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[00:00:00] Let's get together talk about the movies that we saw this week. We'll have discussions, talk from news, we'll laugh a lot and act like he's a son of all that, and guess they're too sometimes just the two of us.

[00:00:10] I'll smack some jokes and tell some folks to come along and I'm gonna ask if I can buy go to the movies. I can buy go to the movies. Yeah!

[00:00:25] You have chosen wise. Hello and welcome to a lumbering corpse of a podcast that will wander around in the woods for a while before eventually taking out our frustrations and grief on some teenagers.

[00:00:37] It's Mike and Mike go to the movies. I'm Mike Smith, and Jonah me as always is a man who knows little German. He's sitting right over there. Mike Tegrishio. How'd you know Mike?

[00:00:47] I'm doing just great, and I can't think of a single gag from that movie that's not a visual gag to reference. They're almost all visual gags. Yeah, I also think I made you watch that movie for Mike makes Mike watch a long time ago.

[00:01:02] I'm pretty sure I used that same intro for you. You probably did. It's a good intro. It's a good intro. Yeah, can't get denied. What's been going on Mike? What's going on in your life?

[00:01:11] Not a whole lot, honestly. Lots of, you know, tumultuous times, I guess I'll say. Show me a weird fourth of July. I feel like we've said that every four of the July for the last, several weeks. Yeah, like at least the last eight years.

[00:01:27] So yeah, but otherwise I'm fine. I think the big update, you know, relevant to the pod. I subscribed to Riegel unlimited. So movies are back in a big way. There you go. I'm going to singlehandedly save the theater experience with my $25.00 upon the river. That's all it took.

[00:01:47] Holding out for Mike D. Yeah, you're welcome. Everybody. So far I've seen two movies with it. There you go. Pays for itself after two movies. Exactly. If you go in twice a month. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, no, you've got the Regal. I've got the AMC Stubbs A-Less.

[00:02:00] And of course, if you're at the Rocks of Theater, we have many levels of membership that you can go. Wow. It's a new plug for the Rocks. You never heard this plug before. Have I never talked about the Rocks? He's membership levels on the podcast.

[00:02:10] Tell me what the different memberships are. Well, I mean, if you get the star membership, that's the cheapest one. $25 a year. And that gets you $2 off all your popcorns. Or $2 off all your movie tickets and two free popcorns a month.

[00:02:21] Isn't that I was going to say, is it the popcorn only $2? It's going to get $2 off. Popcorn is $7. Okay. Okay. But you can get two free popcorns a month with the star membership. Next level. Galaxy. You get $2 off all your movie tickets.

[00:02:34] Unlimited free popcorns. So baby, if you're going all the time, you get a popcorn every time. Boom. That is a lot of money you're saving right there. That's value. Next level. That's a lot of money. You get a lot of money.

[00:02:47] And then you can see, I'm going to tell you, I'll get five. Let's get five. Let's be honest with membership. $300 a year or like a monthly payment of like $25 whatever it is. And that's unlimited free tickets unlimited free popcorn.

[00:02:59] And then you think, well, that's got to be the end of the levels, right? No, there's one more. What else could you give me, right? Then you can get the supernova level, which involves unlimited free tickets.

[00:03:09] Unlimited free popcorn. And you get a free rental that you can use at any point. of the movie theater. It was okay, yeah, it's fair, that's what I meant. For you and your friends to watch whatever you want. So yeah, a lot of different options, different price tiers.

[00:03:20] You can check out all the information at theroxytheter.org. It's especially good if you live in Missoula, but if you just want to support the ROXY from afar, please do. We would love it if you did. Biomines. But, you know where I go, see a lot of movies.

[00:03:36] Mike is the ROXY. I've been watching a lot of movies over the last couple of weeks. I actually took off the entire week of my birthday, that last week of June.

[00:03:44] I took off every single day that week, because I had days that I was going to lose if I didn't use them. And I was like, well, Mike's well, just not be working. So I have to ask you, you took off.

[00:03:54] You don't have to go to the ROXY. Did you go to the ROXY every day in C.A.A. movie? I went to the ROXY. I think between Monday through Friday, five days, I think I went there three out of those five days. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:04:06] You just when you thought you were out, they probably have acceded. I got to go in for the movies, man. That's fair. That's where the movies are playing. But yeah, I watched a ton of movies in that time because my girlfriend still had to work

[00:04:20] during the week and I did not, which means she had to go to bed earlier than I did. And I got to stay up and watch a movie. That was how I did it. So yeah, it's a ton of stuff.

[00:04:29] I've seen a bunch of new releases, watch some movies that I've been wanting to see for a long time and never got around to. You've been catching up with some stuff too, right, Mike? Yeah, yeah.

[00:04:38] And I've made a conscious effort to look at the criteria in channel, which we've been subscribed to for all years or whatever, even back to film struck. What it used to be that. Yeah.

[00:04:49] And it sometimes becomes one of those things that I pay for and then I never really open it and I'm like, oh shit. I feel like I average like one to two movies a month in the criteria in channel. And that feels like a pretty solid life.

[00:05:01] That's pretty good. Yeah, one of my movies I did watch on the criteria in channel. I will say that. Nice. And I was like, let me look at those. Let me look through some of these and let me look at the list that my list or whatever

[00:05:13] saved for later thing. I'll only find like cross time with these off. And so I did it. Cross stuff to two movies. Six to long time. Like very popular film Twitter movies. And the first of which, of course, is Peter Braggdanovich's targets.

[00:05:25] Okay, well before you get in targets, we gotta do it. It's questions to him song. Oh, I was so excited about this movie. I'm excited to hear your thoughts on targets. Mike, but first, let's get into some. Let's get into that discussion.

[00:05:38] There's just one thought I said all I could say my body and I talk about movies or cities on my discussion. There's so much to say you and me. So we're good, so I'm moving. These were our discussions. All right, yeah, it's time for some off-mic discussions.

[00:05:59] This is an episode where we just talk about all the cool stuff that we've been watching lately. And my D is about to go in on targets. Why do you think of targets, Mike? Well, that's a lot of picture, incredible.

[00:06:08] And this came up recently also just in sort of conversations and stuff because this is a retrohorm in produced picture. So following his passing and stuff. In the long list of people who's career is he jump started. This is Peter Braggdanovich's directorial debut. And it's crazy.

[00:06:23] The story behind this which I'm sure most people that are might be familiar with this movie is about an aging film star that is played by Boris Karloff who agrees to do like one last thing, one last appearance at a drive in movie theater with one of his

[00:06:38] movies before he retires and writes off into obscurity. He keeps talking about being an antique and all this stuff. So there's that whole plot which also features Peter Braggdanovich as the director of that movie in this movie. It's like a whole thing.

[00:06:52] And then also there is this story plot line about this guy who goes on a murder spray. This man who's just sort of decides he's done with it and he's going to go on a

[00:07:03] kill take out as many people as he can on his way out which includes being posted up on the screen at the drive in theater, shooting people there to see Boris Karloff or what's his name something or luck.

[00:07:14] I was going to say count or luck by a written or luck. Okay. It's his character's Karloff's character. And the story behind this is that apparently which they have a 20 minute interview with Peter Braggdanovich included on the criteria in channel that you can watch which

[00:07:27] I watched talking about that apparently Corbin had Boris Karloff on contract or like he owed him time left on a contract for two days. And he told by Donovitch if you can film 10 minutes or 20 minutes, I think he said

[00:07:41] with with Karloff in those two days will take 20 minutes from the terror which is an old Corbin movie starring Karloff which is what the premiere is at the drive in. That's right. We'll take 10 minutes from that and then you film 60 minutes or 40 minutes or whatever

[00:07:56] with this other plot line with the guy on the mass shooting spree and we'll put it all together and we'll have it in a 90 minute movie or whatever. It turns out to be whatever the run time is. And so that's what Target says and it's incredible.

[00:08:06] It's like it does not feel like we only have two days to make this which I mean I guess that it's sort of the like the famous Corbin model is hey we're going to shoot this in four days or whatever. Right.

[00:08:17] And we're going to cut it into pieces and use other stuff and we'll retitle it and that whole decorum and thing. Yeah it's amazing. It's beautiful. It's sort of those like never forget or they took for us kind of things like I touched it all the time.

[00:08:27] That this movie that is literally one third an old movie from the 60s. It's like a 10-year old movie or whatever it is whenever the terror came out and it looks beautiful and it looks cohesive and the story is interesting and the characters are interesting

[00:08:41] and the preferences are great and it does not feel like a really shitty cheaply made movie but it sort of is and it's it's a bit but it all comes together in Boggana which is direction is great and the writing is fun.

[00:08:52] So yeah that's that's target so if you ever seen targets like I have never seen targets it's been on my list for a long time and you're not around to it but yeah it sounds fantastic I weirdly I think they have seen the terror really fascinating.

[00:09:05] I have a like a Roger Corbin box set like a 10 movies set that includes a bunch different like we're just random Roger Corbin movies in the 50s and 60s. It includes the original little shop horrors is in there and includes dementia 13 which

[00:09:18] is Francis for Copa's directorial debut but the terror I'm pretty sure is in there and I'm pretty sure I've watched it but if I have it's been like 20 years. Yeah it's been a long time.

