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Speaker: Welcome back to a special episode of Lost in the Frame. I'm your host Malik. I'm your host Tachi. And I'm your host Alex. And today we have not one, not two, not three, but seven movies.
Speaker: For your ears today. Today we are doing a special covering of the Fantastic Fest that happened earlier this month, last month. um We've got seven movies that we're gonna discuss, some that we watched individually, and then some that we watched together as a group. But first, how's it going, guys?
Speaker: Our first um festival. We did this remotely, so a step into into this world, but how you guys doing? Doing well. Doing good. Yeah, this was a it was a neat experience for sure.
Speaker: Especially like some of the screeners we watched had a like lost in the frame pop up on the thing. Oh, yeah. Oh, it was a little fun.
Speaker: Yeah, yeah, it was really cool to see. um Yeah, before we began, just wanted to give like a shout out and thank you to the people at Fantastic Fest for allowing us to cover some of these movies as well as the um individual movies and distributors who gave us access to some of the movies. so thank you. And it is much appreciated.
Speaker: And I'm excited to talk about some of these movies. Yep. Yep. For those that aren't aware of what Fantastic Fest is, this is a yearly film festival that happens in Austin, Texas um at the Alamo Drafthouse, South Lamar. And I think amongst a couple couple other locations throughout the city, but the home base is at that South Lamar Alamo Drafthouse. Happens every September. Started in 2005, so 21 years ago.
Speaker: And historically, it is a very genre-focused festival, um mainly around horror. um They do have other genres that that make their appearances, but it is very horror-centric, sci-fi, things like that. So you're getting a pretty wide bag of...
Speaker: Genres, independent movies, and then movies that become pretty big and kind of have lives throughout the festival circuit and and after. Like, you've had some pretty big premieres here. Like, earlier this year for this Fantastic Fest, I think Resident Evil had its U.S. premiere um a couple days before its wide release.
Speaker: They did show primetime. It wasn't its premiere, but they did show that one a little bit early. um But some some cool movies. Have you guys... You guys haven't been to any like showings at Fantastic Fest? Because sometimes they open them to the public.
Speaker: Like a showing or two. I've been to... Usually, ah Alamo will have like Fantastic Fest Presents. Yeah. Not like an official showing for the festival, but like a screener of the movie for the general public.
Speaker: I've been to a lot of those. Yeah. I never really quite understood what it was. Because it was like year-round. It'd be like Fantastic Fest Presents. and You'd be like, okay. like So...
Speaker: When is this festival actually? But now we know it's around, it's yeah you know late September. so Yeah, now we know. This this came at a actually a very busy season for all of us individually.
Speaker: um My hope is to do this like together in person next year. I think that would be a lot of fun. But there a lot of travel in between when all of this was happening. And so we made the best of it that we could. But...
Speaker: Here's to the future and then maybe we can have the experience in person. That would be fantastic. Boo!
Speaker: Okay. ah we'll get Let's get into the movies um that we watched. I'll kick us off. So... The first one that want to talk about is called The Ones Who Grieve.
Speaker: This was directed by someone named Quarks. This is a French movie. The synopsis is this. At the end of the 19th century on an isolated farm, Zelie is trapped under the authority of her father, Jacob, a deeply religious man.
Speaker: As a mysterious disease known as the Black Veil ravages the surrounding countryside and faith begins to blur with madness, she must fight to preserve her humanity and claim her freedom. um I picked this movie, so we didn't have a lot to go off of when when selecting these movies. We had the synopsis and then the poster.
Speaker: And like I said, you're getting a lot of movies from like both first time directors and season directors. um This one, Quarks has done a couple of movies, but like nothing that I had heard of before. But the synopsis was interesting enough to me.
Speaker: um This movie a shot on location. It's kind of just in, like, don't even know where it's shot. Just like a rural farmland, it seems like.
Speaker: And there's some really cool um mask designs, like as they're like masking these people that are played with the black veil. It basically makes them zombies. This is essentially like a French zombie movie, like right before like electricity was invented.
Speaker: um I wasn't a fan of this movie, to be good to be completely honest. um It leaves a lot to be desired, and it's just very slow, and I think just like not deliberate in its script. It's very it's just very... like this dad is deeply unwell and you're stereotypical religious fanatic and everything has to go. It's like his way the highway. He's mistreating his wife. He's mistreating his daughter.
Speaker: And so it's just very, um I don't know. I don't know what the right word is to use, but I don't know. he just It it wasn't my, it wasn't my type of movie. I could see it appealing to, to certain people, but it just overall was not for me.
Speaker: I would say.
Speaker: I'll take your word for it. What was your question, Tachi? How did it look? Like how was shot?
Speaker: Fine, I guess. like It was just very... It is it was just... It just was. Like, I wish that, I wish there was something I could say that like really stood out to me and be like, Oh, I really like how they did this. I like how they did this.
Speaker: But it seems like it it was a very small production. Um, just a handful of actors and they just got the cameras, went out in the woods and then did it. So like, I think it's great for that.
Speaker: That's electric. Yeah. I think it, I think it's great for that, but like a movie to recommend and to want to watch again, unfortunately not for me. Hmm.
Speaker: so what would you rate it? Or are we going to do ratings at the end? Oh, yeah, we can do ratings. I rated this. I gave this a one and a half. Oh, geez. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm sorry. but well to I not expecting that. i don't know what i was expecting, but that's like...
Speaker: Well, that really wasn't for you. No, like it was. We're never getting invited back to Fantastic Fest again. It was kind of it was kind of a chore to get through. I had to watch it in like like two to three sessions. Bro, watch it on TikTok?
Speaker: Yeah, subway surfers at the bottom. Family guy. yeah I'm like, Stewie's so funny. Stewie was the best part of this movie, actually.
Speaker: What the deuce? I have been watching Family Guy like right before bed. It's really good. It's it is. It's very funny. It's been a long time since I've just sat down to watch it.
Speaker: But it's nice to just have it on in the background. i haven't done that before, but maybe I should. Yeah. All right. All My next. Yeah, that was my first movie. What you got? OK, I'll go next. I'll do.
Speaker: I'll do future tense first. So future tense. Here's a synopsis. Cape Town, South Africa, and a near future on the brink of climate collapse, Lawando and his girlfriend Tara are among the privileged few who win the opportunity to travel back to 1647 and a pre-colonial past to experience nature in its wildest form.
Speaker: Lawando is an underground activist who dreams of changing the course of history. Tara wants to save her relationship with him. Together, the the couple must choose whether to risk life as they know it or potentially better world.
