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86. Ghosts, Colonialism, and Frontlines: A Horror Triple Threat
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Tune in to Streamin' Demons as host Jim Phoenix and special guest American Emily unpack the spine-chilling thrills of Ghost Game, the haunting narrative of The Convert, and the edge-of-your-seat action in The Last Front. Get ready for an hour of insightful commentary, hilarious hot takes, and maybe a jump scare or two. Don't miss this epic horror movie breakdown – it's to die for!
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Introduction & Special Guest
00:00:01
jim_phoenix
Hey, everyone, Jim Phoenix here in today's special streaming demons. That's right. We've got the American Emily as a special guest boxes out on special special assignment, trying to find more movies that could become famous with on the interwebs. We've got some war. Oh, at two war movies. Really? And a ghost game, game, game, game. All of that's more than the next human demons hit it.
00:00:29
jim_phoenix
Or there you go. That was a double click. I'm like, oh, I clicked it twice. Damn it. Oh, that music.
Jim's Musical Talent & Listener Engagement
00:00:40
jim_phoenix
Sponsored you by Carmex. No, no sponsorships.
00:00:53
jim_phoenix
I'm playing it live.
00:01:04
jim_phoenix
Yeah, that's me playing it live. I do that once in a while. You know, multi-talented.
00:01:08
Emily
Nice. otherwise ah asking
00:01:10
jim_phoenix
Hey, hey, kids, we're back. So, today, today, today, if you have not liked or subscribed, do it now before you hear the podcast. I think that's the most beneficial. I think if you like and subscribe, click the bells, whatever you do, that's better than actually listening to the podcast and then doing it.
00:01:27
jim_phoenix
Because you might hate the podcast. Like, what the hell I just liked. Why don't you like and subscribe? Who cares? Today we have a special guest on
Emily Joins & Box's Hiatus
00:01:35
jim_phoenix
streaming demons. We have none other than... How you say your name? Em... Em... Emili... Lai? Am I Lai? Emily. The Americano Emily. We've got a special guest because of two things. We've got a nigga special guest behind us.
00:01:59
jim_phoenix
No, we have a special guest because of two things. No more no boxes on hiatus, meaning they're on a field trip somewhere trying to get more Internet clout with their last interview that everyone loved the review. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. I blew up. So box is probably out somewhere. Finding more thing like that. And number two, oh, Emily and I actually watched two of these movies, which is two more movies than I usually your watch. So there you go.
Emily's Fascination with Horror
00:02:29
jim_phoenix
Well, Emily, thank you very much for coming.
00:02:32
Emily
Thank you for inviting me. You're very kind.
00:02:35
jim_phoenix
I am not very kind, but you're welcome. Or as Dr Payne would say, who cares? He is not kind. So why do you like horror?
00:02:46
jim_phoenix
Why do you like watching Horace? I know that you have a very special horror movie that you turn me on to from Billy Idol song.
00:02:54
Emily
Correct.
00:02:54
jim_phoenix
I've got a face.
00:02:54
Emily
Yes.
00:02:55
jim_phoenix
So why do you like horror?
00:02:58
Emily
Ah, that's an excellent question. I think it's because of society we live in. It's always very polite, very clean, very el ducourer, as we said in French. And Aurove is a kind of genre where you can see people, imagination can be really gore, really dark, really bloody, you see. And it's interesting to watch movie where you've got people who imagine murder or inspires themselves from, you know, say, a killer or the scare, etc.
00:03:26
jim_phoenix
No.
00:03:32
Emily
I don't like to get scared when I watch a movie. I don't like that. It's not my thing. However, i I really like to, I really like imagination.
00:03:44
jim_phoenix
Right.
00:03:44
Emily
And these people who try to do horror, it's a lot of imagination. And often it's a job who is not really respected. So you have a lot of B-movie and B-movies are the best.
Preference for B-movie Horror
00:03:56
jim_phoenix
So you like to be movie horror. You like to be movies instead of like the, Oh my God, there's like a thousand dollar production value.