[00:09:29] Yeah it's very I mean like when they show the clips or whatever the parts from the terror like Jack Nicholson is in it and yeah all this stuff and like a slightly younger Boris Carlov.

[00:09:39] So yeah it's very it's very weird and Boggana which we're talking about like trying to figure out the story of how to like well how are we going to use this because it's like a Victorian haunted mansion kind of movie in the terror.

[00:09:51] So how are we going to fit this in a modern day thing and he's sort of like oh shit what if we have the movie just opening a screening room and we just we just show the first

[00:09:59] five minutes or whatever of the terror and then little lights come up on a screening room and it's Boris Carlov watching the terror. Oh man yeah okay yeah that's how they like spun out from that and that's yeah it's

[00:10:10] them deciding like you know what this movie's trash I've got a retire is sort of the the stick for Boris Carlov throughout the movie. Interesting yeah very good big bigger man for targets. That's on Craterian Joe very cool and you watched something awesome Craterian Channel

[00:10:23] to make yes is a similar movie that I've seen all the time and heard about for a really long time and that I just never got around to you and that is John Bourbon's point blank from 1967 have you ever seen this move?

[00:10:35] I have not oh man oh baby big I mean they're sort of like weirdly maybe thematically connected in some way but point blank stars Lee Marvin who plays a hitman that like literally during the opening credits is shot and left for dead okay in a prison

[00:10:52] cell on Alcatraz and it's wild it's so crazy like this to start the movie it like literally during the open credits that happens and then the credits end and then we flash back to

[00:11:02] C. Halle ended up there like we go with like a wild structure to this movie and the movie has a lot of stuff like that it's sort of structured interestingly there's there's lots of it's like almost true of consciousness kind of stuff we're like as things become

[00:11:15] relevant we'll just cut to the next like we'll cut to the thing that gives the context to it and stuff but so yeah Lee Marvin is shot dead in double crossed basically in the opening credits he does not die the person that shot him stole I think 93 thousand

[00:11:29] dollars from him and his wife who was also there she's she was like part of the crew so the the blow blow away and the fleet together once he recovers he is just on a

[00:11:39] revenge mission for 90 minutes basically it's just him trying to find to the guy that double crossed him and stole his wife and stole his money and get those things back and kill anyone that may be in the way and it's intense it's you know Lee Marvin of

[00:11:53] course is like one of the toughest motherfuckers in a movie's ever so he's great and the movie is also long stretches of no dialogue and it's sort of like a sort of like a

[00:12:04] proto you know maybe think of like oh Nick was wondering ref in most really like this movie you know it's like got a lot of that kind of vibe to it just like a lot of like

[00:12:11] solitary hitman in landscape kind of stuff yeah well you know walking down hallways and through buildings and and uh it's a great LA movie you know it's to see a lot of cool locations and stuff we talk about that a lot in the in the regular Roy Shader

[00:12:26] episodes you know like film as like archeology and time capsule and there's a lot of 1967 LA locations and stuff in a point blank so definitely big recommend and also Angie Dickinson also is the wife is the co- the co-star so a shiider connection

[00:12:40] oh yes yeah cuz she was in the outside man yeah side man yeah so that was fun and yeah also on critiring collection or the channel critiring channel awesome that's point blank with the Liam Arvin and I'll throw in the movie that I watch

[00:12:52] the Cartierian channel too why not right now this is the the Cartierian channel ad on the podcast that's they're not paying us for and I watched 1945's Brief Encounter which is directed by David Lean director of such epic as Lawrence

[00:13:07] of Arabia and British and Riverquai and Dr. Shovago these are like the movies that David Lean is most known for it's like very big expansive movies with big landscapes huge like emotions and characters and Brief Encounter is

[00:13:20] almost the opposite of all these things this is several years before he made those movies this is 1945 it's a 90 minute movie and it's just about this very intimate connection between two people and it's really really terrific

[00:13:33] I recommend on Brief Encounter this movie is fantastic it's about this woman who goes on the to the train station like once a week for various stuff getting supplies and town and stuff but she's married she has a husband she has

[00:13:44] two kids and while she's at the train station she meets another man he is also married but the two of them fall in love with each other and they are only kind of seeing each other during these like Brief trips on the

[00:13:55] train station they meet up at the coffee shop at the train station they hang out they go on movie dates together all that kind of stuff but they're only seeing each other at this moment and so they're kind of only falling in love with

[00:14:05] each other during these like stolen moments between these as they're kind of crossing paths and it's very much about whether or not she will give up her life with her husband to kids to be with this person it really reminded

[00:14:16] me of the Richard Link later before sunset before sunrise before midnight films like that kind of trilogy in the way the love and longing is sort of betrayed and it's a it's really powerful stuff it's really great so yeah Brief Encounter

[00:14:29] it's really good and there's a long scene where they talk about Donald Duck for a while that has linked later vibes honestly yeah yeah absolutely if it feels like something that's linked later was definitely a fan of right and so yeah

[00:14:42] really love Brief Encounter and it's on the criterion channel and you can watch it there and since we've spent some months in length later I can transition into my next thing whoa Richard Link later has a new movie

[00:14:54] out which is streaming on Netflix this played in theaters for a week or two and then hit Netflix it did not play anywhere near me I was trying to get out of the boxy and we couldn't get it and I was pretty bound about it but

[00:15:05] the new Link later movie is called Hitman have you watched Hitman yet Mike I have not my heard sort of I mean like positive but also mixed things I know my parents try to watch it and they said they made it about 20 minutes

[00:15:17] before they were like it's not funny and we weren't interested in they turned it off and they're not usually those kind of people so I was just oh this is wild so I'm very curious to hear your thoughts on Hitman

[00:15:27] I really liked Hitman the Zarr I don't understand what happened I think if you're on the link later wavelength that feels very much sort of like the before trilogy sort of like the the kind of like sort of me andering a

[00:15:38] philosophical stuff that link later likes to do I think if you like everybody wants some which I do and that is one of my favorite of his movies and maybe one of my favorite movies that decade I rewatched that one

[00:15:49] again recently and I was like man what a picture just a great hangout vibe kind of movie but Glenn Powell was in everybody wants some and now he's the star of Hitman he also co-wrote the screenplay with Richard Link later and it's very much

[00:16:00] built as like a movie star of vehicle for Glenn Powell who plays this guy who is like a history teacher who he's actually a philosophy teacher at this college who sort of a meek dude like kind of like you know humble guy lives alone two

[00:16:12] cats all that kind of stuff but on the side he helps out the police by in trapping people who like want to hire a Hitman to kill their partner or kill somebody else and so they like the police will put out like this you know fake

[00:16:25] ad on Craig's like something like that like hitman services like offered and somebody to like contacts the person on the ad and then Glenn Powell like kind of helps them out and then he sort of gets involved by pretending to

[00:16:36] be the Hitman right and he starts getting really into the role of being the Hitman and in the process falls in love with this woman who tries to go for his services as a Hitman and yeah what follows is I think something that's very

[00:16:49] funny it's very charming it's very romantic it has it feels hotter than a lot of movies that felt in recent years like okay just feels steamier and it's not even like that steamier like that it just feels like oh then the chemistry between

[00:17:01] these two off the charts it's not like body heat but it's like like body heat yeah what had been better if it was like body heat maybe but I really enjoyed I think it's really really fun this this played a few festivals last

[00:17:13] year and I feel like a lot of the reviews coming out of the festivals like this needs to be seen in a theater like it's placed so well with a crowd and then

[00:17:21] of course it comes out of Netflix which is a little bit of a bummer but watching at home I think it's still really worked so yeah hitman it's great I think you watch my okay yeah I don't really know I don't I I've just heard like make you

[00:17:32] know well I heard the same thing too that a lot of people were like oh Netflix is gonna be the reason this movie is like not well regarded because it plays incredible and crowd and everything so I didn't get a chance to see it I don't

[00:17:42] know where if it was probably playing him and hadn't but I didn't get a chance to go to the city to see it right so yeah I don't know it's I'll push play eventually but it's I think it is I think it is literally just the Netflix

[00:17:52] effect of just like this feels unimportant now just everything on Netflix not just this movie it is that weird psychological thing that we have to overcome some time yeah exactly but yeah but I do really like hitman I think it's worth checking

[00:18:03] out and yeah I think it's you know linkedly there's still on top form I still I think he's still putting out great movies so yeah hitman is one of them and actually speaking of Netflix I'll throw out this one other thing too as of

[00:18:12] this recording tomorrow Netflix is about to release Beverly Hills Cop Axel F the fourth film in the Beverly Hills Cop series and so I decided to do a Beverly Hills cop watch oh that's you know diminishing your chance yes so

[00:18:29] I had seen the first Beverly Hills Cop a long time ago but it was never like one of my Eddie Murphy movies it was never one that was like I love Beverly Hills Cop it's like yeah it's pretty good and so I rewatch