Speaker: um they're They're really the only people you see on screen outside of very few brief appearances by other actors. um So it's really just about them. um
Speaker: I guess, uh, as a broad stroke, the film was beautiful. it was filmed in South Africa and they used, uh, a lot of the national parks and the preserves natural landscapes to serve as like the background of their and unsettled 1647 adventure.
Speaker: adventure um The production level was really impressively high. a lot of the special effects were pretty good.
Speaker: the um the The outfits for like the... So there's ah there's a company called Plutonia and they're they're like the time travel company. And the outfits that they have for the guards were actually kind of cool. Yeah.
Speaker: So I guess I want to bring some quotes from, there's a movie reviewer that I found online and he he saw the screener as well. And he said, the the director, Jenna Cato Bass, uses a familiar sci-fi conceit to interrogate colonial history, climate catastrophe, inequality, and who gets the power to rewrite the past.
Speaker: um And I'll get back to that later, but really the the journey kind of is predicated around a really interesting topic, but the primary focus of the movie surrounds the couple, Luando and Tara.
Speaker: And, um, it's kind of unfortunate because I think the premise is super interesting to I don't know, tackle a lot of pretty heavy stuff like that, like colonialism, uh, climate change and,
Speaker: A lot of things that I'm just not too well versed on, like the, I guess the, and the, the real impact of European colonization in Africa.
Speaker: But um yeah, the, the two lead characters are just pretty unlikable for the most part, which is a shame um because there's, there's so much meat on the bone that And it's just, we we just don't really get much outside of their conversations and their relationship troubles.
Speaker: There's like polyamory going on. um i don't know. just Did they have that look?
Speaker: Maybe. um i don't know. Hard to tell. but are there more Are there more people in this movie than just them two? Because they're the only two listed as the cast on Letterboxd. Yeah, there are. And I think two of them had speaking roles. So I'm kind of surprised there are only two credits.
Speaker: But um yeah, there are other people. It's just very brief. um But yeah, I don't know if I want to give away too much about the plot. But... Uh, things aren't exactly what they seem.
Speaker: And it's it's just kind of a challenge seeing what they do with, you know, Lawando's mission that he kind of forced upon Tara because she wasn't aware of his mission to save the world.
Speaker: Um, But yeah, he his plan was to meet these the people of this certain village to help at least at least delay at minimum the the start of colonization, ah just to give Africa a little more time to...
Speaker: I figure things out, I guess. So it's like someone going back in time, like September 9th, 2001. Yeah, to convince people who speak different language. telling people to buy Bitcoin. To like band together with him and and fight off all these white people.
Speaker: Got it. But yeah, so. i kind of want a spoiler. What happens? Can we flag a spoiler? You actually don't know. 273 people have this logged on Letterboxd. I don't know how wide this is going to go. Okay.
Speaker: So they, they show up to the village. It's not really a village. It's actually a town full of rich people from the future that have settled down in this little pocket of coastal South Africa.
Speaker: so it's like super like technological and modernized, not what they were expecting. Um, But then the town is empty because they were raided by other time travelers trying to save Africa as well.
Speaker: And um then there are like this is this big ass ship from maybe France or i don't know, maybe they're Dutch people, but they land on the shore.
Speaker: the girl goes out there in the midst, of like the middle of a fight. So she's like really frazzled, doesn't know what to do. She has a gun. uh starts blasting the ship blows up and then a piece of shrapnel knocks her out uh she wakes up to the the other time travelers and they're like if you're not happy about the present or the past just keep trying to change things and um i was like all right sure And then she goes back to the guy after their fight and is like, I want to look at the stars one more time.
Speaker: And then he just sits in bed and cries and then cuts to black. So that cannot i take it i'll be what happened.
Speaker: there' was no way There's no way. The last 20 minutes were a lot. It was and two people are credit on Letterboxd for acting credits in this movie. Yeah. Where a village ray is raided by future raiders.
Speaker: Basically. Interesting. Yeah. um So, yeah, the the the movie was a little bit all over the place. um And it has some really interesting things it it could have explored, but ultimately just kind of got wasted on.
Speaker: i don't know, silly relationship drama when there's so much at stake. um but maybe that's the point were there people not from the future in this movie or is trying okay i was like up until this wait just the sailors yeah just the sailors there's no like actual native africans i don't think so is this movie trying to say that people from the future are africans
Speaker: I don't know. Yeah, look, what are the implications of that? Because the other time travelers, I think they're all black. Well, wouldn't it be like if Africa is the motherland, whatt that wouldn't we just kind of be going back to that if that was the future?
Speaker: Yeah, but then where did the Dutch people come from? No one knows. but I like this two-star review of the movie on Letterboxd. It just says the dangers of polyamory.
Speaker: and like this twosar review of the movie on literbox it just says the dangers of polyamory Yeah. Honestly. i think I need to go watch this. I need to end this with my list.
Speaker: It is really interesting and it looks beautiful. Like it's really, really well shot. The production level is really high. It's it's really great to look at. but i think if you um i think if you shoot landscape in South Africa and make it look ugly, you just need to stop filmmaking. I mean, that's easy. Yeah, you probably need to go do something else. Yeah, that's fair.
Speaker: but Especially that western part of South Africa, like near Cape Town, is absolutely gorgeous. The mountains over there, just incredible scenery. it's ah it seems like whatever it was where it was predominantly shot. Yeah,
Speaker: yeah i I liked looking at it, but I don't know if I liked the movie itself. But there's there's so much cool stuff about it. I don't know, maybe there's going to be a sequel. That'd be nice.
Speaker: That's just not these two people. Sounds like a lot cool ideas. That's enough for me to honestly watch it. Like, if it looks good, sure, I'll be in. No, it it looks fantastic, actually. um But overall, I'll probably rate it a three okay it was like surprisingly boring at at some stretches and I I just wanted more but i would recommend it I think this is definitely a movie for some people it just it missed the mark a little bit for me but it looked great I think a three is great we're getting invited back to fantastic fest yeah we're back
Speaker: ah
Speaker: All right, I believe I'm up. ah So the movie I watched that wasn't assigned was called A Prayer for the Dying, directed by Dara Van Dusen. I think I'm saying that right, Dara? Dara?
Speaker: If I butchered your name, I am actually very sorry. um Redemption is coming. In 1870, Friendship, Wisconsin, a small town of Scandinavian settlers still suffering from the repercussions of the Civil War.
Speaker: When faced with a new and even deadlier threat, one man is forced to make a harrowing choice, save his young family or defend the community that gave him a second chance at life and meaning. Uh, turns out this is based off a book, um, also called a prayer for the dying written in 1999 by Stuart O'Nan.
Speaker: um and it's, I mean, the, the, the, the Goodreads description for the book is the same thing set in friendship, Wisconsin just episode of the war. Um, this one like yours, Malik is a period piece surrounding a plague.
