331 BE CHROOL TO YOUR SCUEL!

331 BE CHROOL TO YOUR SCUEL!
The gang checks their Netflix Zodiac Watchlists before talking about flicks with schools and teachers.
Also discussed: Peacemaker, Alien: Earth, Bound to Vengeance.

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I'm not gonna say what it wants, like, I don't know. 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. Boy, what a interesting conversation we've had leading up to this episode. But I've got something even more interesting you guys. Have you guys gone on to Netflix and checked your Zodiac watch list? No, apparently not what? What's the problem? Oh, no, there's they figured out our birthday and what we should be watching. You've given them your birthday. Sure sign up. Yeah, yeah. I'm sure. 15 years ago, I definitely did Netflix on August 21 launched a new astrology hub, your Zodiac watch list that you browse the streamers catalog through the lens of the zodiac. Oh, my God, for example, they each each sign has its own theme now stocked with titles that reflect those traits. So, uh, Virgos are always hustling. You would see animal kingdom, the Queen's gambit. Now You See Me under that list, okay, um, Pisces, uh, they manifest the dream, so A star is born and it's on their list. EXO kitty and Groundhog Day. Oh my god. And for myself, cancers will cry if they want to. The Gilmore Girls is on my list, Ginny and Georgia and Grey's Anatomy, three series and movies I have zero interest in. I think I've seen a fair amount of all those, and I can't imagine you enjoying any of them once you're signed. I am a Virgo. Oh, you're okay. And Eric, here, December, what is that? Sagittarius? Let's see, like serial killer movies and stuff like that. Oh my God, I didn't, I didn't write down. Oh no, there it is. Sagittarius. Bring adventure. So lost the Witcher and Jurassic Park. Holy shit. They nailed you. I haven't seen the Witcher. The others are definitely now, I should, I guess you probably should. You might enjoy it. They they also have like a row labeled, beware. Mercury is in retrograde, featuring such titles as Black Mirror, extant subservience maniac, the electric state leave the world behind and the Lost World Jurassic Park. So I just wanted everybody to know that, Oh, my God, this is insane. Also, the other thing I want everybody to know is, none of that matters. You can't. You can't boil 8 billion people on this planet into 12 personality types, especially like that definitely hit at least some of the films in the top 10. Like you like Jurassic Park. That's how all of these horoscopes work, right? So generalized that you're like Jesus Christ. None of this makes sense. I just went to my watch list. These are ridiculous. These. It's it makes they want me to watch a guide to meditation. That's probably a good idea. Uh, there's a giant picture of somebody's colon. So I don't know what that one's about. Advertisement, probably it says, hack your health, a documentary, cone heads and transformers, Rise of the beasts. Oh, um, I kind of liked that one. I didn't. I fell asleep during it. I don't know if that's actually the right one, because everything you're listing off is on mine as well. Oh, okay, so I think this, do I have to go to it? It says your Zodiac watch, yeah. But it's, yeah, I've got the zodiac. Oh, man, oh, you signed Virgo. I am, oh, okay, oh, you know what? Though, I bet I know why it's messed up. Because this is my I'm on my husband's account. This is his birthday, and he's a December or January. He's January. So I wonder if he has the exact same thing. So I don't get to know what I'm supposed to watch, and Dean is a cancer. So Wowser, I'll definitely have to dive into the silliness of that dropping knowledge bombs on you. That's the kind of quality you get here, value here, right? Bring some value this way. Oh my god. Your your Zodiac watch list, you guys, I have seen some stuff, and I am shocked to find out that you guys have not seen the same stuff that I have seen. Yeah, sometimes it's been a couple, not this time. I can't believe you. You're not all caught up on peacemaker, no, I know that it's out. Just have not yet watched it. I've seen the first episode, yeah, so I don't know, which was quite an experience. Experience. Oh dear. The second episode even more of quite an experience. It's almost like they said, see what the boys did. We're not gonna get violent, but we're gonna up some shit. Oh no. Hope you're okay with a lot of nudity in the second episode. Oh, in the second episode of Jesus Christ. Yeah, it's a it's a show, wacky, and I gotta say, James Gunn taken some pretty big swings here, risky swings with this character that I was watching and kind of chuckling uncomfortably along with but thinking this is a big ask to have people see him do this and then still be sympathetic towards his character. Okay, is that the main character or a new character? The main character in the second episode? The beginning of the second episode starts off with a sequence that I was like, okay, James, Oh, no. I mean, I feel like we saw some turning points for him in season one, so that's kind of a bummer to me. No. I mean, they fit. I mean, at least what I've seen, it's not, they're not veering off stories. Okay, complicated. Here's a very complicated character, and I think that we're going to, I mean, he makes some decisions that you're at least in these first couple episodes, that you're going to be like, Fuck, I get why you did this, but I can definitely see this is going