Transcript
Kendahl: All right. This is Shut Off, Turn On. i' am your host today. i am Kendall over here on the East Coast enjoying some beautiful weather. that is...
Julian Contreras Jr: Oh, we're already getting into the weather talk.
Kendahl: i've
Julian Contreras Jr: yeah
Kendahl: but
Julian Contreras Jr: I'm Julian over here on the West Coast, also enjoying some nice sunshine and got the lawn mowed today. So it was a good time.
Kendahl: I had apple trees. Do you remember that? i don't know if you guys do you guys remember coming over?
Julian Contreras Jr: I remember seeing the apples. I never picked anything.
Kendahl: Okay. Yeah, so I had four apple trees on that property. And I have always, I just ever since we moved, i just I've been wanting apple trees again. So i you can't plant one.
Kendahl: You have to plant two because they have to be able to cross pollinate. Then you got to have bees.
Julian Contreras Jr: Have to have friends.
Kendahl: And yeah, you got to have all kinds of fun stuff to get apples growing. So I i have a lot of bees in the area. i don't, i don't so the the things I do to spray for insects, it's I try to be as bee friendly as possible.
Kendahl: And so, yeah, I did that yesterday and mowed the lawns. And yeah, it was just it's it's finally nice around here because we had, I am not even joking. I swear it rained nonstop for like a week and a half straight.
Kendahl: it was It was terrible.
Julian Contreras Jr: i I'm a big fan of rain. I love to watch a certain movie when it rains.
Kendahl: i I love, i actually really, really enjoy the rain.
Julian Contreras Jr: oh
Kendahl: But when it doesn't stop for a week and a half, it kind of gets a little old.
Julian Contreras Jr: Okay, I see.
Kendahl: But anyway, on on that note, hey, we're back. we we didn't we I'm hoping you guys are are listening to this not like three weeks apart, but like the week apart in that recording.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah. Yep, this is episode 80 of Shut Off, Turn On.
Kendahl: know, right?
Julian Contreras Jr: You believe that?
Kendahl: 80.
Julian Contreras Jr: 80.
Kendahl: That's so funny.
Julian Contreras Jr: We're making it. We're taking big breaks, but we're making it.
Kendahl: That's the... yeah I know we had planned we had planned on definitively being at 100 before the end of this year. That was our goal.
Julian Contreras Jr: Oh, I think that'll still happen.
Kendahl: i I'm not even worried about that. But I think we i think we might have eat we might have been able to reach that a little sooner if we had been consistent.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah.
Kendahl: But, you know, hey, the thing is, is we're elder millennials. And life life is a little busy. And both of us have you know our own families and and work. And so sometimes a break is needed.
Kendahl: That's all I'm saying.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah, sometimes there are negatives to the break. Like, I don't know if you guys listened last week, which I know you you probably did. But you got two intros because they changed the settings on me and I'm trying to figure it out.
Kendahl: Hopefully. Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: So you got two intros. So I'm hoping this time there is only the one clean intro. But we'll figure it out together when I cut it and post it. So anyway, welcome in to everything entertainment, opinion-based,
Kendahl: Oh.
Julian Contreras Jr: Like I said, I'm Julian. We're talking about weather. But we both saw the same movie this week, so I'm super excited.
Kendahl: We did.
Julian Contreras Jr: Oh, yeah.
Kendahl: We did. Okay, but before we get to that, I got a question. There was something else that debuted this week. And I'm asking because it's not a part of the segment that we typically talk about.
Julian Contreras Jr: Okay.
Kendahl: did Did you watch about video game news this week?
Julian Contreras Jr: Oh, you're talking about the trailer that dropped for a video game that I choose not to partake of anymore.
Kendahl: Yes. Okay, but hey, okay, hold on. Hold on. i'm i am I am asking for your interest in
Julian Contreras Jr: Okay.
Kendahl: Because this game has been in development for four years.
Julian Contreras Jr: Okay. Well, all that aside, and i think it came out Tuesday. Yes, I did see the email that dropped and I did watch the video right away.
Kendahl: Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: I did think about texting you.
Kendahl: Okay, and if you don't... Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: I just didn't get to it.
Kendahl: And if you don't know what we're talking about, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 4... four is Is the game.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yes.
Kendahl: Now, Infinity Ward is the company that has typically done the Modern Warfare series in the past. And they've always been really successful. Minus Modern Warfare 3, which a lot of people were mad because it was like a basically an add-on to 2.
Kendahl: Don't get me started. But this one has been in development essentially from that position on. Because Infinity Ward hasn't done a new Call of Duty in in four years.
Julian Contreras Jr: Okay, so they're you're saying there's a chance that they're doing it right.
Kendahl: So
Kendahl: i do i've i've seen I've seen some early interviews with people that got like early adoption opportunities to play it at the because they did a big hoopla trailer reveal right party.
Kendahl: And they had a few guys that got sent out to Activision to go like actually do some hands on with it. And the initials are, is it Call of Duty?
Julian Contreras Jr: Okay.
Kendahl: Yes. But is it is it making the right choices in the right direction? And the one guy that I read about, I read through his thing, he said definitively yes. He he enjoyed playing Call of Duty at Black Ops 6, but struggled a little bit.
Kendahl: Once 7 came out, that's the more recent one. And it just goes to the same thing you've talked about.
Julian Contreras Jr: Mm-hmm.
Kendahl: It's just the the garbage that's been recycled. And this time they said they're not going to be thrown in these Nicki Minaj avatar suits and the crazy like shark heads that they did in B06. That's all gone. They're going to stay away from that. The aesthetics are going to be...
Kendahl: around more of the like the game design rather than this money-hungry crap that they've been pulling for a while.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah. Okay. Well, on that note, there were some skins they dropped like that of celebrities and stuff that I did enjoy. Like there was the clerks bundle. There was the Jay and silent Bob and all that stuff was fun.
Kendahl: Yeah. Yeah. Right.
Julian Contreras Jr: But I mean, you just have to be a fan of that. Like, cause I seen a video and I guess Robocop's in there now.
Kendahl: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: So I'm a big fan of Robocop as well.
Kendahl: And that then you start throwing Beavis and Putthead in there. You're just like, what happened to this game?
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah. Yeah. But anyway, the trailer did look good.
Kendahl: So anyway, yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: I did watch it all the way through. It was like a four minute one, wasn't it?
Kendahl: Yeah. Well, and it looks, I mean, honestly, this is where I think the Infinity War shines because this is really going into media.
Julian Contreras Jr: But
Kendahl: I mean, this is what we're talking about, right? Watching movies and and trailers and doing all that. that's That's what we like to do the show on and TV from time to time. But... Infinity Ward, they when they brought out Modern Warfare 2 way back in the way, it was one of the very first like cinematic video games that you got emotionally and emotionally.