00:04:06
Emily
Correct, yes. I don't like the, oh, let's see, so one, so two, so three, so four. There is no imaginations, there is no character. I like movies like, for example, the movie with Antonio Baderas, where he take a man, kidnap him, and changes into a It's Ora, but a neat different kind of Ora.
00:04:24
jim_phoenix
What?
00:04:27
jim_phoenix
What? do Wait, what?
00:04:29
Emily
Yeah.
00:04:29
jim_phoenix
There's a man. You change him to a woman. What?
00:04:31
Emily
yes but against his volunteer against his desire he kidnapped the person and for revenge because apparently the dude raped his daughter and she committed suicide he changed the guy operate him and turn him into a woman And there is all this movie about changing the identity of the person, like the real aura thing.
00:04:50
jim_phoenix
That's insane.
00:04:57
Emily
And sometimes there is some movie where it's aura, but you realize the aura, the gore of the movie is less horrific than the reality of society. For example, there's a lot of Japanese movie wall like that.
Japanese Horror & Identity Transformation
00:05:10
Emily
I really like the Japanese culture where they say, the monster is not the dragon, but the monster inside of you.
00:05:18
jim_phoenix
Is it person?
00:05:18
Emily
It's a personality, it is a person. Yes, correct.
00:05:20
jim_phoenix
Yeah, if if you ever seen it's not Japanese, but the one I'm thinking of ah trained Busan, a lot of the actual horror is just the people.
00:05:21
Emily
So, yeah.
00:05:30
jim_phoenix
The zombies are there, but that's the people that are the shit show.
00:05:34
Emily
I heard about the literature, the genre of O'Rourke, but O'Rourke is very literature, very brand. It can be cannibal to the story of a woman who became pregnant and the way she described a pregnancy it's a lost of identity a monster inside of her who grow grow grow people around her who celebrate
00:05:56
jim_phoenix
ah
00:06:03
Emily
ah Cancer because she sees a baby as a cancer as a not a cancer but as a lump as a parasite as a lump and it's really well written and when you read it it's like people around you us are like why do you want to kill it?
00:06:08
jim_phoenix
I always see him as a parasite.
00:06:19
Emily
What do you want to do not keep it? This is really good news and she describes where she go to the maternity and and her body is completely transformed and she has to push that body outside and she's getting operated she's get her sixth section at the end and all her items did he just flip because she become a mother and It's really interesting that this kind of or Roger who is really interesting.
00:06:39
jim_phoenix
Yeah.
00:06:45
Emily
I'm a mother. I love my kids it's a blessing to be a mother and a very proud mother but this kind of literature is really interesting ze the the everyday everyday order of of go what makes you cringe can be different from what makes me cringe you see what i mean like losing your hair or
00:07:05
jim_phoenix
Absolutely. No. Sometimes you can describe it as body horror.
War Movies & 'The Convert'
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jim_phoenix
And the everyday horror, I think these three movies, they try to do it. Well, two hundred of the three movies absolutely do it. And this can happen. The third movie, you have to use an imagination that could happen, but you have to like stretch imagination a bit. For the entire effect. And I think that's a perfect way into.
00:07:35
jim_phoenix
the horror of war. See, we got two war movies. You and I watched one more war movie, and then I watched another one called The Convert, which you think is about like a cult, but it's not. It's not about a cult at all. No matter how much Chachidip he kept saying, it's about a cult, it's not. Okay, imagine this. It's 1830s or 1800s, something like that.
00:08:05
jim_phoenix
And you are arriving on a brand new settlement, like a brand new area and we'll call it. Oh, I don't know. I i will say if you know anything about the British, they did a little bit of colonizations, a little bit. And this is a great movie. For well.
00:08:35
jim_phoenix
Let's say people who are interested into New Zealand societies, people who want to do history.
00:08:40
Emily
Ah, interesting. So it's set up in New Zealand.
00:08:42
jim_phoenix
big Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's actually, I'm going to, I'm going to kill this name.
00:08:45
Emily
Ah, so that's really interesting.
00:08:48
jim_phoenix
I apologize in advance. I'm going to kill this name, but it's going to be the Maori culture in New Zealand.