to come back and bite you in the ass, very badly, so. But it's a, it's still a great show. Very funny. They switched the opening music segment to foxy Shazam, which is a band that I loved for years, and I like this song, but it does not have the same oomph as the the do you want to taste it? That's what I thought to cycle. This is fun and this is good, but it it's more mellow, yeah? I mean, it's not mellow, but it's more dancey instead of entertaining. And they are their new dance numbers in the open. Oh yeah, yeah. It's still entertaining. All the new characters and everything. It the first one, first season. It's like, you know, when you're binging a lot of times, you skip credits and stuff like that. But that one always, always watch. Always watch this one. I'll watch a couple times, but I I can see myself skipping it if I binge two or three episodes. Yeah, I'll just say, as an aside on this, Rick and Morty had their full season come out, and I really feel like they jumped the shark. One of the episodes had James Gunn as himself character. And I was like, well, the Simpsons even stopped doing this 15 years ago. This is not exactly new, but it was a sequence with him against Zach, the Justice League guy. Snyder. Snyder, thank you, Snyder, him against Zack Snyder, with their stuff. And of course, Zack Snyder is just constantly working out the entire time. And I was like, this is funny, but it's not Rick and Morty funny. So it does not sound that sounds more like Family Guy or something. Yes, exactly, right. Anyway, peacemaker is on. Was it called now just max, max or HBO? No, it's HBO again. It's, I was gonna say, did we rebrand it again. It's just Max. It was, it was just, it was just HBO. Max, yeah, I think so, okay, so that's freaking it's getting awful. I'm like, what was wrong with HBO? That's a great property. Was known for the last 45 years. Let's change it. I also don't understand what the difference between them is. Is, is it that you can just stream fake combined HBO and the Discovery Streaming right show. So they added a bunch of stuff. So I guess they wanted to change. So now it's max. Did they get like clues? But then all of that has separated again. So yeah, that must be why the name change again. So weird, these freaking streamers. Anyway, Vanessa, what about you? Well, as you mentioned, I actually have not been watching all that much, just have not had the time. But I was able to read a comic that I came across really randomly. It was in like a best of the year list, and I was just like, it has an interesting cover I'm gonna get from the library and not waste money, in case it sucks. And that's called What's the farthest place from here? I've just started now volume four, because it's so freaking good. Yeah, I'm just really, really enjoying it. I love the setup. The story follows a our world that looks very different because something happened many years ago, and now it is just populated by children, and when they become adults, they have to leave their respective homes. Their homes are essentially leftover pieces of society. So the group we're following live in a record. Store. There's others that live in a bank. It's basically the Warriors, right? Like, they, yeah, they like, go into massive battles if they get into each other's turf. Like, there's all kinds of stuff. There's the Royals. There's people living the old folks home, and they have to pretend and, like, dress up like old people. It's very weird, and it to make it even weirder, they're supplied food and all kinds of other things through these people called the strangers, which may or may not be people. They're very tall things that are like wearing black Victorian dresses and have their entire face covered by a bag. It's very creepy. It's very strange. And I'm just really, really digging it. So, Man, that sounds awesome, amazing. Four volumes, already? Four volumes, yeah, at least through the end of three. It's very good. I don't know if four is gonna maintain it or not. It kind of feels like three has a good, natural end if they want it to end. But it's great because you start off immediately with this girl who says she's sick and she's not sure what's wrong with her. She's clearly very pregnant. She just has no one knows. No one knows what pregnancy is in this universe. Because how are all the kids being born? Then if it's all just kids, the strangers show up with babies and hand them to the new houses. So these kids have to raise these babies that just appear occasionally, and they give them names. And each each section has like a god as well, like they all have their own version of a god they worship. So the record store, when you come of age, you pick out a record. It's very crazy, but what constitutes becoming an adult the age of 18. They don't make it super clear, I think is hitting the age of 18, okay? And we don't know what happens, and we, we do eventually, okay, yeah, but you don't for that's the mysterious, yeah. You also turned me on to that one nice house on the lake, which I thought was just fucking crazy, too. So crazy. Yeah, I'm looking forward to this real quick. Did you know that Event Horizon has a comic book out now? Prequel comic? No, just just came out. I wonder. I wonder if I did read it yet. Yeah, I picked it up. It's, it's, it's weird, yeah, that's good, yeah, okay, well, I will, yeah, I will definitely pick it up next time I'm at the comic book store, I'd love to dig into it. And also, Peacemaker has a comic series that is basically