Kendahl: in some cases physically into because it was just such a crazy plot to play the, you know, the single campaign. And, you know, they really, really up the ante at that point.
Julian Contreras Jr: Right.
Kendahl: Cause you know, when you have the you know, what is it? The no man left behind whatever airplane, you know, mission, that's the one that was like, okay, this is crazy. Like, this is real. Like, they did a great job of making you feel like crap playing this episode of this yeah of this round, right, of this mission. And they've and they kind of always upped the ante through the years. And so, once again, watching that trailer, I was like, wow, this is cool.
Kendahl: Like they, they really put some cinematic effort into this, but anyway, I don't want to go too far into that.
Julian Contreras Jr: OK.
Julian Contreras Jr: And this is a, you're fine.
Kendahl: I just, I thought it was, I thought it was neat. Cause it was one of the few trailers I got to see this week. Cause again, we did go to the same movie.
Julian Contreras Jr: OK.
Kendahl: And I thought it was really neat.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yes. I do want to say that that is an October release, correct?
Kendahl: Yeah. yeah
Julian Contreras Jr: Okay. And if I choose to play it, I will have to buy the game because they took Game Pass and Call of Duty and they split them apart, which I could see that lowered the price of the Game Pass.
Kendahl: Yeah.
Kendahl: Right. And.
Julian Contreras Jr: So this is the last thing I'll say on that.
Kendahl: Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: If it's good, I'll buy it and I'll join you, but we'll see, you know?
Kendahl: We'll see. Yeah, i i i have to I have to make the choice. I want to wait until little more stuff comes out before I decide to buy it. Because the only reason I got B06 and B07 was because it was with the Game Pass.
Kendahl: And so now it's like another $60.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah.
Kendahl: I don't know. I don't know.
Julian Contreras Jr: If you're lucky, it might might be higher.
Kendahl: Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: All right.
Kendahl: Yeah. So, all right. So in in the ketchup world... i is Do you have anything else that was like, besides mowing the lawn?
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah, yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: So this upcoming week is going to be absolutely brutal, I think, for scheduling. I got baseball games like normal. i It's my wife's birthday.
Julian Contreras Jr: So we are going to go see Neil deGrasse Tyson in August.
Kendahl: No?
Kendahl: Awesome. Happy birthday, Julian's wife.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah, yeah. There is another surprise if she chooses to listen to this episode before, so I can't say it, but that will be on the end of the week. And then later this month, I finally am super excited to see Back to the Future on Broadway.
Kendahl: Oh, wow.
Julian Contreras Jr: I've been hearing a lot about this show, and I finally get to see it.
Kendahl: Okay.
Kendahl: i So I'm really close to a lot of big traveling Broadway shows because I'm near DC. And they have they have a show for Hamilton coming up.
Kendahl: And I'm i've been i'm trying to get tickets for it to go see it with my wife because I think that would be a lot of fun.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah, you should. Yep. I think Hamilton and In the Heights are one of my favorites.
Kendahl: So.
Kendahl: Oh, yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: Obviously, Book of Mormon is hilarious.
Kendahl: Yeah. Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: But yeah, I'm super excited to see that one. And then there's just a ton of movies coming up that we'll get to in a little bit. But that's that's about it. my My month is starting to build already.
Kendahl: i i am I am winding down. I'm on the opposite side because i don't i don't know where school is at in your end because I think i think schools around you are are starting to shut down for the summer, right?
Julian Contreras Jr: It's yeah, we're past that.
Kendahl: Oh, you are?
Julian Contreras Jr: They're home.
Kendahl: Okay.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah.
Kendahl: Well, I still have two more weeks. and So, anyway, that's that's where we're at.
Julian Contreras Jr: Oh,
Kendahl: We're at the last two weeks. Like, literally, report cards are due on Friday. So, like, I'm in that, like, last-minute ditched effort to... put everything aside and I haven't really talked about it on the show much, but I'm actually changing jobs this next year.
Kendahl: So I'm still going to be a teacher.
Julian Contreras Jr: okay.
Kendahl: I'm just going to be doing a different a different type of teaching. And it's it's really going to be challenging for me, but it's a choice I wanted to make to kind of better myself.
Kendahl: And so in turn, I also, that means I have to pack up all my stuff.
Julian Contreras Jr: Oh,
Kendahl: I mean, it's like moving a house because I've been in the same classroom for four years and now I have to pack up all my stuff and, and move it.
Kendahl: And so it's kind of crazy because they're like, mark your boxes and make sure, you know, you, you put on there if it's because I have to make sure it's their property or my property. And it's just, it's really weird.
Kendahl: Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: OK, well, I mean, it sounds like a lot of fun.
Kendahl: So, I mean, it's it's fun.
Julian Contreras Jr: Congratulations.
Kendahl: It's fun. I mean, like I said, it's my last two weeks. So there's not really a lot going on teaching wise or school wise. There's some fun stuff this week. I'm actually kind of excited because on Wednesday, I get to be a part of what's called Splash the Staff.
Kendahl: So I get to dress up like the biggest boob ever in like floaties and goggles and all this. And I get to hang out for the entire day.
Julian Contreras Jr: OK.
Kendahl: on the uh like playground and kids get to come out in rotation and just squirt the crap out of me with squirt guns and water balloons and it'll be a lot of fun so oh no no it's the best weather like today it's like today it's supposed to be like in the 90s actually so it's even better
Julian Contreras Jr: Okay. I mean, hopefully it's not raining that day either, but we'll see.
Julian Contreras Jr: Okay. Awesome. That's good. Do you want to hit the upcoming movies for June or do you want to hit up the movie right away?
Kendahl: so
Julian Contreras Jr: Okay.
Kendahl: So the movie is is one with a very lovely Rachel McAdams.
Julian Contreras Jr: Okay.
Kendahl: Can you think of this? And she gets, and unfortunately, marooned on an island.
Julian Contreras Jr: Oh, send help.
Kendahl: Yeah. So
Julian Contreras Jr: I was gonna say, Rachel McAdams, you're either watching Wedding Crashers, The Family Stone, Mean Girls.
Kendahl: not that far back. Not that far back. Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: Okay.
Kendahl: More recent. So I decided that I wanted to sit down and watch this movie because we had talked about it when I went to theaters and I had I had originally intended to go. i had talked to the wife about it and then she was like, kind of hesitant.
Kendahl: And I'll tell you, I wish I had seen this in the theaters. It was a it was a fun movie.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah, it was a good time.
Kendahl: Yeah, I mean, Rachel McAdams was just great in this, playing this kooky, oddball survivor fanatic. and And then ultimately, like, I'm not going to give too much away because I think there's it's still kind of new enough in the in the you know streaming world.
Kendahl: And it wasn't really big in the theaters.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah.
