[00:00.000 --> 00:12.500] Let's get together, talk about the movies that we saw this week. We'll have discussions, talk film news, we'll laugh a lot, and act like geeks. Sometimes we'll have a guest or two, sometimes it's just the two of us. Let's crack some jokes and tell some folks to come along and hang with us!
[00:12.500 --> 00:24.000] Why can't I go to the movies? Why can't I go to the movies? Yeah!
[00:25.000 --> 00:28.000] You have chosen Weiss.
[00:28.000 --> 00:37.000] On October 3rd, he asked me what day it was, and I said to him, you fool, today is January 30th, and we're recording Mike and Mike Go To The Movies.
[00:37.000 --> 00:43.000] I'm Mike Smith, and joining me, as always, is a grumpy transit cop, begrudgingly saving a train full of hostages.
[00:43.000 --> 00:44.000] Mike DeCricio.
[00:44.000 --> 00:45.000] How'd you do today, Mike?
[00:45.000 --> 00:52.000] You know, unfortunately, ACAB would include Walter Matthau in taking a fellow like T3.
[00:52.000 --> 00:55.000] We have to make an exception for Walter Matthau in taking a fellow 1-2-3, right?
[00:55.000 --> 01:03.000] If PAW Patrol's gotta go down, so does Walter Matthau.
[01:03.000 --> 01:06.000] There was a lot of discourse about PAW Patrol in 2020, I forgot.
[01:06.000 --> 01:08.000] There was.
[01:08.000 --> 01:10.000] How you doing today, Mike? What's going on?
[01:10.000 --> 01:12.000] I'm doing great. How are you?
[01:12.000 --> 01:20.000] I'm good, I'm good. We just recorded our Complete Works episode where we figured out our finalists for Season 4 of The Complete Works.
[01:20.000 --> 01:25.000] And this episode will be out before that one, so we don't want to reveal who the finalists are,
[01:25.000 --> 01:32.000] but I will say that somebody who is in one of the movies that one of us will talk about today is one of those finalists.
[01:32.000 --> 01:33.000] And that's all I'll say.
[01:33.000 --> 01:34.000] That's it.
[01:34.000 --> 01:35.000] That's all I'll say.
[01:35.000 --> 01:36.000] Yeah.
[01:36.000 --> 01:37.000] We're gonna walk away from that.
[01:37.000 --> 01:38.000] Yeah, exactly.
[01:38.000 --> 01:40.000] So, otherwise, yeah, been pretty good.
[01:40.000 --> 01:47.000] I have been, I've actually kind of burned out, I watched like 15 movies in the last like five days, less than that.
[01:48.000 --> 01:52.000] Between Wednesday and Sunday, I think I watched like 15 movies.
[01:52.000 --> 01:55.000] And 11 of those were Sundance Film Festival movies.
[01:55.000 --> 02:01.000] I took part in the Sundance Film Festival online this year, and I watched a ton of movies from Sundance.
[02:01.000 --> 02:05.000] And so, by Sunday, I was, like, I'm pretty good at watching movies, I think.
[02:05.000 --> 02:07.000] You might do it professionally, some might say.
[02:07.000 --> 02:08.000] Some might say.
[02:08.000 --> 02:12.000] And, you know, I often have, you know, I asked my girlfriend for one day a year where, you know,
[02:12.000 --> 02:16.000] I have my movie day where I can just sit and do nothing but watch movies all day.
[02:16.000 --> 02:19.000] And I still haven't casted on that yet, I'm gonna do that pretty soon.
[02:19.000 --> 02:24.000] But by the end of this run of movies, I was pretty exhausted, I was pretty tapped out.
[02:24.000 --> 02:26.000] I was like, I need to read a book or something.
[02:26.000 --> 02:27.000] I need to take a walk.
[02:27.000 --> 02:29.000] You need to just go look at the sky for a minute.
[02:29.000 --> 02:30.000] Yeah, exactly.
[02:30.000 --> 02:34.000] It's a real Homer Simpson in hell with the donuts situation.
[02:34.000 --> 02:37.000] Yeah, well, in that situation, Homer never got tired of eating the donuts.
[02:37.000 --> 02:38.000] Okay, fair.
[02:38.000 --> 02:40.000] That's a good point.
[02:40.000 --> 02:42.000] And in my case, I was still enjoying movies.
[02:42.000 --> 02:45.000] Like, I still saw stuff that I really liked by the end of it.
[02:45.000 --> 02:47.000] I was getting like, man, I'm bleary eyed.
[02:47.000 --> 02:49.000] Like, I'm seeing double here, four TVs, you know?
[02:49.000 --> 02:51.000] Oh, boy.
[02:51.000 --> 02:54.000] And so, yeah, so I did watch a ton of Sundance Film Festival stuff.
[02:54.000 --> 02:57.000] That was pretty much my entire week was just that pretty much.
[02:57.000 --> 02:59.000] And it was for work, air quotes.
[02:59.000 --> 03:00.000] And it was for work.
[03:00.000 --> 03:01.000] I didn't have to pay for it.
[03:01.000 --> 03:04.000] You know, it was covered for work and it was mostly so I kind of scope out some stuff
[03:04.000 --> 03:08.000] for the Montana Film Festival, which, hey, I think we saw some stuff that, you know,
[03:08.000 --> 03:11.000] if it doesn't have distribution or anything, if it's not released yet, I mean, the thing is,
[03:11.000 --> 03:14.000] like Sundance is in January and MTFF is in October.
[03:15.000 --> 03:16.000] Right.
[03:16.000 --> 03:17.000] A lot can happen.
[03:17.000 --> 03:20.000] There's a good chance that, like, you know, everything that we, like, consider
[03:20.000 --> 03:22.000] for the festival might be already released.
[03:22.000 --> 03:24.000] And it's like, well, all right, I don't know.
[03:24.000 --> 03:26.000] But we had fun.
[03:26.000 --> 03:29.000] You know, we danced the dance and we had a good time doing it.
[03:29.000 --> 03:30.000] How was your week, Mike?
[03:30.000 --> 03:31.000] What have you been up to?
[03:31.000 --> 03:33.000] Not a whole lot's been going on, honestly.
[03:33.000 --> 03:37.000] I was recently, I think yesterday or today, I forget, I was driving to work
[03:37.000 --> 03:40.000] and I was thinking about when am I going to do my movie day, you know?
[03:40.000 --> 03:44.000] Not that I, like, need to have that in the same fashion that you do.
[03:44.000 --> 03:46.000] You don't need to clear it with your girlfriend or anything.
[03:46.000 --> 03:47.000] Right.
[03:47.000 --> 03:50.000] But it's just to, like, set aside a day with, like, an intention to watch
[03:50.000 --> 03:51.000] a bunch of stuff.
[03:51.000 --> 03:53.000] And usually, Blu-rays that I have it opened.
[03:53.000 --> 03:56.000] And I had the idea of doing, like, a box set day.
[03:56.000 --> 03:59.000] Just like, you know, take all the box sets I have and watch one movie
[03:59.000 --> 04:02.000] from all the box sets that I haven't watched, or five or six or whatever.
[04:02.000 --> 04:03.000] Right.
[04:03.000 --> 04:04.000] So you can dip your toe into each box set.
[04:04.000 --> 04:05.000] Yeah, exactly.
[04:05.000 --> 04:06.000] That seems fun.
[04:06.000 --> 04:07.000] That seems neat.
[04:07.000 --> 04:09.000] This way I have, like, a little collection already set out for me
[04:09.000 --> 04:11.000] and I just get to pick which one from each little collection.
[04:11.000 --> 04:12.000] Nice.
[04:12.000 --> 04:15.000] And that's going to be my goal for whenever I do my movie day.
[04:15.000 --> 04:17.000] The problem is, I don't know, a lot of my box sets are weird.
[04:17.000 --> 04:22.000] Like, I have all those weird, extra Amityville movies
[04:22.000 --> 04:27.000] that are, like, unofficial sequels, like, from Dvinnigan Syndrome
[04:27.000 --> 04:28.000] and all that kind of weird shit.
[04:28.000 --> 04:30.000] That seems fun.
[04:30.000 --> 04:32.000] Right, yes.
[04:32.000 --> 04:33.000] I should make you watch.
[04:33.000 --> 04:34.000] I don't know if I ever made you.
[04:34.000 --> 04:36.000] I've talked about Amityville It's About Time,
[04:36.000 --> 04:38.000] which is about the haunted grandfather clock
[04:38.000 --> 04:40.000] from the Amityville Horror House that gets shipped
[04:40.000 --> 04:41.000] and bought by somebody else.
[04:41.000 --> 04:43.000] And then the possession takes over the house.
[04:43.000 --> 04:44.000] Yeah.
[04:44.000 --> 04:45.000] And that's what all of those movies, there's, like,
[04:45.000 --> 04:49.000] a dollhouse one and a lamp shade or some shit.
[04:49.000 --> 04:51.000] I forget what they are.
[04:51.000 --> 04:53.000] But It's About Time is absolutely insane
[04:53.000 --> 04:57.000] and it has some wild practical effects that make it very fun.
[04:57.000 --> 04:59.000] And it literally ends with the line,
[04:59.000 --> 05:01.000] It's About Time.
[05:01.000 --> 05:03.000] It's absolutely hilarious.
[05:03.000 --> 05:04.000] Yeah, I think it's been a couple years.
[05:04.000 --> 05:06.000] You did bring this up at some point.
[05:06.000 --> 05:07.000] Yeah, I've watched it a while ago, yeah.
[05:08.000 --> 05:10.000] And that sounds insane.
[05:10.000 --> 05:13.000] It's not too late to change your Mike Makes Mike Watch schedule, Mike.
[05:13.000 --> 05:15.000] That's true.
[05:15.000 --> 05:18.000] So, yeah, we, like last year, me and Mike did kind of map out
[05:18.000 --> 05:20.000] what our Mike Makes Mike Watch schedule will be.
[05:20.000 --> 05:23.000] Like, once a month we'll do a Mike Makes Mike Watch.
[05:23.000 --> 05:26.000] And this year, I mean, this year we're going to basically do two
[05:26.000 --> 05:29.000] in February and then the rest of the year it'll be, you know,
[05:29.000 --> 05:30.000] one a month.
[05:30.000 --> 05:32.000] But, yeah, if you want to change one of yours the last minute,
[05:32.000 --> 05:34.000] I mean, go for it, Mike.
[05:34.000 --> 05:36.000] I did toy with viewing, like, all horror this year.
[05:36.000 --> 05:37.000] Ooh.
[05:37.000 --> 05:40.000] Maybe, I think I ended up with five or six horror.
[05:40.000 --> 05:41.000] That's pretty horror heavy.
[05:41.000 --> 05:42.000] Yeah, it is, yeah.
[05:42.000 --> 05:44.000] So, maybe I'll just do one more.
[05:44.000 --> 05:45.000] I don't know, we'll see.
[05:45.000 --> 05:46.000] Okay.
[05:46.000 --> 05:47.000] Yeah, see what happens.
[05:47.000 --> 05:48.000] But, all right.
[05:48.000 --> 05:49.000] So, I think we're going to do it, Mike.
[05:49.000 --> 05:50.000] Let's get into our discussions.
[05:50.000 --> 05:51.000] Watch this.
[06:07.000 --> 06:12.000] All right, it's time for our discussions here on Mike and Mike Go To The Movies
[06:12.000 --> 06:15.000] where we talk about just all the stuff that we have been watching lately.
[06:15.000 --> 06:20.000] And I'll kick things off, Mike, this time around because I have a lot more
[06:20.000 --> 06:24.000] movies than you do because I ended up watching 15 movies in the span of four
[06:24.000 --> 06:25.000] days.
[06:25.000 --> 06:27.000] So, I want to talk about some of the highlights of the Sundance Film
[06:27.000 --> 06:28.000] Festival this year.
[06:28.000 --> 06:31.000] And I do want to preface this by saying that a lot of the big movies for
[06:31.000 --> 06:33.000] Sundance were not available online.
[06:33.000 --> 06:34.000] Right.
[06:34.000 --> 06:36.000] So, they do like two halves of Sundance, right?
[06:36.000 --> 06:37.000] Exactly.
[06:37.000 --> 06:40.000] So, everything that was in competition at Sundance, anything that was going
[06:40.000 --> 06:43.000] for awards, like that was part of the US Dramatic Competition or the
[06:43.000 --> 06:46.000] Documentary Competition or the International Competition, all of that
[06:46.000 --> 06:47.000] stuff was available.
[06:47.000 --> 06:52.000] But, anything that was going to Sundance to be a big premiere, like Love
[06:52.000 --> 06:55.000] Lies Bleeding, for example, which I'm very excited about, or Richard
[06:55.000 --> 06:59.000] Linklater's Hitman or Presence or I Saw The TV Glow, like some really
[06:59.000 --> 07:01.000] like buzzy titles, not available online.
[07:01.000 --> 07:02.000] Weird.
[07:02.000 --> 07:03.000] Yeah.
[07:03.000 --> 07:04.000] I mean, I get it.
[07:04.000 --> 07:07.000] It's a weird like, so Sundance Online started because of COVID, you
[07:07.000 --> 07:12.000] know, and in 2021, I think, was the first like online Sundance
[07:12.000 --> 07:15.000] because it was January 2020, you know, before that.
[07:15.000 --> 07:17.000] So, it would have been before everything went down.
[07:17.000 --> 07:20.000] But yeah, January 2021, they did the first online Sundance.
[07:20.000 --> 07:23.000] And for that one, I think it was only online.
[07:23.000 --> 07:25.000] Like, I think, you know, the festival didn't happen in person.
[07:25.000 --> 07:27.000] I think it wasn't the only online affair.
[07:27.000 --> 07:29.000] And so, everything was available online.
[07:29.000 --> 07:33.000] And then in 2022, I think most stuff was available online.
[07:33.000 --> 07:35.000] But it was definitely like, oh, it's some of the really big stuff.
[07:35.000 --> 07:37.000] You got to go in person to go see.
[07:37.000 --> 07:40.000] And this year, it's like, okay, all the premieres are not online.
[07:40.000 --> 07:43.000] You know, which makes, they want to draw people to the festival.
[07:43.000 --> 07:45.000] They want to, you know, have an in-person component.
[07:45.000 --> 07:48.000] They want, they want the festival itself to like, you know, feel
[07:48.000 --> 07:50.000] like it's still part of an event, like still pretty exclusive.
[07:50.000 --> 07:51.000] You have to go.
[07:51.000 --> 07:53.000] But at the same time, it's kind of a bummer that like, you
[07:53.000 --> 07:55.000] know, man, I want to see Love Lies Bleeding.
[07:55.000 --> 07:57.000] You know, I want to see these movies.
[07:57.000 --> 08:00.000] I can't believe they're doing the like rollback of work from home,
[08:00.000 --> 08:02.000] but for a film festival.
[08:02.000 --> 08:03.000] Fuck that.
[08:03.000 --> 08:04.000] Yeah, exactly.
[08:04.000 --> 08:07.000] So, a little bit of a bummer, but there was still a lot of
[08:07.000 --> 08:08.000] stuff available to watch.
[08:08.000 --> 08:10.000] And I did watch a lot of good stuff.
[08:10.000 --> 08:13.000] I'm going to highlight a couple of the best stuff I saw.
[08:13.000 --> 08:15.000] Maybe I'll quickly mention some of the worst stuff too,
[08:15.000 --> 08:17.000] just because it's stuff of interest.
[08:17.000 --> 08:20.000] But the best movie I watched, so I watched 11 Sundance features
[08:20.000 --> 08:21.000] in four days.
[08:21.000 --> 08:25.000] And the best one I saw was Good One, which is a new movie.
[08:25.000 --> 08:27.000] I actually didn't write down any of the directors and stuff,
[08:27.000 --> 08:30.000] but it's a good one.
[08:30.000 --> 08:31.000] I podcast about jokes.
[08:31.000 --> 08:34.000] No, it is no relation to the podcast.
[08:34.000 --> 08:39.000] This is the feature debut of a director whose name is India
[08:39.000 --> 08:40.000] Donaldson.
[08:40.000 --> 08:43.000] And India Donaldson was filmed this movie in upstate New York.
[08:43.000 --> 08:46.000] It's about a weekend backpacking trip that happens in
[08:46.000 --> 08:47.000] the Catskills.
[08:47.000 --> 08:50.000] That's like 17 year old girl is going camping with her
[08:50.000 --> 08:52.000] father and his like, you know, old friend.
[08:52.000 --> 08:55.000] And this movie really reminded me of the films of Kelly
[08:55.000 --> 08:57.000] Reichert's, you know, old joy specifically.
[08:57.000 --> 09:00.000] And it really is just like the kind of this quiet meditative
[09:00.000 --> 09:03.000] drama about this girl who has kind of a strange relationship
[09:03.000 --> 09:04.000] with her dad,
[09:04.000 --> 09:06.000] but they have always traditionally bonded on these
[09:06.000 --> 09:07.000] camping trips,
[09:07.000 --> 09:09.000] but her parents have gotten divorced recently.