00:08:50
Emily
here
00:08:54
Emily
Oh, no, no, no, you're right.
00:08:56
Emily
That's how it's pronounced. Maori. Maori. Yeah, you're right.
00:08:56
jim_phoenix
I have it right.
00:08:59
jim_phoenix
Nice.
00:08:59
Emily
Very well done. It's really interesting because ah when you listen about Australia and New Zealand from a perspective in French or Europe, right, we don't
00:09:00
jim_phoenix
Yay.
00:09:07
jim_phoenix
Yeah.
00:09:11
Emily
talk about the aborigine and the Maori except to say oh they're very good dancer and painter and they've got tattoo and they get fucked up and that's all and that's really bad because once you go to Australia because as you know Jim I lived two years in Australia in a small community where there were aborigines people
00:09:21
jim_phoenix
yeah
00:09:32
Emily
They are smart, they've got famous writer, they have fantastic histories, they have a knowledge about medication, plain medication, who is fantastic, the amazing hunter.
00:09:32
jim_phoenix
Yeah. Yes.
00:09:45
jim_phoenix
but no famous models.
00:09:48
Emily
They do, in Australia.
00:09:49
jim_phoenix
But I thought they the Abediginals have famous models.
00:09:51
Emily
They do, hello.
00:09:52
jim_phoenix
I thought the cameras stole their souls.
00:09:53
Emily
Yes, they do, because now they're, wait. they have black African and aborigine models they do and there is more and more movie more and more uh art picture about them
00:10:07
jim_phoenix
Hmm.
00:10:11
jim_phoenix
So there's abditionals with no souls in Australia, you're saying.
00:10:18
Emily
uh no no no no they did differently now uh they are now kind of privatized their land like say in the not the Indian sorry please forgive me uh the native in America they are creating kind of reserve but it's not reserved like for example now you cannot go as a white person to different land in Australia, especially in the Outback, because they're sacred land.
00:10:51
jim_phoenix
Okay.
00:10:52
Emily
No, no, no, you didn't hear about that?
00:10:53
jim_phoenix
Well, oh, yeah, probably, but
00:10:55
Emily
It was a big thing for the far right in Australia. They were like, oh, we are Australian. We have the right to go in this land. And the aborigine are like, no, it's a current land.
00:11:05
Emily
It's for us. You pushed us away. There is a lot of history. Also, there is white aborigine, who are basically white like me, who have ancestors who are native aborigine.
00:11:19
Emily
Long story short, in the beginning of the 20th century, they came that the kids were mixed race with the aborigine to take them out from their parents.
00:11:31
jim_phoenix
Well, that's horrific. Now imagine that happening in New Zealand where this this movie is. And there is a time where they have different sex of this tribe, different tribes, right? the Different tribes. And they're at war. And the person who denif identifies most of the war is the British trying to drive them apart.
00:11:54
jim_phoenix
Because as you know, if if the indigenous people of an area almost combined together instead of fight, they have a better chance of pushing away colonial powers in 1800s. So one way for the British to get past this is to start supplying arms to one side and then the other.
00:12:17
jim_phoenix
as like free enterprise, quote unquote, right.
00:12:18
Emily
Of course.
00:12:20
jim_phoenix
So you have this very important time where if you could separate different tribes by making them fight each other more and giving them better weapons so they can kill each other faster.
00:12:33
Emily
yeah That's what they did in Africa. but That's what French people did in Africa in Rwanda.
00:12:40
jim_phoenix
Well, tons of people everywhere. Yeah.
00:12:42
Emily
Yeah.
00:12:42
jim_phoenix
So that's what this movie is based in. We have Guy Pierce.
Critique of 'The Convert'
00:12:45
jim_phoenix
And if you're ever wondering if the movie is well acted, yeah, it's got Guy Pierce in it. The acting is phenomenal. And it's not just Guy Pierce.
00:12:53
jim_phoenix
It is a bit of a OK, he's coming as a preacher and he's trying to be the man of God. But he's like the ah man of war, really. But he's trying to be very spiritual and, you know, put away his body past type thing.