Kendahl: But you know if you haven't seen it, it's on Disney+, plus Hulu, wherever you're at now because they're merging. But yeah, definitely good, good watch.
Kendahl: I'd say don't watch with the kids. The boar scene is interesting.
Julian Contreras Jr: Intense. It's intense.
Kendahl: It's intense. When he started snotting all over her face, I was like, oh, geez. Okay. but But I mean, my my hands down favorite scene of that entire movie is when she's pulling him back up onto the beach after a one attempt and she's sick and she's like trying to revive him. You know what scene I'm talking about?
Kendahl: It's just great. It's great.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah.
Kendahl: And so, yeah, it's a fun movie. It has its low points a couple of times, but honestly, it picks right back up. The minute it starts to get into a lull, it something happens, and it's just it's a great movie.
Kendahl: I really enjoyed it.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah, I really like that one in theaters a lot. So I might go watch it after this. We'll see.
Kendahl: Well, I am. So I went to go get tickets for Obsession for this next week. But my the problem is is, as of right now, the only times it's going to be playing in the theater near my house is times it's it cuts off at like the 430 mark or whatever every day.
Julian Contreras Jr: okay
Kendahl: And I'm in I'm in I'm teaching until four, so I can't make it. And so I'm going to wait and see. But if it is still playing, by this Friday, I'm going to go see it.
Julian Contreras Jr: Okay, because it does release digital on the 2nd.
Kendahl: Oh, shoot. Tuesday?
Julian Contreras Jr: So you can watch it at home, yeah. They have this whole weird thing where some fans are annoyed, I don't know about mad, that it is getting released so early on digital.
Kendahl: okay
Kendahl: A little bit.
Julian Contreras Jr: But i think I think those contracts are dealt with beforehand because... with if the past history of movies being in that genre of scary slash gory, whatever, they don't typically last too long in the theater, right?
Kendahl: Mm
Kendahl: hmm. Not usually. And I mean, it but it depends. It depends because you have some movies that stay for a while.
Kendahl: I mean, like we're talking real high end movies, right? We're talking like scary movie or scream or, you know, I know scary movies kind of a comedy, but it's still kind of in that horror genre.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah.
Kendahl: Technically, it's a comedy horror.
Julian Contreras Jr: Right.
Kendahl: But when you have like a studios like a 24 or, you know, like the one that we're going talk about tonight, Backrooms, those ones that are super low budget, they typically have a faster turnaround because they know that it's going to be harder to direct the audience into a theater for 30 40 50 60 dollars depending on how many people you're going with and an audience that wants to sit at home for 20 bucks so
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah. So for that 20, 24, 25, whatever they're going to charge for, it's going be well worth it because you're going to get the regular version and you're going to get the unrated version.
Kendahl: oh okay
Julian Contreras Jr: So I'm excited to see that. I'm going to make time this week. I just got out of it in the theater, what, two weeks ago? I think we did our episode.
Kendahl: We talked about last week, actually.
Julian Contreras Jr: and And I'm ready to see it again.
Kendahl: But yeah, you watched it a week before that, so...
Julian Contreras Jr: And I really want to see what... Curry has to do with the unrated version, how much more he's going to put in it.
Kendahl: Yeah. Okay.
Julian Contreras Jr: So I'm super excited.
Kendahl: Okay.
Julian Contreras Jr: So if you have time, but just stay home and watch it.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yep.
Kendahl: But yeah, no, I mean, that's the thing is, so one of the things that we were talking about on the show last week is that Obsession has been doing so well.
Kendahl: I mean, it's already it's already past the hundred million dollar mark.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yep.
Kendahl: Yeah. It is now, I can't remember. It's like it's like some cost to to earnings ratio.
Kendahl: It's just blowing everything out of the water.
Julian Contreras Jr: I think it's over 100 Yeah.
Kendahl: Yeah, it's something like, it's something crazy stupid. But I mean, honestly, it just, and I can't i can't stop seeing all these like,
Kendahl: behind the scenes stuff on social media. And so I want to hold up because I don't want to watch it. I don't know i want to watch the movie.
Julian Contreras Jr: yeah
Kendahl: But yeah, there's a lot. There's a lot out there. So I think this is one of those movies they're trying to do a fast turnaround because like you said, it's probably set up before the movie even went out.
Kendahl: But let's be honest, lot I mean, in the theaters, it's been kind of trash for a while. Like, I'm not, I shouldn't say trash. It hasn't been anything that's like, oh, yeah, I'm driving myself to the movies. And when you have a movie like Obsession that just, I mean, I haven't seen it yet, but seems like it's very well done.
Kendahl: People are like, oh, a good movie at the theater?
Julian Contreras Jr: Yes. Yeah.
Kendahl: Yes, sir. Yeah. So, I mean, but okay, so let's kind of, I mean, I think it's a great segue to talk about Backrooms, you know? So, I mean, this is the same thing, right?
Julian Contreras Jr: yes
Kendahl: You have a movie that is just solidly, has got a pretty good cult following. I think that's a good way to put it, right?
Kendahl: So you've got this movie that people were really interested to see because of a short film that was done in... what, like 2022 or something like that?
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah, you had actually sent me the little reel of the past stuff on it, and it was very interested.
Kendahl: Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: So I want you to go ahead and say some of that. You can say the director, because he was the one who originally did the YouTube videos, correct?
Kendahl: Yes. So the director was Kane Parsons, right? And so he, his whole thing was, he he basically had this, uh,
Kendahl: I think it was like a 20 minute short or something like that back in 2022. And then it spawned a massive amount of like YouTube videos.
Kendahl: And then there's just a a whole bunch of what they call non-canon videos out there that kind of like mimic this. But he used some of the ideas from that to then go to this position of, hey, I'm going to put this film out there.
Julian Contreras Jr: Okay.
Kendahl: And everybody kind of was like, sure. OK, it was successful this on YouTube. And, you know, the funny thing is, is his. His vision for what was going to be the movie of Backrooms ended up.
Kendahl: kind of being, you know, this project. Because he originally had the idea way back when, right? Like he wanted to do this way back when, but I think i think financing probably was a big hindrance.
Kendahl: But I mean, anyway, so there's some differences between the lore of what was the back rooms that he produced and some of the YouTube videos and then this movie.
Julian Contreras Jr: Okay. All right.
Kendahl: But my question to you is, oh, well, okay, so let's hold on. This kid is 20, 21, 22. twenty one twenty two
Kendahl: I think, i know he's, all I remember from the, from the like the the information I was looking up, he's younger than my daughter and my daughter's 23. So that was, my brain kind of broke when I saw this.
Kendahl: And I think, did he do this film for, wanna say it was like,
Julian Contreras Jr: He's only 20, Kendall.
Kendahl: oh, 20, geez, okay.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah, well, that just brings up another thing.