[09:09.000 --> 09:10.000] And so she's dealing with that.
[09:10.000 --> 09:13.000] And also his friend is a real, like, you know,
[09:13.000 --> 09:14.000] he's,
[09:14.000 --> 09:17.000] he's somebody who seems like pretty friendly and outgoing
[09:17.000 --> 09:19.000] and like, you know, they have good conversations,
[09:19.000 --> 09:20.000] but he has,
[09:20.000 --> 09:22.000] he's one of those guys who just has like no filter and like
[09:22.000 --> 09:26.000] says some shit and like has some iffy qualities to him.
[09:26.000 --> 09:29.000] And so, yeah, as the, as the movie goes on,
[09:29.000 --> 09:30.000] they're like, it's,
[09:30.000 --> 09:32.000] their relationship gets like weird and strained.
[09:32.000 --> 09:33.000] And yeah, the,
[09:33.000 --> 09:35.000] the lead performance of this movie from Lily,
[09:35.000 --> 09:38.000] Lily Collius, who I am not familiar with really,
[09:38.000 --> 09:40.000] I think it's her first acting role or whatever.
[09:40.000 --> 09:41.000] She's amazing in it.
[09:41.000 --> 09:42.000] Like she,
[09:42.000 --> 09:45.000] it really reminded me of never really sometimes always,
[09:45.000 --> 09:46.000] which the movie I really loved.
[09:46.000 --> 09:48.000] And like that performance was Sidney Flanagan.
[09:48.000 --> 09:49.000] And yeah,
[09:49.000 --> 09:51.000] I think this movie is fantastic.
[09:51.000 --> 09:54.000] It is, I think the easy highlight of what I saw at Sundance.
[09:54.000 --> 09:55.000] I didn't see everything.
[09:55.000 --> 09:56.000] Like I saw 11 movies.
[09:56.000 --> 09:57.000] There were so many other movies at Sundance,
[09:57.000 --> 09:59.000] but this was the best that I saw.
[09:59.000 --> 10:00.000] I thought it was really, really great.
[10:00.000 --> 10:04.000] So Good One, a podcast about jokes is,
[10:04.000 --> 10:05.000] this one's just called Good One.
[10:05.000 --> 10:06.000] Yeah.
[10:06.000 --> 10:07.000] This play to Sundance,
[10:07.000 --> 10:09.000] when it is available for you to watch,
[10:09.000 --> 10:11.000] I highly recommend that people watch it.
[10:11.000 --> 10:13.000] I don't know exactly what the situation will be there.
[10:13.000 --> 10:14.000] And I don't know what the situation will be
[10:14.000 --> 10:16.000] for most of these movies, but yeah,
[10:16.000 --> 10:17.000] that was a huge highlight for me.
[10:17.000 --> 10:19.000] Also, I saw Love Me,
[10:19.000 --> 10:22.000] which stars Kristen Stewart and Steven Young.
[10:22.000 --> 10:24.000] Oh yeah, I think I did hear about this movie.
[10:24.000 --> 10:25.000] Yeah.
[10:25.000 --> 10:26.000] And this is a,
[10:26.000 --> 10:29.000] this is a sci-fi movie about a satellite and a buoy,
[10:29.000 --> 10:31.000] where like a buoy, like out in the water,
[10:31.000 --> 10:33.000] where like, you know, years,
[10:33.000 --> 10:34.000] years into the,
[10:34.000 --> 10:36.000] like hundreds or thousands of years into the future,
[10:36.000 --> 10:38.000] they sort of start,
[10:38.000 --> 10:39.000] like they,
[10:39.000 --> 10:41.000] these are like smart satellites and smart buoys.
[10:41.000 --> 10:43.000] And so they have like AI intelligence
[10:43.000 --> 10:45.000] and they're kind of developing sentience
[10:45.000 --> 10:47.000] and they sort of fall in love with each other
[10:47.000 --> 10:49.000] and they're developing like a relationship.
[10:49.000 --> 10:51.000] It's Wally, basically.
[10:51.000 --> 10:53.000] It's basically Wally,
[10:53.000 --> 10:56.000] but yeah, I think it's a really fun, interesting movie.
[10:56.000 --> 10:59.000] It's basically the buoy kind of gains sentience first
[10:59.000 --> 11:01.000] and the satellite is like orbiting the earth once a year
[11:01.000 --> 11:03.000] and kind of checks in on the buoy.
[11:03.000 --> 11:05.000] And the buoy is like gaining,
[11:05.000 --> 11:07.000] like, you know, gaining access to the internet
[11:07.000 --> 11:09.000] and like seeing everything and really fixates
[11:09.000 --> 11:12.000] on this one Instagram influencer,
[11:12.000 --> 11:13.000] played by Kristen Stewart,
[11:13.000 --> 11:14.000] and starts modeling their,
[11:14.000 --> 11:16.000] like their speech patterns and their development
[11:16.000 --> 11:18.000] until eventually you're sort of in this like
[11:18.000 --> 11:20.000] virtual cyber world that, you know,
[11:20.000 --> 11:21.000] the metaverse or whatever.
[11:21.000 --> 11:25.000] And then you're watching like these two beings
[11:25.000 --> 11:26.000] in the metaverse.
[11:26.000 --> 11:28.000] And the thing is about half of the movie takes place
[11:28.000 --> 11:31.000] in this metaverse sort of world.
[11:31.000 --> 11:34.000] And so a lot of it is this kind of like janky CGI
[11:34.000 --> 11:35.000] that I found kind of charming,
[11:35.000 --> 11:36.000] but other people I watched it with,
[11:36.000 --> 11:38.000] like were really turned off by it.
[11:38.000 --> 11:41.000] Is it like a lawnmower man style?
[11:41.000 --> 11:43.000] I mean, a little bit of a lawnmower man,
[11:43.000 --> 11:46.000] but like not too different from what you would see
[11:46.000 --> 11:49.000] in the metaverse, like for example, you know,
[11:49.000 --> 11:52.000] and then eventually it turns into like the real actors' bodies.
[11:52.000 --> 11:54.000] Like it turns into live action eventually,
[11:54.000 --> 11:56.000] like the realer and realer they get.
[11:56.000 --> 11:58.000] And so, yeah, I found it to be really interesting.
[11:58.000 --> 11:59.000] I thought it was fun.
[11:59.000 --> 12:01.000] Sci-fi, I thought it had a lot of very funny moments.
[12:01.000 --> 12:02.000] Yeah, I thought it was good.
[12:02.000 --> 12:04.000] So Love Me is one of those movies as well.
[12:04.000 --> 12:06.000] And I'm sure that one will come out at some point
[12:06.000 --> 12:08.000] because Kristen Stewart and Steven Young are in it.
[12:08.000 --> 12:09.000] So, you know, there's that.
[12:09.000 --> 12:11.000] Have you ever read the story, I Have No Mouth
[12:11.000 --> 12:12.000] and I Must Scream?
[12:12.000 --> 12:13.000] I know that name.
[12:13.000 --> 12:17.000] Yeah, it's a short story by Harlan Ellison
[12:17.000 --> 12:19.000] where it's about a computer,
[12:19.000 --> 12:24.000] I think it's like a nuclear fallout shelter computer
[12:24.000 --> 12:26.000] or something, that's the world, people are gone
[12:26.000 --> 12:28.000] and this computer has gained sentience,
[12:28.000 --> 12:31.000] but it's just left on its own and goes insane
[12:31.000 --> 12:34.000] and it's a computer, so it can't express that at any point.
[12:34.000 --> 12:35.000] And it's just like, you know,
[12:35.000 --> 12:38.000] this weird 60s sci-fi thing about a sentient computer.
[12:38.000 --> 12:40.000] But that sounds kind of similar.
[12:40.000 --> 12:41.000] I don't know.
[12:41.000 --> 12:43.000] Check out that short story if you've never read
[12:43.000 --> 12:44.000] I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream.
[12:44.000 --> 12:46.000] Cool, there you go.
[12:46.000 --> 12:47.000] Yeah, Love Me is good.
[12:47.000 --> 12:51.000] I also saw Ponyboy, which is a crime thriller
[12:51.000 --> 12:53.000] that I really, really enjoyed.
[12:53.000 --> 12:55.000] It's about an intersex sex worker
[12:55.000 --> 12:58.000] who sort of gets involved in a drug deal gone wrong.
[12:58.000 --> 13:01.000] Basically, the person that they're having sex with
[13:01.000 --> 13:02.000] is part of the mob.
[13:02.000 --> 13:04.000] They die while they're having sex with them.
[13:04.000 --> 13:06.000] Ponyboy steals their stack of cash
[13:07.000 --> 13:10.000] and this giant briefcase full of cash and leaves
[13:10.000 --> 13:13.000] and then kind of gets embroiled in crime stuff.
[13:13.000 --> 13:15.000] And yeah, I thought it was really fun.
[13:15.000 --> 13:17.000] It's a really engaging story.
[13:17.000 --> 13:20.000] I think it really effectively captures
[13:20.000 --> 13:22.000] the intersex worker experience.
[13:22.000 --> 13:24.000] And yeah, it's really cool.
[13:24.000 --> 13:26.000] I liked it a lot.
[13:26.000 --> 13:28.000] First and foremost, it's a really effective crime thriller.
[13:28.000 --> 13:30.000] And then beyond that, it's like,
[13:30.000 --> 13:32.000] oh, and there's some really interesting queer representation,
[13:32.000 --> 13:35.000] bringing up ideas that I had never considered before
[13:35.000 --> 13:36.000] and all that kind of stuff.
[13:36.000 --> 13:37.000] So I enjoyed it.
[13:37.000 --> 13:38.000] Ponyboy is the name of that movie.
[13:38.000 --> 13:40.000] And it's also stars, I think River Gallo
[13:40.000 --> 13:42.000] is the name of the actor who plays Ponyboy.
[13:42.000 --> 13:46.000] But it's also the guy, Dylan O'Brien is in it
[13:46.000 --> 13:50.000] and Nell from The Haunting of Hill House is in it.
[13:50.000 --> 13:53.000] And also Murray Bartlett, who was on The White Lotus
[13:53.000 --> 13:54.000] and also The Last of Us.
[13:54.000 --> 13:55.000] He was the guy who played Frank
[13:55.000 --> 13:57.000] on The Last of Us in the TV show.
[13:57.000 --> 13:59.000] Yeah, he was in there too.
[13:59.000 --> 14:00.000] So yeah, that's worth watching.
[14:00.000 --> 14:03.000] Also, In the Summer is a movie I really enjoyed,
[14:03.000 --> 14:07.000] which takes place over the course of like four separate,
[14:07.000 --> 14:08.000] over the course of several years,
[14:08.000 --> 14:10.000] but like four time periods, basically.
[14:10.000 --> 14:14.000] And it's about these two sisters who every once in a while
[14:14.000 --> 14:16.000] visit their dad over the summertime,
[14:16.000 --> 14:18.000] who their mom and dad are divorced.
[14:18.000 --> 14:20.000] And they go visit their dad and it shows them
[14:20.000 --> 14:23.000] as young girls and then as older girls
[14:23.000 --> 14:24.000] and then as older girls,
[14:24.000 --> 14:27.000] until eventually they're adults visiting their dad.
[14:27.000 --> 14:29.000] When they're adults, one of the girls is played by
[14:29.000 --> 14:32.000] Sasha Kelly, who was Supergirl in the Flash movie.
[14:33.000 --> 14:35.000] And she was like one of the only highlights
[14:35.000 --> 14:37.000] of the Flash movie.
[14:37.000 --> 14:38.000] And I thought she was very good in this too.
[14:38.000 --> 14:40.000] So it was good to see her again.
[14:40.000 --> 14:43.000] I'm glad the Flash didn't like entirely derail her career.
[14:43.000 --> 14:44.000] Thank God.
[14:44.000 --> 14:46.000] But yeah, I thought this is a very effective drama.
[14:46.000 --> 14:47.000] I really enjoyed that.
[14:47.000 --> 14:49.000] And then also want to give a shout out to a movie
[14:49.000 --> 14:51.000] called A Real Pain,
[14:51.000 --> 14:54.000] which is the new movie directed by Jesse Eisenberg
[14:54.000 --> 14:57.000] starring Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin.
[14:57.000 --> 15:00.000] And it's about two cousins who go on a basically
[15:00.000 --> 15:02.000] like their grandma has recently passed away
[15:02.000 --> 15:05.000] and they decide to go to Poland, go to Europe
[15:05.000 --> 15:08.000] and kind of visit like where she was from.
[15:08.000 --> 15:10.000] They go on a Holocaust tour, like a remembrance tour
[15:10.000 --> 15:12.000] and they kind of bond with their tour group.
[15:12.000 --> 15:13.000] This movie is okay.
[15:13.000 --> 15:15.000] I think it's solid enough,
[15:15.000 --> 15:17.000] but Kieran Culkin incredible in it.
[15:17.000 --> 15:20.000] He's very, very good playing a really weird
[15:20.000 --> 15:22.000] like unlikable character,
[15:22.000 --> 15:24.000] but also kind of sympathetic and like interesting
[15:24.000 --> 15:26.000] and like he's doing a lot with his performance
[15:26.000 --> 15:28.000] that I think brings the movie up quite a bit.
[15:28.000 --> 15:30.000] So A Real Pain.
[15:30.000 --> 15:31.000] I know that was acquired.
[15:31.000 --> 15:33.000] That was one of the big Sundance acquisitions.
[15:33.000 --> 15:34.000] I think somebody bought it.
[15:34.000 --> 15:36.000] I want to say Amazon or something
[15:36.000 --> 15:38.000] for like $10, $15 million.
[15:38.000 --> 15:39.000] So yeah, there was that.
[15:39.000 --> 15:41.000] So those are some of the highlights of the festival.
[15:41.000 --> 15:43.000] And then just real quick shout out to like two
[15:43.000 --> 15:44.000] of the low lights.
[15:44.000 --> 15:46.000] Handling the Undead is maybe the movie
[15:46.000 --> 15:49.000] I was most excited about going into the festival
[15:49.000 --> 15:52.000] because it was a zombie movie that reunited two of the stars
[15:52.000 --> 15:54.000] from Worst Person in the World,
[15:54.000 --> 15:56.000] which is one of my favorites over the last couple of years.
[15:56.000 --> 15:58.000] Renato Renzovet and Anders Danielson-Lee,
[15:58.000 --> 15:59.000] both in this movie,
[15:59.000 --> 16:00.000] both in Worst Person in the World.
[16:00.000 --> 16:02.000] It is directed by the screenwriter
[16:02.000 --> 16:03.000] of Worst Person in the World.
[16:03.000 --> 16:05.000] And it is based on a novel by the author
[16:05.000 --> 16:06.000] of Let the Right One In.
[16:06.000 --> 16:09.000] And I was like, okay, like this is, you know,
[16:09.000 --> 16:10.000] high on the list.
[16:10.000 --> 16:11.000] I'm very excited about it.
[16:11.000 --> 16:12.000] And I don't really know what I expected.
[16:12.000 --> 16:14.000] Maybe something that was like a little trashier
[16:14.000 --> 16:15.000] or whatever it was,
[16:15.000 --> 16:18.000] but this is just a really bleak like nothing of a movie.
[16:18.000 --> 16:21.000] And I was really, really bummed out by it.
[16:21.000 --> 16:25.000] So yeah, and I was truly like tapping the screen
[16:25.000 --> 16:27.000] and being like, there are going to be zombies
[16:27.000 --> 16:29.000] in this zombie picture.
[16:29.000 --> 16:30.000] No.
[16:30.000 --> 16:32.000] That sucks.
[16:32.000 --> 16:33.000] Yeah, that was a real bummer.
[16:33.000 --> 16:35.000] I was very saddened by that.
[16:35.000 --> 16:37.000] So that's one I didn't really care for that much.
[16:37.000 --> 16:39.000] And also one I also didn't like was a movie called Little Death,
[16:39.000 --> 16:41.000] which stars David Schwimmer.
[16:41.000 --> 16:43.000] And it's a movie that, you know,
[16:43.000 --> 16:45.000] it was premiered in the midnight section of the Sundance Film Festival,
[16:45.000 --> 16:47.000] like kind of a genre-y type thing.
[16:47.000 --> 16:50.000] David Schwimmer plays a screenwriter who is like, you know,
[16:50.000 --> 16:53.000] has been working away on this really crappy sitcom.
[16:53.000 --> 16:56.000] But it's finally getting the chance to like make his dream movie.
[16:56.000 --> 16:57.000] But in order to make his dream movie,
[16:57.000 --> 16:59.000] he has to gender flip the character.
[16:59.000 --> 17:00.000] And it's a movie based on his life.
[17:00.000 --> 17:01.000] And he's really pissed about that.
