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Speaker: Welcome back to our program, viewers, as we observe three prehistoric podcasters doing what scientists believe made up their lives 65 million years ago in the Cretaceous period.
Speaker: See here as they make bad jokes, give unsolicited opinions on movies, and think they're intelligent. However, as we know, they have not reached evolutionary sentience.
Speaker: Welcome back to a prehistoric episode of Lost in the Frame. I'm your host, Alex. I'm your host, Malik. your host, Tachi. Very good.
Speaker: Very good. What do we look like when we have completed evolution, if we are not yet there? I look like him.
Speaker: We all look like Ryan Gosling. That's our final form? Yeah. So do I, like, am I... At least six feet. At least. so Am I going to do like a race swap type of thing?
Speaker: I'm curious to see what that transition looks like. Anyway, today we're discussing Train to Busan and The End of Oak Street. Two movies that maybe have nothing in common, but we're both out in theaters.
Speaker: And we'll see how we feel about them. We can find some overlap. ah because i been August has been tough, guys. Trying to schedule episodes. A little bit. is it's like the It's the calm before the storm, it feels like, because I feel like we're just going to be inundated with movie after movie from this point on.
Speaker: But ah we'll get into our rapid reviews, do some movie news, and then we'll get into both movies starting off with Train to Busan. So stick around if you love that movie. We will discuss it. um What you guys got to this week for your rapid reviews?
Speaker: Hmm. got one. ah One of Them Days. I did see you logged that on Letterboxd. Yeah. Watched it last night. um Kiki Palmer.
Speaker: And SZA directed by Lawrence Lamont. It was his first movie. First animal. Oh wow. Really? Yeah. That's crazy. First and only credited project. um It's like hijinks kind of comedy.
Speaker: i don't know how else to describe it but Just, I don't know. It was all right. Pretty good. it's the most yeah i saw I saw your rating, and I was like, yeah. It's like the most two and a half, three movie I've ever seen. Yeah.
Speaker: Not really much to say. i did really like the the King something character. What his name? Yeah. Yeah. At the end, he he was really good at looking like...
Speaker: unhinged and and vicious. that was fun. Yeah. Cool. Yeah. um i My rapid review will be the first episode of Lanterns, the new DC show centered around the Green Lantern, both ah Hal Jordan and Oh my God. my jon stewart John Stewart. Yes. Thank you.
Speaker: um I don't know much about the lanterns, but this show did pique my interest from the trailer and my interest stays piqued after episode one. Did you guys get a chance to check it out or not yet? Are you going to watch it?
Speaker: I want to watch it, but I have not. Same. I like the tone that it's going for so far. um I love the cast, so I'm excited to keep watching. Looks looks promising, I will say.
Speaker: What you got, Alex? I went and saw The Rivals of Amsaya King starring Matthew McConaughey. What is that movie? I saw people tweeting about it but never looked it up.
Speaker: it's the new movie starring Matthew McConaughey. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. No. So it comes from Andrew Patterson, which is, it's his second feature film.
Speaker: The first being a little Indian alien movie that's on Amazon called the vast at night, which I really liked. I really liked that movie. Um, very, very engaging opening scene, which still lives rent free in my mind.
Speaker: Um, um, This one is really, really hard to describe because it's almost like it's two different movies sandwiched into one.
Speaker: It's an hour or it's 130 minutes and it feels like it's three hours. but Complimentary or derogatory? I'm leaning complimentary.
Speaker: Okay. Because it legitimately feels like you are watching two different movies. There's a tone switch like halfway through and all of a sudden, you know, this fun, silly McConaughey is this like...
Speaker: hippy dippy honey farmer kind of thing all of a sudden is like, like, whoa, it goes from very slice of life to like a thriller almost. Uh, it's beautifully shot.
Speaker: There are some bizarre, bizarre editing and pacing choices in this movie. Um, I think it would have suited it better to not have it feel like two distinct movies in one.
Speaker: um, But I still liked it. I enjoyed it. I would like to watch it again down the line one day um you know with different expectations.
Speaker: I would give it a 3.5 out of 5. Like a high 3.5. Again, it's that that line where it's like we're not going really above that line.
Speaker: Is it in theaters or is it on streaming? It's in theaters. And I saw it at Mueller, which I guess is the official Matthew McConaughey theater of Austin. Why is that it just when i'm that? When it started at the Mueller Alamo, it's like, welcome to the Matthew McConaughey theater.
Speaker: Oh, okay. He just dubbed it his own name. He's like, this mine now. literally like Literally, that's what happened. He comes on screen. He's like, alright, alright, alright. Welcome to the Matthew McConaughey theater.
Speaker: And I'm like,
Speaker: Cool. Neat. Good for him. i'm glad I'm glad he did that. Should we watch it? Tachi and I. Recommend? Yeah. 3.5 seems high enough.
Speaker: yeah and It's a new McConaughey movie. What's wrong with you? Go watch it. Go support anything he's in, including Tiptoes. We'll get to tiptoes one day. We're going to get to tiptoes one day. ah Let's get into some movie news. It's been a big week since we've last recorded.
Speaker: um i realized today that we actually had not talked about the X-Men casting. And, listener, you're hearing this a little bit more in the future. We're spacing out our recordings.
Speaker: But this is our safe space to talk about these castings. Yeah.
Speaker: Tachi was actually here and LA with his wife over this last weekend. yeahp So we got to spend some time together in person. We went to a concert on Friday. And while I was in line getting more beer, i was on my phone waiting for the bartender. And I saw the casting. And I went, oh!
Speaker: And then went back inside and was like, we got to talk about this casting later. And then the concert went on. Is that when you texted me? Like, Alex, Alex, did you see? Yeah. Yeah, that was at like one in the morning for me.
Speaker: It was 11 here, so we were just getting started. Yeah. um No, it was literally like one in the morning, I wake up, and the only thing I see is like, Alex, Alex, did you see this? And I'm like, I got wait like eight hours now to figure out what he was talking about. You waited maximum two.
Speaker: To be honest, was like, is that really what it's about when... You know, i I was like, we, we yeah you know, you could have just sent the tweet.
Speaker: i That's true. i thought something big. it i thought I thought. I thought maybe Chase DMed the pod. That would be a big one. um But no, it was mainly around the Indie Navarrete casting as Rogue that i would that I was kind of surprised by. But I want to get you guys' as opinions. We'll start with this one.
Speaker: I was surprised, too. yeah there was There was really no mention other than discussions with the director, I think. but But all the heat was on Kaylee Spaney. Yeah.
Speaker: I think that's why I was surprised, too. I just didn't know the legitimacy of where those conversations were going. And I was like pretty positive Kaylee Spaney was the shoe-in. It seemed like it was going to be her.
Speaker: And they were like, Indie Navarrete. And I was like, whoa. Big role. Indies, I just think a bigger draw at the end of the day. For sure. Marvel needs butts in seats desperately for anything that's not named Spider-Man. So yeah, yeah they're pulling out all the stops.
Speaker: like and with the Let's go through all the casting so far before we continue. I don't think we've like, we can't just sink all of our time into Indy. Oh, no, no, no. Yeah, let's go through the rest of them. So we've got, oh, go for it.
Speaker: Rude. So we have Tamara Weaving as Emma Frost. We have Kit Connor as Cyclops. We have Christopher Abbott as Professor X. We have Maya Boyd as Storm.
Speaker: We have Adam Driver as Mr. Sinister. We have Sadie Sink as Jean Grey. I always want to call her Jean Grey. jean One twist on the character. Bro French as hell. And Indy Navarrete as Rogue.
Speaker: I'll just start off the conversation. I'll watch Adam Driver in anything. yeah Me too. Easy sell. Yep. I'm in. yeah so i was I was pretty in with Samara Weaving as Emma Frost and then they kept they kept announcing people and I went all thumbs up from me.
Speaker: Do we think he lasts longer than one movie? I hope so. Marvel's got a unfortunate track record of hiring top tier talent as their villains. And then it's the one and only time we see them. Like Christian Bale.
Speaker: That was just the worst. The worst. Yeah. Very unfortunate. But what about, uh, what about Mads Mikkelsen too? In all right. Dr. Strange.
Speaker: yeah Yeah. Well, i got him that one time. God, he could have been such a good Dr. Doom. Oh, that's a good casting. Oh, we'll also get to the the new Doomsday trailer too.
Speaker: um I'm on board with this with this X-Men casting. It seems like it's the right direction. um I'm really interested in Maya Boyd as Storm. She is a Broadway actress, and so this will be her first film.
Speaker: And i'm of i like I'm a big fan that a majority of this cast so far are Lesser to smaller people as far as ah people that know them, like in the culture.
Speaker: Fresh faces. Fresh faces, yes. I'm a fan. And I'm excited. Who guys want as Wolverine? You think we get an unknown?
Speaker: e You think they just de-age Hugh Jackman? Seeing Hugh Jackman amongst these people would be jarring as hell.
Speaker: I don't know. Are there are there any popular fan cast going on right now? I have no idea, actually. Timothee Chalamet. Okay. but
Speaker: Might as well get me in that role. Um. Hmm.
Speaker: I have no idea who would come to mind. I think I'm just open to whatever they're gonna do. I feel like they might go more unknown, similar to Maya Boyd. And I think they're going to stay true to his lore height, as in like...
Speaker: short maybe five eight five nine yeah maybe like a it's like it's always so funny yeah it is always so funny seeing people complain whenever a new superhero gets announced like indie never ready for example you've got a big part of the internet that's super excited and then you got another big part that's like this is not comic accurate the comic accurate people i'm like hugh jackman's been wolverine our entire lives and isn't he like six two yeah we're all fine with it why is it indie comic accurate I'm not of that belief. i That's just what I see on Twitter.com.
Speaker: People complaining.
Speaker: I don't know.
Speaker: You know, I just bots. I just said Zac Efron is Wolverine and I, I could see it.
Speaker: I hate that. That would be nuts. ah um And then we were missing a Magneto as well.
Speaker: They should hold off on Magneto, I think. Robert Downey Jr. is going to be announced as Magneto. Oh oh my god. you' go to Do you guys think RDJ's Doomsday is doomdays a cop-out?