Kendahl: in
Julian Contreras Jr: So this is another director that's 20 years old, which is crazy to say at our age.
Kendahl: Right.
Julian Contreras Jr: Curry Barker is also, I believe, in that same age range.
Kendahl: Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: I can look it up, but he's another young director that is doing a bunch of small internet videos that catch...
Kendahl: Yep. Yep.
Julian Contreras Jr: momentum and they just go so they can go to a company let's say okay i'm just gonna say like a twenty four did both of these movies all right they put in 750 000 for obsession i don't know how much the back rooms cost it might have been a little more i'm sure you can look that up while i'm ranting here but at a hundred times the budget kendall can you imagine what a24 is
Kendahl: Yep.
Kendahl: Right.
Julian Contreras Jr: can go out on a limb for, for like videos and directors like this to say like, Hey, this kind of seems like what people want to see obsession was 26.
Kendahl: Right.
Kendahl: So Curry Barker is 20, he was 26.
Julian Contreras Jr: twenty six Okay.
Kendahl: Either or, it doesn't matter.
Julian Contreras Jr: So they're still in their twenties.
Kendahl: Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah. So they can take their momentum and say, Hey, yeah, this is kind of the way the people want to see movies right now. They don't want huge blockbuster videos.
Kendahl: Right.
Julian Contreras Jr: or anymore. Like, let's talk about Mandalorian for a second. Let's just jump back into that.
Kendahl: I was just going to...
Julian Contreras Jr: That thing was gangbusters for a week and it has dropped off 72% in one week.
Kendahl: Yeah. Yep. And what was the drop-off of that? Backrooms.
Julian Contreras Jr: Back rooms. My theater was packed.
Kendahl: And you know
Kendahl: Well, even Obsessions, this last weekend, Obsessions and Backrooms combined still outperformed The Mandalorian.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah. And I i fully applaud it
Kendahl: And Obsessions has been out for how many weeks?
Julian Contreras Jr: Three, I think.
Kendahl: Like three weeks now?
Julian Contreras Jr: Three or four. Yeah.
Kendahl: Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: And i I myself do not ever want to see the theater experience go away, such as we saw the drive-in experience go away.
Kendahl: Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: Drive-ins were super fun. They were super cool. But at the same time, they're just gone now. You can maybe find one or two still running for nostalgia purposes.
Kendahl: Mm-hmm. Right.
Julian Contreras Jr: I do not want that to happen to the Cinemarks, the Carmikes, the AMCs, what however many companies there The mom and pop theaters that still have their own thing.
Kendahl: yeah
Julian Contreras Jr: I don't want that experience to go away. So I... I'm way behind all these people that want to come out with these good ideas to drive people to go to the cinema.
Julian Contreras Jr: Now, do I want the cinema to raise all those prices on popcorn and say, hey, like the largest $28 now? No, that's not what I'm saying. I love the experience.
Kendahl: Well, these, I mean, the other thing is too, is that it's, I, I'm going dive a little deeper into that because these movies, so Obsession costs just under a million dollars to, to total production costs.
Julian Contreras Jr: Okay.
Kendahl: Right. So, and then Backrooms was a little more, it's just under 10 million, but I, I'm going I'm going going to say, I think the reason for that is the casting.
Kendahl: I really think that the casting is what costs them a little bit more money. So I know that there's some digital elements to this film as well. But I can see the fact that some of this casting is what probably drove the cost to be that near $10 million. dollars But even in that same room, I mean, this weekend, Backrooms, I got to look and see what it is. But it's already it's already made that three or four times over.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah. And I did read that they either bought or rented a mall and built that stage, that whole set.
Kendahl: Right.
Julian Contreras Jr: And you can go visit it. They're opening it up for you to go walk through. I'll have to look up and see what city and town that's in, but I did read that. So if there is that whole practical set style that you could go visit and pay like 15, 20 bucks, a ticket to go experience that, that set was insane and crazy, dude.
Kendahl: Mm-hmm.
Kendahl: and So and I have, okay, so I also have a theory behind, okay, we'll get into that in a second. So, so far, the estimated earnings domestically, so just the United States, is $82 million on this movie.
Julian Contreras Jr: Jeez. cheese
Kendahl: Right. So, I mean, but this is the thing. This movie didn't cost the big budgets that The Mandalorian cost. That movie was 100 plus million dollars. Right. And it's already surpassing the total earnings of that movie in its first weekend.
Kendahl: And like you said, i mean, this is this is a there. These are young go get them type producer directors that they're not, it's no frills. It's not a big money grab type film. It's just, Hey, we have a really cool story.
Kendahl: We have a really cool idea and I want to give it to the people. I want to show the people what I have been thinking about. And it's unique. I mean, I think that's the difference too, is is is is obsession. And I know we're combining these two people, but I mean, you have to remember, these are these are two extremely low budget, extremely new out of the gate director, producer people. You know, these are these are guys that are that are nowhere.
Kendahl: they were They were nothing. And all of a sudden now, everybody, I guarantee is knocking down their door, picking up their phone, thinking about who these guys are for the next movie.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah, Curry already has another movie coming out.
Kendahl: And yeah, and exactly.
Julian Contreras Jr: So...
Kendahl: And so and the thing is, is it's because they're presenting something that hasn't been in the film industry for a while. Uniqueness, something that nobody has produced or brought to the film industry for a long time.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah. So... That's a little bit about the lore and everything about it. Now I want to jump into your actual experience. You went a day before I did maybe two days.
Kendahl: I did.
Julian Contreras Jr: i don't remember.
Kendahl: Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: And you text me.
Kendahl: yeah So I texted you and i texted my daughter at the same time.
Julian Contreras Jr: It was crazy.
Kendahl: i texted my daughter. Okay. I said, what did I just watch? Because this movie is just, it's like this weird enigma.
Kendahl: You've got to really process it because there's so much, right? There's so much that's going on.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah.
Kendahl: And, the The problem is, i mean, the lore of this, Backrooms is complicated because it it's sort of just it sort of talks about it in the film. I don't want to give away too much. it't be the spoiler on this one. But essentially, you know you have the main character who finds a
Kendahl: way into this weird diversion of reality.
Julian Contreras Jr: Door. Okay.
Kendahl: And in doing so, it's just this ever-growing, ever-growing, ever-changing environment that he can't figure out.
Kendahl: And so he tries to bring other people into it. In some courses, not always to the greatest results.
Julian Contreras Jr: Some.
Kendahl: What's that?
Julian Contreras Jr: Some? Some cases? Like, all cases did not end well.
Kendahl: So, but the thing is, I mean, this... I thought, I don't know. i There's a part of me that's like, okay, I liked it.