[00:18:39] Beverly Hills Cop the original and yeah it's pretty good it's it's a really like solid action comedy where the action like it's a weird kind of movie where like it's not that funny and the actions like there's not a lot of action but

[00:18:52] it's very very watchable like it feels like it just moves very well I think part of that is just like Eddie Murphy like as a driving force throughout the movie it like really in Martin Breast direction like I think I feel like it

[00:19:03] like centers itself very well and it's very watchable Beverly Hills Cop 2 and Beverly Hills Cop 3 I watched both of those for the first time Beverly Hills Cop 2 is a Tony Scott joint and so insane got to cross off a Tony Scott movie

[00:19:14] off my list which was nice and you know what it looks like a Tony Scott movie it looks like a big overblown you know Jerry Brookheimer action movie up the early 90s and to that end I think it does a pretty good job it's

[00:19:27] serviceable it's fun the action is actually insane like there's a lot of like Tony Scott action yeah Tony Scott Scott's action this one which is which is fun and like the last like half hour is it's like big climactic

[00:19:38] gun battle and it's it's a lot it's pretty wild but still not as good as Beverly Hills Cop 1 like it just feels like you know it leans maybe too far away from the comedy at times whatever it is Beverly Hills Cop 3 yeah it's

[00:19:50] that's the one that like Eddie Murphy famously did not want to be making it was one that like John Land is directed at Beverly Hills Cop 3 which he and Eddie Murphy had worked together before like they had made

[00:20:03] come into America together and trade in places together but they were like at each other's throats during the making of Beverly Hills Cop 3 and yeah I think neither one of them were having a great time and it shows in the final product

[00:20:16] of the movie I will say George Lucas makes a cameo at it and that was kind of that's exciting yeah he plays a guy in line at a roller coaster who is mad at

[00:20:25] the roller coaster is out of order and that was kind of fun to see but Beverly has got three pretty forgettable like you don't need to watch that one but yeah I am looking forward to Beverly Hills Cop 4 which I've heard solid things

[00:20:36] it seems like it's gonna be a fun time that's good yeah so I tell somebody maybe Mike Ryan tweeting that uh this is the kind of movie that if it was ever on cable I would stop to watch whatever was on right which sounds that's exciting

[00:20:48] but yeah never have uh my the the film podcast been so aflutter as uh the upcoming Axel F Beverly Hills Cop XLF like every podcast is doing some kind of really promo crossover whatever kind of thing to promote the new Beverly Hills Cop series

[00:21:04] we missed we missed the boat on this one we just we should have done something yeah and I will say the Axel F theme song crushes every time it's the best and what's very fun is that they play

[00:21:13] all the time it transitions between every scene and the Beverly Hills Cop movies and honestly I think a big part of why three is the weakest one is it plays the theme song the least it like doesn't come up as off yeah it's pretty funny there's a podcast

[00:21:28] with Josh Miller who is the screenwriter of the Violet Knight and the Sonic movies and others kind of things and it's the best movies never made so they they always do you know movies that

[00:21:41] either never got produced never came out never actually started filming whatever so they do like you know they did a whole series on all the various Halloween sequels and oh yeah you know that's

[00:21:48] up and apparently I didn't know this uh Beverly Hills Cop one was in it was notoriously unmade script for very long time so it's still on this was a star and it was gonna be a still on movie

[00:21:58] it was a whole thing blah blah blah blah so they did a whole two two episodes on just the first one of the unmade and then they just did they're doing two episodes on the unmade Beverly Hills Cop

[00:22:07] sequels okay and after they the original they had an interview with Eddie Murphy from after two where it's somebody's asking me you make a third one and he's like fuck no if you ever see

[00:22:19] me in a third one of these movies just know I needed money um is it basically his gloat and there's like okay so here's now the script for River Hills Cop three and like in the

[00:22:30] those liver talk you're about that which is very funny um but yeah the big regular one on the Neparkas in general uh because it's very fun nice and they actually had on uh blank check

[00:22:40] they did they're doing whoever directed the first one who's name I don't remember uh Martin Brest who is yeah the current um blank check subject yes they did a Beverly Hills Cop episode

[00:22:48] recently yes they did with the guests uh on that episode were of Deal and Belal who directed bedboys uh for life and also bedboys writer die like it might be doing his transitions

[00:22:59] get in the captain segway uh which is very funny that at that episode is very interesting because apparently uh Deal and Belal were talking about um when they they always had a thing when they were

[00:23:08] like in film school and coming up and making movies at the beginning that like if we ever get to Hollywood we have to meet with Jerry Brockheimer he's he was the goal uh interesting and they got

[00:23:18] here they got to Hollywood they meet with Jerry Brockheimer and at the time somebody else was attached in pre-production or whatever on bedboys because they asked for bedboys interesting I

[00:23:28] think uh Joe Carnahan was supposed to be a bedboy's for a life yeah it was Joe Carnahan he was like but Beverly Hills Cop has nobody attached to it and they were like Deal so they were originally

[00:23:37] attached to Beverly Hills to start the production or pre-pro whatever i Beverly Hills Cop acts left and then Joe Carnahan dropped out and they switched over in the rest of history uh for bedboys

[00:23:46] so very very fascinating the way those things go which you know also ties into the best movies and ever made thing sure but i did say all that to say i saw a bad boy's writer die in the theater

[00:23:55] with my regal unlimited if there's one movie that is worth seeing for free now that's that's true but uh yeah i mean bedboys writer die i we talked about the first three recently and i don't think

[00:24:07] I had seen writer die yet when we talked about them correct yeah i had seen writer die but you hadn't yes i mean as movies pretty fun it's pretty good i think it's just as good as for life

[00:24:16] which i think is pretty good i don't i'm afraid to say bedboys choose the worst one because that doesn't feel right it's a weird thing where it like doesn't feel right but also it kind of is too long

[00:24:26] it's too god damn long i mean it's a short too long but i also i don't know i think uh what i've been saying about the new bedboys movies that i do kind of like the more than the

[00:24:35] Michael Bay ones with the caveat that like losing the Michael Bay of the bedboy series like loses some of the essence of the bedboy's you know yeah even though i think like these two

[00:24:46] these two newer ones like feels stronger as films to me yeah yeah i feel like losing Michael Bay like loses something essential uh which is odd oh that that's it i think i

[00:24:56] do a lot of our killing it with these muts they have their own unique style and uh their action is really really good it's really fun yeah for 100% they do a lot of really interesting

[00:25:06] things they i feel like they take the energy and i think we even reference this scene in the last episode when we're talking about it the scene in in bedboys too when they're at like the Jamaican hideout or whatever that gangs hideout and there's the cameras just like

[00:25:17] spinning in a circle around the entire like center pillar of the house and you just see they take that energy but they put it into a lot of other stuff like there's lots of uh this is like a

[00:25:26] shot at the very beginning when when Martin Lawrence is in the convenience store he's like i don't have time for this and he looks down at his watch and the p o v of the camera is from inside the

[00:25:35] watch looking up at him yeah and you just see like the clock fake i don't know just stuff like that and then the the camera going into security like video feeds of so people watching like a

[00:25:43] security camera and going into the camp into the feed to like then go into the room that we're watching and pulling back out and in and out and changing locations and just just interesting

[00:25:52] cool exciting camera movement stuff that uh you know movies broadly today are just locked off boring two shots and we just cut back and forth you know i don't know like it feels weird so yeah

[00:26:02] and it's cool it's fun it does you can feel the fast inferior justification the the family application of the bad boys movies right now they gotta squad i got more people you know obviously

[00:26:12] they're getting older oh sure they have other people these stunts uh or action scenes but it's fun it's cool and then cook out and then cook out what's the it's not Kyle what's the the

[00:26:22] the sun in law oh Reggie Reggie stands rise up you know what a what a glow up for Reggie from bad boys to you sure where he is now in the details in this movie he's seen his action scene

[00:26:34] is incredible it's amazing yeah bad boys uh writer die is fun his big stupid shoot out fun you know nice I'm glad you enjoyed it Mike I'm glad you know I did my barely hills cop watch

[00:26:46] you did your bad boys watch we've been on a brook camera kick lately yeah well to be a TV age what are we not on a brook camera kick that that's fair how many Tony Scott movies do I just

[00:26:54] watch you know that's true we're always adjacent to brook camera in some way but yeah so bad boys writer die you dug it what else you've watched make for that well some list so I guess

[00:27:05] so bad boys writer die was the the thing that got me to sign up for the Regal and limited things they were doing some kind of summer deal yeah which uh so I got an extra month

[00:27:13] free basically if you sign up for the summer you they gave you tips tip timber also I guess so I was looking at it and I was like well if I go twice you go twice a month like we

[00:27:21] jumped out before it pays for itself here in New York because of course it's the highest tier subscription and you have to show pay for in New York so I was looking at it it was like June 28th

[00:27:30] and I was like I gotta go I gotta get in there so I don't waste a month or whatever what can I see for free what's playing in the next 20 minutes that I can go see for free

[00:27:41] and I landed on Russell Crow's the exercise system now Russell Crow he just stars in it he just stars in it he just stars in it directed by Joshua John Miller who it looks like his only ever