Speaker: like do you think it's Do you think it's actually someone else? No. No, I genuinely think it is a massive cop-out.
Speaker: It's got to be him. But you do think it's him. Yes. Okay. I just think it's so stupid. I think it's absolute desperation.
Speaker: It doesn't make any sense why they would go through this charade of it being him and it not being him. Who does that impress? It's not going to get butts into seats where it's like, oh, it's actually Killian Murphy. It's like way more people have been excited if you had just gotten Killian Murphy to do it.
Speaker: Hey, we got Killian Murphy to do this. Which would be sick. It would be sick. I just saw more of those conversations following the trailer. People comparing the shots of Doom's eyes and like, these are different eyes.
Speaker: Those are Killian Murphy's eyes. Yeah, because he has a CGI mask on. ah Tachi, what else happened at D23? Yeah, they released some new movie announcements.
Speaker: Coco 2. Coco 2. Lilo and Stitch 2, Lilo and Scratch, which will be a short film ah involving Stitch and a little alien cat, Frozen 3, Zootopia 3, and then they announced Ryan Gosling's character name in Starfighter, which will be Cade Auberon.
Speaker: I don't care about...
Speaker: 100% of this. Coco 2 is so stupid. like what What are they going to <unk> she's Grandma's double dead now. but we get We're going to have the the the one famous, now not famous skeleton get mad or something. and like oh That's what's to happen. He's going to come back. He's going mad. He's going to want revenge.
Speaker: He's going to drag... What was the kid's name? don't remember his name, but they gave him a fade. Yes, theyre he's going to track faded Bambino into the underworld again. Whoa. That's kid in Italian.
Speaker: i oh I couldn't think of it in Spanish. Okay. What did you think I said? I don't know. I don't know Italian. Bambino. Bambini.
Speaker: yeah that's hilarious the bamp so that The Bumbino is going to get Dragged into the underworld yeah It's going to be Ernesto de la Cruz or whatever that guy's name was That's what it was um And he's going to be like You ruined it prays at my thing anymore And I'm dying And people are to forget me and It's going to be just not But it's going to be a story of redemption And then they're all going to be okay in the end And he will be forgiven
Speaker: I hope the kid goes to hell. Okay. It's like Dante's Inferno. He to travel through seven layers of hell to escape Ernesto De La Cruz.
Speaker: Somebody get this man in the writing room stat. Disney Pixar's Circle of Lust. Hit us up for ideas. Do you guys care about any of these pique your interest?
Speaker: I mean, I'm glad that I know my name in Starfighter now. True. True. um Yeah. Yeah, not really.
Speaker: All right. The Odyssey is now the highest grossing R-rated movie of all time, surpassing Deadpool and Wolverine. Cool. Cool.
Speaker: You're not happy with that, Alex? No, you keep skipping my news. where No, I'm next. first line. Oh, yeah. oh I completely skipped Alex's portion. We'll come back to the Odyssey.
Speaker: You know what? We're not. The Odyssey made a bunch of money. Go ahead, Alex. It's an odd billion. Indie Navaretti turned down a role, and it's got to be the role that we discussed. Yeah.
Speaker: in heat to to star as rogue
Speaker: how we feeling why would you that to me i think she laid the right decision for her career yeah for vibes no absolutely yeah honestly i don't even know if that's the right decision for her career It's the right decision financially. Did anyone materially gain from Eternals?
Speaker: I mean, they were already established. And, like, Eternals is Eternals. X-Men is yeah going to be much bigger than the Eternals, even if it's shit. Yeah. Like, the X-Men is a guaranteed big paycheck. Your name is floating around for a good minute.
Speaker: Unless Marvel completely crumbles... Like, if... I don't know what would have to happen for this entire company to just tank. Do they have to lose money? all the money.
Speaker: And they would probably scrap everything. Yeah. Which won't happen. So... Yeah. How do I have to say X-Men will do better than Turtles? It happen. No.
Speaker: There's no way. there's i don't I think it's literally impossible. it's um There is a ah scenario where it could happen. it just It's sure.
Speaker: It's possible, but it's not likely. I could win the lottery. Listen, it is possible. I'm going to say three words. And this is how doomsday is going to tank.
Speaker: World War three.
Speaker: I don't like that. I would rather it make $5 billion. dollars And us have to watch Marvel movies every single day for the rest of our lives and go to World War three.
Speaker: That's because you don't know what it feels like to chase glory. No, I don't. You not have the warrior spirit. I do not. I like to talk about movies on a podcast. um I mean, it's one of those things, right, where it's the right decision financially, but like I still don't think it's like the right decision.
Speaker: Because she's like, you're you're sir, you're getting the bag and you're securing the bag and good for you, but
Speaker: you were in a Michael Mann movie with Leonardo DiCaprio and Christian Bale and the rest of those guys. like
Speaker: That's that's ah a pretty solid network to have. It could be her Twilight, like Robert Pattinson, where she's just like set for life and then she can do whatever she wants, given that she's still wanted.
Speaker: Yeah, but that's Taylor Lautner. She's better than Taylor Lautner.
Speaker: I agree. And I think the conversation that I've seen a lot is she's smart to turn down what maybe would have been a two to four minute scene. It's not a two to four minute scene.
Speaker: With who would have been? she has a whole point of view in the story. o If they stay true to the book, like she is pretty much the centerpiece of the second half of the story.
Speaker: Alright, so we just have to keep a lookout for who gets that role, and then we will reconvene after Heat 2. But she did just land like $20 million, dollars probably. Dude, nuts. It's not that much.
Speaker: Maybe. Yeah, she's not getting $20 million. She is not getting $20 million from that. maybe i would say she she's getting like north of like $4, though.
Speaker: I would say. but I'm sure she signed on for more than one movie. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker: I think it was the right choice. Yeah, we'll see. She should she should have chosen Peak.
Speaker: We're still going to get Peak. Unless it flops. Unless it does, yeah. ah What's next? I already went, so we'll go to Tati's next. Yep. Laika's Wildwood is a stop-motion movie, and it's going to going to be the longest stop-motion animated film of all time at 2 hours and 20 minutes.
Speaker: Did this play before you guys' as movies? No. No. But also I missed the previews. I did too. There was so much traffic.
Speaker: um I forgot schools back in session. Yeah. Oh, so hit all of that traffic. I hit all of it. Yeah. um Yeah, wanted to include it because it's the longest stop motion animated film of all time.
Speaker: And I saw the trailer and shit looks beautiful. I'm in. Comes out in a couple months, I think, in October. I'll be seated. I will too. Okay, I don't know why this was assigned to me, but okay. The first trailer for Jordan Firstman's Club Kid has been released.
Speaker: The film follows an underground club promoter whose lifestyle is turned upside down when he must care for his young son he never knew existed. That is like my least favorite trope. Is that why you gave this to me? No, I just did it because I go in order i just go in order.
Speaker: You notice I do it in the order of the letterbox love like loathe in 531. skipped ah you skip me
Speaker: na ah you got a gle alex to i'm a league toy alex maliak but we moved up We moved up the D23 stuff because of... Oh, so that kind of messed it up. yeah yeah I put this because I watched the trailer and I went, this very much looks like my shit.
Speaker: And I'm putting in my stock now. Well, this is the first time I'm seeing it, so maybe after we record, I'll watch the trailer and agree with you, but... Until then... do you hate it?
Speaker: What do you mean, why do I hate that trope? Did you watch Obi-Wan? Oh, here's this random kid.
Speaker: I don't care. it it just feels, it looks it looks good, I will say. I can't disagree with you on the trope, but it looks good. I'm putting stock early.
Speaker: Alex would love 65.
Speaker: We'll talk about 65 later on in the episode for sure. ah Last piece of news before we get into the movies. Dune Part 3 will feature 71 minutes of IMAX exclusive expanded aspect ratio footage.
Speaker: m I'm in. Are any Dune tickets on sale for you guys? What is what is available? Not at Alamo. I haven't checked. Not at Alamo yet?
Speaker: Nope. Okay. All right. what's What's that last bit? that last bit New line. So let me read everyone Malik's show notes here.
Speaker: Malik's side notes. Guy who whispered in theater. Pug and and T-O-O-B-Y. Parking garage experience after busting.
Speaker: After busting. What were you busting in the garage, Malik? Okay, I'll go over these notes. So, Ni Lao movie. Is a Chinese movie oh made by two... Yeah, have you seen this? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's made by two guys. It's 86 minutes, and it's like horribly animated, but it made it into theaters.
Speaker: It had a budget of $300, and it has made $3 million. dollars Hell yeah. So it is going down as one of the most profitable movies of all time, and I've seen just little clips of what this movie looks like.
Speaker: And it does look like shit, but it's apparently a a real big meme over in China, so wanted to bring that up. Guy who whispered in theater during my showing of End of Oak Street. I don't remember what cheer it was what trailer it was, but someone in the trailer went, oh my god, is this real?
Speaker: And then it went quiet. It was like the music. They were like, oh my god, is this real? And then it went quiet, and then the guy behind me was like, is real? And I was just like...
Speaker: And then the music came back on, but it was just like perfect timing. And I thought it was beautiful. And that is the theater experience. Lovely. yeah ah Next one is Pooj and Tubi.
Speaker: And those are my dogs. And I will talk about them with our second movie. And my parking garage experience after busting was after training to Busan. um I got lost in the parking garage. This seems to happen to me a lot.
Speaker: And it was kind of scary. Yeah. It took me 20 minutes to find my truck. And it was like midnight and I had to go through. i I parked at a new parking garage, one that I don't have to pay for.
Speaker: Every time I go to the movies, I have to pay five bucks. It's annoying. So I was like, let me park across the street a little further down. It's free parking. And then I'll see how it goes. Didn't go well.
Speaker: It was scary. I thought there was zombies.
Speaker: So those are my show notes. Let's get into train to Busan. let's board the train. with Yeah, we'll open with our letterboxd love like loathe. Here's the synopsis. When a zombie virus pushes Korea into a state of emergency, those trapped on an express train to Busan must fight for their own survival.