Kendahl: I thought it was interesting. I thought it was thought-provoking. And then at the same time,
Kendahl: What? Just what? what
Julian Contreras Jr: Okay. Yeah. I fully understand that because after I had got done, I text you about it and i you said, how do you feel? And I was like, do you want to do this now or on the show? So now we're on the show.
Julian Contreras Jr: I really liked it. I did fall into the trap in my brain where it was like, okay, there's not... really a story and you had mentioned that is in some other people's reviews of it it's not an abc type movie like you play the whole story through it's just a movie where things happen credits roll you deal with it and you process it and then that's the that's the movie
Kendahl: Yeah.
Kendahl: Right.
Kendahl: Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's what I was saying about thought provoking. Like at the very end, I was like, okay, I'm sitting in my seat. Lights are starting to come on, but nobody's moving. And I was like, Is there more? i'm I'm looking on my phone. Is there after credit scenes? No. Jeez. Okay.
Julian Contreras Jr: I thought about doing that.
Kendahl: Well, then what the heck am I?
Julian Contreras Jr: for the
Kendahl: What?
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah, it was crazy. And I don't even think that we could spoil this movie unless we just walked you through the entire movie.
Kendahl: Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: but Because there is, like we said, there the story is minimal. It's just the thoughts of things happening that keeps you in your seat and keeps you looking around that next corner to see what happens.
Kendahl: Okay, so here's my question to you, and this is not spoiling for anything. Do you think at the end of this movie, do you think that the people that are on the screen are in reality, or are they still stuck in some avenue of the back rooms?
Julian Contreras Jr: I think they're stuck in some avenue because they, when they were doing like the interview with a certain character at the end, he said that it just kind of builds on itself from a memory.
Julian Contreras Jr: And they kind of explained that when the house was getting demolished.
Kendahl: Yep. Yep. Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: I'll just say that. So yeah, I believe they are kind of out, but I believe it's still happening. There's no end to the back rooms.
Kendahl: So I, I saw this, uh, what do you want to call it? Like prediction or thought process that when he's, when she says, where are we? And he says, I,
Kendahl: I don't know that I could divulge that. It's because he's there where they're at trying to figure this thing out is that they're stuck in there too, but they're like in a pocket that they can control.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah. kind of That's kind of what I figured out.
Kendahl: And so, oh, okay. So, I mean, and that's, that's what I was, that's what I, that's how I felt at the end. I was like, okay. But, okay. Can we just talk about like the, the, the people?
Kendahl: That's just weird.
Julian Contreras Jr: We're talking hazmat suits or the the quote unquote monsters.
Kendahl: No, no, no, the quote monsters. Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: yeah
Julian Contreras Jr: So yeah, they were trippy without being like your normal Freddy Krueger, Jason type model. They were just super creepy and weird, like a distorted memory dream type thing.
Julian Contreras Jr: Like there was little bits of what they were with some stuff added.
Kendahl: yeah
Julian Contreras Jr: And yeah, it was creepy.
Kendahl: So I like, OK, so there were a few scenes in this movie that are direct elements that are, of you know, from his original vision of backrooms and the and some of the YouTube videos, one of which is the Christmas tree scene.
Julian Contreras Jr: Okay, one of the best scenes I think.
Kendahl: And out of all that is that is one of the creepiest scenes in the entire movie. Personally, I just feel like there's so much tension of what is going to happen.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah.
Kendahl: and And then, you know, you you get it. But this there's so much tension in that one scene. I thought that was pretty good. I liked it.
Julian Contreras Jr: Okay, so you saw it in a regular seat, correct?
Kendahl: Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: Okay, so when I got out of work, the only options available were either Front Row Joe or a D-Box seat. So I upgraded my points and I got a D-Box seat, which was in a good location to see the full huge screen.
Kendahl: Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: did not You said it was going to be interesting.
Kendahl: yeah
Julian Contreras Jr: I had seen Final Destination Bloodlines in a D-Box seat and it wasn't too crazy. This movie tossed me around like a ragdoll.
Kendahl: Because of all the running scenes, right?
Julian Contreras Jr: It was the running scenes. It was the turning of the corners because the D-Box seat, if you guys don't know and have never experienced it, it vibrates, it rumbles, and it moves and tilts.
Kendahl: Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: Not extremely, unless it's very like sudden.
Kendahl: Mm-hmm.
Julian Contreras Jr: Then you feel like you're getting tossed out of the chair, which i felt like I was a couple times.
Kendahl: Put the seatbelt on.
Julian Contreras Jr: I don't recall there being a seatbelt. I know it reclines in your bucket a little bit deeper, but that's about it.
Kendahl: There's not.
Julian Contreras Jr: I thought about turning the intensity down, but then I was like, no, no, I'm not going to be a baby about it. So, so the scene, Kendall, where a character is hitting somebody with the side of the head with a rock.
Kendahl: Oh, geez. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah. I thought I was going to fly to the left of my chair because every hit it was throwing me.
Kendahl: Oh, wow.
Julian Contreras Jr: i was like, please stop hitting him. please
Julian Contreras Jr: But it was intense for a movie that I didn't think was going to be that it was,
Kendahl: Yeah, I, you know, I mean, I think, okay, so here's my thought.
Julian Contreras Jr: Let's get tossed.
Kendahl: i I was talking to my daughter about this today and I said, you know, I think what's interesting about this movie is back rooms in its entirety. Again, i'm I'm not giving too much away because, you know, it is kind of like it's already out there in the sense of what back rooms is. It's an ever changing environment that never stays consistent.
Kendahl: and And and to me,
Julian Contreras Jr: All right.
Kendahl: Like you were talking about, that's what the storyline is of this movie. It's just something that keeps going in like a linear fashion, but doesn't necessarily have a beginning and an end. It just keeps going and it shifts at every change of, of like the dynamic of the film.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah, and it'll even change between a 4K screen and like a, what what camera would you call that? Not an 8mm camera, but
Kendahl: Oh, geez. Yeah. Like old 90s, like magnetic tape film.
Julian Contreras Jr: yeah. When it went to the old-timey screen, that's when I had to pay more attention because I was like, I know they're going to try to scare me more in this mode than they are with the four k mode.
Julian Contreras Jr: And they sure did.
Kendahl: Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: They did.
Kendahl: Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think, I don't know. i You know, For me, i I'm going to give this movie like probably like a seven and a half.
Kendahl: And the only reason I go seven and a half is because I felt like there was more that they could have done to like build. I know we keep saying there's no storyline, but there is a storyline.
Kendahl: Some of that like lore in the story of it. Like i really wanted to know more about like this company that's behind everything that's going on.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah.
Kendahl: But I mean, the first, okay, so that was the crazy part. The first, what, 10 minutes? Like 10-ish, 12 minutes of the film? Is like, is like is is that before or is that after?
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: I think it's after because it goes back and says several days earlier.
Kendahl: Right?
