards him was actually very weird. Way was from the from dusk till dawn, audio commentary, all right? Because until that point, Rodriguez had done these amazing Robert Rodriguez did these amazing commentaries on El Mariachi and Desperado, which were like film schools, yeah, and Tarantino gets on and just Blabs over him the entire time. I'm like, with you know, his trivia, weirdness and knowledge, which he's is deep in him. But it wasn't about making the movie. It was about all kinds of shit. And you could hear at times, Rodriguez almost gone. I want to talk about how this scene was done, you asshole, yeah? But it's like, okay, Tarantino's kind of nuts, yeah? But Rodriguez is company, which I can't remember what it's called now, but he's there listed as the producer of this film. Oh, yeah, they, they got along great. Yeah, they have a great relationship. Yeah, well, cool topic, Eric, but that means that somebody else has to pick the next sub genre. Is that me? It's you, wow. Finally, it's my turn. It does seem like it's a longer time between picking final it does it feels like a real feels like waiting in dodgeball. Am I gonna get picked one last Okay, since you not that long ago, somebody made us do the trademark public public domain, and we happen to mention asylum films at the end of that. I think that would be great. I think let's go ahead and do an asylum film each as all right. I love that. If the audience is not familiar, the asylum is a production company that is responsible for all the what would you call these movies? They're like knock off sci fi. When there's a new Transformers movie coming out, they have the trans more 100% Yeah. When the Merlin TV series came out, they put out like Merlin one, two and three. Yeah. I'm really shocked that they haven't jumped on this public domain bandwagon. I don't know what the company state is right now. The last I knew from them was like they had some involvement with Z Nation, of course. Oh, that's right, yeah, they've gone a little more. I think they've gotten away from the parody strictly thing a little bit. But they are cheap bastard, because my as an editor, like I had a long standing bucket wish item, which was to do one asylum film, yeah, and then I heard how bad the sets are and how awful it is to work on them. And I was like, No, right, never mind. I wanted to. I mean, could you imagine going in there with halfway decent scripts and still get the budget. The budgets are nothing, but they're also, you know, something 400,000 I mean, the bar is so low, you could just walk in there and sweep it. But they're not interested in that. That's there. They kind of have embraced the whatever you would. They did. NATO, right, yeah, all four of those? Yeah, I've got one picked out already that's sitting on my my Plex that I was like, Oh, I'm gonna have to watch this. And now I have a reason. Excellent, nice. I'm glad I could bring that to you as a gift. Kelly, I'll have to be looking something up. Yeah. Well, that is fantastic. I consider this a gift. Thank you, Vanessa, you're welcome. Okay, so that's the end of the show, this part where we say thanks to everybody out there who's liking and sharing posts, who's on the strange eons radio talk page, who's commenting under the YouTube videos, and especially those of you who are sending money our way. It's called value for value. 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