Speaker: Alex has our five star, touchy with the three, and me with the one star. Our five star today comes from Colleen Bateman. Movie absolutely broke me. Cried at least five times. So awesome seeing it on the big screen and with that sound system.
Speaker: Couple next to me would stop talking. Tough. Tough, Colleen. I feel you. Yep. All right. Today's three star comes in from Gil Hermie.
Speaker: i don't know how to say that name. Gil Hermie. That was good. This all would be avoided if the dad had given a PlayStation 4 instead of a Wii.
Speaker: Our half star comes from AvaVrose5. Why don't you go ahead and fucking stare at the zombies a little longer, you actual dumb fucking idiots. Main character was hot. he was pretty handsome he's a good-looking guy for sure as a fellow handsome guy ah all right um have you guys seen this movie before or is this the first time second time second time all right also my second time did you guys get to catch in the theaters or did you watch it at home watched it at home at home all right i gotta watch you it in theaters it was nice um yeah what is the first time when is the first time you guys watched it was it pretty recently
Speaker: Two years ago, maybe? I don't know. Sometime within the last five to ten years. I have no idea when the first time i watched this. But as I was watching this movie, I was like, did I finish this?
Speaker: For about like the last hour of the movie, I'm 80% confident I may have never finished this movie. Are you serious? I'm dead serious. The last 45 minutes seemed like brand new footage to me. I went, oh, wow.
Speaker: Look at all that's happening on the screen right now. As it was the first time. I watched this in October 26, 2023. That was the first time I saw it. Okay. So almost three years ago.
Speaker: Yeah. I was logging letter like movies on Letterboxd wrong for the longest time. So the activity dates for anything I go back to a majority of the time. um They're not there.
Speaker: But ah we wanted to talk about this one today. i believe it is the 10th anniversary. Right. um In like the last week. And yep swat this is again Yeah, this is one of the, if not the most, I think, beloved zombie movie, at least amongst like cinephiles. But what is your guys' relationship to this movie? Like, how do you feel about it overall?
Speaker: This was a zombie blind spot for me for years. Okay. i was a huge zombie fan in middle school, like diehard walking dead fan.
Speaker: I loved the original night of the living dead movie. Like the one from like 1948. Um, so good. We'll have to do a pot on that one day.
Speaker: i absolutely adore that movie. Um, um, I had all the How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse books. I mean, I was ready, dude. i I wanted it to happen so bad.
Speaker: I wanted it to happen so bad in middle school. I was like, this I cannot wait. for this It's real. It's real. I'd find like sketchy websites where it was like like zombie outbreak in Uganda. It's starting. And I'd be like... like let's go baby like we're gonna go kill some zombies and it never came and so then i had to live my boring corporate life um but i three years ago i started doing well a couple of years ago i started doing uh don't know if was what iteration of it this was but um
Speaker: All October, I like to watch scary movies. um Big horror movie fan, but like I try and devote as much of October as I can to watching horror movies. And so I try and watch like blind spots of mine, um you know classics that I haven't seen in a while, stuff that I want to revisit that I watched when I was a kid.
Speaker: And Train to Busan was one of the ones where it was like, wow, this is actually like I've heard only good things about this movie, and it's a huge blind spot. So... I finally watched it and was just absolutely blown away by it immediately.
Speaker: um
Speaker: i'll let I'll pass it to y'all because I can talk about this movie for forever. Yeah, I think similarly to Alex's um I've always liked zombies. It's it's like the the only horror subgenre that I could kind of stomach for the longest time.
Speaker: And um yeah, just really, really enjoyed it the first time. It it left a great impression and i was happy to watch it again. I think for me, this was also a pretty big blind spot for a long time. I do want to say i watched it...
Speaker: Within the last like yeah three to five years similarly. um Like I said, pretty confident I didn't finish it. I'm really not sure what happened. Regardless, this was a really big blind spot for me. And so...
Speaker: Yeah, I remember first watching it, was just like, okay, like I get like what everybody's talking about. And so, yeah, I'm excited excited to talk about it today. And no different than what I think I felt like back then. But this movie is just... I see why it's like always in the upper echelon of when people talk about zombie movies. like This movie does a lot right where it's kind of hard for me to find...
Speaker: like flaws with it really because it is just very effective in in everything that it does from from the entire cast to the set design to the soundtrack oh my god the soundtrack i think really stuck out to me this time and i was like the shit bangs this is so good honestly my only complaint watching it um granted i haven't don't know if they've remastered it and that's what they're showing in theaters but there were a couple moments like mid rewatch where i'm like cgi looks kind of cgi i e here um and i was like you know whatever though it didn't really take you out of the movie that much but
Speaker: Is there a specific scene? Because I can't recall feeling that, so I wonder if we can pinpoint it. It's like anything with a massive, massive glut of zombies.
Speaker: Like how they crash through the... Yeah, as a big crashing through a window and like hundreds of them are falling through, it looks like. it looks like someone did this on like blender or something.
Speaker: It was, but that's it. It's like very, uh, you know, split second flashes. But I mean, to me, what I think makes this movie so good is it starts and what, like 10 minutes in, they get on a train and then the movie just goes and does not stop.
Speaker: hmm. I mean, it's just one thing after another. Yeah. I love the opening of this. Like, I think this is this isn't necessarily true of all movies that do this because I've seen plenty of movies that start strong, like, first five to ten minutes and then kind of just goes downhill.
Speaker: But I think one of the marks of a great movie, and this one being included... is if those first five to 10 minutes can live on its own. So if someone made a short film and it's the two, we see the guy like spraying and then the guy pulls up in the truck to the deer, to them getting on the train. If that was just its own like short film, I'd be like, this is so good.
Speaker: And I need to see more. And it just, yeah, you're right. It just does not stop from that moment on. It's wild.
Speaker: Yeah. I did look up the budget just because we were talking about the the CGI. It did have a pretty tight budget. It's roughly 8.5 million USD. Okay. How much did it make in the box office overall?
Speaker: oh Google... AIO review says 98.5 million worldwide. Jeez. I will. Yep. in On Wikipedia, it says 98.5 million. Nice.
Speaker: good That's crazy. I'm trained to Busan. Yeah. And I'm sure it's going to, that'll go over a bit more, not included with the, with this re-release. Cause I believe this is the first time that it's been re-released in theaters.
Speaker: Is it going to make a boosillion dollars? I hope so. i think this ah I think this director actually has another zombie movie releasing either this year or next. It was one of the trailers that played before my show. I think it's actually out.
Speaker: Okay. it It was like taking place at a mall. I think it is called Colony. Yeah. He also has Peninsula, which was like a sequel to Train to Busan. Oh. But from what I understand, it's like 28 weeks later compared to 28 days later. Oh. Not as well received.
Speaker: Yeah. That's unfortunate. The trailer for Colony looked really cool. Like, just new ways of... of doing zombies. You know, you you always got to get a little inventive in this type of subject matter. um We've seen a lot of iterations of zombies, some good, some bad, some really bad, but Trinity Busan, I think is like the gold standard. um What are some standout scenes for for you guys?
Speaker: If you can pinpoint them, anything involving the dad or the husband got character, not the, yeah, I guess the dad character, but the husband character, Yes, played by Don Lee.
Speaker: Don Lee, dude. This dude's a tank. He's a beast. was looking at this filmography and being like I gotta watch more Don Lee. Yeah, Bros and Eternals so loop to loop that back around. But yeah, Memoir of a Murderer I really want to watch. he's got it Yeah, he's got a few movies here that need to check out. But dude's an absolute beast. This entire movie.
Speaker: And he's hilarious. So funny. and I made that. I made that. The humor in this movie actually lands for me because it's very sparse.
Speaker: But when they use it, it feels it feels earned and it feels genuine. And yeah, I think a lot of it does come from from Don Lee's character. Yeah. Yeah, my standout scene was him just making everyone lock in. It's like, all right, this how we're running through. And he kind of suits up with the stuff on his forearms and the soundtrack kicks in. My whole theater started applauding at that part. It was f freaking awesome. the The song that plays there is so interesting because it's not really Yeah.
Speaker: It's just like, don't know, it was like electronic and... kind of John Wick ish. I don't know. It was really cool. I felt the same. Yeah.
Speaker: think it's a great choice there. And I love that whole sequence because it didn't just totally rely on like brawn. I mean, they're getting smart with how they're getting through and it was like so stressful.
Speaker: Um, yeah, they got the homeless guy too. Like, mm-hmm just
Speaker: yeah you're expecting like some very tropey things to happen. They just don't come to fruition. Yeah. I really appreciate that. Like the movie treated me like an adult or it's like, okay, like we're going to get through this. We're going get there. We're creative. And this is actually going to work, you know, moving from cart to cart through yeah different hordes of zombies.
Speaker: Bro, I could never. It's so scary. But it's such a fun ride. And yeah yeah, you're right. That's because you weren't prepared in middle school, dude. Maybe if you had prepared, you would i'd be scared. I did not prepare. And I'm not prepared. I'll ask you guys later who you'd want your zombie team to be.
Speaker: um But going back to, yeah, some of these sequences on, obviously on the train, but like as they're like going through the hordes of these zombies, I think one of my favorites is them above the luggage rack.
Speaker: Yeah. Is a really, really great scene in in suspense. Like, has me on the edge of my seat. That's one of my favorite scenes in the entire movie. And the way that the homeless guy's, like, jumping down, just, like, carefully, like, with the seat. Oh, sound design in this movie is also excellent.
Speaker: Yeah, a lot of good cracking with the zombie movement. h What would you guys think of the the movement of these zombies as opposed to like different iterations or different versions of zombies?
Speaker: Scary as hell. Like 28 years. Just hyper aggressive. um little freaky. Very rigid, just, you know. Oh, my.
Speaker: Did that do it to you? Yeah, that feel good. Yeah. These actors, they got to do these moves are insane. Like contortionists.
Speaker: Yes. Like, so their moves mixed with the sound design is really good. And like, I find myself... almost like wanting to catch like a zombie, like off guard, like doing some, something stupid in the background.
Speaker: But every zombie on screen is like, just feels like I can't see every single one, but they all really feel distinct in their movements and like what they're doing. And it's all just, and't know. It just all comes together really well. And I think they did a great job with, with this body acting.