Julian Contreras Jr: Does it not?
Kendahl: Oh, OK. And i could I guess I missed that part. But I was thinking myself, like, that was OK. So you kind of get the gist of it at that point. But the guy saying, I'm going further than I've ever gone before.
Kendahl: And we didn't see any of that in the adventures of the characters that we would eventually you know see in this film.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah. Yeah.
Kendahl: And and so, yeah, I just i don't know i I felt like there were some more elements that they could have presented in that. But at the same time, my daughter's like, will you go to the theaters and see this with me again? And I went, no.
Kendahl: And it's not for any reason other than I need more time to process this movie because there's just so many things that are going on.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah.
Kendahl: And I just I don't know that I could go back and enjoy watching it again.
Julian Contreras Jr: OK.
Kendahl: I'd have to give it a little bit more time. Like a week is not enough. Like, you give me another month, maybe a month and a half, and let's say this goes streaming at home.
Julian Contreras Jr: Right. Yeah.
Kendahl: Yeah, sure. ill I might adventure back and watch it at home. But I don't know that I'd go back to the theaters to see it.
Julian Contreras Jr: So you gave it a seven, seven and a half.
Kendahl: Yeah, I mean, I'm closer to a seven and a half than a seven. And like I said, it's only because, I mean, I just... i i keep My thought is is so the the one thing... I'm trying to go without spoiling it.
Kendahl: the The one creature that's in this monster, monster that's in this that is more perpetual than the rest of them. I wanted more of that.
Kendahl: like i wanted but i And I wanted more of that.
Julian Contreras Jr: okay
Kendahl: in in what we got to see in the latter part of the film, in the beginning part of the film, and kind of more of this like chasing element. I wish there was more of that. And instead it was like, hi, bye.
Julian Contreras Jr: Okay. All right. And I'm going to give it an eight is what I told you when I got out of the theater, mainly because of that dinner scene.
Kendahl: Yeah.
Kendahl: Okay, yeah, geez.
Julian Contreras Jr: You get to everything that we've talked about. And then you get to that dinner scene where somebody is trying to explain a lot of stuff. And he's got a couple, let's call them friends at the table with them. And just the stuff he does, you're like, who thought of this? This is absolutely insane.
Kendahl: Well, and that's kind of that's kind of what I'm talking about. Like, how did he all of a sudden go from this guy that was like, I don't know what's going on. And then if's all of a sudden now he knows everything. What?
Julian Contreras Jr: I think he just gave in instead of running from it. He just accepted and gave in, but is at the end, it still didn't save them.
Kendahl: Right? like And that scene that scene is kind of also one of those that like i I liked it. But at the same time, I'm like, what the? What?
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah. It gave me a cotton candy.
Kendahl: Because...
Julian Contreras Jr: Wow. Don't choose that.
Kendahl: Well, and then when he's like, he's like, no, we could, we could, you know, we don't have to change. We don't have to change. And then, and then what? Like, how did, how did that shift so, that escalated fast?
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah.
Kendahl: Like, yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah.
Kendahl: What? And so, i don't know.
Julian Contreras Jr: All right.
Kendahl: I just, I feel like this movie is a mind trip. You have to go in with the expectation like Julian and were talking about. Do not think that this is going to be a beginning end story. This story does not have an end.
Kendahl: You're going to walk away from this going, what did I watch? And process everything that's happening.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah.
Kendahl: And so there's a part of me that's
Julian Contreras Jr: You're also going to have a good time
Kendahl: Yeah, i mean I mean, I enjoyed the movie. Don't get me wrong. I enjoyed i i bought myself some fried pickles.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah.
Kendahl: and and cause i go to a It's a dinner and movie theater, right?
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah.
Kendahl: So you can sit down have dinner.
Julian Contreras Jr: Our theater experience is just so different.
Kendahl: so But
Julian Contreras Jr: I got fried pickles. I got a burger. Yeah.
Kendahl: i you know i do have to say though I think the one thing that did drive me insane was the guys that were next to me were definitely more of the like YouTube generation and just chatty.
Kendahl: i mean, not like, not like interrupting the movie chatty, but just like, you know, like that, like the whole freaking time.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah.
Kendahl: It's like, just stop. Just watch the dang movie.
Julian Contreras Jr: yeah One of my biggest pep pet peeves. Yeah, just don't talk in the theater. But anyway, that was Back Rooms. I gave it an eight. He gave it a seven and a half. Please go see this movie.
Julian Contreras Jr: You're going to love it. See Obsession.
Kendahl: yeah yeah
Julian Contreras Jr: Kendall had texted me and said that it was, what, this year's Oppenheimer and Barbie?
Kendahl: Oh yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: To which I said...
Kendahl: I mean, for, well, for, for, for these particular of fans.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yes.
Julian Contreras Jr: What was that combination's name?
Kendahl: Oh geez. What did you know?
Julian Contreras Jr: Do you remember?
Kendahl: Hold up.
Julian Contreras Jr: i don't remember what the other one is, but I called this one Back Session.
Kendahl: Hold up.
Kendahl: Oh, that was a, Barbenheimer.
Julian Contreras Jr: Barbenheimer, yeah. This one's this generation and this year's Back Session.
Julian Contreras Jr: Go enjoy. Yeah,
Kendahl: Back session. It sounds like you need an ID to get into that one.
Julian Contreras Jr: yeah probably. Probably.
Kendahl: All All right.
Julian Contreras Jr: Okay. Yeah.
Kendahl: So let's move into movies that are coming up because there's a couple of movies coming out this weekend. There's one that's kind of sneaking in in the middle of all this. And I feel bad because I feel like it should have gotten a different debut.
Kendahl: But then there's a couple other ones that are about to come out in the next month. And I think, I mean, you and I have already talked about ones that we're going to like some of them that we're going to go see. So, all right. Why don't you start us off?
Julian Contreras Jr: Okay, I have them in order by date. These are movies for June 2026. Whenever you guys are listening to this podcast, if you're in the future and listening backwards, this is June 2026 releases.
Julian Contreras Jr: This weekend, we got Scary Movie.
Kendahl: Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: Absolutely love it. Gonna go see it. It is being paired with... I'm just gonna call it He-Man, but it's Masters of the Universe.
Kendahl: Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: Two big movies. The theater's gonna be popping. glad it's summertime are you going to go see either of those just ask these
Kendahl: if if If Obsession is not playing, then I will probably try to go see a Scary Movie.
Julian Contreras Jr: okay and then there's one movie coming out on its own date and i think it's the one that you're talking about that is just huge the trailers are everywhere it's before every movie that i see it's got a star-studded cast disclosure day
Kendahl: Yes.
Kendahl: Yes.
Julian Contreras Jr: That is the only one coming out on June 12th.
Kendahl: yes
Julian Contreras Jr: That is a big one.