[00:27:51] directed one other thing I don't know if he is a writer maybe actor okay he's in some stuff but anyway this is not related to the Pope's extra schnist movie from a year last year right they say

[00:28:02] different Russell Crow actresses a movie right which is crazy because if you remember the Pope's extra schnist it ends with them finding a diary that is like there's 200 other active extras

[00:28:12] right like I remember we talking about that like oh my god they say yes they sewed the seeds for a 200 entry franchise yes I think I think you're gonna so I haven't watched Pope's extra

[00:28:22] yes but I think you're making me watch it later this year I think I might be yeah if I be in the mix I don't remember but so yeah this is the movie this is a movie about Russell Crow

[00:28:30] playing an actor has been on hard times he's had addiction problems he had like a very public meltdown kind of thing tabloid fodder and then he gets cast in the in the kind of funny in the movie they call

[00:28:42] it the George Town Project and they're like are you seriously remaking and they're just like yes and like they never actually say like what the extra schnist is like it's cast in this movie

[00:28:52] and it's his chance to come back but he's got to go to dark places you know in access to deep emotions and maybe let something in that he should not have let in kind of thing and it turns into this

[00:29:04] weird extra schnism or curse the movie demon story about this you know trouble actor and all these and it's fine I guess it's okay for free yeah it's pretty good you know

[00:29:17] I think the highlight from you is David Hart Pierce isn't it he plays the the priest like consultant on the film and I think they're giving the Max van Cid out old man make up to him

[00:29:29] to make him look very old because I was like okay can't be that frail right he looks so frail and he's pretty good and he starts to often is a really quiet spoken you know priestly character then turns into something more so it's pretty good Sam Boer thinks

[00:29:43] he's in it for 10 seconds which is wild I've got two scenes and I'm like that's same where what's happening why I said we're addicted to them she actually himself Jake's only himself yeah

[00:29:51] so it's fine it's fine I think I don't I don't think it says good as the Pope's excess is because the Pope's exercise has more fun I think okay it's a little more tongue and

[00:30:02] she's self-awarey kind of thing and this is all about you know the the the weight of being in actore um you know it's not that self-serious but I think Pope's exercise is having more

[00:30:12] still like he's doing a silly accent in that we'll be and indices not so you know if you got to compare with the two I guess go with Pope's exercise but okay but the exercise is if you want

[00:30:20] more Russell Crow as an exercise or Russell Crow involved in exercise in some way yeah then yeah this will this will scratch the edge I hope this is just what he does now I hope this is honestly

[00:30:29] if he's just like slum in it and be movies forever that'd be great obviously he actually exercises in more later be very serious yeah I genuinely hope they do a whole franchise of

[00:30:39] Pope's exercise because they they absolutely should yeah I mean you know I think people would follow Russell Crow on his Vespas uh he stands on him say the movie lacks Russell Crow and a Vespas in a pop

[00:30:50] music like Pope's exercise one day I will watch the Pope's exercise not sure about the exercise and what will see what happens there yeah but speaking of movies about actors as a what

[00:31:01] segue into the next thing I recently watched Ghostlights which have you heard of this movie like I have on a podcast recently yes I heard about it so I'm interested to hear what you think okay

[00:31:10] this is a new indie drama this played with these sudden as film festival earliest or earlier this year uh directed by Kelly Ocelevin and Alex Thompson and it's a movie about uh this construction worker

[00:31:21] who uh gets fired from his job and he's had like a really rough time video suffered a personal tragedy I was got a very strained relationship with his teenage daughter and he's just barely holding it

[00:31:30] together and he sort of finds himself uh sort of accidentally embroiled with this true backters who are doing this local community production of Romeo and Juliet and this movie is very affecting it's very it's very very solid and the performance is especially from uh the manga Keith Cooper

[00:31:46] uh and his real life daughter who plays a teenage daughter in the movie are both very very strong and yeah I think it's a weird movie that I was sort of resisting at first like when I

[00:31:56] when it first started as like I don't know about this job because it really lays it on thick like this blue color guy who doesn't go in for the art sort of thing and yeah like to the degree

[00:32:06] was like oh I'm just a construction worker what do I know about Romeo and Juliet how does it even end I don't know and I was like you don't know how Romeo and Juliet come on it's maybe the most

[00:32:19] famous ending that anything is ever had but you you sort of find that Romeo and Juliet also parallels the tragedy that he suffered his own life and it but the act of theater and performance kind of

[00:32:31] helps him kind of work through it like a fair puty sort of way and yeah I think his performance is ultimately very strong even though I thought it was kind of silly at the beginning of the

[00:32:38] movie it kind of it brought me around by the end and yeah ghostly it's absolutely worth checking out I think it's really terrific so uh yeah worth watching I did have the thought that like you know

[00:32:46] this is a really a claim like independent movie like independent drama and it's a very good one I think but I think if it becomes more than that like if it becomes like an Oscar contender or something like

[00:32:55] people will turn on this movie I think this one that will get it back last fascinating you know in the same way that like Kota that's a nice movie it's a good movie I like

[00:33:04] Kota but the second I got nominated for Oscars people fucking hated Kota yeah what a waste of time I mean you never even saw Kota did you make no I thought that was me talking is Twitter right

[00:33:14] yeah exactly but yeah ghostly I think it's sort of in a similar vein I think maybe a stronger film than Kota but yeah if you're looking for something in that vein I think if you're a theater

[00:33:24] kid especially like if you're somebody who's very much into live performance and theater you will absolutely find something to take out from ghost light so yeah worth checking that out I also want

[00:33:32] to go see a quiet place day one which just opened this past weekend as of this recording which is the third film in the quiet place series and the first one not directed by John

[00:33:44] this one is directed by Michael Sarnowski director of pig with nitrous cage pig oh wait different different yeah not pigs not the 1972 movie pigs that you made me in Nick watch many years ago to much to everyone's delight it's a quiet place colon at daddy's deadly darling

[00:34:03] incredibly you've remembered the so-called epics oh I bought the blue ray because you're making you're actually I've got it so what but yeah quiet place day one so I was looking forward to this

[00:34:14] because I generally I like both the quiet place movies and they're both like really solid horror movies and I was very excited just for the follow-up to pig from Michael Sarnowski to make another

[00:34:22] movie and part of me was like well is this gonna feel like you know he's kind of just like getting thrown into the franchise and you know all that kind of stuff but I think it actually just feels

[00:34:31] very distinct from the first two movies and sort of does feel like oh yeah you could tell this is the guy who made pig making a quiet place day one which is kind of interesting so it started

[00:34:39] to be in the young go um in the lead role as this woman who is turnily ill she's like she's suffering from cancer she's you know in hospice at the moment and you know she's like living up

[00:34:49] state in New York or whatever but then uh like she and like her like fellow residents they kind of go on a field trip to New York City and then of course that happens to be day one of a quiet place

[00:34:59] so the monsters from a quiet place started tackling on that day and I think that's setting it in New York City is very fun because the quiet place monsters are attracted to sound as well

[00:35:08] though and New York City is the loudest place on earth yes correct and so I like watching it I was like yeah why why didn't they set the quiet place movies in a city? why are they out of farm what's

[00:35:22] well you know it's one of those the one of the things I thought about a lot surprisingly um because I think I think the first quiet place which I still haven't seen the second one which maybe

[00:35:31] why haven't seen day one yet even though it's prequel and I know I probably don't have to yeah you don't have to however a character from part two does appear in a quiet place day whoa

[00:35:39] see you know like the full full enjoyment I wouldn't have gotten it but there's the one moment in quiet place one where I think it's during the opening credits when they're or maybe it's after the

[00:35:49] sun they don't really remember the like structure that first act right but you see a newspaper and it's like New York Post and it says like the or daily news or whatever it's like it's sound like

[00:35:59] you know you know how loud a printing print like how loud a newspaper press it like how did you have time to make that a newspaper oh yeah so anyway I've been very interested

[00:36:09] to see how day one explains away the fact that people survived long enough to be printing newspapers about what that's the sound yeah I can't I can't say for sure if it answers that

[00:36:19] specifically wow just just the whole franchise falls for but what's interesting about it is that it's about this woman who is about to die anyway right and so when the monster is attack you know

[00:36:30] she's scared obviously because the monster attack and she sees like people that she knows get eaten and all that kind of stuff Alex Wolf is in the movie briefly he's the guy from her editori the

[00:36:39] kid from writer who's also in pig and it's basically just her and her cat and she's like you know what if I'm going to die anyway the reason I came to the city in the first place is because I wanted

[00:36:48] to get one last slice of pizza from this very specific place in Harlem and so she makes it her mission to travel across the city like you know trying to avoid these monsters like a reverse warriors

[00:36:59] to get that last slice of pizza and that end extremely relatable yeah that sounds like a movie made for Mike Smith yeah and so yeah so it's a little bit of a young go trying to traverse the city trying

[00:37:12] to get this last slice of pizza with her and her cat she ends up meeting this British guy who kind of helps her on her journey the British guy's played by the guy who played eddy on stranger