Speaker: I can't move my body that way. Nor would I want to.
Speaker: ah gong Oh, go ahead. No, you go ahead. I was going to ask if there were any things that you guys did not like. I can think of one. So i want I was going to say um outside of the main character, handsome man, pretty much every character that you see, what you see is what you get. Like there's just no real dimension to them.
Speaker: um you You can kind of guess within the five first five seconds that you see them like what their intentions are, you know, how they would align themselves, whether they want to be selfish or try to save other people.
Speaker: So I guess the writing could have made, i don't know, could it get could give them more dimensions, I guess. I think what we get though just works really well for, for this movie.
Speaker: Like, I think there's enough dimension for, For the father and daughter character, we get it with Don Lean, his wife, the pregnant wife. Then you get a little bit with, I think, the train conductor and then also the the piece of shit loser.
Speaker: Yeah. That CEO guy. sure we all wanted to die. Yeah, the CEO guy. Yeah. And I feel like those are like the main people that we really need like the the depth from. i like i get what you mean, but I also don't know. You don't think it's a problem?
Speaker: i don't Yeah, just i don't see it as a problem. and And Don Lee's character does have some depth because like he's ribbing him the whole time. But then when they're in the bathroom, he's like, like, yeah, i bet you never saw your daughter. He's like, yeah, it's because dads have it hard, man. Like we have to do like, and he's like sympathizing with the guy, even though he's like, oh, he's a blood sucker.
Speaker: It's like, oh, like, I think he's just.
Speaker: Tell me like it is like, you know, he's giving, it's not even like a malicious thing. It's just, uh, He's just blocking with it. Yeah. Yeah, that's fair.
Speaker: I agree. I picked up on that the second time. i was like, oh Okay, Don. Tank. His scene of him getting bit ah is devastating. yeah So frustrating, too. Oh, my God. Because it's like they're it's always so avoidable.
Speaker: It's so avoidable. like these movies These types of movies just piss me off because... I just get like the CEO when I find him. like he's He's really great in his role. like that If I saw him in person, I would just be immediately angry.
Speaker: It's on site, which is just speaking to a good performance. But my God. And then, yeah, he gets Don Lee's character gets bit in the hand. And it's so small. like It's not even like...
Speaker: Like that big of a bite. It's just barely like a little bite, a little nibble. Yeah. Yeah. are But it's immediately game over. um Yeah.
Speaker: I assume he would be your guys's maybe top pick for most devastating death in the movie outside of our handsome main character. I will say, actually, the second time around, his death didn't hit me that hard.
Speaker: Not that I was like, oh as you I was just like expecting, okay we like, you know, like, well, you know, there he goes. There goes the man. The death that hit me the hardest the second time around was the homeless guy.
Speaker: Why so? He just... He gives the pregnant lady that look, and she gives him a look, and it's just like... It's like, all right, like, you know? Mm-hmm.
Speaker: Let's... Like, I'm doing this. And... Something I picked up, when they, after Don Lee dies, but they get in the new train car and they're telling him to get back into the the next, like, cubicle thing that they can hide in to separate from the uninfected population, the homeless guy is the first guy to like, just go.
Speaker: Yeah. He just is like, all right. And I'm like, wow, that is a guy who's been told to get out angrily by people his entire life. Oh. And he just does it.
Speaker: And then he, when things really got hard, he immediately was like, like, this kid will be saved because of me. Just didn't even hesitate. He just gave her the look and said, I'm doing this. And then goes and does it. And I was like,
Speaker: cause that was it. It was game over. He had no chance, and he knew he had no chance. Yeah. yeah It was like, that was a guy who had nothing, was trying to just hang on to the one thing he had, which was himself, and then still freely gives it up at the end. I was like, that dude is actually like also the second biggest hero of the movie.
Speaker: Just absolute legend the second time. I got a little misty-eyed watching that one, because was like like, you didn't deserve this, man. like you You just didn't deserve it. Damn.
Speaker: Yeah. That's very well said. Yeah. That's a, that's a really good pick. And like, it's obviously emotional during that scene when he's letting them go, but the way you phrase it of him being the first to, to go to the other car because he's got that his whole life, just, that makes me emotional. Just like thinking about it. And it's, that's a really good shout vote. Very well said.
Speaker: If I don't pick, um, the dad, I have to pick the high school kid. That scene um when his little girlfriend, not really girlfriend, but the the girl that died in his arms. He was scared of the whole movie. Yeah. yeah that That one got to me a little bit more this time around, but I think by by far the the death of the dad at the very end was, it got me. I almost teared up.
Speaker: I did tear up, but I teared up at at the very, very last scene of this movie with the with the daughter singing her song. Man, that's what I'm saying. Like the last 30 minutes, I was just like, oh my God, I don't know if I finished this.
Speaker: I loved the whole final act. I saw a lot of reviews talking about how it kind of falls apart after the the first like third. And that's just like more the same of all of like what there what they see typically in zombie movies. But like the final act I thought was incredible.
Speaker: At no point does i think this do I think this movie like diverges from its logical like course of action. Yeah, agreed. like Everything that happens next is like,
Speaker: Yeah, it seems like that's how it would be. Except the flaming train. I think that was kind of out of left field. I mean, but would would it would it be A little bit. A little. Yeah.
Speaker: I think it the concept of a flaming train isn't crazy. It's just the timing. Yeah. The timing was a little... Yeah. That's a very movie moment.
Speaker: It is a train track, so like at you know some point it's got to show up where you are. Yeah. It's forgiven. has nowhere else to go. Right.
Speaker: But it does make for like a very cool set design between the crash trains. For sure And then we get the scene with with the homeless guy. So all is forgiven.
Speaker: i will I will forgive it. I will forgive it there. um I want to shout out also the train conductor. Yeah. He's yeah one of the braver people in this. like And as i'm watching, him I'm like, man, i want be to the train conductor. He just gets his own little cubicle.
Speaker: He's kind of just doing his own thing. Doesn't really have to deal with the zombies. But specifically when they're having to switch trains, the risk that he's going through for all these people that he hasn't even met and just like checking all the trains to make sure that they're good.
Speaker: i was like, he like quickly rose to just like, oh, This is my goat. And the one time, the only time that he gets God is with our piece of shit CEO. Yeah. Cause he goes to help him.
Speaker: Yeah. Big mistake. Big mistake. God, that guy's literally the worst. Yeah. so But then you feel for him in the last scene with the dad and the daughter as he's starting to turn.
Speaker: And he's just like a shell of a person saying that he wants to go home to his mom.
Speaker: yeah And it is emotional and it works. And I'm like, God damn it. Well, the thing that I really love about this movie for the most part, and it's probably my only criticism, is
Speaker: up until like are the the CEO character starts to like literally throw people under the bus, I think everyone acts pretty rationally the entire time. It's like there's not like a wrong decision made.
Speaker: you know, it's just like the reality of the situation is like your right decision may not be someone else's right decision, but like you're not wrong for thinking that way. And I really like that. I'm like,
Speaker: like, you you shut the door on me. It's like, I didn't, like, I'm sorry. Like, you know, I didn't want to, but I had to, or I felt like I had to, you know? So it's like, I don't necessarily blame the dad character for doing that. It's like, you think, oh, he, this guy's a dick, but he's like, when you, when you really sit back and think about it's like,
Speaker: yeah I'm not trying to chance it. Like, yeah, you know, my kids here, you're going to go into some sort of fight or flight. And even the other passengers, it's like, we don't want you here. It's like, I don't necessarily blame them.
Speaker: You know, they aren't watching the movie. They don't know how the, how it transmits. and They don't know if they've been bit. Yeah. So until you start throwing people under the bus, I'm like, yeah, everyone kind of acts like, I get where you're coming from.
Speaker: You know? Yeah. Like, is it selfish? Yes. But, you know, your natural instinct is to self preserve. So. hmm.
Speaker: Screw the CEO. That guy sucked. He deserved it. I am glad that he's gone.
Speaker: um
Speaker: I do want to understand the rationale behind that one old lady that just opens the door. i think she was just senile. That makes sense. I think senile and depressed. I'm giving up. I'm not doing this anymore.
Speaker: God, my knees hurt so much. you know. Old people. Can't trust them.
Speaker: That's the moral of the story.
Speaker: Her seeing her friend made me really sad. She's like the only one not going rabid. She's kind of just like just vibing with the rest of the zombies. Just she too old to freak out. Yeah. So i guess there is an age cap for being scary wild zombie. Like if your body physically can't do it, the virus won't give you a boost.
Speaker: Yeah. If the zombie apocalypse does happen, I really don't want these ones. Which ones would you want? Round one through three at the highest of Call of Duty zombies.
Speaker: So Walking Dead? Yeah. Essentially.
Speaker: I'd be good with that. Yeah. Every other zombie. I don't know if I would want to survive that long. If I see that they're running, I'm taking myself out. I see one do a little jolt. Yeah.
Speaker: The Eurostep? Yeah. No, Hesi, I'm out. i I do not need to live to see this world. God, it'd be so epic to go down. like They're running. You're like, you go, I stay. You draw like a sword. You have your Jon Snow moment. Yeah, I know you've imagined so many times. All right, then I'll ask you guys this.
Speaker: Who is your ideal zombie team? These can be real people or not. You get three people. I'm just putting all on the spot. You get to pick three other people to be with you during the zombie apocalypse. The goal is to survive.
Speaker: Who are you picking? Have you thought of this? Someone in like any given time? Sure.
Speaker: Well, I got to pick my dad when he was a ranger. All right. That's nice. That is nice. I mean, it's purely utilitarian. The guy was a machine. He did triathlons for fun. That's nuts.
Speaker: I'll pick my dad, too. That was a distraction. Hey, dad, look over there. What? What?
Speaker: I'm the CEO. we can come back to it Is that what you guys can think about it for second? can't pick, it would be unfair to pick like a superhero. So I'll go, um I'll go Captain Jack Sparrow. He's great at improvising, great at escaping.