following the show at this point. So they definitely wrote Peacemaker to be a lot more like James good maker. Oh, this sold. Well, okay, well, I've got one I'm not going to recommend, not because it's not good, not well done. Never take candy from a stranger or the original British name. Never take sweets from a stranger. This is a very early hammer film from 1960 so you know, of course, you see that. Y'all let's check it out. I've been reading Christopher Alexander, yeah, Chris Alexander's book art, I think it's art, trash and treasure, something like that, where he's just this mall, massive volume of weird movies. And there is, saw this one's like, Okay, check it out. Maybe physically uncomfortable. Oh, wow. They never take candy from a stranger. Is exactly what you think is leading to. The movie starts with these two little girls playing in a field, and one of them's a dropped a quarter or something like, oh my god, we can't get candy. Now. It's like, I know where we can get candy. And that cuts and goes back to one of the girls coming home, and in perfect child innocence, it doesn't get too doesn't go too far, but she describes this horrifying scene to her parents, and she's just like, oh yeah. And we did this, and that's like, and my stomach just went, it's like, oh my god. And then the whole movie is these parents going, we are going after this guy. Well, the town is he's the father of the guy who runs the town in that classic small town kind of story idea. And everybody going, don't say anything. I'll just make it worse. Kids are okay. They bounce back. They can handle things. And it's just like, oh man. Is honestly an incredibly well done movie. It's very reminiscent of, oh shit, the very famous movie about racism, where the little girl is killed and it goes to court and shit. It's like one of the most famous films, period. But to kill a mock, yeah, it's very similar in feel that in ways, it's not a courtroom drama in any way. But just the idea of this is kind of okay, because we're just going to sweep it under the rug. You don't have to worry about this. It's just like, oh my god, that's so messed up. Because especially with British culture, that's so into like, don't make waves that you can see like that being a. Really interesting statement piece. At least it got reviled. It got attacked heavily when it came out for saying the quiet part out loud and calling people to task for sweeping this kind of shit under the rug. And it is just, I mean, it is incredibly well done film, or else it wouldn't be so horrifying, but yeah, one of our I did this for my 101 of our listeners posted on, sorry to blank them in your name, but how he watched it when he was really young, but then watched again later when he had kids. Like, yeah, that's James, yes. Is this a movie? So this was made in the 60s. Is it set in present day, 60s then? Or it is, Oh, wow. I mean, it's British, so it always kind of has that a little bit older feel, 1960 us. But it is 19 6019, so it's still, you know, basically, the 50s. What did you watch that on Amazon? But you can also watch it on Fossum. Oh, god, yeah. What is Fossum? No idea. Okay, that pops up on mine whenever I'm looking for something too. I don't think I can. I don't think I can. Have to be Pluto and something called Fossum, yes. So that was called, never take candy from a stranger. Yeah? The other thing that I watched, another TV series that's been going on for a couple of weeks now is alien colon Earth. Yeah, oh, yes. I think I've only made it to episode three, maybe almost all of them. There's four out. As we record this, only four. Yeah, I'm seeing a lot of hate for this. I gotta say that so far, I'm enjoying it a lot. I'll even go further than that. For me, there's alien aliens, and at this point you never know where it's gonna go this because I think it just captures that, whatever it was that made the first Alien especially work, because it's prequel to that. So, wow, yeah, it's, it's strange to me. I'm watching a lot of people. This is, it's no stranger than me bitching about strange new worlds. You know, we all want what we want. Sure, the difference, I think, is, can you imagine being a fan of this franchise and all its shitty films, but bitching about this particular series very weird, actually, in the upper echelon of alien stuff, so I'm not sure what they're not getting out of it. I like the acting. I like the story. I see a lot of people complaining about the Peter Pan analogy. And it's not an analogy. It's a very strong part of the story. So it's how this strange, ultra wealthy guy relates to the world. The boy genius. Yeah, he's he's clearly infatuated with Peter Pan. So it's not any kind of metaphor. I Pinocchio might have, might would have probably been too on the nose. So, you know, you get a little little movement here. And then the introduction of the new alien classes. I thought was interesting. The eyeball alien I know, is going to play a very interesting part coming forward. And if that little fucker, boy genius, doesn't get taken over by that thing, I'm going to be very upset. And the different, I want to call them replicants, but synthetic beings that they have and everything I think is really cool. And I would like to have seen some kind of tie to Blade Runner in that especially with the one guy looking so much like Rutger Howard's character from Blade Runner. But I'm I'm really loving it. I think the effects look really nice, and the story is very, very compelling to me. The the