[17:01.000 --> 17:03.000] And he's also just pissed off at the world and angry
[17:03.000 --> 17:06.000] and he's like drugged out and all that stuff.
[17:06.000 --> 17:09.000] But the movie is so insufferable.
[17:09.000 --> 17:10.000] And so the first half of the movie,
[17:10.000 --> 17:13.000] you're like basically in David Schwimmer's like inner monologue.
[17:13.000 --> 17:16.000] And it's sort of reminiscent of Cage's inner monologue
[17:16.000 --> 17:20.000] and the weatherman, but like times a hundred.
[17:20.000 --> 17:23.000] And just like, you know how like Cage in the weatherman
[17:23.000 --> 17:25.000] is like playing a character who's like kind of unlikable, right?
[17:25.000 --> 17:26.000] He's kind of like, you know, a little,
[17:26.000 --> 17:29.000] David Schwimmer has amped that up to like,
[17:29.000 --> 17:31.000] it's such an insane degree in this movie.
[17:31.000 --> 17:33.000] Just a complete piece of shit.
[17:33.000 --> 17:35.000] And then there's a turn in the movie.
[17:35.000 --> 17:37.000] And it stops becoming an unlikable,
[17:37.000 --> 17:38.000] like an insufferable movie,
[17:38.000 --> 17:40.000] but it becomes a very boring one.
[17:40.000 --> 17:44.000] And so there's really like not a lot going on here that I enjoyed.
[17:44.000 --> 17:47.000] So yeah, Little Death is the name of that movie.
[17:47.000 --> 17:51.000] Good to avoid if you want.
[17:51.000 --> 17:52.000] But there you go.
[17:52.000 --> 17:53.000] That was my Sundance experience.
[17:53.000 --> 17:54.000] Saw some other movies as well,
[17:54.000 --> 17:55.000] but I'm not going to cover them all here,
[17:55.000 --> 17:57.000] especially because a lot of them are going to be ones
[17:57.000 --> 17:58.000] you can't see for a while.
[17:58.000 --> 17:59.000] So there's that.
[17:59.000 --> 18:00.000] Fascinating.
[18:00.000 --> 18:01.000] Yeah, it sounds like a lot of fun,
[18:01.000 --> 18:03.000] but also very exhausting to do this.
[18:03.000 --> 18:06.000] I remember when Nick Wermuth did it last year
[18:06.000 --> 18:07.000] or the year before.
[18:07.000 --> 18:09.000] He used to forget how many movies
[18:09.000 --> 18:11.000] and was like, I don't understand.
[18:11.000 --> 18:14.000] Because especially I think it was when it was all online.
[18:14.000 --> 18:15.000] So maybe that was two years ago.
[18:15.000 --> 18:17.000] I think that was like when they first did the online thing.
[18:17.000 --> 18:19.000] Yeah. And he was just like, yeah, he was,
[18:19.000 --> 18:22.000] I think he watched like 40 movies and I mean,
[18:22.000 --> 18:24.000] that's over the course of like a week and a half.
[18:24.000 --> 18:26.000] Cause that's like the full festival for this year.
[18:26.000 --> 18:28.000] Like the festival took place over a week and a half,
[18:28.000 --> 18:30.000] but the online stuff was only four days.
[18:30.000 --> 18:32.000] And so had to cram it all in there and got to do it.
[18:32.000 --> 18:33.000] But I, but I remember, yeah,
[18:33.000 --> 18:36.000] we had Nick on shortly after he watched all the Sundance movies
[18:36.000 --> 18:38.000] and he felt like a changed person afterwards.
[18:38.000 --> 18:39.000] Yeah, I remember.
[18:39.000 --> 18:40.000] There you go.
[18:40.000 --> 18:42.000] So that's the Sundance film festival from this year.
[18:42.000 --> 18:44.000] Mike D, what are you watching recently?
[18:44.000 --> 18:49.000] Um, recently I watched the Netflix original film last,
[18:49.000 --> 18:52.000] the last kingdom seven Kings must die,
[18:52.000 --> 18:57.000] which is a final wrap up movie to the Netflix original series.
[18:57.000 --> 18:58.000] The last kingdom,
[18:58.000 --> 19:01.000] which I think was either started as a BBC show and became a Netflix
[19:01.000 --> 19:04.000] original or just in America is a Netflix original.
[19:04.000 --> 19:05.000] I don't really remember,
[19:05.000 --> 19:07.000] know the ins and outs of that distribution stuff,
[19:07.000 --> 19:10.000] but, uh, I've talked about the last kingdom before a long time ago.
[19:10.000 --> 19:12.000] When I first watched it, it's about a,
[19:12.000 --> 19:15.000] it's like a 900 AD when the Vikings invade England or,
[19:15.000 --> 19:18.000] or the British Isles, England doesn't exist yet.
[19:18.000 --> 19:21.000] And that's sort of what the whole show is about.
[19:21.000 --> 19:25.000] Um, the kind of formation of the concept of England as a single kingdom,
[19:25.000 --> 19:28.000] right? And it's all these like three or four disparate kingdoms and stuff.
[19:28.000 --> 19:31.000] Um, and it's just basically like a game of thrones kind of thing,
[19:31.000 --> 19:34.000] you know, political intrigue, all that stuff set in real life.
[19:34.000 --> 19:35.000] And it, and the whole,
[19:35.000 --> 19:38.000] I can see it's based on a series of novels is that there was this one guy
[19:38.000 --> 19:42.000] that Utrecht is the character's name who basically was there for all of
[19:42.000 --> 19:45.000] history, but has been like forgotten by the Chronicles and stuff is like,
[19:45.000 --> 19:46.000] that's the conceits.
[19:46.000 --> 19:48.000] Like he's there at every major historical part.
[19:48.000 --> 19:49.000] He's advising Kings.
[19:49.000 --> 19:50.000] He's fighting in battles.
[19:50.000 --> 19:51.000] He's doing all this stuff.
[19:51.000 --> 19:53.000] So a lot of it is just action and it's cool.
[19:53.000 --> 19:55.000] I don't know, Vikings history stuff.
[19:55.000 --> 19:56.000] Uh, that's neat.
[19:56.000 --> 19:59.000] I'd probably be super in the bag for that Vikings TV show if I ever
[19:59.000 --> 20:02.000] actually watched it, um, which is apparently very popular.
[20:02.000 --> 20:03.000] Um, but, uh,
[20:03.000 --> 20:06.000] so there was five seasons of that show or the show of the last kingdom.
[20:06.000 --> 20:10.000] And then they had this movie to kind of wrap up the remaining storylines.
[20:10.000 --> 20:12.000] Um, and I had never watched the fifth season.
[20:12.000 --> 20:15.000] Uh, I watched the first four and then I think I had caught up or maybe
[20:15.000 --> 20:16.000] this is where it became a Netflix original.
[20:16.000 --> 20:18.000] Like they picked it up for these final two things or something.
[20:18.000 --> 20:21.000] So there was a long gap and I just was like, ah, whatever.
[20:21.000 --> 20:24.000] Um, so I finally, it kept coming up on my recommended thing and I was
[20:24.000 --> 20:25.000] like, I'm just going to do it.
[20:25.000 --> 20:29.000] So I powered through this final season or season five and then the movie
[20:29.000 --> 20:30.000] and yeah, they're fine.
[20:30.000 --> 20:31.000] It's good.
[20:31.000 --> 20:32.000] It's neat.
[20:32.000 --> 20:34.000] The season five is just as good as all the other seasons.
[20:34.000 --> 20:35.000] I think I really liked it.
[20:35.000 --> 20:38.000] Um, the movie seven Kings must die has that thing where it is very
[20:38.000 --> 20:40.000] clearly, this is our final chance.
[20:40.000 --> 20:43.000] We got to get all these people where they got to be, you know,
[20:43.000 --> 20:46.000] and it's, it's, it's, it's like a two hour or an hour, 45 minutes of
[20:46.000 --> 20:48.000] people just like teleporting from scene to scene.
[20:48.000 --> 20:51.000] Like there's kind of really no connective tissue because we just got to
[20:51.000 --> 20:53.000] get the story beats down so you could finish the story.
[20:53.000 --> 20:54.000] And that's fine.
[20:54.000 --> 20:56.000] You know, that's, it is what it is.
[20:56.000 --> 20:58.000] That's, that's the nature of this kind of thing, I guess.
[20:58.000 --> 20:59.000] Um, so overall it's okay.
[20:59.000 --> 21:01.000] It's a, it's a, you know,
[21:01.000 --> 21:05.000] good enough conclusion because we know in the present England
[21:05.000 --> 21:06.000] exists.
[21:06.000 --> 21:10.000] So there's kind of no tension of like, will this succeed?
[21:10.000 --> 21:13.000] You know, which is what a lot of the series is, you know,
[21:13.000 --> 21:16.000] people, you know, people betraying the notion of unity and
[21:16.000 --> 21:18.000] studies like, well, okay, we know.
[21:18.000 --> 21:19.000] Yeah.
[21:19.000 --> 21:21.000] But the movie acknowledges that it ends in like present day,
[21:21.000 --> 21:24.000] like the castle that they're always fighting over and stuff.
[21:24.000 --> 21:26.000] It like zooms out of the window with all the characters in the
[21:26.000 --> 21:29.000] middle ages or 900 to the modern day actual castle.
[21:29.000 --> 21:30.000] I was like, okay, sure.
[21:30.000 --> 21:31.000] Whatever.
[21:31.000 --> 21:32.000] That's fine.
[21:32.000 --> 21:33.000] So that's seven Kings must die.
[21:33.000 --> 21:34.000] And that's, that's okay.
[21:34.000 --> 21:37.000] Another thing I watched though, is a guest for Noah's climax.
[21:37.000 --> 21:38.000] Okay.
[21:38.000 --> 21:41.000] Um, which guest for Noah is a director or filmmaker that I
[21:41.000 --> 21:43.000] haven't, I don't, I think they've only seen enter the
[21:43.000 --> 21:44.000] void.
[21:44.000 --> 21:46.000] I don't know what other stuff he's made off the top of my
[21:46.000 --> 21:47.000] head.
[21:47.000 --> 21:48.000] Irreversible is also a big guest bar.
[21:48.000 --> 21:49.000] No, I film.
[21:49.000 --> 21:50.000] That's the big one.
[21:50.000 --> 21:51.000] Yeah.
[21:51.000 --> 21:52.000] I haven't seen that been just kind of too afraid to push
[21:52.000 --> 21:53.000] play on it.
[21:53.000 --> 21:54.000] Understandable.
[21:54.000 --> 21:55.000] Yeah.
[21:55.000 --> 21:56.000] Yeah.
[21:56.000 --> 21:57.000] I've also not seen, I think I've actually only seen climax.
[21:57.000 --> 22:00.000] Um, I enter the void as a movie that was in my net.
[22:00.000 --> 22:03.000] Like I put it in my Netflix queue the day I got Netflix.
[22:03.000 --> 22:04.000] Yeah.
[22:04.000 --> 22:06.000] Like it was, it's been in my watch instant queue.
[22:06.000 --> 22:08.000] I don't think it's on Netflix anymore, but like if it came
[22:08.000 --> 22:10.000] back on Netflix, it would pop back up in my queue because
[22:10.000 --> 22:12.000] it's been there for 15 years.
[22:12.000 --> 22:15.000] Like it's just hasn't been there.
[22:15.000 --> 22:16.000] I didn't have the chance to watch it.
[22:16.000 --> 22:19.000] I've been meaning to watch a Lux Eterna and vortex.
[22:19.000 --> 22:21.000] I mean, he's just a really, you know, experimental weird
[22:21.000 --> 22:24.000] filmmaker for anyone that might not be familiar.
[22:24.000 --> 22:27.000] Lots of like, you know, enter the void is all like first
[22:27.000 --> 22:31.000] person POV thing guy trips on, I think DMT or something.
[22:31.000 --> 22:33.000] He does some kind of drug trip and it like just shows you
[22:33.000 --> 22:36.000] his entire real time drug trip and stuff like that.
[22:36.000 --> 22:40.000] Um, and climax is a similarly experimental film, I think,
[22:40.000 --> 22:43.000] um, maybe a little more linear or conventional than some
[22:43.000 --> 22:44.000] of his other stuff from what I've heard.
[22:44.000 --> 22:49.000] But, uh, this is about a French dance troupe that is,
[22:49.000 --> 22:50.000] um, it's like a party.
[22:50.000 --> 22:52.000] They had their, they're about to go on a tour in the
[22:52.000 --> 22:53.000] U S I think.
[22:53.000 --> 22:56.000] And, uh, they have their final rehearsal and then like a
[22:56.000 --> 22:58.000] party to celebrate that we are, we're rehearsed.
[22:58.000 --> 22:59.000] We're ready to go.
[22:59.000 --> 23:01.000] We're going on tour in the next day or two or whatever it is.
[23:01.000 --> 23:02.000] Yeah.
[23:02.000 --> 23:03.000] Um, and, uh, so it's a big party.
[23:03.000 --> 23:06.000] There's a big bull sangria and somebody has put LSD in
[23:06.000 --> 23:09.000] the sangria and not told anybody.
[23:09.000 --> 23:11.000] And, uh, and then it's just their descent into like
[23:11.000 --> 23:14.000] literal hell basically.
[23:14.000 --> 23:16.000] And, uh, it's very fascinating.
[23:16.000 --> 23:18.000] I was reading up on some of the behind the scenes stuff
[23:18.000 --> 23:21.000] and the making of, and it was all shot in sequence,
[23:21.000 --> 23:23.000] all improvised.
[23:23.000 --> 23:25.000] Uh, most of them are non actors, except for Sophia
[23:25.000 --> 23:27.000] Batella, who I didn't know was originally a dancer.
[23:27.000 --> 23:29.000] So I was like, wow, she's a really great, like in the
[23:29.000 --> 23:31.000] dance choreography scene, which it opens with like a
[23:31.000 --> 23:34.000] 10 minute like rehearsal of their, of their thing.
[23:34.000 --> 23:35.000] It's a long scene.
[23:35.000 --> 23:36.000] Yeah.
[23:36.000 --> 23:37.000] It's a long dance scene and it rules.
[23:37.000 --> 23:38.000] It's so good.
[23:38.000 --> 23:40.000] And I was like, wow, this is incredible.
[23:40.000 --> 23:41.000] And I was looking into that, like, oh, she started
[23:41.000 --> 23:43.000] as a dancer and then became an actor.
[23:43.000 --> 23:44.000] I was like, oh, that's interesting.
[23:44.000 --> 23:46.000] And then there's one or two other people that have
[23:46.000 --> 23:49.000] like the more like meteor, like dramatic characters
[23:50.000 --> 23:52.000] that they have to like do some stuff, uh, their
[23:52.000 --> 23:54.000] actors, but everybody else are just dancers.
[23:54.000 --> 23:55.000] Okay.
[23:55.000 --> 23:56.000] Which is interesting.
[23:56.000 --> 23:58.000] And, um, yeah, they let, they let, no, he let
[23:58.000 --> 24:00.000] them all just improvise the scenes was like, what
[24:00.000 --> 24:01.000] are, what do we want to do today?
[24:01.000 --> 24:03.000] And they fill with film it and they'd be like, okay,
[24:03.000 --> 24:04.000] this is what happened yesterday.
[24:04.000 --> 24:05.000] What do we want to do today?
[24:05.000 --> 24:06.000] And that like, that's how they film this movie.
[24:06.000 --> 24:08.000] Um, which makes sense for like how insane it gets
[24:08.000 --> 24:10.000] because it feels like where are we going?
[24:10.000 --> 24:11.000] What's happening?
[24:11.000 --> 24:14.000] And, um, and yeah, so then it has long extended
[24:14.000 --> 24:15.000] single take moments.
[24:15.000 --> 24:17.000] I think, I think there's like a 30 minute single
[24:17.000 --> 24:19.000] take, like when the trip starts happening for
[24:19.000 --> 24:22.000] everybody, it's like all 30 minute, uh, take or
[24:22.000 --> 24:23.000] something like that.
[24:23.000 --> 24:24.000] But, uh, yeah, it's just nuts.
[24:24.000 --> 24:26.000] And it goes to something like should deeply and
[24:26.000 --> 24:29.000] truly horrific places, uh, about what happens to
[24:29.000 --> 24:31.000] people when they're like dosed and don't know it.
[24:31.000 --> 24:33.000] And they're not prepared for that and stuff like
[24:33.000 --> 24:34.000] that.
[24:34.000 --> 24:35.000] And, uh, and in a, in a classic, like no,
[24:35.000 --> 24:38.000] eth fashion, I guess I was reading that story
[24:38.000 --> 24:40.000] and he was like, no, there's no like moral, uh,
[24:40.000 --> 24:41.000] or interview with him.
[24:41.000 --> 24:43.000] And he's like, no, there's no like anti, we
[24:43.000 --> 24:44.000] don't, we don't feel this movie has an anti-drug
[24:44.000 --> 24:45.000] stance.