Speaker: I think he'd be a really crafty guy to to partner up with. Huh. I'd choose Ethan Hunt. Oh, that's a good one. Oh, are doing movie characters? Now I am. Sure. Sure.
Speaker: I'll pick Jason Bourne then. I pick Superman. I pick God. All right. Well, we're so we're surviving the zombie apocalypse. um
Speaker: What else? i Okay. I want to do three real people. Okay. So my dad has won. We're going to go... I mean, I feel bad not picking my mom, but like... i think we've actually had this hypothetical convo. She's like, I would not want to go through that. So yeah for you, mom.
Speaker: um Let's go... Let's go. ah i just, I just, I literally want to pick only army people.
Speaker: Like famous special forces people. It's yeah, I'm not dying. i'm not dying um But for the sake of not doing that.
Speaker: um
Speaker: God, I don't know why this is hard. Alright, I would pick, for people that I know, I'd pick Alex, Tachi, and my brother. Aww. I think we'd be a good squad.
Speaker: I think we die eventually, but yeah, pretty good. Eventually, especially if I see one sprint, then you guys are out one man. Oh, yeah. am taking myself out. You're just going to sit down. I'd pissed. i I would make sure that I was the one to kill you when you turned into a zombie if you did that. We see one run and I just slowly turn to you guys. good No, way wait, way wait, wait, wait.
Speaker: Real people.
Speaker: could i Could I go back in time?
Speaker: Yeah. I'll pick ah Muhammad Ali. Who just boxes way out of it. thought you were to Muhammad and I'm like... The prophet? Yeah, I'll take a prophet. And Moses and... No, who else? Give me Jesus.
Speaker: Give me the J-man.
Speaker: I feel like Muhammad Ali would get bit
Speaker: I don't know. Yeah, i don't want to be agile. i don't want to be around him when he gets bit. He wouldn't. He might be the one who would start punching. would keep punching. Because like, i leave it as a zombie. I would pick like, like young Mike Tyson.
Speaker: Yeah, he's probably the toughest dude ever. Yeah. yeah But imagine a Mike Tyson zombie. He would be biting the zombies. that's how That's how he turns.
Speaker: um i don't know why this is so hard. is hard
Speaker: It's a big decision. This is who you're going to spend the rest of the apocalypse with. All right. Give me give me my dad. Give me Shohei Otani, because he can swing a bat.
Speaker: that That'd be pretty useful. um And give me... is a great podcasting.
Speaker: ah We're going to cut all this, right? we'll We'll come back to it. We'll come back to it. To your to your last person. Can I get a... Me in the drive-thru.
Speaker: um Anything else you guys want to shout out for this movie? do you want to rate it? I want to rate it. Okay. I'm ready. 4.5. 4.5. Whoa. four point one whoa
Speaker: I think 4.52. Nice. That's correct. like it was better the second time. I think it was much better the second time, too. Did you guys give it fours the first time? Yeah. I do have it as a four in the box right now.
Speaker: Yeah. i I was thinking of 4.5, honestly, but after the second rewatch, I'm going to give it five. wow Wow. Damn. thats I was going to keep it at a four four out of five until I started talking about the homeless guy and started getting emotional again.
Speaker: i was like 10. Yeah. Wait, how how does this compare to 28 years? What do I gave 28 the first one a nine and the Bone Temple an eight.
Speaker: I think if I rewatched the first, I think if I rewatched them again, it would they would each go up a rating. Yeah, 28 years for me is a five, and then Bone Temple I think is a four right now, but would potentially go to four and a half.
Speaker: um With the previous two, it's only two, right? it's only days and weeks. yeah yeah Weeks obviously being at the bottom. Days is just iconic in itself, but I think it's just a very strong four.
Speaker: Years is, that's it. That's it for me. so I think I probably am due for a rewatch then of the crazies. I may also give a test. So The Crazies is a zombie movie.
Speaker: Kind of. okay They're infected with a bioweapon that the government made called Tripsy. That makes sense, because... As I'm going through like the Rotten Tomatoes 100 zombie movies rank, there's a couple where I'm like, is that a zombie movie? Like, Wreck?
Speaker: But I think it's similar to the Crazies, where it's like a... They're not zombies, but something like that. like something. It's like an infection. But like the Crazies, for all intents and purposes, is a zombie movie.
Speaker: But there's an added layer that they are hunting you down. They aren't just dumb. like They are actively like being it. Oh, i don't like that. Yeah. Oh, there's there's one scene that in that movie that is just so unbelievable.
Speaker: ah You got to watch the crazies. I may have made the crazies in our spooktober. ah Lovely. Make us have to do it. You can double it up with Zombieland so we get something get something a little funny too. Yeah. um I can't believe this is my highest rated Korean movie.
Speaker: Train to Busan. I mean, I think it's straight up deserving of all the hype that it gets. It is. Yeah. I have this rated higher than Parasite now. i don't know how to feel. i don't know how i feel about that.
Speaker: Well, Parasite also has to be a five. have it as a 4.5. I've been wanting to rewatch that movie. You should. Okay. Ready for Oak Street? oh no, that's not true. It's tied with Old Boy. It's tied with Old Boy.
Speaker: Old Boy's fucking nuts. The guy from Oldboy could be on my zombie team, too. The way he tanks that hallway is unbelievable. Oh, he'd be good.
Speaker: He'd be good. All right. Just do not bring his girlfriend.
Speaker: The End of Oak Street, directed by David Robert Mitchell. If you know that name, he directed It Follows and Under the Silver Lake. Have you guys seen either of those? Nope. Yes, no. Okay, i yeah. It Follows.
Speaker: yeah Yes. And then Under the Silver Lake, no. Okay. I really like It Follows. i have not seen Under the Silver Lake still on my list, but... I will say I started Under the Silver Lake, and it was so jarring in the first five minutes. I was like, I'm not in the mood to watch this, and I turned it off.
Speaker: And I never turned it back on again. You know what I did? i actually had it on my phone for a flight. It was either on my phone or it was on like the little TV. And I think there was like a lot of nudity in those first five minutes. And I was like, actually, I don't want to watch this on a public plane.
Speaker: So I turned it off. Did I watch Westworld on a plane once? Does it get crazy? Just...
Speaker: boobs everywhere. There's this little kid back here and there was this lady right next to me and I'm sitting there. It's on my laptop. I'm watching it and I look over and I'm like... you had a laptop? The biggest screen you're going to have a plane? the worst. I'm screening HBO porn on a plane basically. I've literally been like this on a plane watching something and then a scene like that comes up and I just... Look where the brightness.
Speaker: Okay, synopsis for End of Oak Street.
Speaker: After a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports their neighborhood to someplace unknown, the Platt family soon discovers that their very survival depends on them sticking together as they navigate their now unrecognizable surroundings. Together.
Speaker: Together. Together. This is starring Anne Hathaway, Ewan McGregor, Christian Convery, and Maisie Stella. Cool. Let's get into it.
Speaker: What's our five star? Me. Me. You.
Speaker: Sorry, I had to i it buried. I'm not on my A game today. I'm thinking about this trip tomorrow. Sorry. Sorry, viewers. Sorry. You're getting ready. It's okay. ah this This review comes from Claire.
Speaker: The thing about dinosaurs smashing things with their feet is that they're not that big. They're not Godzilla. Elephants don't go around stomping on tree trunks like they're blind. I think Anne Hathaway hides the fact that she poops from her husband and children.
Speaker: What? Let
Speaker: me catch myself and let me read it again. Okay. That got me so off guard.
Speaker: It did too when I read it. with Um...
Speaker: This has 54 likes, by the way. Actually, no that's that's a lie. It has 55 likes. gotta like it. I just liked it. um So five stars and a heart.
Speaker: The thing about dinosaurs smashing things with their feet is that they're not that big, Dash. They're not Godzilla, period. elf Also, there's no capitalization anywhere in this review.
Speaker: Elephants don't go around stomping on tree trunks like they're blind. Period. I think Anne Hathaway hides the fact that she poops from her husband and children.
Speaker: I'm sweating. ah um don't know what she means by that. I know exactly what she means. I think she's accurate.
Speaker: That's what happens in the basement. Yeah. It's funny to see a bunch of turds just floating. That's why she shuts the door. She's like, don't go in there. All right.
Speaker: Today's restart comes in from Jason Duran. Come on, guys. It would be way more positive shit than that.
Speaker: In the basement. Yeah. ah That's where she poops every time. Today's half star comes from it's LV. Why would you write and direct this?
Speaker: Why make something that never needed to exist? And anything touched by JJ Abrams needs to be erased. A sad and pathetic shell of a human, a cancer on the medium. Was this weird imitation crab meat Spielberg? Absolutely sickening.
Speaker: Walking out of the cinema from this gave me the feeling that art is dying. Yeah. Wow. This is the second Spielberg reheated nachos from J.J. Abrams, isn't it?
Speaker: Is the first being Super 8? Yeah, but it's reheated so good. is Okay, Super 8 is really good. but and we love Super 8. Can we say it's J.J. Abrams if he's just producing? like what is the What is the grip he has on production?
Speaker: For this movie. I don't know if we can say it's J.J. Abrams reheating Spielberg's nachos. i'll re I'll reframe this. J.J. Abrams follows the Spielberg recipe with Super 8. As the producer, he reheated nachos.
Speaker: Okay. Because he probably was like, this is what it's going to be. Go direct this Mr. whatever that guy's name was. David Robert Mitchell.
Speaker: Yep. What was your get to excitement level coming into this? None. Yeah, really none. Whoa. It was just me? How excited were you for this movie?
Speaker: I was pretty stoked. Really? why Because it just, i was like, oh, where did the neighborhood go? Why are there dinosaurs? Dinosaurs in the neighborhood? They don't belong there.
Speaker: do you want to talk about the slogan real quick? Yeah. Major your beef with the slogan. So the tagline slogan for this movie is where goes the neighborhood?
Speaker: ah Like I said, Tachi was in, was visiting in LA over this last weekend. And as we're driving around the Grove, we're seeing signs and marketing for the end of Oak street everywhere.
Speaker: And the, and it's just the poster and then the tagline, where goes the neighborhood? And I kept repeating it. And I was like, guys, does this tagline make sense? I think I hate this. time i was like, what do i mean where goes the neighborhood? It's just worded weird.