complaints on the the child kids acting even though they look like adults is weird. It's like, yeah, they're not adults. They've been in this body for what, few weeks, or something. So, yeah, there's still going to be little kids are going to react like little kids and it, and I think that's done actually, really, really well, add so much to it, because we're so used to seeing Alien films where it's adults losing their mind, like it's really interesting to have that perspective, to have a kid who's, like, physically able to handle the situation, but mentally and emotionally, like it's moving Exactly, yes, yeah. So that is on, I guess I'm watching it on Hulu, but I imagine it probably on Disney, if you have that package or whatever, right? However they're combining those knows, yeah, who freaking knows? Man, is it? Yeah. Sorry. Took me a minute there. So. Yeah, the other thing I was going to talk about is that I've been kind of unwinding in the evenings, playing a video game, essentially. And I've been playing a lot of this video game. Every time I'm given the option of doing something other than playing this video game, I'm like, I'm just going to play more of this video game, which is, it's a couple years old now. It's called Horizon Zero, Dawn, uh, forbidden West, which is the second in the series I had already played through the first you're, you're playing as this girl named Aloy, who is in this almost, it's like it's not caveman. It's like post is tribalistic future world where something happened again to all of people on Earth, and society basically got reset. And instead of having giant like tigers and bears and dinosaurs, you have robots, so robots that are from the previous days that seem to attack people, and you're not quite sure, like what they're doing there, why they're there. So it's this big mystery that unravels in the first one, and the second one is sort of a continuation of that storyline, where now you're you know what happened to people, and now there's more, you know, some people maybe left Earth and are coming back, and it's a big deal, so it's been a lot of fun and good way to waste time. So it's been a post apocalyptic thing. Yeah, it's post apocalyptic, but you're playing in these, like, lush forests and stuff, because the world has taken itself back, essentially. So you I actually just entered Las Vegas, and it's just a giant desert with, you know, some cement pieces here and there, and somebody manages to get a holographic outline of the city that like place. So when you're running around at night, you can see the sort of holographic outlines of different buildings that you're entering and what it used to look like. So there's, there's really fun plays on that kind of stuff. Yeah? But it's very easy to go from like, you know, Las Vegas to California to Montana, because you're just sort of running around and all of a sudden you're in forest and you're, yeah, so they condensed it Sure, pretty, pretty hardcore. What's their Grand Theft Auto? Yeah, yeah, exactly, yeah. Come from LA to San Diego. Not a big deal. Does not take the hours that it should. Can you repeat that title again? It's called Horizon Zero, Dawn, forbidden, West, okay, yeah, relaxing to video games probably wouldn't work for me. I tend to get pretty amped up. Amped up, yeah, that's, that's definitely what happens to to my husband. He gets very worked up sometimes. And I'm like, You need to chill the F out, sir. It is we hold in our hands a controller. Nothing before us is real. Okay? I don't think. I don't feel I get that horrible. That sounds interesting. I think the term is nerd rage, yes, nerd rage, yes. He has a special little bit of nerd rage, which I yeah, I was raised to understand that if you threw a tantrum at the video game, then you were very uncool. So I was raised to not do that. We were playing pong and Mario. I was, yeah, of the era of Mario. So, like so another one I've watched in the 100 Days is a movie called bound to vengeance, which stars Tina Eve love, I believe, is how you say it's kind of like low budget Jennifer Lawrence. She really looks, has a very similar look to her, but the idea is she gets kidnapped and wakes up after being kidnapped in a room, chained up with a body, and there's no this is, I wouldn't call us a rape revenge movie, because it doesn't have any that kind of context to it, although it's implied. Then she finds after she escapes, this is the beginning of the film. She figures out that this, whoever this guy is. There's a network of girls and women around the city that have been kidnapped and are being held prisoner. So she forces him to take her to these different places, and he uses his knowledge of who these women are to his advantage a little bit. And some shit goes on, and it's, it's actually pretty good, pretty solid film, not comfortable. I wouldn't rec if you're if you don't like liking the rape revenge theory sounds like a really bad idea, right? But if you haven't watched the, if you don't watch those films ever, you might want to avoid this one, even though. It's it's just more implicit. It's not explicit. But if you enjoy women kicking the shit out of guys who have done wrong, that's pretty good scenes in this one. Fantastic. What's the the year 2015, okay, so fairly recent, and this is on prime and AMC plus found to vengeance. All right, guys, how about we take a little break and then when we come back, we are talking about Reality Bites, yeah, but not the movie. All right. How about we take a break and when we come back, we are talking about teachers or schools? Do? At the Fisher Price, school learning is just part of the fun. It's 11 to 12 times. 