[00:37:20] things in season four that's why that guy looks so familiar yes he's also your new human torch and marvels fantastic for so there's that he's blowing up but yeah a quiet place they want it's

[00:37:30] really solid it's you know it's there's less sequences that are like really tense monster centric sequences and much more focus on just like the humanity between these two characters and sort of trying to understand psychology of Lupita Nyango's character especially who is

[00:37:44] going to die anyway so she doesn't like you know she doesn't really care about all that stuff that's going on with the monsters so it takes some really interesting angles to uh to the concept

[00:37:53] of a quiet place which I found pretty refreshing so yeah it's really solid a quiet place day one go see it fascinating I can't think of a segue what's your next movie Mike next movie is a

[00:38:04] documentary about Daria or her gentle okay it's like I could I'm sure we could figure out one eventually but there's a documentary on shutter called Daria or Dario or Gento Panico or Panic in Italian right and uh yeah it's just a it's it's a pretty interesting

[00:38:22] structure for a documentary because it is it is I guess in his like heyday you know when Daria or Gento in the 70s and 80s or whatever was making his movies he would lock himself in

[00:38:32] Renta hotel room for a month lock himself in and wouldn't come out till he was done writing the script and that was that was how he would make his movie how we would write his movies yeah and so this is

[00:38:41] I don't actually know when it was taking place but they came out in 2023 um but he's going he's he's going in he's an old man Daria or Gento now he's going to be making a new movie so

[00:38:51] he's going to lock himself in a hotel again and not come out till he writes the script and in the meantime there's a documentary crew there with him talking to him about his legacy in his life

[00:38:59] and so it is sort of you know ultimately like a typical you know talking head kind of thing cut the clip to the movie cuts to the next person you know just put the history of Daria or

[00:39:08] Gento so if you're interested in the story and his how he got started I didn't realize I guess you know the thing that's pretty fascinating to me it's sort of unlocked like almost all of his movies is that

[00:39:18] he his mom was a fashion photographer and so he grew up in all of these Italian high-fashion model houses and stuff where all of his movies are said you know like that's all about beauty and

[00:39:30] the destruction of you know purity and all that stuff everybody so it was kind of interesting and all that and his father I think was either a film producer or film critic or something so he's

[00:39:39] grew up in the arts and around high-fashion and all those things and how that all translates to his very you know impressionistic movies blah blah blah blah blah so yeah it's pretty interesting I don't know

[00:39:47] it's like 90 minutes and I was just like oh cool it is sort of just a and then this movie and then this movie and it's just kind of logically through his movies and talking to his producing partners his writing

[00:39:55] partners people you know that he then brought up in like that he sort of mentored and then his children are in all in it so I was interesting to hear about a lot about his like

[00:40:05] dichotomy of as a father and a really like actually caring and loving father despite like you know tumultuous relationships and stuff but then also he would go and make these all the most horrific

[00:40:16] Harvey Vs. and here that a lot about these kind of guys you know what's crazy even being like an amazing person but then also making some of them was vial and just stirring Vs ever so that whole

[00:40:25] dichotomy and stuff so yeah it's pretty cool pretty brief um it was just like I'm not really sure what to do I'm gonna flip around on shutter oh sorry let's let me kill 20 minutes and watch

[00:40:34] some of this and then it was over and I was like oh wow shit I watched this whole movie um didn't even mean to so that's um Dario Argento Panico okay if you're interested in that

[00:40:43] and I'll talk about a couple more shutters stuff okay um the shutter block of the shatter block yes for Bruncie by Shutter this movie next movie is a South Korean movie called Exima or Exima EX

[00:40:55] H-U-M-A and uh it stars a Choy Min-Sik who is the guy the star of Old Boy which is how her heard about it and this movie is incredible it's so fucking good did you ever want to

[00:41:05] the wailing remember I talked about that a while ago no it's sort of a similar vibe which is also South Korean horror movie yeah um but this is Exima is a like sort of alternate world i mean it's

[00:41:18] the real world right it's the regular world but there are just shamans and and like the super natural world is just real taken for like accepted as real um and there's these guys and it's

[00:41:28] sort of this thing that like it seems like the uber rich or the only people that have access to this anymore these these sort of like professional shamans and it starts with oh uh these two people

[00:41:38] or these two shamans are called by the super rich guy because there's newborn son i think might be possessed like i think my I think my child is possessed and they sort of get into this thing and like oh yeah

[00:41:47] when i was born i think i i've heard stories my parents say that like i was possessed when i was born it's like this family curse thing yeah and as they start to unravel the peel or unravel

[00:41:57] the layers to all this um they end up having to get this guy uh who's played by uh trying to say like i said who's a geomancer and it's the coolest fucking thing and he's basically like a

[00:42:08] fun shway expert is how he they like describe it like that um where he can determine uh where burial plots are the most ideal to prevent supernatural things like oh i have to be facing this

[00:42:19] direction and under under this tree has good fun shway whatever you know stuff like that yeah i mean so they have to team but with him and he's this sort of like world weary he's been doing this

[00:42:28] for 40 years and and he's sick of these uber rich people that don't really care and they just pay me so i tell them yeah that's about good like you know that kind of guy um and and

[00:42:37] him getting drawn into this family curse thing uh and it's fucking rules it's so good it's really scary it has a lot of really intense very interesting like rituals that they do and they don't

[00:42:48] really the movie doesn't like explain what they're doing you're just like in a ritual and it's just like keep up and it doesn't really matter exactly what's going on just to understand we're in some

[00:42:56] kind of scary supernatural ritual thing um and then it takes a turn like i've a genre turn in the middle of the movie and it's it's oh so good yeah so this is on shudder right now and big

[00:43:05] big recommend on x-uma which the way i mentioned to you has very similar vibes it's the same kind of thing except that starts as like a serial killer like movie that uh it's like a bumbling detective

[00:43:16] assigned to the case stumbles into the supernatural thing and that's the genre twist in the middle of that movie uh so these two these two go together and there'd be really fucking awesome

[00:43:23] so nice uh exi but in the wailing okay cool do you have another one on shudder mic or that of the younger shutters that is the end of my shutters okay i have one that's

[00:43:31] related to shudder as well so i don't throw that in there i didn't watch this on shudder i watched it uh in a theater i think it's on shudder now it seems some people kind of tweeting

[00:43:41] clips of it and stuff so i assume it's on shudder but that is in a violent nature which sounds like a shudder but it's on vod somewhere okay i know when i saw in theaters

[00:43:50] they had the shudder logo in front of it so i think if it's not on shudder yet it will be soon yeah i got to imagine um but yeah in a violent nature as a new horror movie that essentially

[00:44:02] asks the question what if Terrence Malik directed Friday the 13th uh i think it's so a little something like this uh yeah no so this is essentially a Friday the 13th movie from the

[00:44:15] perspective of Jason Voorhees you know when you watch a Friday the 13th movie or any of those 80s slasher's uh you know that are centered on like a group of teenagers and a monster the teenagers

[00:44:24] are always the main characters you're always following the teenagers and then some and then every once in a while Jason Voorhees shows up what in a violent nature does the teenagers are in the

[00:44:32] movie but they only show up when Jason Voorhees is watching them or when he's killing them and you facidated you you are pretty much for the most of the movies run time you are just following

[00:44:42] what's going on with Jason Voorhees and i will say the character's name is not Jason Voorhees it is legally distinct from Jason Voorhees. Jason Voorhees. Jason Voorhees. Yeah it's basically like as

[00:44:51] close you can get to being a Friday the 13th movie without legally being a Friday the 13th movie of the thing but yeah and so yeah i think it's a it's a really interesting fun movie i mean

[00:45:01] so here's the thing about it what do you think Jason Voorhees is doing when he's not killing teenagers. Well i've seen i saw a clip on Twitter so i assume walking to the next group of teenagers

[00:45:13] he's he's mostly just walking around yeah he's just walking through the woods because obviously what else is gonna do and so there will be like you know sequences in this movie they're like five

[00:45:23] seven minutes long they're just watching this guy walk or like walk through the woods amazing and i think kind of settling in on that mannateny is a is weirdly kind of fun and the movie is

[00:45:34] i think really funny it's like surprisingly funny uh in terms of uh how brutal it is uh and how gory it can be uh because the kills themselves are really good uh they're they're really intense and cool

[00:45:46] and a lot like really fun creative kills in this movie uh and then like every time one happens here's another 10 minutes of kind of trudging around for a little bit uh and he goes on to the next person

[00:45:57] it's like a fucked up john deal man yeah exactly uh and and every time it does one of those things like you the mythology kind of deepens like as the movie kind of goes along because you start

[00:46:06] like every time you cut back you finally it's see one of the teenagers again like the plot has progressed for them uh so yeah and because i've seen like Friday 13th movies before like i can fill in like the

[00:46:17] gaps of like what what the plot is amazing and so yeah i found it to be a really fun experiment it's really solid and uh looks beautiful and uh the kill like i think if you're a horror fan it

[00:46:28] brings something different to the slasher genre uh which uh is a pretty cool thing to see so yeah in a violent nature i guess yeah i think it's on video d-n hours like that but i would imagine