Speaker: I understand it now after a couple of days of of back and forth over many conversations. um
Speaker: Yeah. I don't know. now I'm kind of going back to I hate it. i like it. Where goes the neighborhood? Well, I don't like it. i get it. don't like it.
Speaker: I guess it's fine. No, no, no. Yeah, I was excited for this movie. I'm surprised you guys weren't like even Give me a level of your excitement.
Speaker: Honestly, I feel like I put ah put a little bit of stock into it. You know, maybe out of 10, I was a... One out of 10. Okay, one out of 10, was like a seven. Whoa, that's a lot of stock.
Speaker: It was for sure top 15 most anticipated for me this year when I saw the trailer. What? What? I didn't even hear about it until like a month ago.
Speaker: I'm pretty sure I brought it up on the pod. I'm sure you have. Yeah, but you brought it up because you were like, this could be a Cloverfield movie. ah But I was also really excited for it. Because I was like, yeah.
Speaker: Potentially a good dinosaur movie. Happy you got to see it finally. Yeah, I mean... Cool. here's how i talk about it Let's talk about it. Okay, here's how I felt walking out of the movie.
Speaker: A little disappointed. Gee, who could have seen that coming? I will say, I did like the movie.
Speaker: I didn't love it. Um... There's kind of a lot going on, but also almost nothing. This is one of the most absurd movies I've ever seen in theaters.
Speaker: In what way? a good way. Okay. What was your guys' theater experience like? Here's my theater experience. It was me, a buddy, and this other dude do our right all in a row. There were like more people in the theater, but it was we were the three main characters.
Speaker: We were having the best time. all three of us were dying laughing at like any given point in this movie. yeah And at the end of the movie, I almost never do this. At the end of the movie, we talked to the guy next to us.
Speaker: Who looked at me like, man, what was that? And he's like, I don't know, bro. Like it was got a good time. Like, Well, yeah, I did too. i had a great time. Yeah. I'm watching this like, what is this? This is not a real movie. This is, this is not real.
Speaker: For starters, I immediately knew I was in for a good time when I heard Ewan McGregor, who I love. I love Ewan McGregor. I love him in Star Wars. I love him in Trainspotting. I love Long Way Round. i love Long Way Down. I've watched documentaries of him ride a motorcycle around the world. That is one of the worst American accents I've ever heard of. You could hear the Scottish trying to break through every other line. It was so funny. Guys, he's not good in this movie. He's so bad. He's like, actually, it was a really bad performance.
Speaker: Just not believable at all. Like the accent and then just the delivery overall. He said, these honey, in front of the kids.
Speaker: Bad. Honey, in front of the kids! I'm a pizza boy! ah i don't know why they just didn't make him be Scottish.
Speaker: I know people with, like, foreign parents. That's a thing in America. did Were the Scottish people around in the 80s? don't think so. they think they just sprouted up. Some Scotland update New map. um What did you think of Ian McGregor, Tachi?
Speaker: It was a forgettable performance. There is an unforgettable scene with him in it, but um otherwise, yeah ah confusingly unimpressive.
Speaker: yeah This movie has two very unforgettable scenes, actually. True. He's in both. Yes. They're kind of back-to-back. We'll get to it. They are back-to-back. Do guys think there are any good performances in this movie? Because I'll argue for Anne Hathaway. yeah for what she's gay an as well all Yeah. I'll argue for argue for Anne.
Speaker: Better than her Odyssey performance? Potentially. She's given more to do in this movie than The Odyssey. She is given more to do in this. That's a hard comparison. yeah It is.
Speaker: but We cannot have Nolan fanboys blow up. Actually, we We will compare it because they have come out within months of each other. So I'm now comparing both performances.
Speaker: I think she's really good in this movie. She's very good in this movie. Agreed. Yeah. Um... A lot of split diopter shots. A lot. We all noticed. Almost only split diopter shots. For like 20 minutes. All the Cronin's the mummy.
Speaker: It was strange. yes Yeah, that entire living room conversation, which I was like, I think it's cool whenever a split diopter shot comes around, but do we need to use it that much? It was was a lot of dialogue and a lot of different perspectives.
Speaker: There was. How does like the overall i guess setting of the 80s feel for you guys? like As the movie opens up, we're at a neighborhood party.
Speaker: um The score is swelling, la John Williams and Spielberg. So I already immediately see the conversation for like... Spielberg's reheated nachos I don't see it as a problem I actually found it really endearing and it was a pretty big aspect of the movie that I liked but does the overall like setting of the 80s like make sense to you guys does it work does it feel authentic for the time it's fine it felt a little tired like I'm just the the 80s has become the ultimate key jangling time period
Speaker: So I think it's gets after Stranger Things, it gets harder and harder to earn like sticking your movie in that setting. I don't think this one really quite earned it. um Because you know the movie starts off about like community and all that.
Speaker: It's like being... you know kind of like a problem within your own community. know, your, your Rocky relationship is starting to spill over your kid's dog's a mess and you're at this big outdoor thing and you're going around and then it's just like, Oh, by the way, all of our neighbors are not in the move, the rest of the movie. So yeah, that's a really good point.
Speaker: um you know we start off he's riding bicycles around with his friends the sun he's got a bow and arrow like it's like oh is this like there's like you girl looking at him through the window and he's hiding and it's like classic 80s hijinks and it's i think it is so just key jangly because it none of it ever pays off we get like two seconds of it in dino land yeah It's like, what was the beginning of the movie about then? You could have had the movie just be them eating dinner and going to bed and having the light, and it would be exactly the same.
Speaker: That's a really good point. um Yeah, maybe if you center this around two other families as well, and that those relationships are established early on, because the like central emotional part of the movie is this...
Speaker: Family dynamic, which I think in itself has a lot of flaws, but I do agree with you. I see a world where there's more families involved and it kind of just goes a different route and maybe maybe there's a bit more emotional payoff with that.
Speaker: What do you think, Team Money? Yeah, I don't really think the 80s or the the time that they chose for the setting really served any functional purpose.
Speaker: if it If they decided that because, i don't know, if they didn't want people calling their neighbors on their cell phones so they can be more disconnected. there's There's a way to write that into the story where there's just no service because there's cosmic fuckery going on. They're in dinos they they're in they're in the Cretaceous period. There's no cell towers back then? There's no cell towers the Cretaceous period.
Speaker: I mean, i guess it's like a fun stylistic choice, but it didn't really serve a purpose outside of that. Yeah. So like they bring in like the daughter from another family. And like even that as aspect isn't... Just murder her Yeah, she like they're just gone. But like if they were kind of close-knit, then there's a there's a lot more emotional payoff that I think could have been explored a bit more. This movie's tonally shifted in ways that I was like, whoa, where are we?
Speaker: We're in the Cretaceous period. Anything goes.
Speaker: My expectation for this was kind of leaning more horror, I guess. And i can't say I'm disappointed that it didn't. I think just like the way that it was just flipping tones was was jarring. Like...
Speaker: I mean, when were you when was your theater laughing, Alex? Was it like through the entirety of the movie? Every 15 seconds, dude. Really? and Like dinosaurs would like start walking out and people were crying laughing.
Speaker: What? Yeah. No, like this movie was not taken seriously in my theater. hu Like, no, I don't think anyone or at least our road did not go in and take this seriously.
Speaker: Everyone, like, as soon as I heard that guy laughing, then I'm like, I have to watch this movie. Like, everything is funny. And everything was funny. Like, I just could not take, like, holy, where'd the giant pile of poop come from? Like... like I mean, that part is funny.
Speaker: It was funny. There's actually a lot of genuinely, like, earned laughs in this movie. yeah They try and go for laughs. I think the scene where it's like, oh, she goes to private school. It's like, how do you go to private school? It's like, i think you gotta be Catholic to go there. i I thought that was really funny.
Speaker: Okay. That got, that got an audible laugh out of me as someone who went to private Catholic school. I was like, yeah, did do be like that. You know, we do be Catholic.
Speaker: And then later on when they, when they go back to that conversation, asking her about like private schools, its like, oh, do you believe in God or something like that? And he's like, Yeah, I think I do. What about you? That's what the but the boy says to the girl that he's interested in.
Speaker: She's like, not really. And he's just like... But he can't go he can't go back. kind yeah just And then his sister swoops in and she's yeah like, yeah, not really me either. And then that connection happens. god this And the son's just like...
Speaker: The sister was like such like a ah Reddit atheist yeah in the eighty s like yeah You watch you ah watched Carl Sagan one time and you're like... This is my life now.
Speaker: The God is an idiot. He's fake. You got bigger problems to worry about than... monotheism polytheism or atheism you're getting chased by a spinosaurus i hated her scene of explaining what potentially could be going on it came and went it was so quick and they were right yeah like what how would she know any of that
Speaker: She watched Cosmos. said, well, Carl Sagan once said that light is like a trampoline or whatever she says. Wormholes.
Speaker: And so with the flux capacitor. if you and like And then she was accurate and the dad's like, yeah. Yeah, for sure. Makes sense. yeah And then Anne Hathaway's like, stop telling the kids to believe in all that. We're dying. We're stuck here forever. We're all going to die. Do you realize that?
Speaker: Let's talk about their relationship because it's the classic, like, husband is pretending everything's fine, you know, very aloof, ah you know, very positive, but is hiding, you know, aspects about his life that he thinks would make his family...
Speaker: um hate him, and she hates him.
Speaker: i I really feel bad for Ewan McGregor, his character, because can you imagine like getting laid off? like the it less like Imagine this.
Speaker: You have a hard time finding work. okay You got laid off. They bring you back. You're moonlighting delivering pizzas for extra bucks and you get laid off again.
Speaker: So now all you have is pizza delivery for some extra bucks. Then you go downstairs to get dog food or something. I don't know. You go downstairs. You're like, Oh, what is this?
Speaker: And you find a manuscript your wife wrote for a book about how much she wants to leave you. The fact that he was still like,
Speaker: like I don't blame him for not telling her he got laid off. I wouldn't either. He wants to keep his family together. It's like, oh, she will leave if I tell her this.