Speaker: um, I am forgetting the name of the disease that afflicts this town. um i want to say consumption, but I know it's not consumption. touch of consumption.
Speaker: Whatever it was, I looked it up and was like way treatable now. And in this movie, it's like this is the end times. So I yeah thought that was kind of funny. um but this So this is kind of like a Western, but it does take place in Wisconsin. It's actually got John C. Reilly in it.
Speaker: Yeah, I just noticed that. That's cool. He played a um ah fairly large role in this movie as the the town doctor. And so that was kind of fun seeing someone that I recognize in a directorial debut like this.
Speaker: um Movie itself, I think, had some pacing issues. ah There's a lot of like flashbacks and like these weird like dream sequences that didn't quite work for me.
Speaker: But what did work for me was this movie... had like an oppressive energy. ah the The rating, i or the review I gave Letterboxd was spiritually demonic complimentary because was watching this movie and the whole time I'm like, this feels like is a little bit of an evil vibe to this movie. um It just feels like you're watching it and it's just very grim and I don't know.
Speaker: um It's hard to describe it other than just it's this very spiritually demonic movie. ah The subject matter is is very grim, right? I mean, this is about a pandemic in the 1800s as well as a wildfire encroaching on the town. So it's really like hell is descending on this town called Friendship.
Speaker: And it starts off so innocently. And, um, you, by the end of the movie, you're just like, there's absolutely no hope. Like we've been abandoned, you know?
Speaker: um It was definitely, it felt like a debut feature, right? There was a lot about it that felt very raw, you know very rough around the edges, but nothing where i sat and thought like, wow, this wasn't, you know, made with care or this wasn't made with, ah you know, without a lack of, or without talent or anything like that. I think this director is actually extremely talented. I thought some of the the shots were were very, um,
Speaker: very well put together. um Mostly I would say my issues with this came from the script, but you know, if it's your first time writing a feature script, then you know, it happens, right?
Speaker: Like your first, you're, you're not always going to, you know, knock it out of the park with the first one. So I can't fault you too much on that, but At 96 minutes, it's pretty short. So, um you know, I would recommend giving this a watch. This was actually in theaters recently.
Speaker: I saw it was making its rounds in Alamos this week, which was really cool to see because I do think it deserves to be seen on a big screen and not on my tv uh in my bedroom with an hdmi cord hooked up to it yeah that's the craziest part of uh of screeners not not the best um way to see this movie but um i'm very intrigued by uh what old dara has uh coming out next so you know it's it's i i loved doing this because i loved like running into someone where i'm like oh yeah i'll
Speaker: yeah I'll keep a finger on the pulse for you. um yeah you know Getting John C. Reilly in your first feature is pretty wild. So...
Speaker: I guess you got some pull there. um I'd give this like a six out of 10. It's like a three out of five. It's actually pretty much what its letterbox curve is. It's like perfect arc.
Speaker: Yeah. Nice. And yeah, i i I enjoyed this one. This is an enjoyable part of the process.
Speaker: I'm glad you got a good one. Yeah. I liked it. Yeah. um I wonder how you get john C. Reilly in your first feature. There was a guy on Reddit who made a short film and he was talking about it because he got Tom Sizemore to be in it before he passed.
Speaker: And I guess he just like sent a thing to Tom Sizemore's agent and like asked. And then i guess he read it and was like, like, all right, yeah, like I'll do this.
Speaker: I have time. And he did this short and it was he just like ah i part of me wonders is just like, oh, I I asked, you know? Yeah, he was in it.
Speaker: And then they were down. Yeah. That's cool. Wait, was that was that an unrelated short on this Reddit thread or this movie? No, is this was years ago. But it was a similar thing, right? Like, how did this actually, like, big-name actor end up in this, you know, directorial feature debut by someone no one's ever heard of?
Speaker: I mean, similar, it's happening with ah with a short that we saw, like, years ago. um What is it? Icy God or The Portrait of God? Yeah. Yeah. Recently is a short film on YouTube. It's got like millions of views. It's just like a really effective, scary short film, like eight minutes, I think.
Speaker: Um, But it got picked up to be turned into a feature and the director will be helming the full feature film and Chase Infinity is now attached.
Speaker: and so And it's being produced by Steven Spielberg and I'm forgetting who else, but another big name, which is crazy. So yeah, maybe you just do that. Like, hey, Chase Infinity available. Yeah.
Speaker: and Yeah, she's ah she's down to be in this. Cool. um Real quick. I hate to do this. Three stars was a little generous for Future Tense. so'm go I'm to bring it back a little little bit.
Speaker: Invite revoked. I'm so sorry, Future Tense. but No, I brought us back because I i yeah i was very positive about. Yeah.
Speaker: But i'll I'll give it 2.5. Okay. Okay. okay we'll keep the We'll keep the positive trend going. yeah My next one, my next movie is called Freaker. um The way that you felt about Pray for the Dying, I felt about Freaker. So this movie is actually inspired by true events. And this is Freaker spelled with a PH.
Speaker: ah Inspired by true events. Before there were hackers, there were Freakers. A blind teenager joins the early underworld of phone freaks where he learns to hack his way to money, power, and eventually a place on the FBI's most wanted list.
Speaker: and This is directed by Adam York and similar to Dara Van Dusen, this is Adam's ah directorial debut. So no other credits, 95 minute movie, hour and a half.
Speaker: um This one was the most enjoyable movie that I saw out of the screeners that we did that we did have. um Cole Asher Phillips is the main actor in this. He was playing the blind kid. He himself is blind.
Speaker: And essentially, the movie opens and we see that he's just very like misunderstood with school. Maybe his home life isn't so great. And then he discovers the world of ah of online chat rooms. i'm Not online. On the phone chat rooms. So like right before the internet, you're just talking on phone.
Speaker: Yeah, basically. And I'm like, there's a lot of sketchy stuff that could happen, but this is like early, early days of all of this. um But he's essentially able to make friends that way and discovers a talent he has in like fluctuating and changing his voice.
Speaker: So like kind of embodies Robert Pattinson being able to change his voice to like the little freaky voices and is able to like hack his way into like businesses or make a certain thing happen or knock down some some dollars on his now racked up phone bill since he's been on the phone for hours upon hours every single every single month um but so it's a really interesting yeah they literally had like a 400 phone bill in like 1992 so i'm like that's like three million dollars today's money
Speaker: down payment for a house yeah literally um this movie's shot on just like a couple of locations takes place in like brooklyn in the 90s but we're essentially just at his home we get shots of a couple other people's houses and like the school so very very a very contained movie And with that, it is actually shot very well. I love the way that they integrated all of the conversations between um our main character and the new friends and other freakers that he makes as they do like either split screens or just like close up shots of like someone's mouth or just a bunch of different like imaginative ways that they were able to utilize um the space that they had because it's clearly a ah small production. But it really feels like they used every single dollar that they had available to them.
