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Dexter, Men and Crimes of the Future
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Dexter: New Blood, Men, Crimes of the Future and more
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Podcast Comeback & Apologies
00:00:04
Speaker
Welcome. For real. All right. You want to go ahead and fuck up the Centra? Yeah, sure. All right. Welcome to Fight Central. I'm Kevin Dawk. I'm back here again with Keck. How you doing, buddy?
00:00:26
Speaker
I'm all right, buddy. Wow. That was that was very seamless. Yes. I left that last one in our last cast, which we recorded like two months ago, then it took me another month to put out. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry for
Hot News & Public Domain Discussion
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the long delay on the cast people. But yeah. Yeah. For our whole tens of people that listened. Yes.
00:00:54
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But anyway, yeah, I got some hot news right off the press that we can talk about real quick first before we get into just what we've been watching and what we're looking forward to this summer, since we're about halfway through to Halloween. So the first news I got is you're aware of the Disney character Winnie the Pooh.
00:01:17
Speaker
I am actually very, very aware. I have a friend of mine who got a tramp stamp of Winnie the Pooh on her back recently, actually. Winnie the Pooh is now in public domain, so you can now use it for whatever. I thought the Chinese had Winnie and Piglet locked up in jail somewhere.
00:01:42
Speaker
No, Winnie the Pooh just got released in the public domain. I think Mickey Mouse is next.
Winnie the Pooh Horror Adaptation
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Speaker
So you can't use like the, you know, the actual picture, like the likeness of the Disney character will use the name and like a kind of like a knockoff looking one, but you can still name it Winnie the Pooh. Not in China. I guess anywhere. No, you can. I'm pretty I'm pretty sure that Winnie the Pooh is outwalled in China because of that whole thing where they said, like,
00:02:11
Speaker
Xi Jinping, like what, like Winnie the Pooh. Oh, yeah. South Park. Randy actually murdered Winnie in a Chinese prison. So, yeah. Well, I mean, it's good for Winnie everywhere as long as he's not China. Yeah.
Remembering Ray Liotta and Fred Ward
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Well, there's going to be a new horror movie called Winnie the Pooh, Blood and Honey. Oh, shit. Yeah. We're Winnie the Pooh and Piglet going like a murderous like rampage.
00:02:41
Speaker
Wow, I wonder if is that going to be before or after cocaine bear. Oh, well, I guess that's some news that I should just before I forget.
00:02:54
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It's worth mentioning, actor Ray Liotta is no longer available. Oh, yes, yes. And I had just noticed that in I didn't realize he was in any way involved in the project. But I looked at like some of the projects that he was like last involved in.
00:03:14
Speaker
and Cocaine Bear was on that list. I know we discussed Cocaine Bear a bit like this. I'm not actually sure what happened to Ray Liotta. I know
Tremors & Morbius Debacle
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he was in the middle of shooting a movie when he became unavailable forever.
00:03:36
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you know, just thought we would mention that he's a fucking great classic actor and he will be missed. Yes, he will. Remo Williams, Fred Ward also passed as well. Really? Yeah, recently. Yeah. Fred Ward is no longer available. Yeah, he's no longer available. Like Fred Ward from like Tremors, one of like the most classic horror movies ever made.
00:04:00
Speaker
Yes, he's no longer available. I did not realize that. Wow, that's a that's a big hit. Now, Fred Ward went on to do the other tremors where Kevin Bacon was like, yeah, no, I think Fred Ward was in Tremors 2 and Tremors 3. Yeah, I think the only one that missed all of them was the the crazy guy with the elephant gun. Yeah, I think he was the only one at all. Yeah, he pretty much made a career around that fucking brand.
00:04:31
Speaker
Like they were like doing other projects, asked him if he was available. And he's like, no, Tremors Force, we're about to start shooting. I'm sure they're all like six or seven by now. I don't know. I stopped watching when they fly.
00:04:46
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But yeah, so that's a bit of unhappy news. But anyway, moving on. Get out of the way. Yeah. The other news I had was I don't know if you're aware of that Sony flop, Morius. It's based on the character of Spider-Man villain character. I'm not aware of that. You called it a flop.
00:05:06
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Yeah, it was with Jared Leto, and yeah, it didn't do really well after being pushed back multiple times. And then this whole meme making fun of it came out of just calling, starting from the Weekly Planet podcast, they started calling Monthbius.
00:05:25
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And like there's a meme that was like more of in time. So like the like this whole thing is like blown up out of control so much that Sony for some reason thought this was going to turn into ticket sales. So they released re-released it back in the theaters this weekend and it flopped again like it only made out. So Sony made two grave miscalculations.
00:05:49
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Yeah they thought like oh people are talking about our movie so they're really excited about it so let us release it back in theaters again.
00:05:57
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Yeah, just because it was getting press, it had flopped. Yeah. But yeah,
Dexter: New Blood Analysis
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like people were making fun of it. And Sony was like, well, you know what, maybe we could recoup a little because like, you know, any press is good press, I guess was like their idea. So I tried to do this. And so they are like one of the few companies like so. Yeah, they're one of the few that like misjudged things terribly both times and had a double flop.
00:06:26
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of the same product. That's what you're saying. Yes. Don't fuck Sony, man. I'm still trying to get a PS5. Fuck Sony. So, yeah, they made $85,000 on Friday out of like a thousand theaters that they released it back into. So, yeah, it's not making any money again.
00:06:51
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Top Gun's making all the money. I guess they figured that since it was kind of in between Top Gun and Jurassic Park, that there wasn't a whole lot of big movies coming out this weekend. Yeah. So they decided like, oh, maybe we squeeze it back in, maybe make some more money off of it, since people are talking about it now. They did not. It did not work out. People were like, no, I'll go see Top Gun twice, like I did.