Speaker: like i felt horrible
Speaker: Then she's like, we're going to be positive. We're going to get out of this. She's like, no, we're going to die. And you need to stop telling the kids otherwise. like You fucking idiot. Why are you so optimistic? There's dinosaurs outside. And then literally, I think he was right. Like, I think, you know, I mean, if they had acted a little smarter and like thoughts things through, they probably wouldn't have had to go through the entire movie.
Speaker: Mm hmm. And everybody, like, most of the characters of this movie operate on, like a like, a room temperature IQ. But let's talk about the relationship first. Okay. um Yeah, I didn't like the route that they took of, oh, there's there's trouble at bay of this, like, rocky relationship. And it was it was pretty quick. Like, they're like What is Ewan McGregor's character's name? um Greg.
Speaker: He said, Greg, you got a wonderful family. He's like, I do. And then immediately she's like, you fucking idiot. What the fuck are you doing over here? He's like, the kids can see. So it was very stereotypical. And then they're Mom and dad are fighting again.
Speaker: You don't think that they're going to get a... ah ah d ah A A A D. It's like like like the... Divorce.
Speaker: So I was like, immediately trope-y. Yeah. So I was... I was hesitant, but I was on board because I was, this was my hope at this point in the movie, that it's so tropey and so cheesy.
Speaker: I wanted it completely flipped on its head and for it to go like psycho mode, crazy horror dinosaurs eating our friends and family blood everywhere. That's where I thought I was going. So I was like, I can forgive this right now.
Speaker: Let's see where the rest rest of the movie goes, but it doesn't.
Speaker: Where does it go? Somewhere around the neighborhood. Where goes the neighborhood? ah It goes to dinosaurs freaking it on a house.
Speaker: It goes to the Cretaceous cut chair. What a strange scene. It was. i could not believe that. like i That was the moment where I was like, this is not a real movie.
Speaker: I kind of like, I don't know what this is, but it's what do you mean? You kind of liked it. What? like I you was like, I kind of like, i thought it was kind of sweet. She's over here. Like, not the fornication, the Cretaceous fornication, just like the fact that they could just separate themselves from their problems, their situation.
Speaker: and just like have little fun.
Speaker: I get it. I get i get it. I do. I wish I felt that. Like do a silly pose and just laugh for a second. I liked it. It worked for me.
Speaker: I think it's like literally the performances between them two. She goes, do a silly pose. And he's like, what do you mean do a silly pose?
Speaker: and'll like go no
Speaker: We're like slapping our knees. And like the dinosaurs, they'll just like cut back to Ewan McGregor's character. Like, he'll be like, like facing the camera and behind him. There's this like dinosaur just like hitting it from the back. Just like full thrust and like they like moaning.
Speaker: It's actually wild. so I don't know why. It went on for so long.
Speaker: Also, those dinosaurs were hairy. Yeah. Well, most, I mean dinosaurs probably were like ah the closest relative to a dinosaur now is a bird.
Speaker: and Birds are basically dinosaurs. Or gator. It was like recent in the last like 10 years, right? Where they were like, hey, these guys might have had feathers. Yeah. It's like they probably all had feathers to some degree.
Speaker: So it's like accurate from what we know now. I guess. What'd you guys think of the overall like dinosaur design before we get to the next crazy scene? Some work, some didn't.
Speaker: What didn't? I think the really big ones didn't work well. I think like the Spinosaurus was pretty neat. Okay. Yeah. Um, I thought the the noise, the Spinosaurus made was really creepy.
Speaker: Um, um, But at some point, like a dinosaur brushes up against the house and it's so big that no one can see anything. And it's like a bomb went off and you just never see it again.
Speaker: I didn't know what happened at that scene. yeah That was that was the same dinosaur that was doing it. Was it really? Yeah, it had the same fur. It looked way bigger in the window.
Speaker: Yeah. Like I was like, what the fuck is that? They look massive in the sex scene to me. The window was like, it was like, look how big they are. but As it's passing the window, was it was like a constant slow world. just right Is this a fucking like, what is that?
Speaker: a whale? God, what is that? And then it was gone. Hmm. That was um it was like a pretty big jump scare. I thought the world was ending right there. I thought it was the meteors coming down. They were strangely quiet as well.
Speaker: Like not not a lot of stomping. Yeah. For for like the just the overall like area. At least the big Yeah. I really like the Spinosaurus design. I thought it was really cool. And I like the ah I think they're just pterodactyls. don't know if they're named something else but i thought those were creepy. I like the mouth of the big worm guy.
Speaker: That was pretty freaky, yeah. Yeah, that was. it was freaky. I just couldn't take it seriously. Was it his face? yeah
Speaker: He looked like a chill guy until he opened his mouth. He looked like super chill guy. He was just exploring. We were joking right before we were recording. were giving him a voice of him. This big snake coming through the window. Just like, ooh. What is this? Ooh, nice room. Oh, gee. Good stairs. Wow. Maybe it was like a Midwesterner. Oh, gee.
Speaker: Oh, golly gee. Oh, you need a vacuum. This is scratching up my belly. All right, so the next scene, the next crazy scene is a chase through the neighborhood, which I think has a really cool like tracking shot of Anne Hathaway like running to the house as the dinosaur is chasing her and Ewan McGregor.
Speaker: Um... then something fucking wild happens. Yeah. Kind of what I wanted to happen the entire movie. But the way it plays out, my audience laughed at first.
Speaker: And then it immediately switches to serious. And that was like the most tonal whiplash I think I've had in a while. It's the way he hits the dinosaur with the bat once.
Speaker: And it falls. It played comedically. Did you guys feel any different? Yeah. No, I laughed. Okay. Yeah. It was just like so ridiculous that you just have to laugh.
Speaker: Yeah. And then it grabs him and it's like like a real... Bites his leg off. Bites his leg off. Body slam him. Him being Greg, by the way. Also spoilers.
Speaker: Bites Greg's leg off. Still kind of funny. The way it's shot and he's holding his stump leg. And then just gets chomped on. and To the point where i was like...
Speaker: My jaw hit the floor. Yeah. And I wanted to take it serious, and I was like trying to like get into that lens. I was like, he's dead. It's serious.
Speaker: But the rest of my audience was laughing, too. My theater was dead quiet. We were all traumatized. Why did they...
Speaker: They find their kids in the middle of the neighborhood at this other house. Why didn't they just stay in another house? Like, we we have to go back to ours? Who cares? Why? there It's a free-for-all. It's an absolute free-for-all.
Speaker: Maybe they don't want to deal with the dead parents inside the house. Go to a different house. Plenty of houses, I guess. I don't know. They were dead inside?
Speaker: Maybe. That's what I'm saying. like Maybe. i don't know if that's Dead open inside? ah
Speaker: h
Speaker: But he was gone. yeah He got monched. And I was surprised. And I was like, okay. ah kind of like that they killed him off. And they don't take it back necessarily. It's not fake out.
Speaker: Mm-mm. But it... It's pretty but So we're like... We're towards the end here. This is a very simple movie. It's only an hour and a half.
Speaker: Simple premise. There's dinosaurs. Survive. Oh, my God. We can escape by these balls of light that are just popping in and out. And then we get into like a time travel movie. Mm-mm.
Speaker: Oh, wait, before we go into the time travel bit, the kid jumping and missing was so funny. See, that was also kind of funny. And I was like, I don't know if that was supposed to be funny. He like misses on the ground. He's like, oh, This kid's been getting beaten up the whole movie. He gets literally beat up by a kid.
Speaker: Oh, yeah. That subplot was... it In the middle of the dinopocalypse, he gets beat up. Unneeded. It was so stupid. He's like trying to shoot things with a bow and arrow and just cannot hit anything to save his life. he hits our pal, the white snake, though.
Speaker: how How could you miss him? It was the entire target. they Yeah, like, he took up the entire hallway. You better not miss that. Yeah, that subplot with the bully was very weird and felt extremely out of place. Yeah.
Speaker: That whole kid gets, get like, stuffed into a locker the entire movie by the writers. Yeah. He has, like, there's no redeeming moment where he becomes the hero. Like, the entire time, he's just, like, he's, like, you're done, dude. Like, you suck. He's pretty useless.
Speaker: Oh, yeah? You think you're going to get through and see your your new private school girlfriend on the other side? No. You have no leg. Like, broken leg. How do you like that? Dare to hope again, idiot.
Speaker: Also, your crush actually likes your sister. Boom. Wait, is that what happened? they were just buddies. No, they were holding hands at the end. Yeah, and I think there was a love of interest there. Girls do that.
Speaker: yeah that was There was definitely like chemistry. like In that scene where the sister is there is ah bandaging up her leg, yeah and then the brother's having the conversation, like they there's glances passed at each other. There's eyes.
Speaker: lot of eye action. Ham even looked at me. She went, at You got a lot ways, too. Yeah. um
Speaker: Where were we going? The time travel. Time travel? Yeah, yeah travel. had How'd you guys feel about it? ah I kind of saw it from a mile away.
Speaker: Yeah, it was bright. It was flashing. Like, it was... but It felt like a video game when they were on the roof and she's like, i don't know what the fuck we're going to do. are we going to do? She turns her around and is like, ah there, we'll go there. I hated the roof scene. I hated the roof scene. Why? I hate when It's when when a story is like written or directed in ah in a certain way that makes them completely oblivious to everything that's going on around them.
Speaker: That's this entire movie They're only looking at each other. They have not like learned any awareness about the 30 pterodactyls on the roof with them.
Speaker: And they're just, I don't know. I hate that. they They could solve that and make it more realistic so easily. Yeah, it's really annoying. It's so annoying. I hate that. i was like, bro, he's right there.
Speaker: Literally. Like, what are you doing? So dumb. So they jump through. They all make it. Including a dog. The dog somehow manages to jump through with them. Oh, Starbuck. Yeah, we haven't talked about the dog. Okay, so going back to one of my notes, I had Pooj and Tooby. Those are my dogs.