[24:45.000 --> 24:46.000] You're like, um, those people's got like their face
[24:46.000 --> 24:47.000] ripped off.
[24:47.000 --> 24:48.000] Right.
[24:48.000 --> 24:50.000] There's a real shy at the end of this movie.
[24:50.000 --> 24:51.000] Yeah.
[24:51.000 --> 24:52.000] Everybody's dead.
[24:52.000 --> 24:53.000] Um, which is nuts.
[24:53.000 --> 24:55.000] Um, so yeah, yeah, it's very interesting.
[24:55.000 --> 24:57.000] And it's, and if you're, and I think like the
[24:57.000 --> 24:59.000] camera goes upside down, like for a long time
[24:59.000 --> 25:01.000] and it's all a single color.
[25:01.000 --> 25:03.000] It's all red and all this really weird shit.
[25:03.000 --> 25:05.000] Um, so if you just want to go into that
[25:05.000 --> 25:07.000] experience and I, and I, and I really enjoyed
[25:07.000 --> 25:10.000] the, I think the, the journey of the movie is
[25:10.000 --> 25:12.000] very effective where those first 20 minutes,
[25:12.000 --> 25:14.000] that first where it's the rehearsal, it's
[25:14.000 --> 25:16.000] starts with like interviews and stuff, which I
[25:16.000 --> 25:18.000] think is good, um, to like, kind of get
[25:18.000 --> 25:20.000] introduced to, there's a lot of people in this
[25:20.000 --> 25:22.000] troupe and then there's like 10 or 15 minute
[25:22.000 --> 25:24.000] dance sequence and it's like so jubilant and
[25:24.000 --> 25:25.000] amazing.
[25:25.000 --> 25:27.000] And it's this really great choreography and
[25:27.000 --> 25:29.000] they're all so hyped about like getting on
[25:29.000 --> 25:30.000] this tour for the first time.
[25:30.000 --> 25:31.000] There's like their big break.
[25:31.000 --> 25:33.000] Um, and then just start at that high and they
[25:33.000 --> 25:34.000] go to the like lowest, low possible.
[25:34.000 --> 25:36.000] Uh, by the end of the movie, it was really
[25:36.000 --> 25:37.000] intense.
[25:37.000 --> 25:39.000] Um, so yeah, that's Climax by Gasper Noye and
[25:39.000 --> 25:41.000] I kind of want to watch some of his other
[25:41.000 --> 25:42.000] stuff.
[25:42.000 --> 25:43.000] I know there's the one that I'm, I'm very
[25:43.000 --> 25:45.000] excited about, which stars Dario Argento,
[25:45.000 --> 25:46.000] which is nuts.
[25:46.000 --> 25:47.000] Yeah.
[25:47.000 --> 25:49.000] And I think his Dario Argento's wife.
[25:49.000 --> 25:51.000] And, um, the reason I haven't watched it is
[25:51.000 --> 25:53.000] because I kind of feel like it's a theater
[25:53.000 --> 25:55.000] movie and I think the whole conceit of this
[25:55.000 --> 25:57.000] movie is I think one of them or both of them
[25:57.000 --> 25:59.000] have dementia, the characters.
[25:59.000 --> 26:01.000] And the movie is in split screen, following
[26:01.000 --> 26:03.000] the two people independently of each other.
[26:03.000 --> 26:05.000] And one has dementia and one does, and it's
[26:05.000 --> 26:06.000] like their life.
[26:06.000 --> 26:08.000] And it's like, that seems nuts, but I feel
[26:08.000 --> 26:10.000] like I have to be locked in a theater where
[26:10.000 --> 26:12.000] I can't be distracted to watch this movie.
[26:12.000 --> 26:13.000] Um, so yeah, that's vortex.
[26:13.000 --> 26:15.000] Uh, I guess check, check, keep an eye out
[26:15.000 --> 26:17.000] on whatever that's available somewhere near you.
[26:17.000 --> 26:18.000] Nice.
[26:18.000 --> 26:19.000] Yeah.
[26:19.000 --> 26:20.000] I, I, uh, I had no idea that existed.
[26:20.000 --> 26:22.000] You know, I watched Climax when it came out.
[26:22.000 --> 26:24.000] Uh, for some reason vortex was not on my radar.
[26:24.000 --> 26:27.000] I think it was on shutter or something.
[26:27.000 --> 26:29.000] I know Lux Eterna is on shutter, which is
[26:29.000 --> 26:30.000] another split screen movie.
[26:30.000 --> 26:33.000] That's Charlotte Gainsburg and somebody else.
[26:33.000 --> 26:34.000] Um, yeah, let me see.
[26:34.000 --> 26:35.000] Hold on real quick.
[26:35.000 --> 26:36.000] I don't remember.
[26:36.000 --> 26:37.000] Beatrice Dolly Dale.
[26:37.000 --> 26:38.000] Okay.
[26:38.000 --> 26:40.000] I don't recognize her, but, uh, it looks
[26:40.000 --> 26:41.000] like Abby Lee is also in it.
[26:41.000 --> 26:42.000] Yeah.
[26:42.000 --> 26:43.000] From Mad Max for your road.
[26:43.000 --> 26:44.000] The one who says slinger.
[26:44.000 --> 26:45.000] That's right.
[26:45.000 --> 26:47.000] But that's another similar thing where it's
[26:47.000 --> 26:49.000] like these two actresses backstage or behind
[26:49.000 --> 26:51.000] the scenes of a film set in split screen
[26:51.000 --> 26:53.000] together at the same time, like independent
[26:53.000 --> 26:54.000] stars.
[26:54.000 --> 26:56.000] So I guess that was a thing he was interested
[26:56.000 --> 26:58.000] in for a while, but Casper W makes you watch
[26:58.000 --> 27:00.000] movies that you think about, you know,
[27:00.000 --> 27:01.000] cool.
[27:01.000 --> 27:02.000] All right.
[27:02.000 --> 27:04.000] So that's Climax from 2018, which I remember
[27:04.000 --> 27:05.000] liking.
[27:05.000 --> 27:07.000] I haven't seen it in like five years, but I
[27:07.000 --> 27:08.000] remember digging.
[27:08.000 --> 27:09.000] I remember like being really thrilled by that
[27:09.000 --> 27:10.000] dance sequence.
[27:10.000 --> 27:11.000] It's really wild.
[27:11.000 --> 27:12.000] It's awesome.
[27:12.000 --> 27:13.000] All right.
[27:13.000 --> 27:14.000] You got one more mic and then I can move
[27:14.000 --> 27:15.000] back to mine.
[27:15.000 --> 27:16.000] Um, sure.
[27:16.000 --> 27:17.000] I got one more.
[27:17.000 --> 27:18.000] Um, let's say recent release from, I guess
[27:18.000 --> 27:19.000] two years ago or last year.
[27:19.000 --> 27:21.000] I don't remember when it actually came out.
[27:21.000 --> 27:25.000] Um, but that is Sisu or S-I-S-U S-I-S-U Sisu.
[27:25.000 --> 27:26.000] Yes.
[27:26.000 --> 27:27.000] That's the one.
[27:27.000 --> 27:28.000] Yep.
[27:28.000 --> 27:30.000] Uh, which is a, a, uh, Finnish action movie
[27:30.000 --> 27:33.000] about a set during the like last days of
[27:33.000 --> 27:35.000] World War II or it's maybe it's end of
[27:35.000 --> 27:36.000] 1944 or something like that.
[27:36.000 --> 27:37.000] I forget.
[27:37.000 --> 27:39.000] Um, and it's about this old man who's,
[27:40.000 --> 27:42.000] uh, forsaken the war, forsaken the world.
[27:42.000 --> 27:44.000] He's gone off, um, into the, the wilderness
[27:44.000 --> 27:47.000] of, of Finland, um, to mine for gold pan.
[27:47.000 --> 27:48.000] He's panning.
[27:48.000 --> 27:50.000] He's an old, he's, you know, like that one
[27:50.000 --> 27:51.000] guy from...
[27:51.000 --> 27:52.000] Tom Waits and Buster Scruggs.
[27:52.000 --> 27:53.000] Tom Waits and Buster Scruggs.
[27:53.000 --> 27:54.000] Yeah, you get it.
[27:54.000 --> 27:55.000] You get where I was going.
[27:55.000 --> 27:57.000] He's looking for Mr. Vane and, uh, he
[27:57.000 --> 27:59.000] finds the motherlord basically, and he's
[27:59.000 --> 28:01.000] ready to get out of there and get back to
[28:01.000 --> 28:02.000] town and sell his gold.
[28:02.000 --> 28:05.000] But he comes across a, a like tank squad
[28:05.000 --> 28:07.000] or whatever, and a couple trucks of, of Nazis
[28:07.000 --> 28:09.000] that are fleeing the, the, the western
[28:09.000 --> 28:12.000] front in Finland and, or eastern front in
[28:12.000 --> 28:13.000] Finland.
[28:13.000 --> 28:15.000] And, um, they, he's an old man with a
[28:15.000 --> 28:17.000] saddlebags full of gold.
[28:17.000 --> 28:18.000] They're going to kill him and steal his
[28:18.000 --> 28:19.000] gold, right?
[28:19.000 --> 28:20.000] Yeah.
[28:20.000 --> 28:21.000] And then, uh, it's, it's, that, that's
[28:21.000 --> 28:23.000] about the first 10 minutes and the
[28:23.000 --> 28:25.000] other 80 minutes are just carnage.
[28:25.000 --> 28:29.000] Um, as this, they steal his gold or
[28:29.000 --> 28:31.000] try to steal his gold and then back and
[28:31.000 --> 28:33.000] forth cat and mouse across the, the
[28:33.000 --> 28:35.000] wilderness of Finland, uh, as this man
[28:35.000 --> 28:37.000] just simply is too angry to die.
[28:37.000 --> 28:39.000] Basically, it's one of those kind of
[28:39.000 --> 28:40.000] movies.
[28:40.000 --> 28:41.000] And I sort of remember this being like
[28:41.000 --> 28:43.000] like, I guess everything is positioned
[28:43.000 --> 28:45.000] as like, it's John Wick, but this,
[28:45.000 --> 28:46.000] right?
[28:46.000 --> 28:47.000] You know, a lot of action movies like
[28:47.000 --> 28:48.000] that.
[28:48.000 --> 28:49.000] Yeah, when a trailer for a monkey man
[28:49.000 --> 28:50.000] came out this past weekend, that was
[28:50.000 --> 28:51.000] the thing like, Oh, it's John Wick, but
[28:51.000 --> 28:53.000] Dev Patel made his own one.
[28:53.000 --> 28:54.000] And I was like, okay, they're not
[28:54.000 --> 28:55.000] all John Wick.
[28:55.000 --> 28:56.000] Yeah.
[28:56.000 --> 28:57.000] They can't all be John Wick.
[28:57.000 --> 28:58.000] They can't all be John Wick.
[28:58.000 --> 28:59.000] I know like John Wick's action has
[28:59.000 --> 29:00.000] influenced everything for the last 10
[29:00.000 --> 29:02.000] years, but you know, they're not all
[29:02.000 --> 29:03.000] John Wick clones.
[29:03.000 --> 29:04.000] Yeah.
[29:04.000 --> 29:05.000] And I don't think this is going for
[29:05.000 --> 29:06.000] that.
[29:06.000 --> 29:07.000] This is way more, I was gonna say
[29:07.000 --> 29:08.000] stylized.
[29:08.000 --> 29:09.000] However, John Wick is one in
[29:09.000 --> 29:11.000] particular is super stylized.
[29:11.000 --> 29:12.000] Very stylized.
[29:12.000 --> 29:13.000] Yeah.
[29:13.000 --> 29:14.000] But also the trailer for CCU, I
[29:14.000 --> 29:15.000] think premiered in front of John
[29:15.000 --> 29:16.000] Wick for us.
[29:16.000 --> 29:17.000] That sounds right.
[29:17.000 --> 29:18.000] Yeah.
[29:18.000 --> 29:19.000] There's that too.
[29:19.000 --> 29:20.000] But, um, yeah, way more graphic, way
[29:20.000 --> 29:22.000] more cartoonish, way more in a, um,
[29:22.000 --> 29:24.000] Tarantino stylish.
[29:24.000 --> 29:25.000] And I think even literally down to
[29:25.000 --> 29:27.000] just the font used in the title
[29:27.000 --> 29:28.000] cards of the movie.
[29:28.000 --> 29:29.000] Like, it does that being glorious
[29:29.000 --> 29:30.000] bastards chapter titles.
[29:30.000 --> 29:31.000] Yeah.
[29:31.000 --> 29:32.000] Yeah.
[29:32.000 --> 29:33.000] All that stuff.
[29:33.000 --> 29:35.000] Like, the title for the characters,
[29:35.000 --> 29:36.000] for the chapters, all rule.
[29:36.000 --> 29:37.000] Um, they're all so cool.
[29:37.000 --> 29:39.000] And, um, so yeah, it's fun.
[29:39.000 --> 29:40.000] It's fun.
[29:40.000 --> 29:41.000] It's just, expect nothing more
[29:41.000 --> 29:42.000] than just like really bloody, uh,
[29:42.000 --> 29:44.000] awesome carnage, basically.
[29:44.000 --> 29:46.000] My friends and I, we watched, I
[29:46.000 --> 29:47.000] forget, we were trying to find
[29:47.000 --> 29:48.000] something to watch.
[29:48.000 --> 29:49.000] We couldn't decide.
[29:49.000 --> 29:50.000] We had just watched, finished
[29:50.000 --> 29:51.000] wrapping up season one of True
[29:51.000 --> 29:52.000] Detective, I guess also.
[29:52.000 --> 29:53.000] I can mention that here too.
[29:53.000 --> 29:54.000] Okay.
[29:54.000 --> 29:55.000] Because we watched season, we're
[29:55.000 --> 29:56.000] watching season four, Night
[29:56.000 --> 29:57.000] Country.
[29:57.000 --> 29:58.000] We watched the first two episodes
[29:58.000 --> 29:59.000] at the time.
[29:59.000 --> 30:00.000] Um, and my friends hadn't
[30:00.000 --> 30:01.000] watched season one.
[30:01.000 --> 30:02.000] And so I was like, you don't
[30:02.000 --> 30:03.000] know what the spiral, you don't
[30:03.000 --> 30:06.000] know the, you don't, Cole, he
[30:06.000 --> 30:07.000] said Cole, the guy's last name
[30:07.000 --> 30:08.000] is Cole.
[30:08.000 --> 30:10.000] So, uh, we watched season one.
[30:10.000 --> 30:12.000] Um, and, uh, we had a blast.
[30:12.000 --> 30:13.000] And how do you, we were like,
[30:13.000 --> 30:15.000] how do, what do we follow up like
[30:15.000 --> 30:16.000] the kind of like despondent
[30:16.000 --> 30:18.000] hopefulness that season one
[30:18.000 --> 30:19.000] ends on, right?
[30:19.000 --> 30:20.000] Right.
[30:20.000 --> 30:21.000] With just killing Nazis.
[30:21.000 --> 30:22.000] So that's, that's what we
[30:22.000 --> 30:23.000] settled on.
[30:23.000 --> 30:24.000] So we watched CCU and it was
[30:24.000 --> 30:25.000] a blast.
[30:25.000 --> 30:26.000] Nice.
[30:26.000 --> 30:27.000] Yeah.
[30:27.000 --> 30:28.000] I also enjoyed CCU.
[30:28.000 --> 30:29.000] I watched it, uh, I think it
[30:29.000 --> 30:30.000] was back, I saw it in theaters,
[30:30.000 --> 30:31.000] but I think it was like a
[30:31.000 --> 30:32.000] Roxy cause we showed it for
[30:32.000 --> 30:33.000] like a couple of weeks.
[30:33.000 --> 30:34.000] Nice.
[30:34.000 --> 30:35.000] Uh, and yeah, it's a good time.
[30:35.000 --> 30:36.000] I had a good time with it.
[30:36.000 --> 30:37.000] The last 20 minutes, especially,
[30:37.000 --> 30:38.000] I think are really, really
[30:38.000 --> 30:39.000] great.
[30:39.000 --> 30:40.000] Yeah.
[30:40.000 --> 30:41.000] The whole airplane sequence, uh,
[30:41.000 --> 30:42.000] is, is fantastic.
[30:42.000 --> 30:43.000] And you know, the way the
[30:43.000 --> 30:44.000] character never speaks for most
[30:44.000 --> 30:45.000] of the movie.
[30:45.000 --> 30:46.000] I also like that, like he's
[30:46.000 --> 30:48.000] completely silent up until the
[30:48.000 --> 30:49.000] very end.
[30:49.000 --> 30:50.000] And like his, he has the last
[30:50.000 --> 30:51.000] line of the movie and it's,
[30:51.000 --> 30:52.000] it's really good.