Speaker: um And this is also Cole Asher Phillips' first time acting. Like, no acting credits before either. And he did a pretty good job homing this entire movie. Like, he's in every single scene and has this very dialogue-heavy movie, and he and he and he does it. um It gets pretty intense with the with kind of how the movie starts shaking out with him getting on an FBI most wanted list. Like I actually felt the tension. So I think the script was actually pretty successful in in what it wanted to do.
Speaker: um Overall, it was a really good time. I do wish I was able to see this one in the theater. I think it would probably play a lot better, but pretty positive for me.
Speaker: I gave this one a three out of five. Nice. Yeah. Also crazy that like this is this was a thing just like phone hacking.
Speaker: I could not. There's there's so many things that happen where just like, oh, yeah, you just just would not happen today. Can't like impossible for it to happen today. I'm really intrigued by that. Yeah, yeah, I would. I would.
Speaker: Yeah, I would recommend this one for sure. Cool.
Speaker: Am I up? Yeah. Yep. right. My second individual movie is Kung Fu Deadly. Let's see, this was directed by Virgil Castello.
Speaker: Virgil? One of those. Probably Virgil. Synopsis goes, Danny and Frank, two bumbling pest exterminators, cross paths with the enigmatic Lian, a Taoist guardian hunting an ancient Chinese juncture in Dublin.
Speaker: Together they set out to deal with this menace the only way they know how. Extermination. Extermination. Oh, yeah. Sick. So... I like those posters. This is a... It's a very silly... This movie knows what it is.
Speaker: It's very silly. it it it embraces its campiness. It's got, I think, one impressive fight scene. This movie actually stars the guy who plays Kung Lao in the Mortal Kombat movies. He's got the the metal hat thing. Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah. I think he was, unfortunately, extremely underutilized. However, his one fight scene is pretty cool.
Speaker: um But yeah, the ah the the movie is ah it's edited with like quick cuts to i guess like push the humor a little bit. It kind of feels like a blend of... It's got shades of Shang-Chi. It's got shades of pizza movie.
Speaker: You guys remember that one from earlier this year? A Shang-Chi pizza movie hybrid? it's It's interesting. Dream Blunt rotation. yeah But the the special effects in the movie are like really impressive.
Speaker: there There are some awesome special effects with like the the staff that you see in the picture or the the poster. um And then some some other things here and there. But the effects look great.
Speaker: um It's shot okay. that It doesn't really push the envelope on the cinematic... um artistry there but it's fine it I mean what this movie really feels like is like a like like Shang-Chi it feels like a Nickelodeon Halloween movie It's kind of like that.
Speaker: it's kind It's got a little, it's got a little goosebumps to it. Um, some horror aspects, but overall it's, it's a really fun watch. It's, it was a really nice breath of fresh air from some of the other installments that we watched for the the festival.
Speaker: It's the last movie I watched. I'll watch it today or this morning. Actually, um, a good palate cleanser. Yeah, it was fun. and um, yeah i i think what you see in the poster is what you get and it's not bad had a good i had a decent time unfortunately look up none of the humor landed for me i don't think i laughed like at all and that's like half of what this movie was so that was a little disappointing but maybe it's just not for me maybe it's like an irish thing i don't know but yeah what are you gonna say
Speaker: I will need to look up to see some of these movies, like if they have distribution schedules or like where we'll be able to to watch them in the future. Yeah, um'm I'm looking at this director's letterbox page, see what else he's done.
Speaker: There's a short on here called Pregnancy Test. And the poster is ah of someone's hand holding a pregnancy test. And the little screen that you know is either like a positive or minus is an upside down cross.
Speaker: And the the description is nothing is scarier than a pregnancy test, especially when you're pregnant with all caps, the devil. and it's two minutes.
Speaker: What happens? She gets pregnant with the devil. Wow. It's lot of ground to cover there in two minutes. Yeah, we should watch that one. can watch with that one right now. Live pregnancy test reaction. yeah um What do you rate Kung Fu deadly? Oh, yeah. um I'll probably go with 2.5.
Speaker: Really, really good effort across the board. Great production. Great special effects. It was just a little too, I don't know. the it the The jokes just weren't for me, unfortunately, but I was impressed.
Speaker: I'm curious before we get into the movies that that we all watched, I wonder what the rest of the programming looks like at the festival. Like if we were to take a sample size like of what we watched, I'm confused.
Speaker: And I would not know what to... I don't know. I just wouldn't know what to expect. Like if... ah I don't know. So I looked at some past lineups of Fantastic Fest in the last few years to just see kind of what they had going on.
Speaker: Most notably 2019 stuck out. I put that in the show notes because there's a few movies that we know that I wanted to call out that had their premiere at Fantastic Fest. ah Color Out of Space was a Nicolas Cage movie in 2019, if you guys remember that.
Speaker: um The Death of Dick Long, Guns Akimbo with, a what's his face, Daniel Radcliffe. Mm-hmm. knives out had its premiere there oh that's yeah jojo rabbit the lodge parasite most notably parasite has premiered fantastic fest that's nuts it had so it it had two other showings before that but it was on the festival circuit it was like tell you it was like tell your ride new york and then austin and then you imagine just being in that theater like completely blind and that what you see is parasite
Speaker: Like insane. And then also the and then also the lighthouse. Wow. Yeah. That's really stacked. Yeah. It's a really, really good lineup. um What if we missed one?
Speaker: Missed one what? Like one of the entries for this year. Like what if it is like at that level and we just, we don't know yet. So, I mean, the only things that I've heard. That were the biggest movies were Resident Evil, Primetime, and then In a Violent Nature 2. Alex, did you ever watch the first one? No, violent nature that's probably on my spooktober list.
Speaker: i curious. not a bit of it It's not like the tippity top though. It's not like high priority. Tachi, I don't think you would like it. it's It's a slasher movie from the perspective of the killer.
Speaker: Like very, very Friday the 13th with some like gnarly bloody kills. Okay. Like it's probably got like one of like the craziest onscreen deaths that I think I've ever seen. And like that scene specifically, I'm like this rocks, but the rest of it is just, na it's just really dull and slow.
Speaker: It's a really cool premise though. Okay, let's get into the two movies that we watched okay together. Probably you should start the section off with a content warning because...