00:13:08
jim_phoenix
And you you have it being pushed, being pushed, being pushed until you just can't be pushed anymore. And, he you know, the whole fighting back type thing. but i But I really like about this movie other than it's well shot, well directed. Like I said, the acting is phenomenal. I like how they're actually into the truthfulness of the history. And allowing a lot of the cast members to tell their story because we have people from the culture representing the culture.
00:13:46
Emily
That's pretty good. Do they speak the native language?
00:13:49
jim_phoenix
I don't speak it, so I wouldn't know. but but They say they do. I don't know. hell, I don't know. They could be just making it up. I don't know.
00:14:00
jim_phoenix
But I will say the there's one thing that kind of works against it. And this is only because it could be a true story. It could be whatever. ah The thing that works against it is it's a bit of the white savior complex where these two tribes are warring.
00:14:18
jim_phoenix
And then, you know, the British are trying to tear him apart and they could have peace at any time, but they don't until the white guy saves them. Like it's that that that a done.
00:14:29
Emily
Oh, that's, that's a big dilemma. Some movies are really good, you know, in America, like, for example, The Elp is a very good movie. And the biggest critics about The Elp is, oh, there's a white woman who help.
00:14:45
Emily
And I'm like, that's the goal of the story.
00:14:47
jim_phoenix
Oh, I think I said. Oh, my God, your act.
00:14:48
Emily
The housekeeper.
00:14:50
jim_phoenix
Emily, Emily, Emily, hold on.
00:14:50
Emily
Yeah. Yeah.
00:14:52
jim_phoenix
I have to explain but for people who are not used to a French accent. She's saying the help, not the elf. I thought you're talking about the elf.
00:15:01
Emily
oh the helper the help the the help yeah the help so amazing casting of black actresses and very good
00:15:03
jim_phoenix
I'm like the one with Bill Farrow. Yeah, it's got like a bunch of white people in now. The help. Yeah. OK. OK. And that's the eight motherfucker.
00:15:15
jim_phoenix
Yes.
00:15:19
Emily
a story period when housekeeper couldn't share the same toilet, like the white people, it's segregation, they really explained to the story, it's very well done, fantastic movies, blah blah blah.
00:15:26
jim_phoenix
Right. You could clean it, but you couldn't use it. Yeah.
00:15:35
Emily
I'm sorry there is a white person who saved everyone and I'm like but that's the main goal of the movie she's a journalist she just finished university and she wants to write an article and she made the black housekeeper write the article they became writers they've got a big wage they're very lucky they just give a hand and say open the door and do it and they became writer and they're very proud and the committee is great etc
00:15:46
jim_phoenix
Yeah.
00:16:03
jim_phoenix
They were the help.
00:16:06
Emily
yes and it's fantastic and the thing is even my my my my friend uh say I know but you know the white person like it's a great movie why like there's this is this problem so for this movie <unk> but for the main issue with Hollywood it's there's there's no person of color with a hero like these people cannot be
00:16:06
jim_phoenix
Right. Give me something like that. and
00:16:33
jim_phoenix
Right. I mean, there's there's no Black Panther at all. I know naming one doesn't mean name them all.
00:16:37
Emily
Yeah.
00:16:39
jim_phoenix
But this is one of the cool thing is the the war that they won so far for the convert, which I think it was going to win more, is the jury prize for best actress. And I am going to murder your name. I'm so sorry.
00:16:50
jim_phoenix
Tia Tia Arari, Nogati Melbourne. I got the last name right.
00:16:56
Emily
You try.
00:16:56
jim_phoenix
She wins for best actress and she should. She does a phenomenal, that's what I'm saying. The people that you know, you're going to know Guy Pierce, everyone else, still a phenomenal acting like Antonio Del Mayo is these are phenomenal actress.
00:17:04
Emily
one
00:17:11
jim_phoenix
You can't pick it apart on acting. One thing I will say besides the the great white hope thing, it does get a little bit, uh, edited much.