[30:52.000 --> 30:53.000] Yeah.
[30:53.000 --> 30:54.000] Um, so yeah, CCU it's great.
[30:54.000 --> 30:55.000] So yeah, check it out.
[30:55.000 --> 30:57.000] I have a few 2023 releases that
[30:57.000 --> 30:58.000] I caught up with over the last
[30:58.000 --> 30:59.000] couple of weeks.
[30:59.000 --> 31:01.000] Uh, one of which is American
[31:01.000 --> 31:03.000] fiction, uh, which, uh, is the
[31:03.000 --> 31:04.000] new film directed by core
[31:04.000 --> 31:05.000] Jefferson stars, Jeffrey Wright
[31:05.000 --> 31:06.000] in the lead role, recently
[31:06.000 --> 31:07.000] nominated for best picture and
[31:07.000 --> 31:09.000] the best actor at the Oscars, uh,
[31:09.000 --> 31:10.000] and a few other Oscars as well.
[31:10.000 --> 31:12.000] And American fiction, um,
[31:12.000 --> 31:14.000] stars Jeffrey Wright as an
[31:14.000 --> 31:16.000] author slash teacher who is
[31:16.000 --> 31:18.000] trying to get a book published
[31:18.000 --> 31:19.000] and just can't get there.
[31:19.000 --> 31:21.000] Uh, and he's really struggling
[31:21.000 --> 31:22.000] with the fact that like every
[31:22.000 --> 31:24.000] publisher wants like a quote
[31:24.000 --> 31:25.000] unquote black book.
[31:25.000 --> 31:26.000] Like they want, they want
[31:26.000 --> 31:28.000] something like boys in the hood
[31:28.000 --> 31:29.000] and they want like something
[31:29.000 --> 31:30.000] that really like, uh, you know,
[31:30.000 --> 31:32.000] there's a early on, he goes to a
[31:32.000 --> 31:33.000] reading, uh, of an author and
[31:33.000 --> 31:35.000] played by Issa Rae who, um, has,
[31:35.000 --> 31:36.000] has gotten very famous for her
[31:36.000 --> 31:38.000] book called we's lives in to
[31:38.000 --> 31:39.000] ghetto.
[31:41.000 --> 31:42.000] Jesus Christ.
[31:42.000 --> 31:44.000] Uh, and, and so that's like the
[31:44.000 --> 31:45.000] level of satire like this,
[31:45.000 --> 31:47.000] this movie is a satire in the
[31:47.000 --> 31:48.000] literary, literary industry and
[31:48.000 --> 31:49.000] like white people's obsession
[31:49.000 --> 31:51.000] with black media, as long as it
[31:51.000 --> 31:53.000] depicts black media as like that
[31:53.000 --> 31:54.000] sort of thing.
[31:54.000 --> 31:55.000] Yeah.
[31:55.000 --> 31:56.000] Where it's like there's only
[31:56.000 --> 31:57.000] one kind of black story that
[31:57.000 --> 31:58.000] hits that.
[31:58.000 --> 31:59.000] And so Jeffrey Wright has like a
[31:59.000 --> 32:00.000] whole issue with that.
[32:00.000 --> 32:01.000] And the movie I think is
[32:01.000 --> 32:03.000] strongest when it's focusing on
[32:03.000 --> 32:04.000] that, when it's satirizing the
[32:04.000 --> 32:05.000] literary industry, when it's
[32:05.000 --> 32:07.000] satirizing white people on their
[32:07.000 --> 32:08.000] obsession with those kinds of
[32:08.000 --> 32:09.000] black stories.
[32:09.000 --> 32:10.000] And then the other half of the
[32:10.000 --> 32:12.000] movie is a more sincere, like
[32:12.000 --> 32:14.000] emotional family drama where
[32:14.000 --> 32:15.000] he's dealing with his mom who
[32:15.000 --> 32:17.000] has dementia and his brother
[32:17.000 --> 32:19.000] who's like kind of like sort of
[32:19.000 --> 32:20.000] outcast.
[32:20.000 --> 32:21.000] He just kind of recently came
[32:21.000 --> 32:22.000] out as gay and he divorced
[32:22.000 --> 32:24.000] his wife and all that stuff.
[32:24.000 --> 32:25.000] Um, played by Sterling K.
[32:25.000 --> 32:26.000] Brown, who's very good.
[32:26.000 --> 32:28.000] But through this all, uh,
[32:28.000 --> 32:29.000] Jeffrey Wright has now like
[32:29.000 --> 32:31.000] basically like out of spite
[32:31.000 --> 32:33.000] almost like written his own
[32:33.000 --> 32:34.000] sort of version of Weez Lives
[32:34.000 --> 32:36.000] in the Ghetto, um, called My
[32:36.000 --> 32:37.000] Pathology.
[32:37.000 --> 32:40.000] Uh, and, uh, and he like just
[32:40.000 --> 32:41.000] throws it out to his, uh, his
[32:41.000 --> 32:43.000] agents and like makes stations
[32:43.000 --> 32:44.000] sent it out to publishers as a
[32:44.000 --> 32:45.000] bit.
[32:45.000 --> 32:46.000] Uh, but it ends up catching on
[32:46.000 --> 32:47.000] and like it becomes like it
[32:47.000 --> 32:48.000] starts steamrolling and like
[32:48.000 --> 32:50.000] turns into a movie deal and
[32:50.000 --> 32:51.000] it turns into all this like
[32:51.000 --> 32:52.000] various things.
[32:52.000 --> 32:53.000] And so the movie is very
[32:53.000 --> 32:54.000] funny. I had a really good
[32:54.000 --> 32:55.000] time with it.
[32:55.000 --> 32:57.000] I don't think it like melds its
[32:57.000 --> 32:58.000] tones all that well.
[32:58.000 --> 32:59.000] Like I think the two kind of
[32:59.000 --> 33:00.000] clashing segments of it where
[33:00.000 --> 33:01.000] it's like half of it is this
[33:01.000 --> 33:02.000] sincere drama and half of it is
[33:02.000 --> 33:04.000] this like very biting satire.
[33:04.000 --> 33:05.000] I'm not sure if it like melds
[33:05.000 --> 33:06.000] those two together all that
[33:06.000 --> 33:07.000] well, but it is all anchored by
[33:07.000 --> 33:08.000] a great Jeffrey Wright
[33:08.000 --> 33:09.000] performance.
[33:09.000 --> 33:11.000] Um, and you know, as, uh, we,
[33:11.000 --> 33:12.000] you know, maybe we mentioned on
[33:12.000 --> 33:13.000] the, our complete works
[33:13.000 --> 33:14.000] episode, uh, Jeffrey Wright
[33:14.000 --> 33:15.000] always great.
[33:15.000 --> 33:16.000] He's, he's always very good,
[33:16.000 --> 33:17.000] always very good.
[33:17.000 --> 33:18.000] And, uh, it's good to see
[33:18.000 --> 33:19.000] him kind of like a real
[33:19.000 --> 33:20.000] showcase-y role, uh, in
[33:20.000 --> 33:21.000] American fiction.
[33:21.000 --> 33:23.000] And so, yeah, I think he's,
[33:23.000 --> 33:24.000] he's fantastic in it.
[33:24.000 --> 33:25.000] And, uh, yeah, I had a really
[33:25.000 --> 33:26.000] good time with it.
[33:26.000 --> 33:27.000] I do think it is of the best
[33:27.000 --> 33:28.000] picture nominees this year.
[33:28.000 --> 33:29.000] I think it is one of the
[33:29.000 --> 33:30.000] weaker ones, but I think that
[33:30.000 --> 33:32.000] stands to, that speaks to just,
[33:32.000 --> 33:33.000] oh, wow, this is a really
[33:33.000 --> 33:34.000] strong group of best picture
[33:34.000 --> 33:35.000] nominees this year, you know?
[33:35.000 --> 33:36.000] Yeah, it's been a good year.
[33:36.000 --> 33:37.000] Yeah.
[33:37.000 --> 33:38.000] This is one of the ones that,
[33:38.000 --> 33:39.000] uh, when we were doing our top
[33:39.000 --> 33:41.000] 10 episode, um, I hadn't, I
[33:41.000 --> 33:42.000] haven't gotten around to this
[33:42.000 --> 33:43.000] yet.
[33:43.000 --> 33:44.000] And it was one of the ones
[33:44.000 --> 33:45.000] that if I had seen it, I feel
[33:45.000 --> 33:46.000] like it might have snuck into
[33:46.000 --> 33:47.000] my top 10.
[33:47.000 --> 33:48.000] Yeah.
[33:48.000 --> 33:49.000] It's, it's, it's, I mean,
[33:49.000 --> 33:50.000] you're a, you're an English
[33:50.000 --> 33:51.000] major and I think it scratches
[33:51.000 --> 33:52.000] it.
[33:52.000 --> 33:53.000] Yes.
[33:53.000 --> 33:54.000] I was going to say, I, uh, you
[33:54.000 --> 33:55.000] know, I went to SUNY Albany, uh,
[33:55.000 --> 33:56.000] where the New York State
[33:56.000 --> 33:57.600] Writers Institute also is.
[33:57.600 --> 33:59.080] Um, so when I was in grad
[33:59.080 --> 34:00.920] school, I took a writing
[34:00.920 --> 34:03.120] workshop class, like, like that
[34:03.120 --> 34:04.520] was the class to write fiction
[34:04.520 --> 34:05.520] and stuff, and we would meet
[34:05.520 --> 34:06.520] once a week, well, yada, yada,
[34:06.520 --> 34:07.520] yada.
[34:07.520 --> 34:08.520] And the other half of the
[34:08.520 --> 34:09.520] class was to attend the guest
[34:09.520 --> 34:10.640] speaker series at the Writers
[34:10.640 --> 34:11.640] Institute.
[34:11.640 --> 34:12.640] Okay.
[34:12.640 --> 34:13.640] Um, and so this sounds like
[34:13.640 --> 34:14.640] very specifically my shit.
[34:14.640 --> 34:15.640] Yes.
[34:15.640 --> 34:16.640] I think you would really enjoy
[34:16.640 --> 34:17.640] it.
[34:17.640 --> 34:18.640] Yeah.
[34:18.640 --> 34:19.640] Uh, nice.
[34:19.640 --> 34:20.640] That's American fiction.
[34:20.640 --> 34:21.640] I know.
[34:21.640 --> 34:22.640] I also got a chance to watch
[34:22.640 --> 34:23.640] all of us strangers, uh, which
[34:23.640 --> 34:24.640] came out limited release at
[34:24.640 --> 34:25.640] the end of 2023, did not get
[34:25.640 --> 34:26.640] any Oscar nominations.
[34:26.640 --> 34:27.640] And I saw a lot of people kind
[34:27.640 --> 34:28.640] of decrying that being like,
[34:28.640 --> 34:29.640] Oh man, this movie's so
[34:29.640 --> 34:30.640] great.
[34:30.640 --> 34:31.640] And this is directed by Andrew
[34:31.640 --> 34:32.640] Haig, who directed a movie
[34:32.640 --> 34:33.640] called 45 years, a few years
[34:33.640 --> 34:34.640] back.
[34:34.640 --> 34:35.640] And this stars, uh, Andrew
[34:35.640 --> 34:36.640] Scott's who was the hot
[34:36.640 --> 34:37.640] priest in Fleabag season two.
[34:37.640 --> 34:38.640] And I don't know who Andrew
[34:38.640 --> 34:39.640] Scott was the hot priest from
[34:39.640 --> 34:40.640] Fleabag.
[34:40.640 --> 34:41.640] Come on.
[34:41.640 --> 34:42.640] Well, here's, I never
[34:42.640 --> 34:43.640] watched Fleabag.
[34:43.640 --> 34:44.640] What the fuck?
[34:44.640 --> 34:45.640] So, yeah, I know, right?
[34:45.640 --> 34:46.640] Did you watch Sherlock?
[34:46.640 --> 34:47.640] He's Moriarty on Sherlock.
[34:47.640 --> 34:48.640] I never watched Sherlock.
[34:48.640 --> 34:49.640] Either.
[34:49.640 --> 34:50.640] Mike.
[34:50.640 --> 34:51.640] Uh, you know, I, I was going
[34:51.640 --> 34:52.640] into this, like basically
[34:52.640 --> 34:53.640] completely not knowing who
[34:53.640 --> 34:54.640] Andrew Scott was.
[34:54.640 --> 34:55.640] Uh, but it's Andrew Scott and
[34:55.640 --> 34:56.640] Paul Mezcal and Paul Mezcal was
[34:56.640 --> 34:57.640] an after son and has been in a
[34:57.640 --> 34:58.640] couple of other things as well.
[34:58.640 --> 34:59.640] And basically it's this, uh,
[34:59.640 --> 35:00.640] sort of fantasy romantic drama
[35:00.640 --> 35:01.640] where Andrew Scott plays a
[35:01.640 --> 35:02.640] screenwriter who is dealing with
[35:02.640 --> 35:03.640] like kind of these, these
[35:03.640 --> 35:04.640] past traumatic events.
[35:04.640 --> 35:05.640] He's kind of like thinking
[35:05.640 --> 35:06.640] back on his childhood and
[35:06.640 --> 35:07.640] thinking back about his parents
[35:07.640 --> 35:08.640] and he ends up going back to
[35:08.640 --> 35:09.640] his old childhood home.
[35:09.640 --> 35:10.640] Uh, and he discovers that it
[35:10.640 --> 35:11.640] doesn't matter if it's a
[35:11.640 --> 35:12.640] movie or a movie.
[35:12.640 --> 35:13.640] It's a movie.
[35:13.640 --> 35:14.640] It's a movie.
[35:14.640 --> 35:15.640] It's a movie.
[35:15.640 --> 35:16.640] It's a movie.
[35:16.640 --> 35:17.640] It's a movie.
[35:18.640 --> 35:20.180] His parents are living there.
[35:20.180 --> 35:21.180] And the reason he's
[35:21.180 --> 35:22.180] discovering that is because his
[35:22.180 --> 35:23.180] parents have been dead for like
[35:23.180 --> 35:24.180] 25 years.
[35:24.180 --> 35:25.180] Wow.
[35:25.180 --> 35:26.940] And so his parents are played by
[35:26.940 --> 35:28.840] Claire Foy plays the mom and
[35:28.840 --> 35:30.780] Jamie Bell plays the dad.
[35:30.780 --> 35:32.780] And the movie is, um, you know,
[35:32.780 --> 35:33.780] it's a little bit weird at first
[35:33.780 --> 35:34.780] because you don't know that
[35:34.780 --> 35:35.780] they're dead at first.
[35:35.780 --> 35:36.780] Like that movie, the movie
[35:36.780 --> 35:37.780] hasn't revealed that to you.
[35:37.780 --> 35:38.780] Um, but it's very clear.
[35:38.780 --> 35:39.780] Like, Oh, they're younger
[35:39.780 --> 35:40.780] than Andrew Scott.
[35:40.780 --> 35:41.780] Yeah.
[35:41.780 --> 35:43.780] Or they're like the same age or
[35:43.780 --> 35:44.780] whatever.
[35:44.780 --> 35:45.780] Like it seems a little off, but
[35:45.780 --> 35:46.780] you, you go through it and
[35:46.780 --> 35:47.780] you kind of like learn.
[35:47.920 --> 35:48.920] Oh yeah.
[35:48.920 --> 35:49.920] They passed away in a car crash
[35:49.920 --> 35:51.620] years ago and all that stuff.
[35:51.620 --> 35:52.780] And so it's about him sort of
[35:52.780 --> 35:54.020] like reconciling with his
[35:54.020 --> 35:55.360] parents, kind of looking back in
[35:55.360 --> 35:56.360] his childhood, thinking back to
[35:56.360 --> 35:57.360] some of the stuff they did with
[35:57.360 --> 35:58.760] him and like some stuff that he
[35:58.760 --> 35:59.760] loved, some memories that he
[35:59.760 --> 36:00.760] doesn't like.
[36:00.760 --> 36:02.480] You know, he comes out as gay to
[36:02.480 --> 36:03.800] them, which, you know, he
[36:03.800 --> 36:04.800] never got to do when they were
[36:04.800 --> 36:05.800] alive.
[36:05.800 --> 36:06.800] And so kind of, you see their
[36:06.800 --> 36:08.800] their reactions to it now.
[36:08.800 --> 36:09.900] And yeah, while all this is
[36:09.900 --> 36:10.900] happening, he sort of starts
[36:10.900 --> 36:12.040] up a relationship with Paul
[36:12.040 --> 36:13.040] Muskell.
[36:13.040 --> 36:14.040] And yeah, it's, it's a really
[36:14.040 --> 36:15.040] effective drama.
[36:15.040 --> 36:16.540] Um, a really like, you know,
[36:16.640 --> 36:19.140] it's, I didn't cry, but like I
[36:19.140 --> 36:20.140] felt like I could have, you
[36:20.140 --> 36:21.440] know, like if you were, you
[36:21.440 --> 36:22.540] could have let it happen.