Speaker: You chose some gnarly movies for Malik. Why did you pick these, Malik? Okay, so one of them I picked because of the name, where i was like, we have to do this. Like, I got to see what this is.
Speaker: And then the second one was getting a lot of buzz. Bloody Tennis, the first one we'll talk about. Bloody Tennis was getting a lot of buzz at the festival and was picked up by Shudder at the festival.
Speaker: So i was like, oh, this could be like one of those gems that's going to be up and coming like real quick once it's released on the platform. I was like, let's do bloody tennis so we can get a little bit ahead of it and maybe it'll be cool. And then the second one I knew wasn't going to be good.
Speaker: we had it we we We had to. it the The name of the second movie we're going to be covering is Mr. Cream Jeans Hidey Hole. And if you're interested in what that movie consists of, stay tuned. But we'll talk about bloody tennis first.
Speaker: what did What was your guys' first thought when you heard the name bloody tennis? Oh, God.
Speaker: ah I expected a tennis movie to some capacity. It was like British people, like British challengers, like bloody tennis, mate. Oh, these two blokes are kissing in the hotel room ands and Zendaya's watching.
Speaker: um The synopsis reads this. Sophie joins a prestigious tennis academy where the brutality of competitive sports is taken to its extreme and only the hungriest survive. That is the most accurate synopsis I have ever read for a And it's 100% true.
Speaker: What did you guys think of this one? When did you watch it? This last week. Okay. Yeah, it was a while ago. This was after I paused Mr. Cream Jeans. After the first 30 minutes, I switched over to Buddy Tennis.
Speaker: and Yeah, that's yeah, it was about a week ago. I think it was the first movie I finished.
Speaker: i I had a really bad streak of watching really bad movies for a couple days last week. Like, four like i had four movies in a row that were, spoiler alert, under two stars.
Speaker: and I went from Heart of the Beast, the Brad Pitt dog movie. Then I went home and I watched Mr. Cream Jeans. And then the next day I started a Bloody Tennis and I was just like, i don't know if I like movies anymore. LAUGHTER
Speaker: this it's a For me, it was more palatable than Mr. Cream Jeans for, I think, pretty obvious reasons. It took itself a little more seriously.
Speaker: it has something to say. I'm not sure what it is. What does this have to say? There's a message somewhere. don't know if there is.
Speaker: i don't know. This movie felt like... the writers barely disguised fetish most of the time. Yeah. It didn't look offensive though.
Speaker: yeah It didn't look like, it looks like a movie. Like, yes, it is a like movie in the, the most basic sense of the definition. Um, most of this movie, I was just spent like, what?
Speaker: Like same. Yeah. What is this? You know? um Let's start with positives. Are there any positives you had with this movie?
Speaker: I think the main actress, ah Sophie, played by Sandra Camp, I think she's pretty good in this. like I think she gives a pretty good performance.
Speaker: um If I were to see her pop up in another movie, I i would want to check it out because I would be curious to see what she does with a better script. But she was the best part of the movie, which is surprising because...
Speaker: Every other person I think was just in a completely different, much worse. or They were in this movie. They were just... so sophie or Sandra was the only one operating in a different movie, a better movie, and then everyone else was somewhere else too. This this was her challengers. This was everyone else's Mr. Cream Jeans.
Speaker: You'll get that reference in about 15 minutes. I do think Alina Lowenson did... a decent job as well as Mary, like the, the lady running the camp.
Speaker: m Really? She just went ham and really, really bad written role. Hmm. Cause like, it wasn't good when she was acting the crap out of what she was given.
Speaker: She really was. Like it was to the point where I was just like, please calm down. Yeah. ah ah So I think those two, Oh, go ahead. Tachi. No, no, no. Go ahead.
Speaker: I was just saying, I think those two performances were like, Decent, like watchable. Okay. I don't know what was up with the guy with the haircut, though. That was same the little guy.
Speaker: Sure. We'll call him the little guy. was he He's kind of bald. like the He's just the the gremlin that looks around. The gremlin's a great way to describe him. Yeah, the ground's gremlin. little gremlin i I did like wherever they shot this at. whatever that I don't know if it's a monastery, but it looked really cool. It did. Like the red walls of it set the tone pretty well.
Speaker: The... Common theme that I'm finding like through all these movies that we watch is something that I really like is like the one, two location type of shoots. And they've all picked really good places. like That's a good call of touch. I really liked wherever wherever this was shot.
Speaker: Um...
Speaker: I'm confused by this movie. I don't understand its motivations. I don't understand i why any of this is happening. i think someone watched like Challengers and Suspiria like back to back.
Speaker: Yeah. Like.
Speaker: have an idea.
Speaker: That's exactly what it feels like. I don't understand like its deeper purpose. It literally feels like that. don't think like that like i was like, oh yeah, Suspiria Challengers, put them together.
Speaker: Wombo. There we go. And then they make out. Yeah. Kiss. de are Everyone's kissing and and eating guts. ah What did you think? Both literally and figuratively.
Speaker: Yes. What do you think of that twist? Spoiler, the twist is that they eat people. Like the the protein shakes that they drink at this tennis camp are just made of failed competitors of the camp.
Speaker: For some reason. Why do you keep sending, like why do parents keep sending their kids to this camp? Like, oh yeah, like, you know, of the eight only makes it out. The rest of them are just gone forever. Yeah, are they hiding this information? How are people getting in contact with this facility? And yeah, there's so many logistics to it where I'm like, they're obviously established.
Speaker: Like they've done this many times. They're seasoned vets at this. Generation plus apparently because someone's yeah mom attended this thing. and parents Yeah, and parents just keep sending their kids. They didn't hear like, oh yeah, my kid never came back from this, by the way.
Speaker: Not sure what happened. maybe Maybe everyone's parent is just a real gamer and they're like, oh, my sense and my daughter's an absolute failure, so good riddance, am I right? i mean, I guess there's there's ah there's an audience for everything.
Speaker: Yeah, i I don't understand what it does for them at the end of it. like It makes them hungry to play tennis.
Speaker: But i I don't even think Sophie was particularly good. Does she win like straight up? Or I think every single time she wins via some like thing she figured out, like, I'm sorry, you know, you're not going to be um like Coco golf that way. She's just going absolutely murder you at the game of tennis.
Speaker: Yeah. You're not going to get her like, oh, I'm going to I'm going to get in her head and like I'm going to distort her body and then shoot a hole through her. Like, that's just not going happen.
Speaker: i mean, that's another way she could win is just killing everyone else at Wimbledon. That's one way to eat through your competition. You get an ESPN notification. Coco Gauff is dead at Wimbledon. This girl named Sophie killed her. Sophie will play Naomi Osaka next. She's like, I'm not showing up to the match. She's straight up killing people. No one's doing anything about it.