00:07:14
Speaker
Yeah, why wouldn't you? I haven't I have not seen it yet. I mean, I do I do plan to check it out. But I had noticed a Microsoft Flight Simulator, they just add it like a free download, like update where it's like the Maverick thing. And you can do a whole bunch of like crazy Top Gun challenge.
00:07:35
Speaker
Yeah, like I had like totally forgot about yeah, it's like a it was like a free DLC Yeah, and like yeah, I don't want to get off topic talking about top gun, but it was everything you want in a top gun sequel Yeah, well, that's what the yeah I didn't want I wasn't gonna do that either but like I heard like very very very good things about because I was like kind of iffy but like I heard like
00:07:56
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yeah you're gonna want that yeah i was iffy too and then i was like like by the end of it i was like fuck that was good yeah everything i wanted yeah uh yeah that's all i had for the uh the news i thought those were the two most recent uh news items that i want to uh bring up
00:08:18
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So we can talk about what we've watched recently. Cause I know you've just finally caught up on Dexter new blood. So I guess we can talk a little bit about that before we get into what else has just come out and is coming up.
00:08:31
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Well, we had that joke going from a cast we did a while back where we were talking about because Dexter was rated to have the, like by the poll they did, Dexter had the most out of energy genre, not just horror, out of energy genre, the most disappointing ending in television history. It was like,
00:08:58
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pretty overwhelmingly voted that Dexter had the worst ending ever by seasons were kind of downhill as it was bad seasons. But I'm saying like, as a whole, like just that fucking like shot of him in that fucking wogging outfit at the end of that, like I was just, Oh my fucking God, people, I hated that so much. Like, you know, all everything about that, but also the, uh,
00:09:27
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that like him just going out into the hurricane and then surviving. Yeah. Everything about was just bad. We all want to relive that. It was very traumatizing. They just killed them off there instead of like showing them like long and like Dexter logging. Like that would have been fine. But yeah, I'm glad they had pretty much done anything except what they did. It would have been fine. Like I would have rather like the Sopranos ending where it just showed them like driving in the boat and then it just went to black screen.
00:09:56
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Yeah, like I think that would have been better. Yeah. It just said Finn like that. But yeah, I was behind the bit on this one. I did not realize that it had already come out.
00:10:14
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I didn't realize I was waiting for it to come out and complete. Apparently I just wasn't up on current events and I thought it wasn't coming out for a few months and then other people informed me that it had not only come out but finished.
00:10:31
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So I went and watched it and I really enjoyed it. Well, you could tell that the writers, like, they took the heart. What? And just mind you, after we did that cast, when we were talking about how bad that ending was, I think it was like two weeks later that they officially announced that like they were doing it. It was already in production. They already had like the actors like
00:10:59
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signed on and so we made that thing that they listened to our cast and that's how they got the idea to do it, which I just like to think that in my head. But anyway, you could tell the writers took it very, very seriously. Yes, yeah. They knew how disappointed their fans were. And I'm sure that they probably took some personal backlash as well for just how horrificly
00:11:28
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how horrifically and how horrifically it was written and you can tell that they decided to do something about it and I really enjoyed it.
00:11:39
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Yeah, I mean, it was ridiculous. Oh, yeah, there was it was kind of predictable and ridiculous. But yeah, I definitely enjoyed it. And I thought it was a nice, like, comeback and ending for Dexter, even though I did kind of want to seem go to like L.A. and start killing it. Yeah, no, I was hoping. I mean, well, let's just say it was it was universally pretty well received.
00:12:02
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You know, because the ending was so bad, there were a lot of people that were very, very, there were some people that said they just flat out refused to watch it because they were just so disappointed at what happened that they wanted like to just get back at them and say like, oh yeah, we're not going to even enter, which I think is pretty fucking silly. But, you know, that was on, there was an article on angryfans.com about it. But anyway.
00:12:34
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Nobody wants to hear your fucking bullshit. Yeah. Yeah. It's just, um, I don't know, but like, uh, I mean, I would have liked to say it go on because it was well received. Yeah.
00:12:50
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You know, given everything we talked about, uh, on IMDP, I think it's got like an 8.2 on like rotten tomato, like all the critics pretty much said the same and the fans said the same too. So I was thinking that this was going to be a reboot. I thought we were going to see, um, you know, two or three more seasons of Dexter.
00:13:09
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Yeah, you know, it looked like his son had become a budding psychopath, and it was going to be like father and son, like, you know, going to hell. Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of there's a lot of killing that could be done out there, you know, that it would have been very lucrative for them. They could have really, they could have really gotten offline. And one thing I did kind of like is that, you know, we always talk about
00:13:38
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My God, I really hope that that character doesn't come back as like a ghost or a vision in a show. I know you're talking about how we would hate that. But I thought that it was good to see Jennifer Gardner back. I thought they did not overdo it with her. No. I thought it was just the right amount.
00:14:06
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She took over for anybody that is wondering. She took over for Harry because, you know, Dexter's dad had died very, very early in the original. I'm not sure if he might have died before the original even aired. I don't know. But basically Dexter just talked to his father, his dead father the whole time. He's a crazy person, saw his father in his head and his father kind of like was like
00:14:36
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his, you know, subconscious narrator and Jennifer Gardner stepped into that role in this and I thought it was really well done. Yeah, I thought they were going to do like a, you know, an angel devil and Harry was going to be like, you know, like, no, yeah, teach them to kill and she's going to be like, no, don't turn them into fucking you. Like, I thought it was going to be that. Yeah. Yeah, I liked it. I thought I thought that was a good use of her.