Kendahl: Yep. And that's, I think, I think what's driving this is one, you've got someone, cause you know, Steven Spielberg and they, and they, they actually have direct kind of insinuation to encounters of a third kind.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yep.
Kendahl: There's, there's some elements of that that are being shown off in these, the in these theatrical previews. So I think they're trying to do a little bit of that. Oh, kind of an older generation connection, go see this in the theaters. It'll be worth your while type thing. And it's obviously aliens. So yeah, definitely interesting.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah. I'm hoping to see that one when it comes out. And then the week after that, we have June 19th. We have Toy Story 5, which is also being paired with another a twenty four movie.
Kendahl: Yep.
Julian Contreras Jr: So I'm super excited. I'm probably going to lean towards this one, but the death of Robin Hood.
Kendahl: That one looks so good. We talked about that, I think, in our last episode.
Julian Contreras Jr: It,
Kendahl: And, you know, you've got Hugh Jackman again. and that just, it looks good. It looks really good.
Julian Contreras Jr: yep And then on the 26th to close out June, we have Supergirl and The Invite, which is another one that if you go see the trailer for that one, it looks pretty good.
Kendahl: Mm-hmm.
Julian Contreras Jr: And then you have one for our generation, Kendall, that's coming out.
Kendahl: David?
Julian Contreras Jr: And I think you've seen this trailer, but it's The Jackass, the final movie.
Kendahl: Oh, I have I have seen i have seen some previews of this. I I will not see it in theaters, but it'd be funny.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yes.
Kendahl: Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: yeah I think they're going to reminisce on some of the best skits that they've ever done in the movies, along with some new ones that they've showed us some previews for in that trailer.
Kendahl: yeah
Julian Contreras Jr: So that's going to be a huge weekend. Three movies to go see.
Kendahl: Yeah, I mean, out of out of all the movies in June, the one I'm most, well, the two I'm most excited about are Disclosure Day and Supergirl. Those are up there with it because i I like sci-fi movies. So Disclosure Day, I think kind of throws a little bit of this like fantastical element to sci-fi because it looks like there's some weird fantasy level element to it I don't know.
Julian Contreras Jr: Okay. All right. So that's enough movies to keep us busy for the entire month, I feel like. There's also going to be some that just pop into theater that we didn't realize were coming, and we're going to go see those too.
Kendahl: Yeah. Well, and so like the movie I was talking about was breadwinner. So I don't know if you've seen previews for this and I, yeah, I know.
Julian Contreras Jr: Oh.
Julian Contreras Jr: Go ahead. It's already out. It's playing right now.
Julian Contreras Jr: Nate Bargatze.
Kendahl: Yeah. So this is, mean, it's about this guy who is a stateto turns to be a stay-at-home dad, right?
Julian Contreras Jr: Right.
Kendahl: And so I've i am i've talked about this on the show. I was a stay-at-home dad for about... nine, 10 years. And so I kind of want to see this for the relation element of it, right? Like I feel it because it says yeah he's just managing the household. And then this is Mandy Moore. So i you know, she's done a lot of really good things and I like her as an actress.
Kendahl: And so it's like she's gone back to work and he has to run the house. And it's like everything that can go wrong will go wrong. And he has to deal with it. And so, and I feel like this is getting a bad timeframe because it's coming out at this point where you've got Mandalorian, which if you're not into the horror genre, that's the only thing you're thinking about.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah.
Kendahl: And then if you're, you know, like us and you want to see a really good film and you hear a lot of these independent elements coming up, you're like, okay, going to go see Obsession and and Back Rooms. and And then you've got Breadwinner, which is kind of like snuggled into the corner over here in the theater that I went to.
Kendahl: It's literally in the back far corner, the smallest theater that's got like 35, 40 seats in it.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah, i was going to say the theater in the corner that has four rows because there's cars parked right on the other side.
Kendahl: That's it
Kendahl: basically. And it's like, that's such a shame. And I mean, I've heard, I've heard some like, uh, inklings that this is a pretty good movie. it's got a really good Rotten Tomatoes score and see what was it at?
Kendahl: Uh, okay. So critic wise, no, but audience, well, no.
Julian Contreras Jr: yeah
Kendahl: So here's the, here's the thing we've talked about this before. Critic wise, it's garbage. It's like 20 something percent, but audiences have almost at a 90%.
Julian Contreras Jr: okay
Kendahl: That to me,
Julian Contreras Jr: Okay, so here's my take on Breadwinner.
Kendahl: that to me
Julian Contreras Jr: So I've seen this trailer a bunch. And yes, Mandy Moore is fantastic. I want candy and all that other stuff. Nate Bargatze, in his own right, is hilarious as well.
Kendahl: Right.
Julian Contreras Jr: They put him in the movie where he is taking over the house, like you said. I am just not a huge fan of as soon as a man has to do a woman's job, he's a complete idiot and has no idea how to do it.
Julian Contreras Jr: and And I just said woman's job and I didn't mean that.
Kendahl: And that's,
Kendahl: yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: Don't cancel me. that you
Kendahl: No, you're you no you're you're you're putting it out.
Julian Contreras Jr: That's not what I mean.
Kendahl: So this is the reason why this is failing on the critic side, because it's it's's it's exactly that. You have all these critics coming out and complaining that it's, oh, it's it's too stereotypical to the situation.
Kendahl: It's not adaptive to the you know to the modern family you know dynamic. and
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah.
Kendahl: and you know And that's kind of... it the thing is is when i was a when i was a stay-at-home dad i got the conversations oh well but wait a second but are you know when you're home what do you do well i'm stay-at-home dad i i change the diapers i clean the house i do the dishes oh but no what does your wife do she goes to work she's working and they're like good no no no but how do you guys make money
Julian Contreras Jr: yeah
Julian Contreras Jr: Oh, okay.
Kendahl: She goes to work, you know, but and I think that's where this is trying to fill that, you know, that same element. But it is very anti our typical societal norm right now.
Kendahl: Right.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah.
Kendahl: Men are staying home more often. And I think that's the downfall for a lot of these critics. But I don't know. So for me, I see it on the I see it on this.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah.
Kendahl: I see what you're saying. I understand. And that's exactly why the critics are like destroying this film.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: So, I mean, i'm Mr. Mom came out forever ago.
Kendahl: I was like 83.
Julian Contreras Jr: right. Yeah. And then again, with Multiplicity, when Multiplicity came out and Andy McDowell went back to work as a real estate agent, he had to step in and he said she could go back to work.
Kendahl: oh yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: Not that he she needed his permission. I'm just getting myself in trouble with all these things I'm saying. i can That's not what I mean, but I can hear it.
Kendahl: You can't get in trouble for what was
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah. So she goes to work and he's struggling to be at home and also be a contractor, I believe is his job.