[00:46:37] it's on shutter pretty soon it's definitely worth checking out shutter is the one like criterion channel for you is the one that i haven't really checked in a while but i haven't been

[00:46:44] on there in a bit and uh i was like strolling through my abs the other day and i'm like man i gotta watch something on shutter i gotta i gotta i gotta i gotta tune into something uh and there's a few new

[00:46:52] movies that i like stop motion i really want to watch um but uh having gotten around too so yeah might do that pretty soon uh yeah in a violent nature worth checking out also i mentioned uh inside

[00:47:01] out too uh for something completely different incredible uh which of course at the sequel to Pixar's Inside Out it's the biggest movie of the summer it's goes to billion dollars already which uh is

[00:47:12] kind of crazy not that crazy yeah uh inside out it's very popular it makes sense that inside out too is also very popular yeah but yeah i really enjoyed inside out see it's pretty fun it's

[00:47:21] not nearly as good as the first one which i think is like genuinely like a late Pixar masterpiece you know it's sort of outside that like you know 95 through 2010 window where Pixar was just cranking out

[00:47:31] masterpieces uh after masterpieces and that inside out one was kind of released like right in the middle of what i considered to be a pretty big slump for Pixar where they're releasing a

[00:47:39] lot of sequels that nobody wants and like their originals are like the good dinosaur which sucks you know but inside out inside out in Coco were like the two bright spots of that decade being

[00:47:49] like oh yeah there's still something here in the old in the old Pixar labs and inside out too i think is a pretty solid like serviceable sequel i think the only thing i have against it is that

[00:48:00] it feels just kind of like a retread of the first one uh it doesn't really feel like it's adding that much new it is adding specifically new emotions look anxiety uh who's live on my a hawk

[00:48:08] uh who is really fun in the movie plus like embarrassment and uh you know there's an envy and all that kind of stuff it adds all of that but i don't think it like really it adds those characters

[00:48:17] but i don't think it really adds like much to your understanding of like how the emotions work together to create like a person uh that the first one didn't like already cover so yeah inside

[00:48:27] I do it's pretty good it's fun comic-cloclin plays the the girl's dad that's fun and he was in the first one too right yeah he was in the first one too and i was at the first one has more of the

[00:48:37] dad's POV and uh i wish i had gotten more of that in this one because that's my favorite part of it's uh is uh when you go into the dad's head and it's just like the like the emotions are all

[00:48:46] just like watching a football game yeah it's good stuff and you you get like one cut away and inside out too but they should have been more but yeah inside out too pretty solid and then

[00:48:55] another animated movie that i went to go see recently done her twels uh the acclaimed independent animator has a new short film out like oh which is called me and that short is about 20 minutes long

[00:49:05] and it's being released in theaters paired with his film it's such a beautiful day uh which came out back in 2012 have you ever seen such a beautiful day i'm like no i have not but um i do

[00:49:14] know the like poster or the art or the art or the art style or whatever i've never never because i've seen that before the clips and stuff but i've never actually seen the whole

[00:49:22] whole thing okay i had seen it such a beautiful day once before in in like 2014 or something like that like years ago so it'd been a long time but uh yeah this is a really cool double feature that

[00:49:32] you get to do so basically they showed me and then it's like a brief intermission where it's done herds felt uh kind of like introduces it's such a beautiful day and then you

[00:49:39] watch it such a beautiful day uh and yeah i had forgotten how good it's such a beautiful day was it's really like powerful and uh it's like an hour long and like uh kind of takes you through like

[00:49:49] a new understanding of consciousness and existential like you know all all that stuff it really is a beautiful beautiful film uh and then me it's just a wild short that i'm still trying to process

[00:49:59] everything that i just watched uh in that in that movie um but uh yeah it's absolutely worth checking out and uh yeah this is the first time it's such people days been in theaters in like 10

[00:50:08] years like since it was first released uh and me it's first time ever because it just came out so yeah if you're done herds well-fanned like this is playing at a lot of independent theaters like around

[00:50:16] the country right now i think most of them are like one off screenings like it was here for the rock so if you get the chance to go see it, hi recommend it's pretty cool nice that's this is it's a

[00:50:26] day at the movies you know yes absolutely and it's a double feature but it's a double feature last like an hour and a half like it's a pretty quick that's a pretty quick watch and you

[00:50:34] have a movie's near less mic anything else do you want to talk about yeah i've got a couple of movies um i'll just i'll just group three of them together uh i've got a sort of a sort of ketchup

[00:50:42] so the ketchup movies i watched Abigail monkey man and poor things recently not all together that'd be a wild triple feature but that is what i did uh i'm not gonna you know just catching up

[00:50:52] on some stuff that i didn't get the chance to see yet and um you know i guess Abigail would be my favorite out of this out of those three that's just my speed uh you know i'm sure that's the one i haven't seen yet

[00:51:02] i have not seen Abigail we were trying to go see it when i was in theaters and uh it was one of the things like oh yeah what like could my girlfriend also wanted to see it and so we had to like figure

[00:51:09] out of time when we both wanted to go yeah but there was also other movies coming out at that time and it was tough tough to make the decision so yeah i didn't get to go see Abigail but you liked it

[00:51:17] yeah i had a lot of fun it's the you know from the radio silence guys um big fan of uh ready or not and the screen movies that they made so yeah in the bag for for Abigail um and i

[00:51:27] watched it with a couple people that did not know the twist which is on the poster so i guess it's not too really yeah the twist is in the trailer it's on the poster it's it's there but does

[00:51:36] them would be play it like a twist like it's yeah which is sort of weird like it's not long it's maybe like it's the first act you know like the the end of the first act like the first 15

[00:51:45] inish minutes uh before you find out what who Abigail is so it is weird that it is like literally the poster of the movie um yeah but uh from then on it's just bloody fun bloody action

[00:51:56] comedy dance Stevens is amazing in this i it's a hot dance Stevens summer but it's hot dance Stevens life you know sure i mean this summer especially he's got Abigail he's also in the

[00:52:05] New God Zilicon yeah is he in next scene too or something i think or no he might be i think he's in I think you're right i think it is kuku yeah the hunter shape for horror movie yeah this isn't that yeah so

[00:52:16] he's great in this uh everybody's great most brahara uh proximate Caesar what's this looks a real guy's make Kevin Durand the guys who proximate Caesar in the other planet the apes yeah yeah and uh Catherine oh Catherine Newton's in this too Catherine Newton yeah she's great anyway yeah

[00:52:34] Abigail's great i don't want to go through detail of every move all the movies because there's a bunch so that was really fun bloody action comedy stuff uh monkey man dip a tail what a guy what

[00:52:43] um yeah uh fun he said trans rights and trans wrongs um which is a lot of fun it's always cool i think i think the prevailing uh sentiment of like you can tell it's a first time

[00:52:56] director and that's for sure i think i think he's they try a lot of really cool camera shade in this movie yeah throwing still like rolling around and and sort of making stuff look

[00:53:05] one take but not not really trying to make it look one take but it's all in there um yeah that's fun so somebody pointed out i saw in twitter that it's like a thing in some action movies now

[00:53:15] well they'll edit out a couple of frames the last couple of frames of like a punch or or no sorry the middle couple of frames so it looks really fast but when you note when said once it's pointed out

[00:53:27] you just notice it's just jumps everywhere like every punch has a jump in the middle and it's very dark so really and it's not it's not throughout but um it's in a lot of the action movies

[00:53:37] uh or action scenes rather so or some of the action scenes where that happens aren't just like whoa like this by i can it's literally processing that there's information missing so it's strange

[00:53:47] but overall i think the story is really cool i think it's like it's a fun thing you know i love the sort of nobody would cast death fatale in in this movie so he just wrote and made it himself

[00:53:57] right so we just go yeah so absolutely i saw monkey man in the feeder and uh i did like it but i i did wish it had committed harder to being an action movie yeah um which because it really i mean

[00:54:07] the action is really cool in it like i think that's really brutal and violent and like it is very creatively choreographed all that kind of stuff but it's only like two action scenes in the

[00:54:15] yeah they're like long action scenes but like they kind of like oh okay yeah they are is one at the beginning one at the end and then that's pretty much it basically yes but there

[00:54:24] is a moment where the death detail takes us sure off and everybody around him cheers uh which is very funny very funny to direct a movie with you do that to yourself yeah

[00:54:32] thanks for my favor casting uh scolarcho hands and i just love interest in uh chef right yeah yeah so uh that's my command spritz find it was pretty good and it's cool and then uh the other

[00:54:44] thing was poor things which um i'm excited to see i want to see kinds of kindness sure now it's like hey i guess and then also they just announced a third or ever-stone in europeus land thomas just

[00:54:52] announced a third collaboration for next year yeah yeah cool y'all go say he's not stopping man he's just going just get weird and i heard kinds of kindness is very weird um so not as weird

[00:55:02] as his other stuff or earlier stuff but seems cool so i was like well let me go back and watch the first one let me see this after you're winning performance in poor things yeah and i mean yeah