00:14:59
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And like, and it wasn't an over. They didn't overdo it. Yeah. Cause they kind of easily done that. But yeah, I thought, I agree with that. Yeah. I thought
Raised by Wolves: Rise and Fall
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it was just, it was very, very ridiculous to me that Harrison was able to find him.
00:15:18
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like he bounced. He did not seem like he wanted to be found. He went across and somehow it seemed like Harrison was able to like as a very, very young man able to like piece a whole bunch of shit together.
00:15:37
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and track him down like really well to where he was like on his porch. Yeah, it would have been something if like Harrison had like grown up and like become like a private investigator or had been like in law enforcement where like
00:15:53
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He learned how to investigate and use the internet, and he was obsessed with tracking his father down. Or they could have just been like... They could even have a high school education. Yeah, or they could just be like, yeah, it was in a letter that he wrote to his mother, and he just found it. Yeah, he found something... GPS coordinates. Yeah.
00:16:15
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Yeah, something like that. And then, um, his girlfriend somehow within like, it was like a single episode. She somehow like piece all this ridiculous shit together when she met, uh, and help Batista at like some random cop comforts. Yeah. I was gonna say, how did you feel about that little cat cameo? Well, there were two because like he mentioned she contacts him again at the end of the series.
00:16:45
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But I thought it was very, very unlikely that they would have met. I thought it was even more unlikely that they would have met and somehow managed to discuss Dexter and Dexter's son and mention his son by name.
00:17:08
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And I thought it was even then more unlikely that she were to go back and somehow tie in Ketamine to him becoming the Bay Harbor butcher and all that. I mean, it was just, it was very, very, very implausible. Very, very unlikely that that could ever possibly happen in real life. But hey, it made for an entertaining story and the writers gave us the ending we deserved.
00:17:39
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And it was a very grim, very dark ending that I actually did not see coming. You know, I knew that things were going to be very unpleasant. I thought maybe Harrison was going to die at the end and Dexter was like going to have to like just bounce and go somewhere else to continue his cycle. But I did not see it ending because I wasn't aware that it was only going to be one season.
00:18:06
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I didn't know from the very beginning, they had only planned on making one season of redemption. And so not knowing that I was just like, oh, shit, like I'm pumped about this. Cool.
00:18:19
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Dexter season two, I was like, you know, the climax to the ending is like real fucked up. I love the dude who played the garden Shawshank and has been in tons of different stuff. What is his name? Clancy Brown. Yeah, Clancy Brown. He was great. Like he was absolutely like, like fucking I don't I can't even imagine what the show would have been like without him in it. But
00:18:46
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I don't really have much else to say, but I was very impressed and I wish there would be more coming, but I'm not disappointed in the ending. I think it was a fitting ending and I did not see the ending coming.
00:19:03
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So yeah, I liked it and I don't really have anything more to add. The only thing I guess I could add is I wish I had seen it sooner when it actually came out. I mean, this didn't get spoiled for you, so that's... Yeah, no, it did not get spoiled for me. That it did not. So anyway,
00:19:22
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Do you have anything else on that or? Yeah, I thought the same thing that that you did, like I thought
Firestarter Remake & Scanners Hope
00:19:28
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they were going to see how well it did and then if it did, well, they were going to renew it for another season. They were going to leave it open ended enough. Yeah, that would make sense, right? Yeah, but yeah, so I thought that was a pretty good surprise that they killed them off at the end. Spoilers for going out. So they wait just to ask you.
00:19:47
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So they did not announce at the very beginning that it was just going to be a one season thing? Not that I remember. I mean, oh, all right. See, I thought that they had I thought that they had said that it was going to be a single season. They might have they might have said limited series. I don't know. But like you never know. Like I've heard people say limited series before and then suddenly it gets a second season. I'm like, that's not really
00:20:12
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a limited series. Well, it depends. I mean, if it if it draws in the fans, you know, where they think they can make a lot of money. And this was it was very well received, as I've discussed, you know. So, yeah, I'm surprised by that because I would think that people would be stoked up for season two of Dexter New Blood.
00:20:35
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but I don't see there being any way unless Harrison is going to become the new Dexter. And then like Dexter would be like the voice in Harrison's head. Harrison's whole thing was like, yeah, like I'm killing you because you're a bad person that I don't like.
00:21:03
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who probably deserves to die. So I can't see Harrison. That would just be ridiculous. So we've seen all the Dexter we're going to see. It's over. And we got the proper ending. I'm happy about it.
00:21:19
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Seems like most people are happy about it. The end. Yeah, I'm pretty satisfied with it. Yeah. Oh, the other thing that I just remembered was raised by wolves just got canceled by. Yes, because I can't say that I'm not surprised, but I'm glad because I was not going to watch another season. I like I couldn't suffer through it anymore. I enjoyed I enjoyed the second season. I did not think it was a particularly good season.
00:21:47
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Um I really did not think the show was particularly good since maybe episode seven of season one and um but it did have I mean it did have something of a loyal following and I think it helped that season two
00:22:06
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I watched with two other people that really liked it. And so, you know, obviously if you're doing that sometimes that will like improve things for you if you're watching it with an enthusiastic audience and stuff like that.
00:22:22
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Yeah, I can't say I'm overly surprised. It kind of seemed like they were painting themselves into a corner. Yeah. The only thing I liked about the second season was like the Android storyline stuff, because I thought that was interesting stuff. The human characters were fucking dumb and annoying as fuck. They were all like every single one of them were doing real dumb fucking shit, especially when she was just going to go off and have the baby by that acid ocean.
00:22:48
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Yeah, like creature comes and like fucking takes the baby and then like they get the baby back by the next episode. Like it wasn't that big of a deal. She seemed like she was really pumped to get the baby back too. And then she saw the baby being breastfed by the creature.