12 time for lunch. Where's the teacher playground? Look, she's jumping rope. Who wants the seesaw? The Little People school with pull out playground from Fisher Price. You? And we are back, Eric, I think this was your sub genre pick. Yes, yeah, it is school teachers, and it was entirely for a reason, because I got something going. Oh, this what I want to talk about, this movie. What does it have? It takes place in a school, you know what? Let me just jump in right here and say, You keep saying, also, I did this for the 100 and everything. If you're not a long time listener, you're talking about the 100 Days of Halloween, which is a thing that you and a lot of people do, which is a movie a day for 100 days before Halloween, and it has to be a movie you have not seen exactly, which is great getting harder and harder, I imagine. Yeah, I was like we were scraping the sides of the barrels, not yet the bottom. Facebook talk page. Eric then lists all of those movies. He only talks about two or three of them here, yeah. So they take a lot of episodes. I know some of you would appreciate that many episodes, but okay, Eric, I'm gonna give you five minutes for you to talk about your school or teacher movie. Sounds good? Okay? This is school of fear, or, as I found out, very hard to look up title on anyway. Il il gyoko, me, Smile. You. Oh, Thank you. Oh, you're which is part of the new Severan high tension Roberto Bava box set. Oh, cool. This is from 1989 so a little bit you've got Roberto Bava Demons, demons two, Devil fish blade in the dark, all kinds of stuff written by Roberto gondes, who wrote no way out, not that one snatch, not that one macabre, that one Roberto gondes as well. I I don't know why I was named twice. Interesting. Moving on. Giorgio stignati, who wrote Cannibal Holocaust and log live, long live. Robin. Hood and summer affair, happy, happy films, all acting. Alessandra asaya. These are mostly people you've never heard of, because this was a made for TV movie. My shadow is your shadow in the big dream. Gina Hebert is in it, but one name that is known as Nara Daria Nicoletti, who's in opera tenebre phenomena, Inferno, you see a pattern deep red shock, mother of tears, and a whole lot of other Italian horror films, but obviously an Argento favorite. So movie starts with a nice, solid, Dark and Stormy chase scene with the don't know if it's a teacher or a student, at this point, running from something. You don't know what they're running from, and end up, you hear voices yelling for her and stuff and the strong winds and rain and but she's running underground, so it's like the greats light. It's really, really well done. She eventually gets to what looks like a great she thinks she gets out of and she does not. It is obviously not on the level of Suspiria, but this is a really strong opening that's just image and lights and music. That's very cool. Cuts to a shot of some girl giggling in bed, and I don't know why she's giggling yet. Eventually we'll figure it out, but not in any direct manner. There's weird, creepy singing of this group of students in an Italian school singing a lullaby, man. And if this is what they had for their school uniforms, they were mean to these kids, because it looks like they must just had a giant rack of them, and they all got to put on a jacket, because maybe half of them fit. The rest are insanely large. None of them look too small, but a bunch of them look too large, and it's the same the girls and the boys wear the exact same outfit, jacket, tie, shirt. A new Italian teacher shows up, she gets some shit for dressing too provocatively, while the video vice principal is being creepy about it. So you get the idea of casting of this lady. She's very Italian. It seems like kids are starting to disappear. But are they? You're not entirely certain. If it's a planned thing. Is that a group thing? Is there some teacher doing weird shit. The there's references to playing a game, and all the kids are always kind of they'll never figure out what our game is and giggling about it. Okay, so my thought this point is, what is going on? Will we get answers, and will they be any good man. There's some real bad, practical, specific effects in this at times, and it's got aspects that do not age well, but nothing too outrageous, just the the teacher when she was a kid, it sounds like was attacked and raped by people wearing what looked like mascot costumes for whatever reason. What, what you think would tie in, but it really doesn't. But she is made to feel very ashamed about this and doesn't want anybody to know what happened to her. And that's kind of the stuff that's like, Oh, that's not good. So it's a good film. It's well done. The bhava, of course, it looks cool. The stuff is interesting, the acting strong. It's not a new My God, it's a great, lost, whatever. But it is of the bhava ones I've seen, one of his better ones, demons, is far more entertaining, but this is actually a better made movie. Couple of short notes. I do want to throw out real quick the composer, because the music is amazing. This guy named Simon Boswell, with 119 credits, including shadow, grave, stage, night, dust, devil, Lord of illusions, the dark, fantastic from this year. Let's see what else again. Yeah, if you're curious about this one and look it up, it's easier to find under Roberto bava's