Kendahl: Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: So in multiplicity, he has to go get help. And so he clones himself so he could get some time off and then he clones himself again.
Kendahl: Right.
Julian Contreras Jr: and then they make a clone of a clone.
Kendahl: I got I got pizza, Steve.
Julian Contreras Jr: And that movie is hilarious. Yeah. There's a whole scene in there where he's got a wallet So it comes up and I'm just not, it is a hard job no matter who you are, no matter what person you are doing the job. A stay at home parent is difficult in itself.
Kendahl: It is.
Julian Contreras Jr: There is a lot of stuff that you don't see from the outside.
Kendahl: Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: Like, oh, so you just cook and clean and take care of the kids. That's three items. No, that's that's a thousand things wrapped up into three like lists, right?
Kendahl: Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: I just don't like when Nate Bargatze comes home and all of a sudden he's successful at what he does.
Kendahl: Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: And as soon as he steps into the other role, he's a complete idiot.
Kendahl: A bumbling idiot. Yeah. i And I...
Julian Contreras Jr: But there are two trailers to this. I don't know if you've seen it. There are some that just focus on Nate and his, like he takes his daughter shopping and he's just like, all right, let's just buy 14 of underwear.
Julian Contreras Jr: And then she's like, okay, well what happens when those 14 run out? Like, I'll just buy more. We'll throw them away. Like, you can't figure out how to run the the washer and dryer.
Kendahl: Yeah, yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: But then there are ones where he's hired the handyman to fix the roof.
Kendahl: Right.
Julian Contreras Jr: And that just adds a whole other element that he's not doing. But is it Will Arnett?
Kendahl: That he's not capable of. Yeah, i thought I think so.
Julian Contreras Jr: Okay.
Kendahl: it's It's somebody in his circle of of like typical co-stars or whatever.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah. So I can see both. I usually don't agree with critics on this one, but I would have to see the movie to see if that's really how they're playing it out.
Kendahl: And this might just be one of those, like, it didn't, I don't know. Maybe this is one of those that may, that should have been just a, like straight to Amazon release or Peacock release or whatever, you know, like studio specific.
Kendahl: But yeah, I mean, we'll see. We'll see. Right.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah, I'll see. I don't know. I felt like I stuck my foot in my mouth for some reason and I was trying to defend both sides of it. But whatever.
Kendahl: No, no, no. I think, but the thing is, I think this this looks like one of those heartwarming films.
Julian Contreras Jr: It is what it is.
Kendahl: i mean, it's you you could tell. It's entirely predictable. You know exactly how this film's going to play out. It's going to play out exactly like you said. Mandy Moore goes back to work. Nate gets all frustrated. He's just all messed up when it comes to doing everything that mom did before and now dad can't.
Kendahl: And he bumbles through everything. Some significantly like dramatic moment happens between him and his daughters, and it connects them a little bit closer. He figures things out, and by the time the mom is like, okay, I can't do this anymore.
Kendahl: I just need to come home. He figures it all out. Boom. I probably just nailed the whole Dane movie. I get it. i get it. But those are the kind of movies that are fun to watch, though. I mean, that's what this show is about, right? Shut off, turn on. It's not about trying to figure out every plot angle or you know, understand every plot hole that's designed in the film. Sometimes it's just about turning something on and going, okay, that's good.
Julian Contreras Jr: Okay. Yeah.
Kendahl: they
Julian Contreras Jr: That's what it was.
Kendahl: Oh, it's two hours later. Yeah, that wasn't bad. ha So, I don't know.
Julian Contreras Jr: Nice.
Kendahl: I'm just saying.
Julian Contreras Jr: right.
Julian Contreras Jr: All right. So let's wrap this one up. We loved back rooms. We loved obsession. That's coming to view at home. Kendall, hopefully that opens up some time for you.
Kendahl: I'm a little disappointed that it's coming so fast because i was and we'll we'll see. We'll see where it's at. That was the problem is the tickets that I do have through Wednesday that I have available to me are are like cut off at like four o'clock.
Kendahl: And it's probably like what you said it's because they're like, oh, well, time's ticking. We're going to go. This this is going to go to streaming. So why am I going to put this on my theater screen?
Julian Contreras Jr: yep
Julian Contreras Jr: yep and then we will definitely be back soon for masters of the universe scary movie i will probably have seen twice by then because i my hopes could not be higher for that movie
Kendahl: I will tell you, I mean, in in the world that we live in today and the political devices and divisiveness that happens, and this movie holds no bar.
Kendahl: It's just like, hey, guess what? We're going to just say everything. In the theater that I was in, it was funny because that movie trailer came on and she comes up and she's like, She's like, oh, Sydney, give me a hug.
Kendahl: and She's like, oh, I don't think I can, right? That whole that whole part.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah.
Kendahl: And everybody in the theater is busting up laughing, but I could hear in the chatters behind, oh, wow, that was edgy. Or that was, I can't believe they said that, right? So like there are people out there that are that are seeing this, but they're busting up laughing through it.
Kendahl: So regardless of the the line that they push, they always do a great job of making everybody laugh. And so I'm i'm thinking this is going to do the same.
Kendahl: And I think that's what people need right now is just find a way to laugh.
Julian Contreras Jr: Yeah. because it is tying in a lot of movies that have recently come out and I will have a complete list of them after I see them. I have some of them, like my guy, terrifiers in their weapons is in there.
Kendahl: Oh, Get Out is in there.
Julian Contreras Jr: yeah
Kendahl: they even have They even have a thing to back rooms in this.
Julian Contreras Jr: Okay, perfect. I've seen when he gets us get out when he goes into the chair.
Kendahl: Supposedly. Supposedly. Yep.
Kendahl: Yep.
Julian Contreras Jr: So that's in there, but I hope everyone gets out there.
Kendahl: yep
Julian Contreras Jr: There's a lot of movies coming out in June. We will be back. Very soon, we'll try not to take as long as a break because with all these movies coming out.
Kendahl: Yes.
Julian Contreras Jr: So, Kendall, you got any words of wisdom for us?
Kendahl: My word of wisdom to you is go outside and touch grass.
Julian Contreras Jr: It is nice out there.
Kendahl: I mean that. I mean it. Like just, you know what? The thing is, is if you don't have grass in your lawn, go to a park. If you if you don't have a park nearby, go to your neighbor's house. I don't know. Just get outside. i You know, I think that's the hard part is I've realized that a little bit in my recent days is sometimes I think we get caught up in all the stuff that's going on. We feel this delusion of, oh, i you know, things are terrible. We have a beautiful world around us.
Kendahl: Go out and touch grass. I promise you, it'll make you feel better.
Julian Contreras Jr: right. Until next time, keep up. It only gets better.
Kendahl: And don't forget, turn on something good.