00:23:07
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And Zoe was like, oh, you know what? This actually makes a lot of sense. I'm going to bounce. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I actually don't want that baby again. She was like, I don't want this baby. And then she was like, I want that baby back. And then she goes and gets the baby and was like, yeah, I don't really want it. And somebody was also it was, I mean, I will say this, it was pure science fiction. It was the writing and style was sort of like a science, a sci-fi five that I thought was lost.
00:23:36
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I really think like the show could have shown like greater potential if they had not gone off to such a surreal extent, but
00:23:46
Speaker
It is what it is. And yeah, I, this story was just getting really more ridiculous by the episode. And I was wondering where the fuck they were going with this. And then like at the end when she said like, Oh yeah, like this has been the plan all along. Like the humans are going to turn into the acid wizard, whatever people. And I was just like, what the fuck? So.
00:24:12
Speaker
I guess good riddance. Whatever. I think it's very mixed on like people like sad that it's not coming back and people are like glad it's not coming back. I'm definitely in the only way. The only way I would be happy is if it was coming back is if like I don't know if like they had gotten if they were like look like
00:24:31
Speaker
We really have a solid script for a third season. After we showed the execs at HBO what we intended for season three, they were so excited about it that they were willing to look past the sort of disaster that season two was.
00:24:52
Speaker
like it was something like that but like obviously that did not happen because I think they intended there to be a season three oh but HBO was just like yeah fuck that so good anyway anyway yeah uh so um let's uh let's go into like what we've uh I mean I guess you've we've already talked about Dexter and
00:25:18
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Uh, so I
Cronenberg's Crimes of the Future
00:25:19
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guess fire, have you, have you seen fire starter yet? Cause that's, I guess that was the most recent one to come out. Now I had not seen, uh, I had meant to see it. I had a bunch of free time. Well, actually I had a bunch of time, which I thought was going to be free time.
00:25:39
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And it actually turned into like a lot more activity than I thought it was going to be so I didn't really get to watch very much that I wanted to I was actually I was on a trip for work and I was actually still.
00:25:56
Speaker
only like halfway through Dexter. So I never really got around to watching like a lot of the stuff we talked about. So I did not get to see Firestarter. Now I heard a good amount about Firestarter from someone that had seen it and seemed to kind of dislike what was your take on it.
00:26:19
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Yeah it's whatever. I don't really have that much to say about it. You don't want like to get into like you know in depth like you know the uh plot and uh you know the I mean it's I mean if you've seen the original with uh uh young Drew Barrymore um it's it wasn't a great movie the original but it was yeah I was I felt it was very entertaining and
00:26:46
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people were like, Oh, like, why are you remaking? Like, this shouldn't be remade, just you should remade shitty movies. And I'm like, Yeah, I don't really want to call fire starter a great movie. Like, these are the types of movies you should be remaking. Like, it's fine. Yeah, yeah, I agree with that. Yeah, like, but I feel like this is probably about the same quality as the original. It's not any better or any worse, I don't think really. Yeah, because it was it was received very, I mean, I think, um, I think the fans on internet movie database gave it like a
00:27:16
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below like a 5.0 rating. I think it was like, I think it was in like the four, like low fours or something like that. So like it's safe. This was not well received. Yeah, but I don't think the original was that very, it was very good either. So I would say it's about, I was very, I was young when the original came out. I remember seeing it and I was like, whoa.
00:27:39
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this chick can start fires with her mind. Yeah, that's cool. You know, like as like a young kid, like, you know, hey, every young kid's dream is to start fires with their mind. Yeah, that's true. But yeah, I mean, I guess in the age of like, you know, superheroes with like these telekinetic powers and stuff like this, it pales in comparison to what people are into these days. Yeah.
00:28:03
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That's, that's how I feel. That's kind of how I feel about it. I mean, like I thought the end was cool when she's like you know setting cops heads on fire and like, yeah, we'll explode and shit like that's fucking cool but like yeah the story wasn't that great.
00:28:17
Speaker
And that's like, it has some interesting stuff. Like it starts off with like Zac Efron and like he, like it kind of does like the flashbacks of them going to the medical tests and that's how they get their powers or whatever. He's actually using it to work at like this office to help people like stop.
00:28:36
Speaker
with like their addictions like this lady comes in was like I want to quit smoking and like so he uses his like psychic ability to like help her stop smoking or whatever and I'm like all right that's pretty
Artistic Horror in Alex Garland's Men
00:28:46
Speaker
good use of it but obviously like the more he uses it like the more it's like kind of killing him because like his nose will start bleeding or whatever so like that and he doesn't want to he doesn't want to teach his daughter to use her fire ability but the mom does and I think that was switched from the
00:29:04
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from the original, because I believe his mom didn't want her to be teach and the father wanted to teach her. But anyway, like, so is it with the bloody nose when people use their powers? That's like a reoccurring theme that you see in like, like stranger things, for example. And I've seen it in other things. Yeah, it was like the nosebleed is like a sign of like, you know, traumatic exertion.
00:29:33
Speaker
Yeah, it's like brain trauma. Yeah. Yeah. Like, why couldn't it be like something else like extreme ear wax build up or something like that? It'd be blood out the ears. Always something like that. Like, you know, vomit or I don't know. It's always with the nose. Like, I don't know. But anyway.