[36:22.540 --> 36:23.540] Yeah.
[36:23.540 --> 36:24.540] If it wasn't like an 11 a.m.
[36:24.540 --> 36:25.540] Before hour screening of all
[36:25.540 --> 36:27.320] of us strangers, you know, and
[36:27.320 --> 36:28.480] I was watching it like with my
[36:28.480 --> 36:30.480] friend for her birthday, what
[36:30.480 --> 36:31.480] a great birthday.
[36:31.480 --> 36:32.480] Yeah.
[36:32.480 --> 36:33.480] That is.
[36:33.480 --> 36:34.480] Yeah.
[36:34.480 --> 36:35.480] No, I, I found it really
[36:35.480 --> 36:36.480] emotionally affecting.
[36:36.480 --> 36:38.280] I think the final moments are
[36:38.280 --> 36:39.280] really beautiful.
[36:39.280 --> 36:40.280] So, uh, yeah, all the
[36:40.280 --> 36:41.280] strangers, uh, well worth
[36:41.280 --> 36:42.280] checking out.
[36:42.280 --> 36:43.280] Nice.
[36:43.280 --> 36:44.280] That's exciting.
[36:44.280 --> 36:45.280] Yeah.
[36:45.280 --> 36:46.280] I've got three more movies.
[36:46.540 --> 36:47.540] So I don't know how many.
[36:47.540 --> 36:48.540] Should I go all three?
[36:48.540 --> 36:49.540] Should I do the series?
[36:49.540 --> 36:50.540] Should I do?
[36:50.540 --> 36:51.540] Uh, do, do whatever you want.
[36:51.540 --> 36:52.540] You want to do all three?
[36:52.540 --> 36:53.540] Go for it, Mike.
[36:53.540 --> 36:54.540] Okay.
[36:54.540 --> 36:55.540] So I'll start, I'll start with
[36:55.540 --> 36:56.540] with, uh, Karen Kusama's
[36:56.540 --> 36:57.540] destroyer from 2018.
[36:57.540 --> 36:58.540] Yes.
[36:58.540 --> 36:59.540] Okay.
[36:59.540 --> 37:00.540] Which stars Nicole Kidman,
[37:00.540 --> 37:01.540] um, that, uh, we, we, I
[37:01.540 --> 37:02.540] don't remember what we talked
[37:02.540 --> 37:03.540] about that recently.
[37:03.540 --> 37:04.540] Maybe Karen Kusama, Karen
[37:04.540 --> 37:05.540] Kusama, Invitation is on my
[37:05.540 --> 37:06.540] Mike and Michael list.
[37:06.540 --> 37:07.540] Yes.
[37:07.540 --> 37:08.540] Yeah.
[37:08.540 --> 37:09.540] The, uh, you recently sent
[37:09.540 --> 37:10.540] me your Mike, Mike watch
[37:10.540 --> 37:11.540] list, as we said, and, uh,
[37:11.540 --> 37:12.540] the Invitation is on there,
[37:12.540 --> 37:13.540] I think because it was on
[37:13.540 --> 37:14.540] your discoveries list.
[37:14.540 --> 37:15.540] Yes.
[37:15.800 --> 37:16.800] So, right.
[37:16.800 --> 37:17.800] The top 10.
[37:17.800 --> 37:18.800] That's probably why we
[37:18.800 --> 37:19.800] talked, talked about it.
[37:19.800 --> 37:20.800] Yeah.
[37:20.800 --> 37:21.800] That was on my, my discoveries.
[37:21.800 --> 37:22.800] Um, and Kusama is, uh, somebody
[37:22.800 --> 37:23.800] who's filmography.
[37:23.800 --> 37:24.800] I haven't seen a ton of, but
[37:24.800 --> 37:25.800] this is, I think her most
[37:25.800 --> 37:26.800] recent movie.
[37:26.800 --> 37:29.400] Um, and we talked about that
[37:29.400 --> 37:30.400] like secretly, this is
[37:30.400 --> 37:31.400] supposed to be very good.
[37:31.400 --> 37:32.560] And I was like, let me check
[37:32.560 --> 37:33.560] out destroyer.
[37:33.560 --> 37:35.940] Let me tell you secretly.
[37:35.940 --> 37:36.940] It's pretty good.
[37:36.940 --> 37:37.940] It's pretty good.
[37:37.940 --> 37:38.940] They were right.
[37:38.940 --> 37:39.940] Nice.
[37:39.940 --> 37:40.940] Yeah.
[37:40.940 --> 37:41.940] This is a, about Nicole
[37:41.940 --> 37:42.940] Kidman though.
[37:42.940 --> 37:43.940] The one thing is got a
[37:43.940 --> 37:44.940] little bit of that, the
[37:44.940 --> 37:46.360] lady was ugly kind of thing,
[37:46.360 --> 37:47.640] you know, like, like a monster
[37:47.640 --> 37:48.640] with Charlize Theron.
[37:48.640 --> 37:49.640] Sure.
[37:49.640 --> 37:50.640] Yeah.
[37:50.640 --> 37:51.640] It's kind of thing.
[37:51.640 --> 37:52.640] She plays this LA homicide
[37:52.640 --> 37:53.640] detective.
[37:53.640 --> 37:54.640] That is just like, but, but
[37:54.640 --> 37:55.640] the draggled beleaguered
[37:55.640 --> 37:58.280] gristle, every, whatever word
[37:58.280 --> 37:59.280] you want to, they give her
[37:59.280 --> 38:00.780] the crow's feet and the,
[38:00.780 --> 38:02.380] the like broken capillaries
[38:02.380 --> 38:03.460] and her like alcoholic nose
[38:03.460 --> 38:04.460] kind of thing going on.
[38:04.460 --> 38:05.460] Yeah.
[38:05.460 --> 38:06.460] She's got all that stuff.
[38:06.460 --> 38:07.460] Great hair.
[38:07.460 --> 38:08.460] Um, the only thing that her
[38:08.460 --> 38:09.460] makeup looks amazing, like
[38:09.460 --> 38:10.460] for that, but her wig
[38:10.460 --> 38:11.460] looks terrible.
[38:11.660 --> 38:13.780] So like, it really is, it's
[38:13.780 --> 38:15.620] a feast or famine thing
[38:15.620 --> 38:16.620] going on there.
[38:16.620 --> 38:17.620] Yeah.
[38:17.620 --> 38:18.620] But the movie itself is
[38:18.620 --> 38:19.620] actually really awesome.
[38:19.620 --> 38:20.620] Really twisty turny.
[38:20.620 --> 38:21.620] It's, it's about her as a
[38:21.620 --> 38:23.540] homicide detective pulls a,
[38:23.540 --> 38:25.560] a case where somebody from
[38:25.560 --> 38:26.740] her past has like left a
[38:26.740 --> 38:27.740] calling card that he's
[38:27.740 --> 38:28.740] back, basically.
[38:28.740 --> 38:29.740] Right.
[38:29.740 --> 38:30.740] Yeah.
[38:30.740 --> 38:31.740] And it's, it's, you find
[38:31.740 --> 38:32.740] out that it's, um, Toby
[38:32.740 --> 38:33.740] Kebel, I think is his
[38:33.740 --> 38:34.740] name.
[38:34.740 --> 38:35.740] Oh yeah.
[38:35.740 --> 38:36.740] Who was Koba in
[38:36.740 --> 38:37.740] Dawn of the Planet of
[38:37.740 --> 38:38.740] the Apes.
[38:38.740 --> 38:39.740] Correct.
[38:39.740 --> 38:40.740] Yeah.
[38:40.740 --> 38:41.740] And then there's this like
[38:41.740 --> 38:44.100] leader of a, of a, uh, bank
[38:44.100 --> 38:46.740] robbery team that, uh, you
[38:46.740 --> 38:48.420] find out that Nicole Kidman
[38:48.420 --> 38:50.100] and Sebastian Stan went
[38:50.100 --> 38:51.620] undercover at and, and
[38:51.620 --> 38:52.940] became members of this team
[38:52.940 --> 38:53.980] to build a case against
[38:53.980 --> 38:54.980] them.
[38:54.980 --> 38:55.980] Um, and you get the idea
[38:55.980 --> 38:56.980] that something has gone
[38:56.980 --> 38:58.180] wrong in the past while
[38:58.180 --> 38:59.360] they were undercover.
[38:59.360 --> 39:00.360] And she has now been
[39:00.360 --> 39:01.360] living with the guilt and
[39:01.360 --> 39:02.360] repercussions of that.
[39:02.360 --> 39:03.360] And it's because she
[39:03.360 --> 39:04.360] looks beautiful.
[39:04.360 --> 39:05.360] She's Nicole Kidman.
[39:05.360 --> 39:06.360] She's like, yo, it looks
[39:06.360 --> 39:07.360] amazing in the, in the
[39:07.360 --> 39:08.360] flashback sequences and
[39:08.360 --> 39:09.360] then what she looks like
[39:09.360 --> 39:10.360] in the, the modern day,
[39:10.460 --> 39:11.460] the modern day sequence.
[39:11.460 --> 39:12.460] So it's that, that story.
[39:12.460 --> 39:13.460] And then it's her, it's
[39:13.460 --> 39:14.460] kind of got that like
[39:14.460 --> 39:15.460] Michael Mann, like LA
[39:15.460 --> 39:17.460] noir person that can't
[39:17.460 --> 39:19.460] let go of thing where
[39:19.460 --> 39:21.460] she is in the present day
[39:21.460 --> 39:23.460] trying to not solve this
[39:23.460 --> 39:25.460] murder, but rather end
[39:25.460 --> 39:27.460] whatever started in the
[39:27.460 --> 39:28.460] past while they were
[39:28.460 --> 39:29.460] under, undercover, um,
[39:29.460 --> 39:30.460] it's that kind of thing
[39:30.460 --> 39:31.460] and what, what she's
[39:31.460 --> 39:32.460] willing to destroy her
[39:32.460 --> 39:33.460] life and her family's
[39:33.460 --> 39:34.460] life and everyone around
[39:34.460 --> 39:35.460] her is like to like
[39:35.460 --> 39:36.460] achieve this goal.
[39:36.460 --> 39:37.460] And it's awesome.
[39:37.460 --> 39:38.460] And it's, and it's got
[39:38.460 --> 39:39.460] a huge, like a great
[39:39.560 --> 39:40.560] cast of just like,
[39:40.560 --> 39:41.560] cause I guess it's
[39:41.560 --> 39:42.560] character.
[39:42.560 --> 39:43.560] So I don't know, just
[39:43.560 --> 39:44.560] amazing character
[39:44.560 --> 39:45.560] actors that show up.
[39:45.560 --> 39:46.560] Bradley Whifford,
[39:46.560 --> 39:47.560] Scoot McNary, my boy
[39:47.560 --> 39:48.560] is in this.
[39:48.560 --> 39:49.560] What's her name?
[39:49.560 --> 39:50.560] That was She-Hulk.
[39:50.560 --> 39:51.560] Tatiana.
[39:51.560 --> 39:52.560] Tatiana Maslany.
[39:52.560 --> 39:53.560] Maslany.
[39:53.560 --> 39:54.560] She's in it.
[39:54.560 --> 39:55.560] There's a couple other
[39:55.560 --> 39:56.560] people that are like part
[39:56.560 --> 39:57.560] of the bank heist
[39:57.560 --> 39:58.560] crew that I was like,
[39:58.560 --> 39:59.560] wait a second.
[39:59.560 --> 40:00.560] This guy?
[40:00.560 --> 40:01.560] The, the, the tracker
[40:01.560 --> 40:02.560] dude from John Wick 4
[40:02.560 --> 40:03.560] who I'd never seen
[40:03.560 --> 40:04.560] before is her partner
[40:04.560 --> 40:05.560] in the present day sequence
[40:05.560 --> 40:06.560] of this movie.
[40:06.560 --> 40:07.560] Really?
[40:07.560 --> 40:08.560] Okay.
[40:08.660 --> 40:09.660] It'll like, you know, blow
[40:09.660 --> 40:10.660] you away or anything,
[40:10.660 --> 40:11.660] but it is just like this
[40:11.660 --> 40:12.660] movie.
[40:12.660 --> 40:13.660] It is weird to have,
[40:13.660 --> 40:14.660] this movie to have the
[40:14.660 --> 40:15.660] reputation it does for how
[40:15.660 --> 40:16.660] good it is, you know,
[40:16.660 --> 40:17.660] kind of thing.
[40:17.660 --> 40:18.660] Like I've heard it's terrible
[40:18.660 --> 40:19.660] is sort of like the
[40:19.660 --> 40:20.660] reputation for it.
[40:20.660 --> 40:21.660] Here's the thing.
[40:21.660 --> 40:22.660] I have seen Destroyer.
[40:22.660 --> 40:23.660] Really?
[40:23.660 --> 40:24.660] I saw it in theaters.
[40:24.660 --> 40:25.660] And, you know, you can
[40:25.660 --> 40:26.660] maybe chalk this up too.
[40:26.660 --> 40:27.660] It's, it's a fairly, I
[40:27.660 --> 40:28.660] remember it being a fairly
[40:28.660 --> 40:29.660] slow movie.
[40:29.660 --> 40:30.660] It is very, very slow
[40:30.660 --> 40:31.660] burn.
[40:31.660 --> 40:32.660] Yeah.
[40:32.660 --> 40:33.660] Okay.
[40:33.660 --> 40:34.660] Yeah.
[40:34.660 --> 40:35.660] And I, I was kind of excited
[40:35.660 --> 40:36.660] for it and it didn't click
[40:36.660 --> 40:37.660] with me.
[40:37.760 --> 40:38.760] This movie came out in like
[40:38.760 --> 40:39.760] 2018.
[40:39.760 --> 40:40.760] Yeah.
[40:40.760 --> 40:41.760] At the time I was hosting a
[40:41.760 --> 40:44.260] morning show and was waking
[40:44.260 --> 40:45.260] up at four 30 in the
[40:45.260 --> 40:46.260] morning every day.
[40:46.260 --> 40:47.560] And sometimes I would go to
[40:47.560 --> 40:48.960] movies during the week that
[40:48.960 --> 40:50.060] I knew were like slow
[40:50.060 --> 40:51.060] movies that like might put
[40:51.060 --> 40:52.060] me to sleep, but there were
[40:52.060 --> 40:53.060] stuff that like I wanted to
[40:53.060 --> 40:54.060] see.
[40:54.060 --> 40:55.060] Yeah.
[40:55.060 --> 40:56.060] And I wasn't going to have
[40:56.060 --> 40:57.060] another chance to see them.
[40:57.060 --> 40:58.060] So I went to go see
[40:58.060 --> 40:59.060] Destroyer.
[40:59.060 --> 41:00.060] And I think it was just
[41:00.060 --> 41:01.060] like one of those things
[41:01.060 --> 41:02.060] is like, I couldn't like,
[41:02.060 --> 41:03.060] you know, I was too tired
[41:03.060 --> 41:04.060] to fully appreciate the
[41:04.060 --> 41:05.060] film.
[41:05.060 --> 41:06.060] And I had that same thing
[41:06.060 --> 41:07.060] with Terrence Malick's
[41:07.060 --> 41:08.060] movie.
[41:08.060 --> 41:09.060] And I saw that on like a
[41:09.060 --> 41:10.060] Monday.
[41:10.060 --> 41:11.060] Yeah.
[41:11.060 --> 41:12.060] After the morning show and
[41:12.060 --> 41:13.060] that didn't work out for me.
[41:13.060 --> 41:14.060] I also had that with the
[41:14.060 --> 41:15.060] revenants.
[41:15.060 --> 41:16.060] Although I don't think I
[41:16.060 --> 41:17.060] still think I don't think
[41:17.060 --> 41:18.060] I'd like to happen that
[41:18.060 --> 41:19.060] much.
[41:19.060 --> 41:20.060] Yeah.
[41:20.060 --> 41:21.060] But, but Destroyer seems
[41:21.060 --> 41:22.060] like one I think I would
[41:22.060 --> 41:23.060] like to see again, just to
[41:23.060 --> 41:24.060] like reappraise it.
[41:24.060 --> 41:25.060] Yeah.
[41:25.060 --> 41:26.060] Definitely.
[41:26.060 --> 41:27.060] I had to give it, give it
[41:27.060 --> 41:28.060] a shot.
[41:28.060 --> 41:29.060] It definitely feels the
[41:29.060 --> 41:30.060] first half.
[41:30.060 --> 41:31.060] It's two hours long.
[41:31.060 --> 41:32.060] The first hour is a lot
[41:32.060 --> 41:33.060] of setup and flashback, you
[41:33.060 --> 41:34.060] know, like a slow burn
[41:34.060 --> 41:35.060] getting things set up.