00:17:23
jim_phoenix
And so sometimes the the the story goes, oh, wait, what the hell they just do? Oh, she has to. All right. So it does take a little dip there. But overall, I liked it. I think it's a good one to watch nowadays, especially with everyone's doing colonial powers.
00:17:38
jim_phoenix
I'm giving this four out of five Cthulhu's. Check it out. It's only an hour and fifty nine minutes.
00:17:42
Emily
It must be interesting because it's not an American one, right?
00:17:43
jim_phoenix
Two thousand twenty three. The convert. Check it out now.
00:17:49
Emily
It's New Zealand. So that's interesting. And that's a part of the story.
00:17:54
jim_phoenix
Right. And it's something you're going to pick up that's not going to be just USA USA USA.
Discussion on 'Ghost Game'
00:17:59
jim_phoenix
Now we watch The Ghost Game or I think it's just called Ghost Game 2024.
00:18:05
Emily
Correct.
00:18:06
jim_phoenix
Written by Adam Cesar and Stars Kia Dorsey and ah Adian Hooves. Ghost Game is the one of the two that you like better, if I remember correctly.
00:18:13
Emily
and
00:18:18
Emily
yes yes i did so i liked it better because it was entertaining it was funny the awesome movie it's a beautiful movie but it's the same kind of movie you can watch 10 years ago 20 years ago
00:18:35
jim_phoenix
Well, the other movie is called The Last Front. We'll get into that. But the the ghost game, you like it. Is it more because there's a B movie? like If you ever watch a ghost game, it's B.
00:18:42
Emily
Yes, yes, yes, yes, definitely.
00:18:45
jim_phoenix
Yeah.
00:18:46
Emily
I like the subject. The base of the movie, the subject is is really interesting. People broke into people's house.
00:18:53
jim_phoenix
Yeah.
00:18:53
Emily
to place camera and do trick on them and scale them and everything. Great, amazing. Because when you watch watch Instagram or TikTok, there's a lot of people who are prankster, who scare people, et cetera.
00:19:00
jim_phoenix
That's insane.
00:19:06
jim_phoenix
Yeah.
00:19:07
Emily
So I like it.
00:19:08
jim_phoenix
Yeah.
00:19:09
Emily
Like this idea, it's really modern. People have now cameras, you know nowadays you can have cameras and apps on your phone and spy on people, et cetera. Great, amazing super.
00:19:19
jim_phoenix
ah
00:19:20
Emily
The problem um
00:19:21
jim_phoenix
Haudenosaunee LLC says, please do not spy on people on your phone. That's illegal as hell. But we know what you're talking about.
00:19:26
Emily
right
00:19:27
Emily
yeah
00:19:27
jim_phoenix
We know we talk about people that do that, pranks, and sometimes they're truthful pranks.
00:19:31
jim_phoenix
I'm having people review Instagram and YouTube to see who they can spot the fakes. And the fake pranks are a mini. And this ghost game is supposed to be the truthful prank where people, the premise is, follows, a this is from IMDb, follows a thrill seeking couple.
00:19:48
jim_phoenix
The couple is not really a couple. And I got some issues with this. who set their target in a haunted house and endure various incidents as they witness a family going mad, except that there's actually three people pranking, and they set this camera up in a very creepy way, basically recording a little girl through most of the film.
00:19:52
Emily
Right, yeah.
00:20:06
jim_phoenix
All these things are illegal, illegal, illegal, and yet they built the premise on this, and the poster's pretty cool by the way. So I have a question for you since we both watched it.
00:20:20
jim_phoenix
Did you believe those two as a real couple?
00:20:23
Emily
no no no no ah like zero chemistry at all like it's really funny because we watch the movie and they're together and she's really upset at him because he's using her laptop and checking all videos of a game and i didn't like her acting he's like oh my god
00:20:23
jim_phoenix
No, not whatsoever, right? Like zero chemistry at all. but
00:20:41
jim_phoenix
Yeah.