00:29:54
Speaker
So, but yeah, you know, you make a very, very, very good point in that in the age of X-Men and all the comic book movies, it really doesn't like draw audiences for just like a single girl to be able to
00:30:15
Speaker
you know, create fires with our minds. Like with everything you have coming out with everybody with super powers, like it's not really gonna hold up very well. Yeah, it just felt like a take on a dark superhero tale. And I think the only way you're gonna make money off of that is if you use one of the big name characters. Yeah, it kind of feels like at this point, like maybe if this movie came out, like,
00:30:41
Speaker
before like mid-2000s, it probably would have done a little bit better, but like, you know, before Iron Man and the big, and all the big ones started coming out and brought them all right. But I mean, I don't think it would have made the movie really any better itself. I mean, it just might've made more money.
00:30:59
Speaker
The only other question I have about it is, in terms of production value, what were the special effects like? Did they have a decent budget for the movie? Were the special effects good?
00:31:15
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Were they well integrated? I feel like some were better than others. Some were kind of real obvious. There's always that, you know, whenever she's doing the power, like in the original, her like hair is like flying back like that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's always funny to me. It's like a fucking fan there.
00:31:36
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Yeah, I don't know. Like, yeah, some, like I said, some were better than others. Like, yeah, like the, like the end, the very like last, like maybe like 10, 15 minutes in the movie, I thought were pretty cool, but like, just like, you know, like the battle in the, in the hospital for setting people on fire, but like.
00:31:54
Speaker
Other than that, it was kind of like, eh, whatever. I mean, they're both the original and the sequel, and this new remake are all on Peacock, I believe. So they're easily watched. It was either Peacock or Paramount, I forget. I think it was Peacock.
00:32:09
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But it sounds like it's not something you think most people should waste their time on. Yeah, there's there's
Impact of Soundtracks in Film
00:32:16
Speaker
there's there's better options out there. Yeah. Well, you know, you talked about lighting heads on fire. Like one thing I would really like to see them like remake that is sort of from the same era as Firestarter.
00:32:30
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which was my favorite, scanners. They actually made several scanner movies and they had like a very iconic scene in there where they made this guy's head explode. And I mean, looking back at the head explosion, it doesn't hold up well today. But from back then, like, I mean, I really fucking love that scene. But anyway, moving on.
00:32:55
Speaker
Well, I mean, I think that's going to be a great segue into the other movie that I just watched yesterday, the new David Cronenberg movie, Crimes of the Future.
00:33:06
Speaker
Yeah,
Stranger Things Season 4 Discussion
00:33:07
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that's, yeah, that is what I want to see. I just saw a trailer for it. We should take a break real quick right now, though, and then so we can stop this and restart it and then we'll come back in a minute. All right, welcome back to Freight Central, Doc, he's kex. Sorry, we had to take a little break there because Zoom has decided to limit the time for one-on-one meetings to 40 minutes.
00:33:31
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Yeah, as of May 2, they upgraded their policy used to be where if there were more than two people in the meeting, you would have to have a zoom pro account in order to record for more than 40 minutes time duration. Now they have changed that so that you need to have a pro account.
00:33:51
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during any meeting, if you want to have more than 40 minute duration, I have no idea why because Skype allows you to record for, I believe, 24 to 30 hours. Yeah, so whatever.
00:34:06
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We have whatever. We have work around for it. But yeah, so Karunenberg's Crimes of the Future. So I went and saw that yesterday. You said all you saw was the trailer. You haven't seen it yet. I saw a trailer for it. I was planning on watching it. Yeah, I went in cold. All I knew was David Karunberg was putting a new movie out. I was like, cool. I'm going to avoid all trailers, all synopses, everything. I went in fucking cold as fuck. And I was like,
00:34:36
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Yo, what is going on? And then it took me a minute to like, you know, once I got caught up, I was like, okay, now, and then like, after the movie, I went and like saw the trailer, read the synopsis, I was like, okay, like, I wasn't, I was pretty close to what was going on. Wait, so even after the movie?
00:34:57
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No, I just wanted to see what the synopsis was for it. And I was like, okay, so I wasn't far off on what was going on because it is like, there's a lot. What? It's like a David Lynch type thing? No, it's very Cronenberg.
00:35:16
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It is like old school, like I'm just saying if like you were able to if you watch the entire film and you weren't able to on your own deduce a synopsis, like based on you know, I couldn't. OK. Yeah, I could. And I want to see how close my synopsis of the movie was to what IMDB was. OK. Yeah. I'm going to say this is this movie is definitely not for everybody.
00:35:48
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It's definitely very, I mean, it's old school Cronenberg. Like if you're a Cronenberg fan, you're going to fucking love it. I am. If you like body horror or stuff like that, because it definitely goes, you know, if you don't know what it's about, it's about humans who adapt to a synthetic environment. Viggo Morrison plays like this artist guy who has
00:36:14
Speaker
like these mutations, he's like growing organs randomly. That's how far in the evolution stage they are where people are just growing new organs and they don't know why it's happening or anything like that. And he plays this artist with his partner who tattoos the organs and then pulls them out during live
00:36:42
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Uh, why does he tattoo? So it's a, it's part of the art display is like, like, like it's this unique thing that, that he's able to do whatever. And like, there's no pain, like people don't feel pain or, uh, or they don't get infections or anything. But since he can grow like these organs, like real randomly and fast, like he's the only, he feels pain. So he has like this bed that like plugs into him and, and, and like, um,
00:37:09
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predicts his like pain sensors. It's like, you know, to relax him as much as you can. He is like this weird like bone seat as well. I think it's in the trailer. Now, this is everyone's growing new organs. No, it's just him and like, and maybe some other people who or they're like putting there's like some mutations out there. Yeah, yeah. Well, yeah, it sounds like it's almost like you're describing them growing like a cancer.
00:37:34
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Like the cells are mutating. Yeah, but one of these organs are like, you know, actually like might serve a function, but he's cutting them out as like a tumor as part of like an art show type thing. So.