name than it is to find under this title, because it's just not listed. It might be now, after it's been out on disc for a little while, but School of fear and you'll have to watch the movie on the discs, as far as I can find you. Said that was from 89 Yeah, that's interesting. Okay, I was wondering if like, because it's set in 89 is. Just a style thing that the jackets are oversized because, I don't know, they do have the shoulder shoulder pads going on. They're trying to indicate maybe a style. I don't know well, it was shot in 89 so I would imagine that that is what, at least some private school in the area had those uniforms. Maybe because it it's, yeah, it looks like, whenever you watch a British film, they've always got the school uniform. So that's just what it was. At some point they went, these are really dumb. We're gonna do school uniforms. Let's get something nicer. We're Italian, fashion forward. Vanessa, you want to go next? Yeah, absolutely giving you five minutes. So I went with a film I hadn't seen yet, but was, like always on my list to get around to, which is 2019, little monsters. Lieutenant, sir. Why are we here? It's zombies again, fast ones are slow ones, sir, slow. Thank god they're slow. Next stop, Pleasant Valley. Oh Teddy, we having a super fun time on our trip. I want you all in the line in front of me, and away we go. Why are we stopping? Must be something in the way. What is it? Miss Caroline, are you okay? Yes, but we scared. Who remembers how to play tag? Well, those funny looking people out there are it, oh my God, I don't give a shit. What's happening? We're all gonna die. Are we gonna die? Miss Caroline, No. As part of the game. The zombies are not real. It is a bit scary. What are we doing? We're scared. What's the song we can sing? If you're happy, we can't stay here indefinitely. I'm not going anywhere. You're bigger idiots than I thought, and I thought you were both the stupidest people I've ever met. My job is to keep you safe. Stay here until I get back. That kind of behavior is unacceptable. This is five years old, and if you can't use appropriate language with a five year old, I'm going to have to ask you to attract it to him and wait for us. How do you like it? Oh, God, what have I done? What's that? Oh, I got caught in the middle of a jam fight. Don't taste it, okay, not to be confused with the 80s little monsters with the kid from Wonder Years. So this is starring Lupita Nyong'o, who has 36 credits. We would have seen her in us. Black Panther. She was a voice in the wild robot and quiet place. Day one. Alexander, England, 28 credits, Alien Covenant and Gods of Egypt. Josh Gad 98 credits, Olaf and frozen and diesel. La toraka, who's 13 credits, I knew him as a little boy in Ginny, in Georgia. So and this is, this is set in Australia. Well, if you're Zodiac on Netflix, maybe you would damn wild. This is set in Australia. Dave is a washed up street musician who is constantly fighting with his girlfriend Sarah. In an opening montage, they scream at each other everywhere, including grocery store on the street, at home and at two of her birthdays in a row. They finally break up, and he ends up crashing on the couch of his sister, Tess, along with she has a young kid, so he's there with his nephew, Felix. He is very selfish and inconsiderate, constantly cursing and being a bit of an ass in front of his nephew. Tess warns him to pull himself together, but late one night, he decides to get Sarah back, dressing Felix up as Darth Vader and basically tripping him out to his ex's apartment with a proposal scrawled on a pizza box. They bust into Sarah's apartment to catch her having sex with her coworker and have a long, lengthy conversation with them basically Nate. And still kind of technically having sex in front of the kid when they arrive home, tus is ready to kick him out, but Felix begs for to let his uncle stay. Tus reluctantly agrees, and he is told to take Felix to school the next day and help out around the house. There he meets Miss Caroline, his teacher. Felix's teacher, David is instantly smitten and offers to chaperone a field trip the next day at the field trip, things take a turn for the worse when Miss Caroline is given special treatment by the children's TV star Teddy MC giggle, who is filming a live TV show at the petting zoo they have gone to. She seems disinterested in David, and it turns out she also has a fiance. Meanwhile, next door at a US military facility, the zombie test subjects have gotten loose and have taken over. They are now heading to the zoo when their tractor, with all the kids on it that's doing a little tour of the petting zoo, runs into a zombie Miss Caroline decides to tell the kids, it's a big game of tag, and convinces them to play along with her as she leads them to safety into the gift shop, the film plays out with David and Miss Caroline keeping the little troop of kids safe, despite Teddy McGill also being in there with him and losing his freaking mind, they create a plan to escape right as the military intends to blow up the whole facility. This film is so freaking cute. Holy smokes. It is great. This is such a good, feel good movie. It's definitely got the zombie rom com vibes that you might have seen in Shauna, the dead. But of course, we're in Australia. My one criticism is, there's too much wanking off. I don't care for it. I don't need to see it. Does not add anything to the film for me by the end, but you really do love the main character by the end, despite