00:20:45
Emily
uh is that you you had an accident yes she had 12 stitches or three stitch knees and one night at the hospital but tell me was it you no it was not me but there is the same mask you have on the wall and i'm like this is so stupid like like oh just try the other one yeah
00:20:51
jim_phoenix
Yeah.
00:21:01
jim_phoenix
Exactly. it's It's like the exact same mask. It's right behind you. This is the same mask. It's like, yeah, it's Where's Wilder for dummies.
00:21:12
jim_phoenix
Really? and that That's what it comes down to.
00:21:13
Emily
ah
00:21:15
jim_phoenix
Yeah. I didn't like that. And there's some things about the editing that was sloppy. Like the guys gets kicked out of his apartment by the girlfriend, whatever.
00:21:22
Emily
yes four
00:21:23
jim_phoenix
He's sleeping in his car and he brings in this coffee. There's like 12 cups of coffee. Like, yeah, four was four. Yeah.
00:21:29
Emily
cup of coffee and we were debating ji we were debating um is it orange juice is it for so of people so he get kicked out he sleep in the car he wake up because the policeman is like either you make up with your with your girlfriend or your mouveau which is the best actor i think the best actor of the world movie yeah
00:21:30
jim_phoenix
Four cups of coffee for two people.
00:21:39
jim_phoenix
Yeah.
00:21:45
jim_phoenix
girlfriend and get the hell out of the neighborhood. Yeah. It really was because it's realistic. You know, you can't be sleeping in your car outside someone's house. It looks such as hell.
00:21:56
Emily
yes and then he enters and what do we discover there's a guy playing video game so there's a girlfriend and a guy playing video game and we're like okay there is a lot of people maybe he moved and went to Starbucks coffee came back gave the coffee and there is a plenty of people not at all they're just oh it's just a friend it's i remember his name he or something yeah
00:22:07
jim_phoenix
Yeah. No. No.
00:22:19
jim_phoenix
And the guy, yeah. And the guy didn't even know that other guy was going to be there. So he thought it was just him and his girlfriend and he still brings four coffees. I'm pretty sure it was just someone who had coffee on the set.
00:22:29
jim_phoenix
They just bought that box in, but there's a lot of unforced errors.
00:22:32
Emily
And they were empty because it was moving like that. Like it was like talking with one hand and it's coffee, like this.
00:22:39
jim_phoenix
Yeah. He's talking around, but that's it.
00:22:40
Emily
But I can't do that.
00:22:42
jim_phoenix
There's a lot of unforced errors in this one, and some of the, ah without giving the the ending away, because it's really easy to poke holes in the ending, it just kind of like, like, ah, fuck it, let's end it.
00:22:55
jim_phoenix
but It was one of those.
00:22:56
Emily
It was bad. Like, I loved the premises.
00:22:58
jim_phoenix
You can't, no spoilers.
00:23:00
Emily
The two actors, the actress who plays her girlfriend is a boyfriend. Not good chemistry. However, they wear good chemistry between the bad guy who plays Vido again and the girlfriend.
00:23:07
jim_phoenix
Right.
00:23:12
jim_phoenix
The girl.
00:23:13
Emily
We even thought maybe they were boyfriend and girlfriend or whatsoever.
00:23:13
jim_phoenix
Yeah.
00:23:17
jim_phoenix
Right.
00:23:17
Emily
The story was good. ah Family, buy a new old house. There are financial difficulties because the guy was a writer and lost money. The mother is a housewife and the little girl has autism.
00:23:29
jim_phoenix
Right.
00:23:32
Emily
So little girl was a good actress by the way.
00:23:32
jim_phoenix
Yeah.
00:23:35
jim_phoenix
The girl was a pretty good actress. I mean, everyone was it was weird because everyone was decent acting individually. It's just as an ensemble and in the world, they just kind of fall apart.
00:23:48
jim_phoenix
Which is my issue with it. and But again, that's also kind of like the B movie madness of it all now without because we can't this is a hard one to talk about because we can't without spoiling it. It does have some decent effects.
00:24:01
jim_phoenix
It's entertaining. It's an hour and at 26 minutes. What was your score out of five?
00:24:07
Emily
Two.