00:37:49
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Yeah. It's like a battle for him doing that. And like this other group, that's kind of like, yeah, you should let it fucking grow out. That's nature. That's the next step in human evolution. Like, yeah, it's very fucking weird too. So yeah, I fucking, I, I really enjoyed it. I thought it was
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00:38:04
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kind of dope. But like, when you watch it rather than like letting your hair grow, it's like, let your new organs grow and like, let's see what they do and shit. Yeah. They're supposed to like serve a purpose, you know, next step in,
00:38:16
Speaker
Yeah, like the appendix is being phased out. They say we don't need it so much anymore. But in this case, they were growing new shit and like they were saying it could have like a purpose. Yeah, without giving too much away. Yeah. Yeah.
00:38:34
Speaker
Yeah, it's kind of one of those tough to describe, like, without spoiling. I think he did very well, because that sounds like a very complex situation. Yeah, and it's definitely like, yeah, like I said, it's definitely like the old school Cronenberg style, like prehistory of violence and, you know, Eastern promises, like, yeah, it's fucking like, yeah, the video drone existence, the one where they're in that way. Jennifer Jason Lee's in that weird video game.
00:39:03
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thing. Yeah, I will. Yeah, there's a lot of similar things like that from that movie with like the the body mutilations like art and like sexual as well. So yeah, it's very, it's very pissed. Pissed is how you describe it overall. Yeah, some some fucking weird shit happens that I can't really describe and I and I can't really go into without, you know, spoiling
00:39:33
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Why can't you spoil it? Because you haven't seen it yet. I want you to see it. I should have already seen it. It just came out Friday.
00:39:43
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I well, I don't know, man. I thought I thought Dexter was like still yet to come out. And as it was like, you know, months old, like, you know, I mean, like, I don't know. I'm not up on these things like you are. Like, you know, you're you're my God, you're my spirit God. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. This movie just came out Friday, so I'm not spoiling it on fucking Sunday. Gotcha. Gotcha. Yeah, I want people. I want people to go see it or at least, you know, fans of that body horror genre.
00:40:12
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to go see. Has it been critically received?
00:40:17
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I don't know. I mean, I can tell you the IMDB score. No, it doesn't. I was just I was just wondering, like, you know, you're out in L.A. So, you know, there's usually more of like a fervor out there than there is over here. But, uh, well, anything more in there is over here on Mountainville fucking nowhere. But I mean, I was just I was just wondering if is it something like people are talking about? Like, you know, I mean, I think it's very mixed, I mean, but it's obviously like
00:40:47
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people who don't like it are obviously not used to like this type of design genre. You know what I'm saying? Like the body horror, while it's not new, it hasn't really been prominent in recent years. You know what I mean? There's been a real lack of it. So most people are used to like, you know, slashers or ghosts. Just describe body horror for a moment. Like what do you mean by body horror? Like you're talking about like people sort of like,
00:41:17
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transforming into things, like, you know, the classic creatures that were a Cronenberg staple early in his career, like that type of thing. Or in the mouth of madness, where people are like sort of transforming into things and stuff like growing tentacles and shit like that.
00:41:42
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Yeah. Yeah, that's definitely not for everyone. No. Yeah. Yeah. And cutting like they're cutting into their their bodies and like, you know, yeah. And like changing them and and doing things. And Vigo Mortensen had was the lead actor. Yeah. Yeah. What about what about special effects? And was it all CGI or like with some of it like
00:42:12
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There's definitely a mix, I would say. Yeah. Because there kind of has to be some CGI when you're cutting somebody open. Yeah. A live body anyway. Yeah, you would think that there would have to be.
00:42:27
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some sort of effect unless you're really serious about the role, Vigo. Yeah, it's like actually getting organs taken out and stuff. Yeah, you have to be very, very dedicated otherwise. I met more like relating to like, did it integrate well in terms of like the special effects into like, you know, the practical effects? Oh, I mean, yeah, I still I think the
00:42:53
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I thought the CGI stuff was kind of obvious. Yeah. Yeah. Other than that, I thought because we all can't be, you know, 1982 John Carpenter's the thing where, like, you know, I mean, he basically did the impossible with melting bubblegum for his effects. But overall, she could have done this practical at one point in time. But yeah, yeah.
00:43:20
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That's not the world we live in anymore. Yeah, and yeah, I believe this one might have been something that they shot during the pandemic as well. I'm not really sure when, because I mean, it came out now. I don't think they've held on for too long. I know the other movie I saw this past weekend, the new Alex Garland movie, Men, that was shot during the pandemic because that was
00:43:43
Speaker
It's very stripped back from what I understand and it's basically about this woman who goes out to the countryside for like a solo, the English countryside for like a solo vacation after the death of her husband.
00:43:58
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If David Lynch decided to make like a home invasion movie, you know, like that's, that's kind of the best way to describe it. Like, again, this one, like, like, I think men in crimes of the future make a good double feature. I think they balance each other nice, nicely. Who was men directed by?
00:44:19
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Alex Garland, he did Annihilation and Ex Machina, and he like wrote Dread and Sunshine. Yeah, I actually just saw Ex Machina for like the first time all the way through recently.
00:44:34
Speaker
And yeah, I mean, that was fucked up. But anyway, yeah, that movie is fantastic. Annihilation is really good. It was interesting. Yeah. But which McCall, so what, well, get into men a little bit. Well, basically, like,
00:44:52
Speaker
It's the best way to describe, I mean, it's very left open to interpretation, intentionally. I mean, there's a lot of like, religious imagery. Yeah, but that's definitely Lynn Chaske's. Yeah. I can understand what you mean. Yeah, well, she basically goes to this small town and every,
00:45:18
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male person, they're all looks, they all have the same face. But I don't know if that like she because she never brings it up that why they all look the same. So I think that's kind of for the audience itself. And it's kind of like almost like gaslighting the movie. It's like because it's all about like the abusers, like, you know, and, you know, blaming the victim.