him being absolute trash at the start, it's a very cool change. There's a nice touch getting Olaf to be the decrepit children's presenter. I think they do a really good job with that. And lots of Taylor Swift, pretty good stuff with the kids singing cute songs in terrible situations, little bit of trivia. Tagline, playtime is over. Originally, the producers couldn't get their rights to use Taylor Swift's shake it off in the film, as they were denied by the record label. Lupita Nyong'o is a huge fan of the song and saw as a pivotal part of the screenplay, which led her to personally get in touch with Swift and explain why the song was important to her and the narrative to which switch swift granted her the rights. Wow. It's impressive. Be able to reach a person like, I mean, like she was far enough along, probably in her career, that she was able to reach out to her, but that's very cool. The film is dedicated to a fourth size son, Spike, whose first day of kindergarten inspired parts of the story, I don't know. Oh God, Spike plays a school kid zombie in the film, and it premiered at Sundance in 2019 it was acquired by neon and Hulu. You can stream it on Hulu. I really like this film. I enjoyed this one a lot, too. Yeah, although I don't remember a lot of wanking, but maybe that's just, it's pretty front loaded in the beginning. As soon as you said this, I I was thinking of a completely different movie. Which one had Elijah Wood as a teacher, when the zombie kids? Oh, I don't know. I thought that's the movie. Now, I do remember this movie. Once you started talking about the Darth Vader scene, I was like, Oh, yeah. This is a very cute movie. It's very cute. What did you watch this on? I watched it on Hulu. Okay, so it's still free streaming out there. If you want to check it out and you have a Hulu or Disney subscription, please do whatever it is. Now sounds like, yeah, yeah, it's a lot of fun. It's a nice it's a nice change of pace for the other content you could be grabbing from our real world or show, or even from our show. Usually, yeah, that's true. We always talked about the update. No wait, hold on. Okay. Well, you guys, I have got a treat. Oh, no, five minutes. And I'm talking about from 2008 the happening. I were we supposed to stop here? What's going on? You can't just leave us here, sir, we lost contact with whom, everyone, what. There appears to be an event happening. It's some kind of attack. The first. Stage just lost some speech. Claire. Claire, the second stage is physical disorientation. The third stage is fatal. I'm scared. Elliot, okay, the attacks are spreading Boston, Philadelphia, Maryland. It's all over the country. Authorities are now feeling that a terrorist group Being responsible is becoming less and less likely. She says, everyone's dead outside. You run. Through the doors. This really be happening. I No, no. What Written and directed by M Night Shyamalan, who wrote and directed the sixth sense, unbreakable signs, old trap. He also wrote Stuart Little starring Mark Wahlberg from The Basketball Diaries, Boogie Nights, The Perfect Storm, flight risk. And also was Marky Mark of Marky Mark in the Funky Bunch. Also stars Zooey Deschanel, who's on 146 episodes of the new girl. She was an almost famous Your Highness and dreaming wild. And John Leguizamo, who's in Super Mario Brothers, which I've talked about, whispers in the dark, Carlitos way and spawn also in this is Ashlyn Sanchez, Betty, Buckley, Jeremy strong and Alan Ruck. You guys, I'm always looking to give M Night Shyamalan a second chance. He knocked it so far out of the park with a sixth sense and unbreakable that I was able to look past all the really stupid stuff and signs the village was a little harder to get past. And although I like Lady in the Water for how broadly it winks at the hero's journey, I understand that it is a deeply, deeply flawed film. But the happening, like all of his film films, it's got a really hooky opening scene with people acting weird in Central Park, and this lady just takes her long hairpin out of her hair and stabs herself in the neck with it. And then we cut to a construction scene where some guys are talking at the base of a building under construction, and someone falls from the top and lands in front of them. And they're horrified, of course, but it seems to be, you know, a horrible worksite accident. And then another person falls, and the camera follows the guys on the ground as they look up the building, and workers are literally throwing themselves off the top floor to their deaths. Also, we know Mark Wahlberg is in this movie, and a construction site seems like the place we should meet this fucking MOOC, but no, we then go to a high school in Philadelphia where we meet Elliot Mark Wahlberg in the form of a fucking science teacher. He's talking about the mystery of 1000s of bees disappearing when he is pulled away and warned of an apparent terrorist attack in New York and school is canceled. So I will say so far, this movie isn't horrible, as long as you can get past Marky Mark as a fucking science teacher. Or he's like, What do you think? What do you guys think about the piece Where's all the peace and and he and his wife, Alma, who is having problems with flee on a train, along with a friend, Julian and his daughter. Also, when we meet Alma, she is a fucking cunt. I'm not sure if we're supposed to feel any kind of sympathy for her, but she's introduced as a very high maintenance problem right off the bat, and then