[00:55:10] except like sure of course you put on the Oscar i guess yeah because it's a really technically accomplished performance actually yeah yeah the whole the whole progression of her uh like you know

[00:55:20] as like an infant uh it's a bit underdeveloped infant at the beginning and where she ends up at the end it was like wow that's actually fucking incredible um and just that whole arc and how it all

[00:55:29] plays out on screen mark rough was fucking amazing in this so funny he's so funny um so yeah i mean i had a blast with it and and and i love it's you know um i love your ghost land thomas is just

[00:55:40] a freak you know he's just fucking weird of what if this was in a weird fish eye for some reason alright okay cool dude i'm in yeah it is so funny to me because you're gonna say it's

[00:55:50] about somebody that i've known since dogtooth came out yeah which was like 20th hand like on a friend like told me about dogtooth when i was like 17's like man you gotta watch dogtooth it's crazy

[00:56:00] i feel it it is weird but i feel like dogtooth gets talked about in like the same way like a Serbian film gets sure yeah it's like i don't wish it didn't get far but it's a weird movie

[00:56:12] and it's any kind of built-a-screeer i'm making very like weird alienating movies and yet at some point along the way he got embraced by the mainstream yeah somehow the favorite well i guess

[00:56:24] even really before the favorite too sure yeah i mean the lobster had gotten a claim of stuff but even like killing a psychodier came out like i remember like i think i went to see that movie

[00:56:31] and then like an empty movie theater i did you go see killing a psychodier was that uh i did not know okay i still have not seen that i've been on my list for a long time it's good

[00:56:39] it's weird it's wild i mean that that might be like one of his weirdest movies in recent years um that and that was uh that was the beginning of berry keegan summer uh yeah was uh i don't that was

[00:56:49] done current killing a psychodier like back to back uh it's like oh this kid he's weird it's a why he's a wild little guy he's gonna be a salt burn in six years but uh yeah i think his career

[00:57:00] trajectory is like really fascinating to me as somebody who's like sort of becoming a name that gets like younger film fans very excited uh as a director and i was i was kind of thinking about it

[00:57:09] like who are like the next generation of directors that like jenzy film geeks are excited about i think it's yoga so i have to most and denny villain who are like the two that kind of like landed on

[00:57:18] it's like these are the ones that like people are like really into right now yeah which i heard kind of kind of this has a bunch of sex scenes in it and stuff and somebody was like you got them

[00:57:25] yoga so we're gonna pull them back in like um yeah i mean what's exactly that too for sure first of all yeah for sure um yeah very good uh well the foes great i'm gonna take it to

[00:57:36] get movie loved it um so that's those three movies i have one more and i want to go into just a detail about but do you have any more i have a few more but you can go into years and then i'll

[00:57:44] do them the rest of mine okay so the last movie i watched uh yesterday is uh from Francis galipi director director my Francis galipi and it is the last stop in yuma county oh yes i really want to see

[00:57:56] yeah baby but you're you're in you're gonna it's great it's so much fun um it's basically hateful aid in the desert okay in like a sort of kind of way so this star is um Jim coming uh Jim

[00:58:08] coming's uh and jocelyn Donahue who i just saw is the lead from house of the devil which you are making me watch later this year oh yeah yeah yeah yeah i'm excited for that um and friend of the pod

[00:58:17] Richard Brink of course right um start the dare the dare yes and uh this is about basically a guest stop in the desert uh guest station on the highway and it's basically about all these people

[00:58:30] that show up hey we're out of gas the the fuel truck is supposed to be it's gonna be here anytime you could wait in the diner next door and it's just the slow trickle of people at pull

[00:58:40] filing into the diner you hear on the radio at the beginning that there was a bank robbery in the county or the neighboring county earlier that morning the the the perpetrators were seeing

[00:58:49] fleeing and a green pinto what do you know a green pinto rolls up to the diner and these two guys one of them is Richard Brink which is like a human spoiler you know he's one of those

[00:59:00] actors yeah just I see you see him like this guy's trouble he's the bad guy yeah and um and and the movie knows it it doesn't that like does not play that uh it takes like

[00:59:11] five minutes before it's root yes these are the bank robbers uh they are now holding up in this diner with all these people um we're half to wait for gas also and and then it's 90 minutes of

[00:59:21] of ramping tension and and Jim Cummings being his his uh neurotic self and he's great but he's he also sort of is playing against type like he's playing this really shy guy that does

[00:59:30] not want to get involved in this at all which the couple movies I've seen him in you know he's very uh go get him or whatever right so yeah and it's and it's awesome I think the tension and the

[00:59:40] eventual you know uh resolution of the tension is very exciting and interesting and uh yeah it's wearing its neo-noir quentin tarantino stuff you know hard boiled things uh on its sleeve uh and it's pretty pretty brazen about it so it's good stuff so that's the last stop in

[00:59:55] New McCamity I had a lot of fun with it nice yeah that's uh when I've been excited to see uh I know it's available on video D now so uh yeah I'm gonna pull the trick around that pretty soon because uh yeah

[01:00:04] seems sick seem looking awesome time this good time all right cool and then that's the last of my de-stuff I've had a few more movies I want to throw in there real quick the first of which is top

[01:00:13] secrets uh which I watched of my birthday party this year I got to uh basically come make friends come to my house and force them to watch this movie there's a there's a fun like joy in the

[01:00:26] making it over the hump of like being not going from being eight and the birthday party is coming pizza and watch a movie yeah um to like have it to be cool and do shit and then I

[01:00:36] over 30 come eat pizza and watch a movie of my house exactly uh and last year was my 30th birthday party and it was like a big thing where you're looking you know out until like three a m my entire family flew

[01:00:45] out and all that kind of stuff and you know all that it was great had a great time this year wanted to do something much more low key and so turning 31 had a barbecue at my house had burgers and

[01:00:54] hot dogs and then we actually last year for my birthday I got a projector which uh I was pretty excited about but I never used uh like just never got around to using excited I don't really have the

[01:01:04] opportunity to use it there's not really like a place in my house to put a projector you know that kind of thing and so this year my girlfriend suggested what if we use the projector to

[01:01:13] have like an outdoor movie screening for your birthday and I was like that's a great idea so we got a screen and we use the projector on that uh worked really well and I had people over for a barbecue

[01:01:22] and we all gathered together outside to watch top secret which I build as a mystery movie I didn't tell people what we were watching incredible and and so every time somebody would ask me like oh hey

[01:01:32] what movie we were watching and I would be like oh I can't tell you it's top secret that's that's a that's a that's a level of a gag that would be in top secret exactly

[01:01:44] and it was so fun they did eventually figured out like an hour before the movie started amazing because I had the party like they we started basically doing like a 20 questions game

[01:01:53] where they're like okay is it from the 80s yes it's in comedy yes is it like it you know uh it does it start any sitcom stars no like all that and where they were trying to like

[01:02:01] narrow it down uh for a long time they thought I was talking about buckaroo bonsai uh yeah so that's high probability for Mike Smith birthday party is short bonsai yeah I think that would be a great

[01:02:10] one maybe potential one for next year although we are playing it at the Roxy uh in just a few weeks uh so then anyway it wants to come out with the Roxy Theater on July 26 for trashfelt

[01:02:19] oh my god if I'm a cosmic member can I get him for free yes you can do sir yeah for a long time people were guessing buckaroo bonsai until eventually I gave the hint like

[01:02:30] I've been telling you what it is all night well I've been here the whole time and so yeah we watch top secret which I hadn't seen in a very long time so I didn't re-watch it

[01:02:40] when uh I made you watch it for the podcast yeah and long enough where like I didn't have it logged on letterbox which I was a little surprised I thought I had watched it like at some point

[01:02:49] but since then but yeah it's a movie that I watched probably like three or four times when I was in like college and just hadn't watched since hold up it's great it's a it's a really really funny

[01:02:58] movie as a couple of jokes that like have an aged well but when the joke ratio is like you know a hundred jokes a minute and like one of them has an aged well it's pretty good that's a pretty

[01:03:07] that's a pretty solid ratio for something from the 80s you know for sure yeah uh and so yeah if you haven't seen top secret in a long time or you've never seen top secret it's a very very funny

[01:03:17] movie from the makers of airplane starring Falcillmer and his first movie and it's a it's a it's a parody of spy movies it's also a parody of Elvis movies and it kind of matches those two things

[01:03:26] together and it creates something really really fun I remember when you watched I feel like you were kind of lukewarm on it like or you were like it was one of those things where you watched it and

[01:03:33] enjoyed it but like if you would watch it with more people you would like to more right is that yeah that sounds correct yeah I remember I remember liking it and having fun but yeah I think I think

[01:03:41] at the time it had that uh if I was with friends in some beers and that kind of thing like this would be one of my favorites but just alone for the first time uh it's all right yeah um but in general

[01:03:52] those movies are just very funny so yeah top secret it's great uh I would say watched on Netflix but it's gone now uh it was streamed on Netflix and it was leaving at the end of June so uh sorry

[01:04:03] yeah top secret it's great I also watched John Waters' film Cecil B. Demented which played for trash vault at the rock sea and a trash vault is embarking on a new journey as Charlie McCorn