00:24:09
jim_phoenix
Two.
00:24:09
Emily
two I like the storyline.
00:24:11
jim_phoenix
Well.
00:24:13
Emily
It's great. I think if they go to to a production movie with more money and better writer, etc., with a better casting, they could do something great.
00:24:20
jim_phoenix
Right.
00:24:26
Emily
Like I like the synopses. I like especially the second part of the movie. It was really clever, but something's missing.
00:24:36
Emily
so messy Something's missing.
00:24:37
jim_phoenix
Yeah.
00:24:38
jim_phoenix
No, the the the second something is missing throughout as a thread and then. I think act three kind of falls on twos. It's pretty respectful. I'm going to give it a 2.4 just because of the indie feel to it.
00:24:53
jim_phoenix
I think it had a good idea. I think that the editing, I'm not sure that the acting or just the editing that kind of went askew in parts might be the writing.
00:25:03
Emily
I think it's maybe ziti tinga.
00:25:04
jim_phoenix
I don't know something when it's cute.
00:25:05
Emily
I had, so she's a seed when they're, commute to the new place and I really like it it's a different radio music different angle that was nice that was messy but I liked it because I couldn't call it the silence and the different
00:25:14
jim_phoenix
Yeah. No, you like that. I hated it. Like, oh, my God. How many?
00:25:20
jim_phoenix
Yeah. For those who watch it.
00:25:23
Emily
ah protection
00:25:25
jim_phoenix
It's going to be in the beginning scenes. They drive and the radio plays a new song every frickin time. You look at it as someone whose budget conscientious. I'm like, oh, that's their entire budget in the first five minutes.
00:25:35
jim_phoenix
What the fuck? You know, we don't.
00:25:37
Emily
But for me who like to travel and I like it because it was original and whenever they would change a view in music it would be ah somebody from makeup, somebody from the coffee, somebody who plays the policeman.
00:25:45
jim_phoenix
Yeah. Expensive as fuck. Yeah.
00:25:53
Emily
You see what I mean? I really like it.
00:25:56
jim_phoenix
Honestly, I get it. I understand. I think if the rest of the movie was stronger, it would be great. Volley thing to do. But I think they spent a lot of time setting it up that it didn't pay off.
00:26:09
jim_phoenix
But that was that
Exploring 'The Last Front'
00:26:10
jim_phoenix
one. And last but not least, we've got The Last Front with none other than Mormont himself. No, wait. Not Mormont. What's his real name? Ian. Ian Glenn. There you go. I like The Last Front. Amidst World War I's chaos, a grieving father turns hero, leading villagers to safety while evading a relentless enemy driven by vengeance.
00:26:32
jim_phoenix
It is a world one one flick. What they're not really saying in the IMDb tag, which I really think that they should, it's like some farmer dude in the middle of just like leaving the fuck alone land who no wants of his own gets dragged into a war that, you know, in that area, everyone just wanted to be left to fuck alone. But they get dragged into the war for World War I.
00:27:01
jim_phoenix
So we both watched this one as well. We watched this one first, yeah, I think. Yeah, we watched this one first. So what'd you think about, I know war movies are more of my jam than yours. So what'd you think about that? Uh oh, your voice is gone, I can't hear you whatsoever.
00:27:26
jim_phoenix
I might have to land this plane, there you go.
00:27:27
Emily
Sorry, my bad. My bad. I really like it because the synapse is good. I came from North of France, and we had basically...
00:27:39
Emily
ah been better boom boom but i mean We basically ah the First World War, the Second World War, and I had many stories of grandparents, great-grandparents, seeing the Germans coming, English people coming, you know, trying to steal food, rabbit, etc.
00:27:49
jim_phoenix
Right.
00:27:55
Emily
People getting unfortunately raped, shot, etc etc.
00:27:55
jim_phoenix
Yeah.
00:27:58
Emily
We have many stories of village rebel against the Germans who try to push.
00:28:03
Emily
And the most known actually, the kind of farm the guy has, is the same in North of France and it's called Flemish Farm.