[41:35.060 --> 41:36.060] And then there's a pretty
[41:36.060 --> 41:37.060] clean like at the one hour
[41:37.060 --> 41:38.060] mark.
[41:38.060 --> 41:39.060] Yeah.
[41:39.060 --> 41:40.060] That really just like puts
[41:40.060 --> 41:41.060] the pedal to the floor for
[41:41.060 --> 41:42.060] the back half of the movie.
[41:42.060 --> 41:43.060] And it's like, well, this
[41:43.060 --> 41:44.060] is cool.
[41:44.060 --> 41:45.060] So definitely, definitely
[41:45.060 --> 41:46.060] check out Destroyer.
[41:46.060 --> 41:47.060] Nice.
[41:47.060 --> 41:48.060] Better than I heard.
[41:48.060 --> 41:49.060] Cool.
[41:49.060 --> 41:50.060] All right.
[41:50.060 --> 41:51.060] Yeah.
[41:51.060 --> 41:52.060] Check out Destroyer and I
[41:52.060 --> 41:53.060] look forward to watching
[41:53.060 --> 41:54.060] the invitation in October
[41:54.060 --> 41:55.060] when you have had it
[41:55.060 --> 41:56.060] scheduled for Mike
[41:56.060 --> 41:57.060] Mike's Mike Watch.
[41:57.060 --> 41:58.060] Yes.
[41:58.060 --> 41:59.060] We're going to, we're
[41:59.060 --> 42:00.060] going to be Chris
[42:00.060 --> 42:01.060] have a completist at some
[42:01.060 --> 42:02.060] point.
[42:02.060 --> 42:03.060] Yes.
[42:03.060 --> 42:04.060] She doesn't have that many
[42:04.060 --> 42:05.060] movies.
[42:05.060 --> 42:06.060] I think the pilot and a
[42:06.060 --> 42:07.060] couple other episodes of
[42:07.060 --> 42:08.060] Yellow Jackets also.
[42:08.060 --> 42:09.060] Okay.
[42:09.060 --> 42:10.060] Cool.
[42:10.060 --> 42:11.060] Yeah.
[42:11.060 --> 42:12.060] So take that for what it's
[42:12.060 --> 42:13.060] worth.
[42:13.060 --> 42:14.060] There you go.
[42:14.060 --> 42:15.060] Yeah.
[42:15.060 --> 42:16.060] I still have yet to watch
[42:16.060 --> 42:17.060] Yellow Jackets as well.
[42:17.060 --> 42:18.060] You son of a bitch.
[42:18.060 --> 42:19.060] I know.
[42:19.060 --> 42:20.060] I'm sorry.
[42:20.060 --> 42:21.060] So that's Destroyer.
[42:21.060 --> 42:22.060] What else you got, Mike?
[42:22.060 --> 42:23.060] So the last two things I
[42:23.060 --> 42:24.060] have is a series direct
[42:24.060 --> 42:25.060] to VOD action Scott
[42:25.060 --> 42:27.060] Atkins joint called the
[42:27.060 --> 42:28.060] first one is one shot and
[42:28.060 --> 42:29.060] the second one is one
[42:29.060 --> 42:30.060] more shot.
[42:30.060 --> 42:31.060] Right.
[42:31.060 --> 42:32.060] These are both directed by
[42:32.060 --> 42:33.060] James Nunn, I think is his
[42:33.060 --> 42:34.060] name.
[42:34.060 --> 42:35.060] Yes.
[42:35.060 --> 42:36.060] James Nunn and they're
[42:36.060 --> 42:37.060] 90 minute just in and out
[42:37.060 --> 42:38.060] down and dirty action
[42:38.060 --> 42:39.060] movies.
[42:39.060 --> 42:40.060] One shot.
[42:40.060 --> 42:41.060] So, so one more shot just
[42:41.060 --> 42:42.060] came out in January 24.
[42:42.060 --> 42:43.060] And I saw it on Twitter.
[42:43.060 --> 42:44.060] I saw people talking about
[42:44.060 --> 42:45.060] it and be like, Holy shit.
[42:45.060 --> 42:46.060] This is, you know, really
[42:46.060 --> 42:47.060] wears the like third person
[42:47.060 --> 42:48.060] action video game influences
[42:48.060 --> 42:49.060] on its sleeve.
[42:49.060 --> 42:50.060] Okay.
[42:50.060 --> 42:51.060] And it is absolutely there,
[42:51.060 --> 42:52.060] especially one more shot
[42:52.060 --> 42:53.060] has very big like splinter
[42:53.060 --> 42:54.060] cell and metal gear solid
[42:54.060 --> 42:55.060] and those kind of like
[42:55.060 --> 42:56.060] tactical espionage movie
[42:56.060 --> 42:57.060] that we're going to be
[42:57.060 --> 42:58.060] talking about.
[42:58.060 --> 42:59.060] And I'm going to be
[42:59.060 --> 43:00.060] talking about it.
[43:00.060 --> 43:01.060] I'm going to be talking
[43:01.060 --> 43:02.060] about it.
[43:02.060 --> 43:03.060] I'm going to be talking
[43:03.060 --> 43:04.180] about things like
[43:04.180 --> 43:05.040] a crocodile or a movie or
[43:05.040 --> 43:06.060] video games influence.
[43:06.060 --> 43:07.860] And one more shot also is
[43:07.860 --> 43:08.860] very heavily influenced
[43:08.860 --> 43:09.860] by video game stuff to the
[43:09.860 --> 43:10.860] point where there's a line
[43:10.860 --> 43:11.860] of dialogue where someone's
[43:11.860 --> 43:12.860] like, man, I hate escort
[43:12.860 --> 43:13.860] missions, which is very
[43:13.860 --> 43:14.860] funny.
[43:14.860 --> 43:16.740] But, one more shot is about
[43:16.740 --> 43:17.900] this Navy SEAL team
[43:17.900 --> 43:19.980] led by Scott Atkins is
[43:19.980 --> 43:21.400] escorting actually green to
[43:21.400 --> 43:24.100] a black site CIA base in
[43:24.100 --> 43:25.100] like POLY somewhere in
[43:25.100 --> 43:26.660] Europe or something.
[43:26.660 --> 43:27.660] Where there is a suspected
[43:27.660 --> 43:29.220] terrorist who has been
[43:29.220 --> 43:30.220] connected to a dirty
[43:30.220 --> 43:31.220] bomb in Washington, D.
[43:31.220 --> 43:35.260] And they need to get him to give them the information and get him they're gonna take him to DC
[43:35.260 --> 43:39.320] So he can whatever disarm the bomb or some shit. I don't know. It's one of those kind of things
[43:39.320 --> 43:45.540] Yeah, and it is all a single take air quotes, you know films and to made to look like a single take
[43:45.960 --> 43:51.880] So while they're there within the first 10 or 15 minutes this like insurgent army storms the base
[43:51.880 --> 43:56.700] And is trying to rescue this guy the same target from the black site base
[43:56.700 --> 44:01.580] And then it is just Scott Atkins and his team verse these nameless terrorists for 90 minutes
[44:01.660 --> 44:08.340] It's cool as hell. The actions great the and it is convincingly like an hour before there's a noticeable
[44:08.340 --> 44:13.260] You have put in a moment where you can cut here. Yeah, which is pretty impressive. That's pretty nuts
[44:13.260 --> 44:17.400] I remember that was the big thing in extraction where we talked about those movies
[44:17.400 --> 44:21.980] I kind of didn't like that because it's like there's lots of things where we're just looking at a doorway
[44:22.180 --> 44:25.980] It's like we know why this is here, you know, and even if they don't use it
[44:26.380 --> 44:29.380] Like it breaks the like one-take thing and sure
[44:29.380 --> 44:32.340] Yeah, in my opinion if you're gonna go for it go for it kind of stuff
[44:32.460 --> 44:37.980] But yeah after an hour, there's a moment sort of like in 1917 where if you remember that somebody gets knocked unconscious
[44:37.980 --> 44:44.420] Oh, yeah. Yeah in one shot. There's an explosion and somebody they get knocked unconscious. So there's like a shot like there's a break there
[44:45.260 --> 44:50.020] Which is which is fine. So one shot is okay. I think one shot is like pretty good. It's cool
[44:50.020 --> 44:53.320] It's it's exactly what it needs to be but one more shot
[44:53.760 --> 45:00.180] Picks up the same storyline. I guess, you know spoilers for one shot. The terrorists is extracted, you know, okay
[45:00.640 --> 45:02.640] by Scott Adkins and
[45:02.680 --> 45:06.440] They have now brought him to the US. He's in the airport
[45:07.280 --> 45:09.720] When they maybe there's a double cross
[45:10.000 --> 45:15.840] So now it's Scott Atkins alone verse a bunch of like, you know seals or whoever who I don't know now
[45:15.840 --> 45:20.320] It's now it's other terrorists basically right all throughout the airport and it's awesome
[45:21.080 --> 45:24.680] Yeah, and one more shot I think is way better it really ups the ante
[45:24.680 --> 45:28.800] It really feels a lot more like the video game stuff that it takes its
[45:29.040 --> 45:33.920] Influences from like down to like over-the-shoulder third-person angles while he's shooting like, you know
[45:33.920 --> 45:39.100] Just like really leaning into it and stuff and it's very fun and Tom Berenger's in it. Michael J
[45:39.100 --> 45:42.760] White is in one more shot. Nice, which is very cool. I saw a lot of those
[45:43.400 --> 45:48.940] Things going around that meme this weekend over for for true detective. It was like oh, it's a true detective season
[45:48.940 --> 45:51.840] I would write, you know, it's like Bert and Ernie and like shit like that
[45:52.460 --> 45:57.300] But one of them was Scott Atkins and Michael J. White. I saw it. I was like that would actually rule
[45:57.580 --> 45:59.580] Yeah, that'd be so fun
[45:59.980 --> 46:05.380] So yeah big recommend on on one more shot at least I don't think you necessarily need to have seen one more
[46:05.380 --> 46:08.780] I've seen one shot cuz you know, they do the thing where it's like, okay
[46:08.780 --> 46:11.940] Bring me up to speed and because it's all like a one-take military thing
[46:11.940 --> 46:16.820] You can have that and it not like totally forced and they tell you what's go what happened in the first movie
[46:17.220 --> 46:21.260] So if you were gonna check out any of them check out one more shot and you know
[46:21.260 --> 46:25.660] Put it in consideration if that's the vibe for in front of danger if you want to get that DTV
[46:25.700 --> 46:32.500] Scott Atkins joint going I mean that sounds very tempting. Yes. I just put in for like movies from March through June
[46:33.020 --> 46:35.380] So I and those movies are not on the list
[46:35.900 --> 46:41.060] But yeah, I'll keep them in mind. They sound cool. They're fun good times. And yeah, I think they're just like available to rent
[46:41.060 --> 46:45.580] You know around sweet. All right, so one shot and one more shot. And so it was that is at the end of your list
[46:46.380 --> 46:51.540] Yes, okay. Yeah, I wasn't sure if you're counting two is one or whatever that was but yeah, okay
[46:52.140 --> 46:55.460] Sweet. Yeah, sounds awesome. I have a couple more movies on my list here
[46:55.460 --> 47:01.700] One of which is fallen leaves which is end of 2023 release the new film from Aki korismaki
[47:02.060 --> 47:05.940] It's a fin finish film. It's a romantic comedy drama
[47:05.940 --> 47:11.020] And yeah, that's just like a nice little romance movie that I really enjoyed. It's 80 minutes long
[47:11.900 --> 47:16.620] Nice which is one of those things like it's the first thing I say because it's like oh it's it's it's in and out
[47:16.620 --> 47:19.260] Like you can just watch it and just be delighted by it
[47:19.260 --> 47:21.780] It's it's a very charming romance between these two characters
[47:21.900 --> 47:25.200] One is a woman who just kind of got fired from her job
[47:25.380 --> 47:30.460] The other guy is sort of like an aimless dude who's sort of an alcoholic and you know
[47:30.460 --> 47:33.780] They meet each other kind of by chance and they go on a date
[47:33.780 --> 47:40.180] They go see a karaoke and they go to a movie and yeah, it's just about their relationship. And yeah, just really enjoyed it
[47:40.180 --> 47:44.740] It's really fun. I will say the I there was many moments that I thought were really really funny
[47:44.820 --> 47:50.820] But nothing was more funny than discovering that the movie they were seeing was the dead don't die. No way
[47:51.940 --> 47:54.860] And friend of the show Vin Craig friend of the show Vin Craig
[47:54.860 --> 47:56.540] It's not his scene in the dog died
[47:56.540 --> 48:00.700] But but yeah, they're they're watching the dead don't die and then afterwards they come out and you know
[48:00.700 --> 48:05.860] She the movie has such a weird dead pan sense of humor and she like says to him's like they're like
[48:05.860 --> 48:08.620] Oh, what'd you think of the film and she's like well the police were incredibly ineffective
[48:08.620 --> 48:10.620] There was just far too many zombies
[48:14.900 --> 48:17.700] Yeah, sure, why not, you know, it's just stuff like that
[48:17.700 --> 48:23.260] It's it's a very like deadpan movie that I really enjoyed. So yeah, it's good fallen leaves. Go check that out
[48:23.660 --> 48:28.140] And then interesting. We got double Finnish movies see sue and yes
[48:28.140 --> 48:34.500] Yeah weird Finland low-key making the comeback in the film industry. That's good. We'll finish movies are back. Yeah in a big way, baby
[48:35.140 --> 48:39.420] Yeah fallen leaves it's very very good and then also want to mention that I saw the new Mean Girls
[48:39.420 --> 48:41.420] I saw Mean Girls 2024
[48:41.660 --> 48:49.340] Which is an adaptation of the Broadway musical version of Mean Girls that was adapted from the movie Mean Girls from 2004
[48:49.340 --> 48:51.900] So it's on the novel push by Sapphire. Exactly. Yeah
[48:53.220 --> 48:56.620] So I've seen the original Mean Girls movie a few times
[48:56.620 --> 49:01.060] It's a movie that I saw once when I was in high school liked and like never thought about again
[49:01.060 --> 49:05.580] Yeah, you know and and it's a movie that like I was kind of excited about because I was like, oh, yeah
[49:05.580 --> 49:08.980] I love Tina Fey. I love 30 Rock. It's finally time to watch the movie that she wrote and
[49:09.100 --> 49:11.460] Yeah, I thought it was pretty good didn't really think too much about it
[49:11.460 --> 49:17.940] And then years later I started dating my girlfriend turns out Mean Girls wanted for favorite movies turns out. She is a 20-something
[49:18.900 --> 49:23.660] Grew up watching Mean Girls like many others, you know, it's one of your favorite movies
[49:23.660 --> 49:26.260] I wouldn't say one of my favorites, but I do like it a lot more now
[49:26.740 --> 49:29.620] I've seen it a few more times now and it is good
[49:29.620 --> 49:35.420] I do like the original Mean Girls and so yeah with this new movie version came out and like I said
[49:35.420 --> 49:40.660] It's based on the musical not it's not a full-on. It's a remake of the original movie, but it's based in the musical
[49:40.660 --> 49:46.740] So it's the same but now there's songs essentially right and yeah, man. I don't know this wasn't for me
[49:47.500 --> 49:52.420] Heard which is I didn't enjoy it. It's you know, it's a weird thing
[49:52.420 --> 49:55.060] We're like I think there are a couple of decent songs in there
[49:55.220 --> 50:00.660] And a couple of decent performances in there, you know, Renee rap as a Regina George has been getting a lot of attention
[50:01.140 --> 50:06.020] But I think oh well, oh Ellie Carvalho who played Moana like she was the voice of Moana
[50:06.100 --> 50:10.980] She plays Janice in this movie, which is the character that Lizzie Kaplan played in the original Mean Girls
[50:10.980 --> 50:12.180] And I think she's really great
[50:12.180 --> 50:17.860] She gets a good luck stand-out song and I also think the girl who plays Amanda Seifried's character is also very good
[50:18.100 --> 50:23.860] But I don't know I think it's it's weird because when it's not the musical stuff then it just feels like
[50:24.340 --> 50:28.500] All right. Now we're just having like we're just doing the same stuff as Mean Girls. It's the same jokes
[50:28.580 --> 50:30.340] It's all the same lines
[50:30.340 --> 50:32.340] Like everything is pretty much the same
[50:32.740 --> 50:38.260] But then it goes drastically different with all the songs and I think most of the songs are kind of forgettable
[50:38.340 --> 50:40.340] There are like two or three that I thought were pretty good
[50:40.500 --> 50:45.060] But uh, yeah, I don't know it just it felt like deflating. I guess a little bit to watch it
[50:45.140 --> 50:49.540] There's some some inventive musical numbers like some good staging for musical numbers and stuff like that
[50:49.620 --> 50:54.260] But uh, and I think it appeals more to like hardcore theater kids than it does me
[50:54.340 --> 50:57.460] I feel like i'm somebody who I think is adjacent to theater kids
[50:57.460 --> 51:01.620] But never like really fell into that like I I was the sound guy for my for my kids, you know
[51:01.780 --> 51:06.180] So i'm adjacent to it. I I like a lot of the stuff, but uh when it gets like too theater kitty
[51:06.180 --> 51:10.420] I'm like, I don't I don't know about this, but you liked music theater camp or whatever that movie was called
[51:10.500 --> 51:13.620] I did like theater camp. That was pretty good. I had a good time with it. You know
[51:14.180 --> 51:17.940] Uh theater camp better than the Mean Girls. Uh, okay. I'll say yeah
[51:17.940 --> 51:21.220] I don't know. I think there's some good stuff in here, but uh, it was just like, you know