00:45:43
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Yeah, something or making her feel guilty, and it's her fault for, you know why all this is happening in her and all that stuff like that and it's kind of like her overcoming it.
00:45:55
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You know, there's religious imagery of like the original sin of like biting the forbidden apple, which you can see in the trailer as well. And there's all this other stuff going on. And it's so it's kind of it's another one that's kind of hard to describe as well, like most. But you mentioned it was scaled back and you described it as David Lynch making a home invasion movie.
00:46:21
Speaker
What do you mean, like, does it take place in, like, very limited spaces? Yeah, well, it's only mainly the woman in, like, an English countryside, so there's not a lot of people around, and she, like, wanders out, you know, to, like, look around and stuff, and then she comes across some real weird dude in the woods that, like, follows her back home that she calls the cops on and stuff, and they come out.
00:46:49
Speaker
but like all like the characters like the priest there's like a young boy a cop like they all wear the same face as like the housekeeper
00:46:58
Speaker
as well, and they all have different ways of putting guilt upon her and blaming her for stuff as well. What do you mean by wear the same face? They're wearing face masks? No, it's all- They all look identical. They all look identical. They all look like the one housekeeper guy. Obviously, the kid, they CGI'd the face on there. Yeah. It's very uncanny, but I think it seems to be that way.
00:47:24
Speaker
And like, yeah, so but the cop, the bartender and like the all the other actors are all they're all played by the same guy. So during the pandemic, it could have been like a strategy, like so they were all like wearing masks and stuff like that and all wearing like personal protective gear and shit like that. But it's a limited amount of actors. And so it's easier to get a crew. But I think it might have originally supposed to have been a TV series. I don't know, because I think that I think there was
00:47:53
Speaker
There was originally talks about the next project he was going to work on was going to be another TV show like he did with devs. But I guess like when I was just reading an article with the editor and he was like, yeah, I think it just ended up coming back. I don't remember if he said it was scaled back or if it was just like he was kind of surprised by it. And like he would try to get as much information about what it meant to him.
00:48:21
Speaker
because it kind of means kind of something to everybody else. And like Alex Garland was real guarded by it and was like, no, it's like it's supposed to be kind of open for interpretation, I guess. So yeah, because there's definitely some, it definitely gets really fucking weird towards it.
00:48:37
Speaker
And I remember these two other girls were in the theater. They were like, one girl was just like, yep. Okay. Directed by Alex Garland. I make sure I never see a movie with his name on it again. Really? So you were, you were in like a secluded theater to the point where like there were only a few other people and you could hear the conversations. Yeah. They were only sitting right down from me and we all kind of got up and was leaving at the same time.
00:48:59
Speaker
Yeah. Like I heard them when we were walking out, like she goes, they were just like, what the fuck was I even about? And I'm like, I'm right behind him. I knew exactly. I was like, Oh, these are the girls from the movie theater. And I was like, Oh, you didn't know what you were getting into before you went in. Well, I mean, the title is men, right? Yeah.
00:49:24
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Oh, as far as they knew, they could have been going into like a romantic comedy or something like that. Like, you know what I mean? I mean, I guess. I mean, even if you see the trailer, you see what you see in the trailer that it's all like the same different. It's all the same actor playing different roles as the guy. And you can kind of say it's about like, you know, like I said, gaslighting, like toxic masculinity and stuff like that. But and
00:49:52
Speaker
Yeah, maybe they thought they were going in for for something. I don't know. But they might have went in totally dead cold. Yeah, no, not so much for our like, yeah, we have the day off. Like, let's go to the theater. Oh, we want men. That sounds that sounds like it might be. Yeah. Like, you know, I mean, like you don't. Yeah. Yeah. Let's go see this movie about men. Yeah. Yeah. That'd be a real trip. Yeah.
00:50:16
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Because yeah, crimes of the future, I feel like it's also something you have to know what you're getting into before you go into it. That's why I'm saying they make a good companion piece to each other, but they're not for, again, they're not for everybody. I don't think. Yeah, see, I don't know. I like it when you don't exactly know what you're getting yourself into. I like it. If I see a cast that I like,
00:50:43
Speaker
You know, I mean, that is something that attracts me. If I see that it's written and directed by people that I know and I've enjoyed their past work, that's something that attracts me. I don't really need to know much more. I don't really need to know much more than that. The only other thing like I would want to maybe know is like genre, like because like
00:51:04
Speaker
I might not be in the mood for a comedy, or I may not be in the mood for a drama. So I would want to maybe know the genre I'm getting into. But any more than that, I feel like I enjoy things the most when I just have the very basic facts.
00:51:24
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who's in the movie and like who is writing and directing that's about it like you know what i mean like that that's i i think is like the best way to see any film really yeah absolutely but i mean i'm just saying that like
00:51:40
Speaker
Not necessarily what the movie like happens in the movie, but I mean like you should know that the director's previous work. Yeah, you should be familiar with that because if you go into this not knowing the director's previous work, like what the fuck is going on like yeah, yeah, like and you're gonna you're gonna be really thrown off and you're probably and if you're not into that genre either.