we're supposed to go with her on this voyage of loosening up. But it is impossible, mostly impossible because she's always a Chanel so you just fucking hate her right off the bat. They end up being forced off the train, and Julian ends up dead, and we're still not sure exactly what's going on, but it is actually pretty fucking creepy. There's a scene with a dozen people hanging from a tree and dead people everywhere, but nobody is hurting anybody. They are all just committing suicide, and it seems to be catching. Well, turns out that the plants are emitting some kind of suicide poison and the wind is carrying it on its breeze, and you're not sure what to do with this information. First of all, the only way to show this in a fucking movie is to show branches or long grass flowing in the wind. But it's not a hurricane or anything interesting, so it's just a soft breeze blowing through leaves and no. Matter how hard he tries, Shyamalan cannot make that look creepy. But that doesn't stop Wahlberg and Deschanel from overacting every time a light breeze comes up. I guess this is a natural disaster kind of movie, except without the disaster porn footage, and it just fucking drags. Also, if there was like an earthquake or a tornado or something, we know there'd be a climactic scene and then things would kind of go back to normal, but that doesn't happen here. The poison just stops being made, I guess. How would we ever know it can't be shown? So the movie ends with some similar stuff happening in France, I guess, setting up a The Happening franchise. Happening. Mark Wahlberg admitted that he regrets working on this movie, but said, You can't blame me for not wanting to play a science teacher, at least I wasn't playing a cop or crook. On June 8, 2008 days before the first few reviews came in, Shyamalan told The New York Daily News, we're making an excellent B movie. That's our goal, which is always bad sign when you say this right before your movie comes out, unlike a large part of the cast of actors, Zoe bischnelle, Zoe declared that it has been one of her favorite productions, and that people did not know how to appreciate the concept of natural terror the production that the Production used because it was strongly inspired by movies like the birds, which is a good movie. Yeah, I wish that they were inspired by that part of the birds. This is the highest grossing film to receive a D. I should note that the film has a 17% on Rotten Tomatoes, nice. I've got a couple of reviews here. Kyle Smith of the New York Post said no one will watch any of shyamalans recent films twice, but a movie that features Wahlberg suggesting everyone tried to outrun the wind can barely be watched once. That's a good quote, so I'll leave the other review off. That was my movie, The happening, man, you did exactly what I did. I gave this movie a second. Wait. Was this your second time viewing or your first time? Yeah? Yeah. I tried to watch it again because I was like, Wait a minute. I must have been too harsh. It's about come on the wind and people killing themselves. It's gonna be good. Holy smokes. Is this a terrible film based on a book or anything? Because it seems like it'd be a cool book. I don't know why he keeps saying it's a B movie either. And it doesn't have any B movie aspects to it. The acting. It's like, was there a director there at all? They these two people are worse actors due to his directing. It's horrible. It's like, at least Zooey Deschanel did the new girl, you know, she has some kind of range, but not in this movie, no. And Wahlberg, I think can be fine. I liked him in rock star, and I liked him in the other guys, you know, he's got a sense of comedic timing and but this one, in one of the notes I did not put down here, Shyamalan says that he wrote the film for Mark Wahlberg. He was who He wanted in this role. Insane, absolutely insane. Yeah, I saw a clue. I haven't seen the movie because don't hate myself that much. I'll go watch another al Adamson film. Thank you. But the scene was just some line delivery by Mark, and it was an example of this is bad acting, and it's so unbelievably bad. He's like, I am being sincere. Is what he should be saying, because that's what it looks like he's saying. You're not actually saying lines, he does, I'm sincere, yeah? It feels, yeah. It definitely feels like, if there was any emotion, any character gave that. Shyamalan was like, no, no, no. Pull it back. Pull it back. Pull it No. Pull it back. Like there's like the lobster and stuff, where everybody's got that really strange line delivery, but it's obviously deliberate. Yep, so Yeah, can you imagine Mark Wahlberg and the lobster? Yes, yes. Please do it without breathing so much Mark. Just make him silent. Just have him walk around looking like a platypus, and then turn him into a platypus, it'd be fine. Hey, I'm a platypus. Vanessa, you've got a choice for the next sub genre. Oh, well, there was a movie that I wanted to watch a couple weeks ago didn't quite get to. So I'm going to shoehorn a topic, haha, Reality Bites. I would like to do films where reality might not be what it seems. Okay, excellent. I can, I can dig this. All right. Well, that brings us to the point where we say thanks to everybody who's out there liking and sharing posts, who's on the strange ends radio talk page, who's commenting under the YouTube who's on. Donating money like Kevin Bird did. Thanks so much, Kevin. We really appreciate that. 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