Speaker: Yeah, I was just the entire time. Like, I'm I'm just questioning the integrity of it all. Like, I'm like, what are we doing? You're stringing your tennis racket from the intestines of cats and people.
Speaker: does Is that does that make for a good for good material for a tennis racket? I don't think so. She's like, is this nylon? It's like, no, it's cat guts. It's like, oh, I thought that was an urban legend.
Speaker: OK, no. And then the girl straight up just, oh, I love the smell smell of the tennis racket. And I'm like, of course you do. Because it's not because it's made out of cat guts. Fucking freak.
Speaker: I don't know who the audience was. ah Meant to be this one. this This movie made someone's list of most anticipated incoming releases.
Speaker: Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I can see being like intrigued by it. like Obviously, I was intrigued by it
Speaker: then before watching it. So it wouldn't make your most anticipated and satisfied releases? It would not, no. Unfortunately not.
Speaker: ah No. I got a question for you, Malik. What? How does this compare to Undertone?
Speaker: Undertone's a much better movie. Wow. I do the same thing. opened up my 2026 rated and I'm like, Letterboxd automatically adds it to the bottom and to the like yeah last place in the list.
Speaker: and it It was like all i like, what's ahead of it? and It's like Undertone and I'm like, yeah I'm not moving this one.
Speaker: Unfortunately so. I sent in our group chat, because you, I think, watched this on Shudder, Alex. No, I watched this on the screener. Okay, okay.
Speaker: But i so I sent the, there's a clip of ah of Zach Krager on the big picture. They were talking about watching movies on Shudder. And he was straight up just like, he's like, I love Shudder. He's like, I don't finish 75% of the movies I start on that on that site. And he's saying, like, he loves the website and, like, loves what they do. But he's just like, there's some...
Speaker: There are some stinkers on um that app. But every now and then you get a gem. I said this to my dad after watching Man Finds Tape the other day. um I said, I think horror is the easiest movie to make, and it's the hardest one to make good.
Speaker: Spit. Those bars. Spitting. Yeah. All right, what did you guys rate Bloody Tennis? What are you going rate it? Like a one out of five.
Speaker: Yeah. I think I got to give it a one as well. I think Lee Cronin's The Mummy might actually be a little bit better. A lot a bit better. Lee Cronin's The Mummy looks like the Godfather. Lee Cronin's The Mummy had that awesome detective sequence.
Speaker: Yeah. Of the Egyptian detective. That's very true. I might actually bump it up now because of this Yeah.
Speaker: Well, I've had a really, really tough run of movies up until what we're going to be talking about.
Speaker: Like, yeah, I just had a tough run of movies. I have too. And I watched a movie yesterday that is going to be like in my top 10, like for the year that i absolutely loved.
Speaker: I'll talk about it on on our next episode though. Okay. Final movie. Mr. Cream Jeans, Heidi Holt. Content warning. Content warning. Yeah, cause second content warning again for this movie.
Speaker: ah First, I just wanted to apologize for making us all watch this. Yeah, you better, dude. Because this was... this was
Speaker: I've had a lot of homework to do, like rebuilding my life after the flu. This didn't help at all. No. In fact, i didn't I send a text while watching this where I was just like, I think I'd rather have the flu again?
Speaker: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It was. um So like I said earlier, like I picked it because of the name and it was only 70 So I was just like, OK, yeah, we could watch this. Like maybe it'll be funny.
Speaker: ah directed by Heath Benfield. The synopsis reads this. Henry, a man plagued by chronic pain and unresolved guilt, receives a chilling message. I know what you did.
Speaker: The note leads him to the Heidi hole, an underground museum of erotic nightmares curated by the charismatic and unsettling Mr. Cream Jeans. there This is a long synopsis. There, Henry is offered a chance to erase all traces of his secret crime, but only if he submits to a guided tour of the museum's most depraved exhibits.
Speaker: With every tale, Henry's pain worsens and his grip on reality slips until he's forced to confront the twisted role he's played in the lives and deaths of others. By the end, Henry must decide, confess the truth and face the consequence or lose himself to the hidey hole forever.
Speaker: Are we about to convince ourselves that this is like a three out of five? I might. As I'm reading that, I'm like, this movie might be really good.
Speaker: um Oh my God. So this is an anthology. This is, yeah this is an anthology movie and it opens with like an anthology or an entry into the anthology that has nothing to do with anything.
Speaker: But if the humor, like if the first one's not for you, it's not for you. Like this, but this whole thing is not for you. um Yeah. And it feels like,
Speaker: a very high budget 48 hour entry that's also 70 minutes long. um If you don't know what 48 hour is, I implore you guys to go back and listen to the episode Malik and I did about making a movie. This was like our fifth or sixth episode ever.
Speaker: ah so you haven't listened to that one, go listen to that. It tells our experience in the 48 hour film festival in Austin and kind of what we made and what we went up against as well.
Speaker: um I think the only way to describe this is quirk chungus.
Speaker: But like sexual. Yeah. Like dick chungus. Dick chungus. like that. Dick chungus is good.
Speaker: Trademark that. Okay. I'm on it. Yeah. ah Right away... If you're not on board with the humor. And like, i'm I'm really curious how this played at the festival, like in the theater.
Speaker: There's a lot of five stars of people that watch it at the festival. They're like, love this in a packed theater with all my fucking sick freaks. And it was great. Apparently this had a $40,000 budget.
Speaker: Wow. Where did they get the money? I don't know. I don't know. Well, with a synopsis like that, how could you not invest? yeah I'll give $30 to that. Sure. um I'll put some money towards your Kickstarter.
Speaker: Yeah, this is an anthology that first opening is separate from the main plot. And then we get three separate stories as they're traversing through Mr. Cream Jeans, Heidi Hull exhibit of wonder.
Speaker: um This movie very, very like sex focused. Lots of dicks.
Speaker: Like a lot of dicks. lot of prosthetic penises. just lot prosthetic penises. that's and The most I've ever seen. yeah It's all dick. it's All dick, all chungus. Yeah.
Speaker: i mean do i know this is Do we just go anthology by anthology and describe it? Yeah, we should. yeah i I know that there's there is a demographic where this humor works.
Speaker: Five minutes in, I'm like, this isn't for me, and I know this isn't for Tachi, and I know this isn't for Alex. Like, that that I know to be true. um I don't really remember how it opens.
Speaker: It opens with the lot lizard skit. The lot lizard. It was like multiple women, too, right? All the women, and they were like... but but autoography And there were all these guys that were like... They're truckers. They're like...
Speaker: how many hookers does it take to change a light bulb? And it's like, I don't know because my house is still dark.