[51:21.220 --> 51:26.900] What not for me and I will say you know went with my girlfriend obviously, uh, and uh, she also said she like didn't like it
[51:26.900 --> 51:28.340] that much, um
[51:28.340 --> 51:34.980] Or she she said that however, she has been listening to a lot of the songs at home since then so that's how they get you
[51:35.220 --> 51:37.220] Yeah, exactly exactly
[51:37.700 --> 51:42.580] And that that might be the case for a lot of other people too. I don't know but uh, yeah mean girls 2024 wasn't for me
[51:42.900 --> 51:46.500] Uh, i'm not the target audience. That's fine. You know, it's it's not not my jam. Yeah
[51:46.660 --> 51:51.940] Yeah, we can't have it all, you know, exactly. Yeah, but uh, you know what movie I am the target audience for mike the taking of pelham
[51:52.020 --> 51:53.540] 123
[51:53.540 --> 51:56.660] Yes, the greatest movie ever made
[51:57.940 --> 52:04.180] So, uh taking a pelham 123 was playing at the roxy this past week and we it's for our 1974 series
[52:04.500 --> 52:09.540] We I think we had like 15 movies this month that were all from the year 1974 all celebrating their 50th anniversary
[52:10.020 --> 52:14.260] We've had a lot of big screenings blazing saddles sold out the conversation sold out
[52:14.500 --> 52:18.180] Uh taking the pelham 123. I was delighted to see uh, pretty much sold out
[52:18.500 --> 52:23.220] So I went to the screening I actually did a double feature of american fiction and then walked right into the theater for pelham 123
[52:23.460 --> 52:24.340] Wow
[52:24.340 --> 52:31.620] And uh, yeah, I had seen this once before I believe this was my number one discovery of like 2020 or 2021 or whatever
[52:31.860 --> 52:32.820] Whatever it was. I watched it
[52:32.820 --> 52:34.580] It was a couple years ago now at this point
[52:34.580 --> 52:37.620] But I got to watch it with a crowd in a theater and uh, you know
[52:37.700 --> 52:40.980] I remember loving it at the time, but I I love it even more now
[52:41.220 --> 52:44.260] This movie is so fun and fast paced and witty
[52:44.500 --> 52:49.220] It is an action movie where your main hero is sitting down for most of the movie. Yeah
[52:50.100 --> 52:56.500] Uh, you know, it's it's an action movie where your main hero is 50 something waltzer math bow who is introduced to you
[52:56.820 --> 53:01.780] Asleep on a bench like he's like just slumped over on a bench like asleep and he's like jolted away
[53:02.180 --> 53:07.380] Yeah, it's it's so I think it is maybe the greatest new york city movie ever made
[53:07.460 --> 53:11.860] I think it captures the vibe of new york. So well, especially i'm in 70s new york and
[53:12.340 --> 53:14.740] Obviously, I wasn't around the 70s, but you know, I got I got the vibe
[53:15.940 --> 53:20.180] And it just it captures it so effectively and so fun and like, you know
[53:20.180 --> 53:21.540] Just stuff like you know
[53:21.540 --> 53:25.380] The fact that somebody uh while everything is happening on the subway when it's being hijacked
[53:25.620 --> 53:30.580] Somebody's sleeping through the whole thing. Somebody is asleep the entire time and just bits like that
[53:30.900 --> 53:36.820] Everybody has like their own kind of snarky sarcastic personality to them, which feels very new york to me
[53:37.380 --> 53:43.460] The bits with the mayor are so funny where he's just so ineffectual and so hated by everyone in town. Yeah, it's it's great
[53:43.460 --> 53:44.820] I love taking a film one, two, three
[53:44.820 --> 53:47.860] I was so glad to see it in a good crowd and uh that final moment
[53:48.260 --> 53:53.700] When the guy sneezes and waltzer math out comes back in the door rapturous applause and cheering and laughter at my screening
[53:53.780 --> 53:55.780] It was so funny. That's awesome
[53:56.180 --> 54:00.020] I haven't seen this in so long. I gotta rewatch it. Yeah. Uh, well, you know, yeah
[54:00.020 --> 54:02.100] You never know when you might get the chance to rewatch it
[54:02.660 --> 54:04.100] Hold off a couple weeks
[54:04.100 --> 54:08.420] Yeah, uh, so we'll see how that goes. But yeah taking a film one, two, three, uh, still so great
[54:08.660 --> 54:14.580] And then also I was able to make time this week to go see uh, it's alive the larry cohen film in 1974
[54:15.140 --> 54:19.620] Which was shown for trash vaults at the roxy and uh, I don't think i've ever seen any larry cohen films
[54:19.620 --> 54:22.180] This might have been my first he'd also direct to cue the wing serpent
[54:22.260 --> 54:26.100] Um, which is um, which is on my list for movie day coming up soon. Got it
[54:26.660 --> 54:34.020] But uh, yeah, it's alive is about a couple that has a baby turns out that baby is a mutant and it's killing people
[54:34.340 --> 54:38.260] And so I will say there's less of the mutant baby in this movie than I would have liked
[54:39.940 --> 54:42.820] You know, uh, but when the mutant baby's on screen, it's pretty great
[54:43.140 --> 54:47.940] I really enjoyed it like the moment when he first shows up and kills all the doctors in the room. Very very good
[54:48.340 --> 54:51.060] Uh, most of the movie is genuinely about like, you know
[54:51.060 --> 54:54.020] Because when that happens the baby like kills all the doctors and escapes
[54:54.260 --> 55:00.500] And when that happens it becomes like a national story and suddenly the parents are sort of like pseudo celebrities for like how tragic their lives
[55:00.580 --> 55:05.140] Have become and so you're kind of watching mostly the dad like just be like man. This sucks
[55:06.100 --> 55:07.140] Like yeah
[55:07.140 --> 55:09.940] Just him like kind of like he gets like laid off from work because they're like well
[55:09.940 --> 55:12.740] We're a pr firm and this is a bad look for us. You understand
[55:13.140 --> 55:16.740] Uh, you know all that kind of stuff and then as you get closer to the end of the movie
[55:17.140 --> 55:20.740] You find the mutant baby's lair and they're attacking it and all that stuff
[55:20.820 --> 55:26.020] But it's also about you know, they're you know, the parents are sort of still weirdly attached to the baby because it's their baby, you know
[55:26.660 --> 55:30.580] Um, so yeah, it's uh, I don't think it's great, but I think it's fun
[55:30.740 --> 55:35.380] Uh, and there's some great sequences in it. So have you ever seen it's alive, Mike? I have not seen it's alive
[55:35.460 --> 55:39.140] That's what I was just looking at. Uh, uh, the larry cohen oeuvre, right?
[55:39.140 --> 55:44.500] That is letterbox to see what movies I might have seen cubing serpent. I've seen uh, the stuff
[55:44.660 --> 55:47.540] I've seen also I have actually seen the stuff. I have I've seen that
[55:47.700 --> 55:52.020] Um, but when you go to his writing credits, which he he wrote a ton of movies
[55:52.340 --> 55:57.540] Um, the first one phone booth with Colin Farrell is a little written by larry cohen
[55:58.420 --> 56:04.500] Which is bananas maniac cop maniac cop three all kinds of crazy shit a lot of uh, black exploitation movies
[56:04.500 --> 56:09.620] Which I know that was a big thing that he was sort of like getting getting those movies made because they couldn't be made otherwise
[56:10.020 --> 56:14.980] Right, which is pretty interesting. So yeah, larry cohen's a fascinating person. Uh, the the uh,
[56:15.700 --> 56:17.700] Abel ferraro version of body snatchers
[56:18.260 --> 56:23.060] Oh nice is written by him. Anyway, but no i've not seen it's alive and I was thinking in my brain
[56:23.140 --> 56:26.980] I think i'm picturing basket case, which is another like mutant thing
[56:27.460 --> 56:32.180] Right. That's that's a frank hennenlatter movie. Yeah, uh, and to me they occupy a similar space
[56:32.260 --> 56:35.380] But oh, yeah, much weirder on hennenlatter's point part
[56:36.500 --> 56:41.860] Nice, um, but yeah, so it's alive worth checking out and then also finally I made it out this weekend to go see
[56:42.400 --> 56:44.400] zardoz on the big screen
[56:44.720 --> 56:48.240] Which I had never seen before. Have you seen zardoz mike? I have not seen zardoz
[56:48.320 --> 56:52.160] But is this the sean connery in the red bikini movie? It certainly is got it
[56:52.240 --> 56:56.160] Yeah, that's it. This is this is a movie that I was aware of because of community actually
[56:58.080 --> 57:01.920] I know dan harman has like gone off on zardoz in the past like on harmontown and stuff like that
[57:01.920 --> 57:06.720] But community there's uh, the meow meow beans episode, um is sort of inspired by various
[57:06.960 --> 57:10.000] 70s sci-fi movies and also like zardoz is one of them
[57:10.240 --> 57:13.280] Uh, and you see starburns wearing the uh, the sean connery costume
[57:13.440 --> 57:16.560] And then also there's an episode of rick and morty that like kind of riffs on zardoz as well
[57:16.640 --> 57:20.320] The um, the one with the big stone heads that come out and go show me what you got
[57:20.720 --> 57:23.440] Yeah, this movie has a big stone head that says zardoz
[57:24.940 --> 57:30.160] Incredible. So yeah, I had never seen zardoz. Uh, and man, I I was expecting, you know
[57:30.240 --> 57:36.080] You know campy sean connery sci-fi whatever and it certainly is that I was not prepared for this to be
[57:36.480 --> 57:42.240] One of the wildest movies i've ever seen. I know nothing about it other than the iconography from it
[57:42.240 --> 57:46.000] So what is what is zardoz about man? What isn't zardoz about mike?
[57:46.640 --> 57:50.000] Is it is it not about our relationship with god? Oh because
[57:50.880 --> 57:57.840] It certainly is. Uh, yeah, no zardoz, uh takes place in a post-apocalyptic future where these barbarians
[57:58.480 --> 58:04.960] The brutal's are led by sean connery and they worship the stone idol that comes down called zardoz
[58:05.040 --> 58:06.080] uh and
[58:06.080 --> 58:10.160] Zardoz comes down and it will give them like food and give them guns and you know
[58:10.160 --> 58:16.160] It's it's sort of sending them on their own like sort of crusades and their religious quests to like kill others in the area
[58:16.240 --> 58:23.600] Or whatever, right? Yeah, it's the year 2293 and so basically sean connery sneaks into the stone idol at one point
[58:23.840 --> 58:30.960] And he kills zardoz where he or he kills who he thinks may be zardoz and the stone idol transports him to this other
[58:31.600 --> 58:36.160] Land on earth that like he's completely unaware of and everybody in this other
[58:36.800 --> 58:43.840] Realm is I believe called the eternals and they are like sort of like a an elite society that has evolved past like man
[58:44.000 --> 58:47.440] And so, uh, you know, they they're they basically are immortal
[58:47.680 --> 58:53.600] They don't age uh unless they like need to or want to or like as punishment like somebody gets aged 50 years
[58:54.000 --> 58:58.160] Or something like that. Uh, and so they take in sean connery and are like studying him
[58:58.480 --> 59:03.360] And it's so much of this movie is about sean connery having boners
[59:05.680 --> 59:07.840] And it's sean connery and charlotte rampling
[59:07.920 --> 59:12.240] Um is like kind of the lead like the lead woman in the society who's doing experiments on him
[59:12.480 --> 59:18.400] And he ends up sort of leading a revolt against like other people in the society and it's it's truly an insane movie
[59:18.480 --> 59:21.120] I I can't put into words how wild this movie is
[59:21.360 --> 59:24.880] It's such a blast to watch with the crowd like the theater had a great time watching it
[59:24.880 --> 59:29.920] It was a lot of people who hadn't seen it before. Uh, and there's moments in the movie like for example, um
[59:30.480 --> 59:32.640] I really don't want to spoil it in case you do watch zardoz
[59:32.720 --> 59:39.840] But there's a moment where you find out where the name zardoz comes from and it's the funniest reveal that i've ever seen
[59:40.320 --> 59:45.280] Okay. All right. It's so good. And so yeah zardoz it's a truly wild time
[59:45.600 --> 59:50.560] Needs to be seen to be believed and truly one of those things like could could have only existed at that moment in time
[59:50.800 --> 59:54.960] It's it's a wild movie. So, uh, yeah directed by john borman director of deliverance
[59:56.080 --> 01:00:01.520] And also exorcist two and excalibur and a few other movies like that. Yeah zardoz go check it out
[01:00:02] Yeah, it was actually it was actually it was made. Um, john borman made this movie
[01:00:06] After he tried to make a lord of the rings movie
[01:00:08] He was trying to do like a a version of lord of the rings and it didn't work
[01:00:12] And so he made zardoz instead bananas. Yeah, 70s were a weird time. They certainly were
[01:00:17] Yeah, burt reynolds was supposed to play the lead role actually too. Uh, and then it ended up being sean connery instead
[01:00:22] And this is sean connery. This is sort of peak sean connery
[01:00:24] This is like right after he stopped being james bond because I think I think the first more bond the first roger more bond
[01:00:29] Is the year before this?
[01:00:31] Uh, so it's still sean connery like at sort of in bond mode. And uh, yeah, it's it's a wild ride
[01:00:36] That's nuts. Um, I think it would be a fun pair with uh, how it comes to frog town. Oh, yeah for sure
[01:00:41] Also a movie about boner. Yeah. Yeah, that's a post-apocalyptic movie about boners. Yeah, how it comes to frog town
[01:00:47] Yes out for sure. Uh, but all right that uh, that takes us through everything i've been watching mike. Yeah, that's it
[01:00:52] We did it we certainly did we caught up. All right
[01:00:54] Uh, so that's gonna be it for this week's episode of michael mike go to the movies mike d
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[01:01:46] Good stuff. Uh next week. It's time for a mike makes mike watch. We're back, baby
[01:01:50] We're back and I am going to be making mike d watch heo miyazaki is spirited away
[01:01:55] Which he has never seen before and uh, yeah, that's that's a big one in the miyazaki filmography to cross off
[01:02:00] Yes, i'm excited for that and to make you do homework to prepare for whatever long legs is. Yes
[01:02:07] I'm the new uh, nick cage movie directed by ozgud perkins written and directed by ozgud perkins
[01:02:12] Uh, we're gonna make you watch uh one of his early movies called the black coat's daughter. Yes. I am excited to watch it
[01:02:17] I'm really curious. Uh where i'm gonna fall on this because i've seen uh, ozgud perkins's two other movies
[01:02:22] I saw I I am the pretty thing that lives in this house
[01:02:24] And I saw and gretel and hanzel is the other one and gretel and hanzel. I really liked
[01:02:29] I am the pretty thing lives in this house. I remember thinking was really boring
[01:02:32] So no i'm scared could could go either way
[01:02:35] Go either way. I am very excited for long legs and I think uh, gretel and hanzel like maybe like an aspergans fan
[01:02:41] Um, so yeah, and i'm excited to watch black coat's daughters when i mean it's been on my list for a long time
[01:02:45] You you have talked about it many times. Yeah. Yeah, I heard I heard about it a couple years ago
[01:02:49] And uh, and I watched it was like holy shit. Everyone needs to see this. Yes, the guy from psycho's son made this movie
[01:02:55] That's crazy. Absolutely. And so it's cool that he's making more movies. Yes, definitely. All right in the meantime
[01:03:02] The complete works. We just published our episode on the brother's son
[01:03:05] The michelio netflix series which is available to watch and listen to right now
[01:03:09] And next week this coming monday the season four finalists will be revealed our episode detailing how we got to our process
[01:03:17] How we ended up with our four season four finalists. Uh, you can listen to that
[01:03:21] Yes, and I just heard today that the they announced that um
[01:03:25] Star trek station, whatever the hell yes
[01:03:28] The michelio spin-off movie, uh just began principal photography. Yes, which means uh,
[01:03:34] Got to catch up on star trek discovery. I guess
[01:03:38] Or we just go in cold and see what happens
[01:03:41] Could read the wikipedia. Yeah, that's also true. Uh, that is the end of this week's episode of mike's make go to the movies
[01:03:46] We will see you on the other side
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