Speaker: Margo is a blue healer. So we had some some some blue healer representation. And then Cam and i the entire movie, we were just like... oh like that's margo and at the beginning of the movie whenever starbuck initially runs away uh even mcgregor's character says something about like oh he's probably just at the neighbor's house getting friendly with the dachshund and to be is a dachshund so both of my dogs got a shout out in this movie and so for that i have to love it oh yeah that was my other shout out um starbuck saves the day they go back in time
Speaker: What, a couple days? Right but right before it happens? Why right before it happens? Pretty convenient. How's that possible? Very convenient. and And then Anne Hathaway calls not only her husband to deliver a pizza to her location, which is away from the the thing. She also calls everyone else, apparently. In two minutes?
Speaker: Or like four people. Just the people that we saw on screen? So we have the big clock in the middle of the street that's letting us know this is what time it was. And they're like, what time did this happen?
Speaker: And they're like, 11.05 p.m. And then the camera cuts to 11.03. And then even McGregor pulls up. So all of that happens. like He pulls up. He goes home. She calls the people.
Speaker: All in two minutes? I didn't like it. It was also very unclear. yeah i didn't I didn't even know that the the apparently the sister's love interest didn't make it out until like the very last second. i was like, okay. like She ran back. I was like, oh, she's going to get taken.
Speaker: So how'd she get out of it? She was the first to jump through. yeah no, no. no i mean like Then she's like, no, I have to go warn my parents. I have to go there. They're like, no, no, no, don't do that. But then she runs off.
Speaker: So was like, oh she's done. She's stuck in a loop. Oh, I get what you mean. I get what you mean. Yeah. But then she just is like, fine. Yeah, it's all good. It's all good in the neighborhood.
Speaker: Then we get a nice little wrap-up video talking about... And I think it's been two years since... the incident um and yeah she saved I guess they saved everyone and she's writing the book now the end of oak street and I was like okay that's awesome I don't think they addressed the cloning thing either they didn't that was my next question was how do you guys feel about the very last second of this movie where you see two the neighbor girl you see two of the neighbor girl yeah Wait, I thought that was her sister. No, there there are now two of her. Because they went back in time. She gets a new husband, a new Ewan McGregor, and then now there are two of the of the daughter, of the black daughter. yeah
Speaker: And she was holding hands with one of them while the other one was there. With the and then parents. With the parents, alive and well. So they all live together in harmony now.
Speaker: Nuts. Yeah. What? ah What do you think of that? Alex blacked out the last 30 seconds, I guess. No, i so I just thought it was her sister. No, it's it's her. They got another one.
Speaker: So there were conversations of, yeah, time travel happened. Also the dinosaurs. We went through it. Y'all died. Came back. We're here now. What do you do when... Okay, so let let's...
Speaker: You're telling me this now for the first time. um They're clones. ah All right. So let's say you're the parent. Your daughter shows up. She's like, hey, I'm your daughter.
Speaker: It's your daughter, but your daughter's over there. What i do you Yeah, what do you do? Do you like do you have to pay? ah Do they both have to pay taxes? Are they legally the same person?
Speaker: Do they have different social security numbers? do they have a different birthday? mean Like that they one and two Like what is when one behaves are you like why can't you be more like the other one?
Speaker: i mean the ah the other one only has two days on the other person but those two days are pretty traumatic with dinosaurs. So essentially they are rocking in a corner like foaming at the mouth at night like the pterodactyls I hear them they're in the walls. like She always liked this? that One of her episodes. One of her dino moments is what we call them. She's going dino mode. Look, dino nuggets.
Speaker: Yeah, that's stupid.
Speaker: I thought it was her sister. I didn't even think it was a clone. I was like, wow, here's a sister who looks a lot like her. Yeah, she gets a completely new husband. So the original stays dead, she but but now she gets another. and she's like, all right, cool.
Speaker: Well, I figured that much. like What do you think their marriage is like now? Is she trying more? And is he believing this story of the time travel? It's like, yeah, you died, but saving me...
Speaker: But like you didn't save me. So I still kind of hate you. Greg, you were actually the worst. You were so abusive. You beat me when we were in the Cretaceous period.
Speaker: We cheered when you got eaten.
Speaker: you You were part of a dino polycule that met on the roof of a house. Look, i have a picture of it. Boom. Yeah, she framed it.
Speaker: Hmm.
Speaker: What a movie. It's so so entertaining. it was good it Someone's going to watch this on a plane and just be, they're to think it's the greatest movie of all time. Great plane movie. It is, think, the legal definition of an airplane movie. Yes.
Speaker: I will, yeah, that is that is a great point. um Yeah, I had a fun time with it. It wasn't what I was expecting, both complimentary and derogatory.
Speaker: Thanks. I can't believe this is in your top 15 for the year. Bro, because I was just like, it looks cool. Right up there with Dune. Basically.
Speaker: Odyssey, Dune, Oak Street.
Speaker: Obsession. Godzilla minus zero. Both of those. All right. Does this movie deserve to exist? Like that half star reviewer said. Yes, I do think so because we get some cool dinosaurs. There are some fun sequences in this and the whiplash of dinosaurs having sex to Ewan McGregor getting eaten is what cinema is all about.
Speaker: Yeah. I'll watch a sequel happily. There's not going to be a sequel. I promise you. I know there won't, but I would is what I'm saying. Also, this was not a Cloverfield movie.
Speaker: No,
Speaker: not quite. Oh, what else about Oak Street before we give our final ratings? Did you guys say your piece? Did you have a fun time with it? Tachi? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was fun. Yeah, it was just. ah It was a movie choices. It was a movie.
Speaker: and And one last thing. OK, go ahead. What i want to see in movies from now on, when your life is at risk and you're getting chased by basically a monster,
Speaker: i need I need to see on your face real fear and panic because I'm sorry, Ewan McGregor, but you did not run like you were about to die.
Speaker: Bro phoned it in his entire performance. I feel like he did. Yeah. Hope he got a good check out of it because he just showed up and he read his lines, which is unfortunate.
Speaker: I mean, I'm a simple guy to please. I see Anne Hathaway. I see Ewan McGregor. I see dinosaurs. I go, good movie. Good movie. make money Make many money, please. o More things could have gone right here.
Speaker: I'm ready to rate it. Sure. I'm gonna give it a three out of five. Okay. What's that funny? It's just a funny movie.
Speaker: It is.
Speaker: I'm also going to give it a three out of five because I gave Cronin's The Mummy had a three out of five. And I was like, when I was ranking it, I was like, this is in the two and a half. And I'm like, but I would watch this again imminently. Like I would instant instantly rewatch this movie. Yeah. Like it's so absurd. This has great rewatchability. i agree.
Speaker: So for that, I'll also give it a three. Look at that. We did it. We're all much than Necron is the mummy, by the way. Not a lot of great dinosaur movies. Uh, I'm seeing a lot of praise for this movie, which I'm glad.
Speaker: And I think that maybe also kind of hired my expectations a bit. Cause I was saying, Oh, best dinosaur movies since Jurassic park. Hmm. For those, I'm to say a little overhyped. I'm glad i'm glad everyone's having a fun time.
Speaker: But ah I would say manage your expectations if you listen to this entire episode and you haven't seen it for some reason. And now you're going to go watch it. Just have a good time. And it's it's okay to laugh.
Speaker: It's funny.
Speaker: It's funny and it is also kind of meant to be funny.
Speaker: yeah What is your favorite dinosaur movie? That's not Jurassic Park. Or 65. Alex, have you seen 65? No, I'm never going to watch 65. God, that was that's another one. I think I just really want a good dinosaur movie. You do. I was also really excited for that because that's Adam Driver and dinosaurs. Very simple equation.
Speaker: I'm sad. And it was shit.
Speaker: I'm glad this wasn't shit, though. Yeah, this was much, much better. Here's an IMDB list of the 100 best dinosaur movies of all time it's a hundred created by some guy. Number one is Jurassic Park. Number two is The Land Before Time.
Speaker: Yeah, that so it's very... Jurassic World, King Kong, The Good Dinosaur, Dinosaur, Lost World, Ice Age, Walking with... Are we really counting Walking with Dinosaurs as a dinosaur movie? Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker: That's a documentary, which if we are counting it, it's walking with dinosaurs because walking with dinosaurs and walking with beasts is cinema. Both of them are so good.
Speaker: I love the BBC cooks. um Like half of these are land before time. I know i was looking at the list. I was like, wow, it apparently is really hard to make a really good dinosaur movie.
Speaker: Does Godzilla count? No. No. Okay. He's on this list. list And it's not even number one. Like, if Godzilla's on the list, why is it 18?
Speaker: Yeah, if you put him on the list, it should be higher, but I don't think he should be on the list. um I loved Dinosaur, the animated movie as a kid. came out in 2000. I loved that movie. That was one of my brother and I's favorite movies. So if I didn't pick Jurassic Park, and may have picked that one for for nostalgia's sake.
Speaker: I have a very fever dreamy recollection of something called Dinotopia. was like a book. And then I think they made like a BBC miniseries out of it. I remember watching it as a kid.
Speaker: I think I remember liking it. It was like an England thing.
Speaker: That's your favorite. no What about you, Tachi? ah Wait, what what's the question? Your favorite dinosaur oh movie that's not Jurassic Park. um
Speaker: I don't know if I have one. don't know if i can pick one. Fair. But I was going to say, I did think of overlap between these two movies. Train to Busan and In a Book Street. Oath the Dads Die. Bring home.
Speaker: Dead dads. They get bit and die. Yep.
Speaker: There's our through line. now This is the dad dying by bite episode. Oh, and and their wife wants to leave them. There we go. We did it.
Speaker: So soon to be divorced husbands getting bitten. I like it. And dying.
Speaker: Anything else before we wrap up? Nope. We need movies to come out. Yeah. Next episode, we're doing our Oscar early predictions, and then we'll be back with with some more movies in September. Maybe we'll throw Tony in next week for the beginning of the episode. We could have done Tony this week. Tony's been thrown around. Poor Tony, man. I was so excited for it, and we had it on our list, and it's just no Tony.
Speaker: we will We will talk about Tony, but ah thank you so much for listening to this episode. We will be back next week with more. see you then. Bye. See you.
Speaker: Thank you.