00:28:03
jim_phoenix
first
00:28:11
jim_phoenix
Cool.
00:28:12
Emily
They're square, they're really strong and there's many stories in North of France of farms were not taken by the Germans because they were able to shoot at them and use them as Basically a blockhouse, basically a fortress.
00:28:26
jim_phoenix
Yeah, it's a bit of that.
00:28:28
Emily
So listening to that story of them coming trying to steal pigs and stuff and blah blah blah and the guy saying no you can't do that because I need to feed my family and the village and the clerk being really concerned about the German coming even if they're in retreat, yeah completely plausible and true.
00:28:48
jim_phoenix
Yeah, I like that because I think you have it right. This is something I left out in the description. And I think they also leave it out. It's not just a grieving father. It's leading a villagers of safety. The Germans aren't doing it because they want to conquer the land. The Germans are doing it because they well, one just complete a hold. But most of the German army isn't doing the conquer the land. It's because they need to replenish their supplies.
00:29:15
Emily
Correct, yes.
00:29:15
jim_phoenix
their supply lines cut, they're trying to conquer the rest of the country, but they need to get food, they need to get some shelter, they need to get ah ah vehicles, whatever it's going to be, they need to reappropriate this stuff. And it's really interesting, it's its it's a dual family dynamic, you have a lot of moving people with the farmer and then the soldier and their kids and stuff like that. And it's kind of a great exploration of war is not just numbers, it's actually people. And a lot of them don't give a shit whose side they're on. They're just trying to like Ian's character Leonard, he's just trying to save his
00:29:56
jim_phoenix
family, his daughter and his son, you know, and stuff like that.
00:29:59
Emily
Correct. Yes.
00:30:00
jim_phoenix
No spoilers. And the other guy who was playing like the German guy, he's just like, man, my son's a dill hole. What the fuck did I go around with this dude?
00:30:07
Emily
Yes.
00:30:08
jim_phoenix
He's trying to like sound to save his son, even the point of like great pains.
00:30:10
Emily
Yes.
00:30:13
jim_phoenix
And you you see this thing being played out. And I really enjoyed the way all the I mean, the acting was phenomenal. The the writing is decent.
00:30:25
jim_phoenix
It's also a bit formulaic because you see in one more movie like, oh, shit, I seen this one. You know, it gets kind of like that. But what brings you out of it is the way the actors and the way this setting is done. It brings you out of and World War One. We don't see a lot of we see a shit ton of World War Two, a lot of World War Two movies. I know. So World War One is kind of like not touched for a long time. So I think that's a smart move. And unfortunately, one person just blanked out. So I'm going to land this one myself. I think what we have here is for the last front.
00:31:02
jim_phoenix
I enjoyed it. I'm going to give this a four point two out of five, mostly from the acting point of view and from the aspect of it was not a bazillion. You know, like there wasn't a bazillion stars. They had some great acting, solid acting, and the characters do grow. It's going to be a matter of how much they grow.
00:31:28
jim_phoenix
and how well it's pulled off. I think there's some scenes that get rushed, which is not why it's not 4.5 for me. But overall 4.2, check it out. It's only an hour and 38 minutes. This is like, again, they're not 12 hour marathons. You enjoy it. If you like war movies, give it a spin. It really doesn't go into the horror of war a bit.
Closing & Future Episode Teasers
00:31:50
jim_phoenix
Now that's it. Oh my God. 31 minutes. That's it for me, Jim Phoenix, and my friend American Emily, who's coming in or out right now. And then here we go. Here we go. Maybe in, maybe out. We're not sure. So when we are doing it next time, we'll be back with streaming demons with a matter of but bu but bu but looks like aliens.
00:32:12
jim_phoenix
We're going to do a couple of specials coming up. We're going to do a Thanksgiving special. We're going to do a other other special and other other other other special and a bunch of other stuff like that. All that more. The next next next next human demons and some singles to watch up for those. Bye, y'all. Right.
00:32:35
jim_phoenix
brown brown
00:32:37
Emily
Bye!
00:33:06
jim_phoenix
Yeah motherfucker.