Speaker: Just very like your stereotypical misogynistic guys and then the girls come and then they're like, yeah, you're hot. You're hot as hell. And then she like spits on his dick and it evaporates or something. Yes, that's exactly what happens. Not even or something. That's literally just what happens. And then like a bunch of women who can do this show up and start like turning around and shooting ass out of their butt or something.
Speaker: Yeah, I'm not sure where was coming out of. A lot of unpleasantness on screen all at once. Yeah, this was the longest 70 minutes of my life. It took me a couple of tries to watch this. yeah If you were an actress who signed on to this movie, I would love for you to come on the podcast and tell us why.
Speaker: I want to know what the experience was like. Yeah. And obviously this is like a movie that you're not supposed to take serious. Like it is supposed to be just fun out there. Crazy wild shit. They probably had a lot of fun making it. Yeah.
Speaker: But now it's here. and Now we get to talk about it. First anthology. What was it? It was the one with the the potion, the ridiculous drink.
Speaker: That's right. With the couple, right? Yeah. the The lady online. How do you guys feel about this one? Yeah. her Her squirt thing?
Speaker: Yes. Yes. What did you guys think of this anthology? That's the part that I remember. I... Made made it an impression on you, Toshi. Apparently. It awoke something in you. He's like, huh. um This was probably the least entertaining of the three stories.
Speaker: I agree. Yeah, me too. I think it was also the longest. Well, it felt like the longest. Yeah, I did. um Yeah, it.
Speaker: It. It was at least graphic, I think.
Speaker: Yeah, the from like a gore standpoint, yes. Not from a prosthetic penis standpoint. This is the one with the guy with the penis on his head. Yeah, with the penis forehead. I was about to say it does get like body horror like as she... I think she like dumps the potion on him via squirt, and then he starts giving birth to another version of him. but like Something I will compliment, I thought this was actually pretty effective, was the birthing scene with like the foot in the belly. i agree. it was impressive. How'd they pull this off? I don't know. Like it looked pretty like there are a couple sequences here. where I'm like, this is actually pretty sick.
Speaker: Like, I don't know how they did that. And then he gives birth to himself. But it's him just with a giant dick on his forehead.
Speaker: A dildo corn. Yeah. And now she has a slave that will do whatever she wants. Yep. And I don't know what the story was or like the lesson to be learned there. I was very confused up until the end why Henry was and how he found Mr. Cream Jeans and his like reasons for being there. Like I was really confused on like, what are we doing?
Speaker: Who is this? It reminded me of that Black Mirror episode. Was it Black Museum? with the different It's like this' the same thing. You're going through the museum and it's like the different exhibits that are all like a mini Black Mirror episode. yeah This one is Dick Chungus.
Speaker: um The second one was Pappy. Oh, Pappy. So this one is about a ah creepy neighbor. This like guy who is like an incel.
Speaker: He lives with his pappy who is this. Dead body with a snake penis. Not even a snake food.
Speaker: It's like an anaconda. Yeah. It's not just a snake. It's like this mummified husk of a guy that has like this absolute python. um Literally, and it it like snakes around and like eats things, like chokes people out. Like it is literally anaconda.
Speaker: However big listener you think this thing is, think bigger. Yeah. Because it is bigger than you think. We're losing everybody this episode. I'm looking at a tree right now and it's it's reminiscent of Pappy.
Speaker: Every viewer we've gotten over the last year and a half, they're gone. If you, I would suggest if you want to watch this, at least get a couple friends.
Speaker: Yeah. and and And watch this together. I was literally watching this, like, on my laptop in the living room as Cam was watching, like, Dancing with the Stars. And she paused and she looked over. She's like, what are you watching?
Speaker: She's like, your face has been just, like, like, like you're just witnessing something horrible. And I'm like, I don't know what I'm watching. i think it's... i like thescribe it It's the meme literally where it's like ah porn's easier to explain.
Speaker: Yeah. Yeah. 100%. I'm just watching porn. Sorry. I'll give this ah movie credit. I haven't seen anything like this. um I think this and this story specifically was my favorite out of the three, though.
Speaker: I kind of like this one. Yeah. Like out of the three. Yeah. There were ah just, it was so ridiculous. There was a couple of parts with the neighbor. I'm forgetting like exact lines, but there were a couple of parts where like, I legit thought it was funny. And you let out a little. At some point she was like, what?
Speaker: you I was like, yeah, like real. Very real.
Speaker: What was the third one? The guy with the vagina coat. I hated this one. Yeah. This really bad. I hated this one. i If its central ah mission was to just gross me out yeah as much as possible from this vagina-wielding jacket man...
Speaker: You did it. You did it. Kudos. Like, I did not like that at all. I didn't even like the fact that he got his comeuppance either. i was The whole thing was revolting. It's the worst possible version of the Chainsaw Texas Massacre.
Speaker: Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Yeah. He had a really awful name, too. I don't even remember. was was It was a snail trail killer or something. Oh my God. Yeah. I like gagged when I, when they said, I was like, u like this one was just like, like nasty, like no, no redeeming qualities for me whatsoever. Like, even though it's ridiculous and.
Speaker: But it was like ridiculous and like, like it felt malicious. Like it was not a good ridiculous. It was like, this is horrible. Like I, someone is disturbed who like, yeah like there's literally a part where a bit this one felt like disturbing it felt nasty and there's like a part like this was this was the worst part of the entire runtime for me at some point is so it's like this jacket is made out of the women he's killed and he like takes them he takes their parts and puts it on this jacket he literally starts rubbing the jacket at some point yeah
Speaker: And I was like, i don't like this. oh yeah. And the news channel that's covering this grizzly murder is called Bustin. Bustin. that point
Speaker: because When I got home from Heart of the Beast, I was like, all right, I'll watch Mr. Cream Jeans to make me feel better. This has to be a better movie. And then Bustin' News came out. And as i sent it to you guys, i was just like, bro, I don't like movies anymore.
Speaker: Bustin' News. We are so sorry you had to listen to this, listener, but if we had to watch this, you at least have to hear us talk about it. Oh, my God. like that That part, the the news the new segment of this anthology story is really funny.
Speaker: That's comedy. I like that. But the jacket just undoes all of it. I really i really hated it.