[01:04:15] has officially retired from a trash vault hosting and uh Calen Gray's a taken it over and their first film that they selected was John Waters' film Cecil B. Demented which I know is a big

[01:04:23] movie for them uh they showed it at for their own like they have like a little after hours club for their college friends uh that they do at the rock sea uh called the Cinemunkeys uh and this

[01:04:32] was I think the first movie they showed there and it was like a big movie for them like a huge like they all loved it so much and so they were excited to bring it to trash vault and yeah it's really

[01:04:40] fun and this was actually the very first John Waters movie I've ever seen I've not seen any of the John Waters films wow and it's a huge blind spot for me but Cecil B. Demented is a Hollywood sat

[01:04:50] tire uh starring Melanie Griffith and Steven Dorf. Melanie Griffith is this like a Hollywood star lit like a pretty major like a list star. Steven Dorf is this like independent, rebel, reckless,

[01:05:01] crazy director named Cecil B. Demented who kidnapped her and forces her to star in his movie which is like a fully like crazy like independent thing and his movie is mostly like going into real places

[01:05:12] and like firing guns and being like death to you know mainstream studios all that independent cinema all that kind of thing and it's like it's him and like a possive like a similarly crazy

[01:05:22] like rebellious teenage film heads uh some of them are like Michael Shannon and Maggie Jill and Hall wow and all that stuff and it's very much influenced by the patty herds kidnapping uh

[01:05:34] and the Stockholm syndrome that is associated with that uh and so Melanie Griffith you know starts to become actually involved in their group as a result of it also patty hers has a cano in this

[01:05:44] fucking John Waters. Wild and yeah it ends in total depravity and insanity and uh it's a really good time so Cecil B. Demented I had a great time a good first John Waters movie to jump into

[01:05:57] so yeah enjoyed that then also got to watch the long goodbye for the first time like like which yeah did you not know I hadn't seen it? I think do we talk about it on the big sleep

[01:06:05] episode? I didn't mean to bite of yeah we just did the big sleep for my birthday uh Philip Marlow movie and uh got to watch Ellie Goop play Philip Marlow this time around and so it's two two big

[01:06:16] cat rolls in your discussions this week. That's true a fireplace day one and uh the long goodbye I will say a fireplace day one at the cat survives uh okay good good the cat is like you know

[01:06:27] he's a great movie cat. Long goodbye pretty upset that the cat disappears uh 20 minutes and he never finds them uh it had such weight of that final line like that last moments but yeah pretty upsetting

[01:06:39] that the real one thing Marlow cares about in this world is gone for yeah no no dialogue Arnold Schwarzenegger appearance um he's like a henchman yeah has mustache it's a natural is wild feels weird yeah but yeah I really really great you know crime thriller a hardbilled

[01:06:56] noir that's so so funny Ellie at cool just mumbling to himself the entire time is it's so so great really and just so I really enjoyed the long goodbye it was really fun I don't know if I liked

[01:07:04] quite as much of the big sleep or and I also don't think it's my favorite alt man I was I was going in expecting it like this is gonna my favorite alt man movie but I think the edge still goes

[01:07:12] to California split and then California split hard to be California split real good but uh really enjoyed it so long goodbye worth watching can't have seen it that's all the movies I had to talk

[01:07:22] about I don't want to give a quick shout out as well I didn't mention this before but uh the acolyte is airing right now which is the new Star Wars TV show uh and so how's the dragon's

[01:07:30] airing right now too which uh still great really enjoying that I recommend if you you haven't caught up on the first season yet no but the acolyte is a new Star Wars TV show uh created by Leslie

[01:07:40] Headland who was the creator of Russian doll on Netflix uh and I'm like back and forth on this show uh except when the first episode I was like this is pretty promising I kind of liked this this is

[01:07:52] pretty good and then episode two is like all right it's like it's still a decent episode 3 and 4 bad I thought they were quite bad out right then out right then I thought they were bad episode 3 is a

[01:08:02] flashback that sort of gives you some like backstory for the main characters but it's all backstory that I thought I could have picked up in context if we didn't do the flashback so I don't

[01:08:11] know it feels a little off um but episode 5 which is the most recent episode that aired recently like really brought me back around episode 5 is really really cool and I am excited to see the

[01:08:21] rest of the show I think it's an eight episode season and as of this recording I think episode six is airing tonight by the time the episode comes out seasonal probably over what but I'm not just

[01:08:30] gonna give it a shout out because I it's take so the idea of the show is it takes about 100 years before the events of the prequels and it's sort of it's not quite like nights at the build

[01:08:39] Republic uh Star Wars era but it's you know 100 years ago uh and so the idea is that you're mostly focused on like new characters like people that you haven't seen before that you're seeing like a whole

[01:08:48] new side of the Jedi council and the first episode opens with a light-saber battle between the main character and carry-in moss uh is a Jedi and she gets into a light-saber battle and it's awesome

[01:08:59] it's really cool and the and the fight choreography is like heavily inspired by like crash and tiger hidden dragon and like that kind of thing and then carry-in moss dies within like 10 minutes

[01:09:07] uh Jesus Christ and I was like why would you show me this by can't have it what why would you allow this to exist if I'm just saying if she's not going to be the main character yeah and in some

[01:09:18] respect I still wish that was the case so I think the main character herself is like a little bit boring but I think the show is like it's it's hooked me in enough where I'm like this is at least

[01:09:28] like interesting as opposed to the other Star Wars shows that have been airing recently like I liked Andor andor is good at the general consensus andor good but like Mandalorian season 3

[01:09:36] that was very bad uh I thought the Obi-Wan show was very bad of the Boba Fet Show was very bad I never watched the Asoku show because I've never watched Star Wars Rebels and I kind of feel like

[01:09:46] I I feel like I'd be lost if I didn't watch that yeah um so I don't know this this feels like um in some respects it seems like it's like hitting the same stuff that a lot of the Disney Star

[01:09:56] Wars shows are doing and it feels like paced in that similar way but at the same time it is doing more interesting things than those other shows are doing and it's developing characters in

[01:10:05] a way that are really fun and also killing those characters and where it's really fun too uh so let's so carry on mosses in the first episode she's also an episode 3 in the flashback there's a

[01:10:15] wookie Jedi which is pretty cool that's cool that was pretty into that the guy from squid game is it was one of the main characters uh uh Daphne Keen who is a x-23 in Logan uh she's in the show

[01:10:27] the guy from Russian Dolls in the show and also many Jacinto from the good place I saw yes yes everyone freaking out about his arms yeah well so he uh plays a character early on in the

[01:10:37] show and you're like oh whatever he's kind of just popping up here and there but he ends up playing a pretty significant role and uh yeah he's he's bringing in a lot of really fun charisma to uh to the show

[01:10:46] as well and I will say episode 5 which is the one that brought me back I think has the best lightsaber choreography since the last Jedi's throne room battle whoa uh you know i'm not

[01:10:56] gonna say it's better than the throne room battle for him battles fucking sick but uh you know I think uh since then like this is the most I've been like excited by a lightsaber battle

[01:11:04] uh which like last Jedi was like seven years ago now at this point it feels just like yesterday considering we're still yelling about it but I think uh you know it feels like uh that the show is doing

[01:11:15] more interesting things than the other Star Wars shows are doing except for Andor and so to that end I would recommend the acolyte again I didn't like episode 3 and 4 I thought they were very bad

[01:11:25] but uh episode 5 I was brought back around and I'm excited to see where the show will go from here if it's able to kind of reach those heights again or if it's gonna be uneven again or whatever it is

[01:11:34] but I feel like I'm in for the long haul now for the rest of the season uh yeah uh I'm digging it yeah exactly check it out yeah I saw I was like okay maybe this will be another thing I'll

[01:11:44] eventually get to you um and then it sort of becomes one of those things where like people just won't shut the fuck up on Twitter about like good or bad you know it's mostly people on Twitter or saying bad

[01:11:53] things uh but are like things that are probably incorrect uh sure yeah and it is one of those things where because of the uh it's a very uh diverse Star Wars show right now yeah and that causes

[01:12:03] a consternation with a certain number of fans yeah so it just boils down to something like this just resentment of like I I'm seeing a lot about this against my will I now don't want to watch it

[01:12:14] sure but maybe maybe only for a final report from you in the season ends and then just watch it all at once right like if it's worth watching yeah yeah absolutely I will give you that report because uh

[01:12:24] yeah I'll be watching it I think it's only three episodes left I'm already more than halfway there I got to see kind of doing it where I go from here yeah but even if you were to just like just watch episode 5

[01:12:34] I think it'd be worth watching like I mean you would literally just like these cool yeah just the story elements you would lose but if you if I tell you like at the end of the season like it's probably not worth

[01:12:42] watching me check out the lightsaber battle episode that seems very yeah it's it's worth checking out but all right I think that brings us to the end of this reception so Mike that did one of our

[01:12:50] whenever longest and a long time we haven't had a discussion in a while yeah no absolutely yeah now that we're doing discussions like once every like month and a half we got a lot of stuff to talk about yeah

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