Speaker: What was Henry's fate at the end? After the third? So, the reason Henry is here, it turns out, why he's found his way to the hidey hole, dear viewer, is that um when he, ah you know, reaches finality, ah his... his his uh you know seed his his his peener basically turns into a like shotgun and kills people yeah yeah yeah now to to not get too deep into it is it the the peener that does it is it the the gun or the bullet
Speaker: Well, I mean, it's It's not quite explained. That's how a gun works. is It's bold. I guess that's true. Because, i mean, if i if I throw a bullet at you, nothing's going to happen. But I have to put the bullet into the thing that makes the bullet go... I don't want you to do that to me. I don't want to do that to you either. But I'm just saying if I had to, if it ever came to it. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker: if ah if it ever came to it yeah It's like the ending of Heat. Yes, he so he's like, it's the chronic it's the chronic pain that he has. And he has to, like the thing is he he has he has to resolve it.
Speaker: Or maybe he dies. And so we get a sequence of him resolving it.
Speaker: I hated this one. I hated it. did too. I did too. Like I thought it was, here's the thing. I thought it was kind of funny until there was the portion with the dog. Yeah.
Speaker: I went, did you have to do that? i was like I think I went, oh, no. Yeah. Like vocally in my house. With the peanut butter. I was like. That was horrible.
Speaker: Horrible. Like. Terrible choice. did it like Yeah. With like a person and then like a like a hooker. Do you remember when we first did 48 Hours, the year we did at first sight and it was like awful.
Speaker: yeah But do you remember the the comedy someone made where the whole thing was predicated around like the guy being a pedophile? Yeah.
Speaker: That is what that sequence felt like. Yeah.
Speaker: That is a good comparison and a very unfortunate one.
Speaker: i remember turning to each other and like... ah I remember when they did that bit in the theater. I remember looking at you and being like, there's no way. Yeah. um was crazy.
Speaker: wonder how those guys are doing. but that is i hope they're in jail. I hope they're in jail. Yeah, I did not. Get them off the street. Yeah, that was not needed.
Speaker: So anyway, the movie ends where um he... You know the video game Portal? Where you shoot like the different portals. You can hop through them. um Well, this guy... um kills himself via the portal and his ah gun and bullet.
Speaker: Which is... ah I laugh. I think i think really funny. like I actually thought that was a hilarious way to to end it. ah He directs him to the bathroom. He's like, that door wasn't there before. He's like yeah, it was. Go in it.
Speaker: ah And so he does, and yeah, the portal happens. And this portal There's just a lot of prosthetic penile. Yeah. Pops up behind him and just blows his head smooth off.
Speaker: And then it's over. And then you go, thank God. Tachi, what was your favorite story? don't think you said yours. If I had to choose one Pappy was the least offensive.
Speaker: <unk> um You brought up the coat one, dude. we We're kicking you off the pod. Hell no. That was disgusting. Pappy was probably the the most well-produced one, the best-looking one, and the most entertaining one.
Speaker: despite The coat one felt like offensive to women. Yeah. yeah I can't believe they were willing volunteers for those roles. This felt like three like they got three different directors and they each did like their own short film. like if They don't feel cohesive to just one person, which is, in a world, impressive.
Speaker: Not this world. Not this one, though. I want to go back to Pappy real quick, though. A couple shout-outs. I loved the angry neighbor boyfriend who was just at 100 every day. I thought he was so funny.
Speaker: He hated the main neighbor guy. Hang on. I'm on the the director's letterbox. Apparently, Pappy's old stiffy Was made in 2024.
Speaker: So this may have been literally like you just said, three shorts stuck together. Hmm.
Speaker: And then they made they interrolled it with Mr. Cream Jeans at the center of it all. to make a feature. Yeah. right. How neat. Heath Benfield, you are on the list.
Speaker: Yeah. I love the neighbor. I thought he was hilarious. And then the very ending when the neighbor dies, but Pappy's, Pappy's dick lives on.
Speaker: And maybe embodies the neighbor now as the blood gets sucked up from him. So Pappy will return in Avengers Doomsday. I am looking forward to that.
Speaker: would you guys rate this one?
Speaker: You know what? As we've been talking about it, I think I might like it more than bloody tennis.
Speaker: Because at least it was like clearly like a bit and it was made with heart. and I did laugh like a lot. It accomplishes what it sets out to do. Like I will give it that it 100% executes on its vision because I know this is exactly what they were looking for. Yeah. And I can feel that.
Speaker: That's a good point.
Speaker: I don't know if I can rate it more than undertone though. Cause what do you have undertone at? Like a one and a half.
Speaker: I'll probably would just give this a one and a half. I'll give it a one.
Speaker: I feel pretty good about that. That's still higher than the uprising. I think I need to change the uprising. I gave the uprising half a star. oh my God. You did? Yeah. yeah Oh my God. Yeah. We hated the uprising. Okay. I guess I need to go back and listen to the like the two that I missed.
Speaker: Yeah. I guess I missed a lot. Okay, so one and a half, one, and then was yours, Alex? Somewhere between a one and a one and a half.
Speaker: Yeah. Probably better than bloody tennis, so maybe a one and a half. I'll give it that. I'll give it better than bloody tennis. Mr. Cream Jeans, I'm excited to see what you do next.
Speaker: I'm not. i' I'm actually cool. I've hung out with Cream Jeans enough.
Speaker: um I really hope that we do get to go in person and we see more movies. Our sample size was a little, ah obviously a little questionable, but I had i think I had fun. Sure.
Speaker: I think from what we chose from, it was pretty diverse. I'm actually kind of impressed. There yeah really wasn't much overlap between our movies. All very different movies, for sure. All different so we got some things. We got some variety. Portableness.
Speaker: Oh yeah. Um, any closing thoughts on the movies as a whole or fantastic fest or Mr. Cream jeans from you guys? No, no.
Speaker: Will, will you recommend Mr. Cream jeans to the listeners? No, there is only one listener I can recommend this It's my, my friend, Josh. He's into this sort of thing. Um, okay. There, I think I referenced before we started the show that there was like a,
Speaker: a movie that I knew about that was really similar to this. It's called Thanksgiving. um I have seen Thanksgiving. Yeah. It's like this actually really funny. Yeah, it's just like the same feel as this. Obviously not as grotesque or sexual, but.
Speaker: Yeah, somewhere in fuel, but.
Speaker: Maybe another movie I can recommend instead. I don't know. Yeah. Alright, well. Alright, I'm going to start a bit about bringing up Mr. Cream Jeans hidey hole on first dates.
Speaker: That's a good challenge. try to explain if i ever If she speaks to me again, then she's the one. Let us know how that goes. Would you bring up Jason Finney? i don't think I could actually talk to her if I ever ran into her. I think i would like choke on my own spit and die in front of her.
Speaker: ah We'll leave a lasting impression. Yeah.
Speaker: All right. That's it. Yeah, we're done. This episode's over. um Thanks for listening to our Fantastic Fest recap. We'll be back next week with the social reckoning. um And that's it.
Speaker: Deuces. Thanks. Bye.