00:52:03
Speaker
then you're probably not going to like it. I definitely understand a lot of people's views in the comments on both of these movies. It's like, okay, that's just not your genre. You don't have to like everything. It's fine. It's definitely very niche. Well, Garland's work is, you mentioned his previous stuff and a lot of it is very out there and a lot of it is very
00:52:32
Speaker
How should I put it? Philosophical in nature. You know what I mean? So like, you know, it's the type of, I mean, I would describe him as he's someone that wants to have like a deep conversation in a film. And to have that conversation
00:52:55
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in a sort of like maybe impractical sort of way to like, you know, kind of like bring out like a broader meaning or something like that. That's like the best way I could describe at least what I've seen. Yeah, that's definitely a great way to describe XMOC and this one, but with like one is a little more like
00:53:18
Speaker
scientific or technical approach to it. And this one's definitely more like a religious philosophical approach to it. They both take the same type of like, I want to like say something, but I'll leave it up to you to determine what that is in a way. Open ended. Yeah, we're open to open to our interpretation, not necessarily like this is exactly what I'm trying to say. It's like what you get from it.
00:53:44
Speaker
and they come at it from different ways. It's still a very Alex Garland movie, but almost different. I don't know how to describe it. When did Men Release? Last Friday. It's only been out for about a week now.
00:54:04
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When you went to see these, did you see them as a double feature? No, I saw men on Friday, and then I saw crimes of future past Saturday. Kind of a double feature is back to back. Yeah. Back to back. But not at the same time. Do you just thought this combination complemented itself very well? Yeah. Because I saw men first, and then when I saw crimes of future past, I was like, well, there's a lot of similarities to them.
00:54:33
Speaker
And yet they're, they're, they're very different than they're both only going to be for like a certain genre, a sub genre of horror fans. Like, yeah. So now that it's not going to be for everyone. So I would just ignore the reviews. And if you like both of these directors, I would go check out both of these movies.
00:54:51
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Well, I would always say, like, in general, like, horror is just not for everybody. Yeah, in general, yeah. It's like a general description. But you put it in the sub, you know, in the sub-dramas, it gets even, it gets even deeper and, like, even... Yeah. I mean, for example, like, my parents, like, you know what I mean? Like, they would not go to see anything horror. It's just, like, not for them. Well, I mean, I guess, like, in their younger years, or unless it gets, like,
00:55:19
Speaker
real critic acclaim or something like that, like maybe, but like otherwise, like, you know, I mean, like for some people, like they hear horror and they just automatically assume that that's not for me. I kind of think that that's sad because like, I think like we all like could use like, you know, a little bit of horror in our lives, but, um,
00:55:43
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You know, I don't know. Yeah, I think the music in Men too, like the soundtrack and like, it's very beautiful and like haunting, both visually and the sound in Men as well. So it's like, I don't know, I think they're both, they're both, I think both really good. I don't know what to say. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, sound makes movies, you know what I mean? I mean, like, I know people that were
00:56:12
Speaker
I think it was Danny Elfman. You know who I'm talking about, right? He's done, I mean, he's done original soundtracks for like countless films and did a lot of work for television too, like from The Simpsons to like other series. And like, I know people that like
00:56:32
Speaker
would go and see films like solely based on like Danny Elfman being involved in the project because you know music can make a move you know I mean like imagine like you know we'll talk about imagine like something like Predator you know what I mean without like the studio that they had involved in that like you know I mean it could it would have been like a totally different thing you can see it from like Predator 1 to Predator 2 like it's just
00:56:59
Speaker
You know, I'm just saying, I don't think that there's many people that like go to see films like based on who was doing this sound. But like, you know what I mean? Like there's certain there's, I guess, certain people that have like just distinguished themselves apart from the rest, like to such a degree like Elfman did that, like.
00:57:18
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he could alone draw in like an audience. And that's fucking insane. Like, you know, I mean, you would go to see a movie because you're like, oh shit, Danny Elfman's doing the entire fucking original soundtrack. Like, yeah, I'm trying to go see that. Not based on anything else but him doing the music. Like, you know, unless it's like a musical or something like that. But I mean, I'm just saying, but not to get too off track. Was there anything else that you were...
00:57:49
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Uh, no, those are the only two that I saw recently. I still haven't gotten around to seeing X. Uh, that movie I believe is on demand right now, but it's not streaming yet. Um, I did see Dr. Strange, the multiverse of madness that comes on streaming June 22nd. Uh, it is.
00:58:08
Speaker
a superhero movie, but it's also, you know, I'm going to say it. I've been I've been told that it is something that I should say by multiple people. So Sam Raimi. So that's why I think that's something we should talk about at the end of the month when you see. Yeah. You know, like, I mean, I've stayed my feelings on superhero movies plenty of times. I don't need to run through it again, but
00:58:37
Speaker
I heard that there was something special about this one. So I'm definitely going to check it out. Yeah. The only other thing I can think of, oh, Stranger Things just came out. Did it? Yes. I did not know that. These four plus came out on last Friday, I believe. Yes. And you've already completed it? No, because they've split it. So they've released the first seven episodes and then the last. Oh, they're doing.
00:59:07
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They're going to release July 1st. So I've been taking my time with it. Wait, hold on. They released, it's a nine episode season. Yeah. And they released a first seven, but they're withholding the last two. Yeah. For until July 1st, which is only like four weeks away. Yeah. But that's, I don't think I've ever heard of.
00:59:29
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that happening before. Now, I've seen things split up where you have like a 12 episode thing where like, you know, like Breaking Bad type style where, you know, you'll view like the first six or like what Ozark just did where they had like, I think a 14 and they did seven and seven. I've never heard of a seven and two split. Yeah, I don't know. That's that's that's a first. So I've watched the first two episodes of season four so far.
00:59:58
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Well, I mean, we disagreed so strongly with how we felt about season three. Yeah. I mean, I'm not sure because I honestly, after season three, like I wasn't even sure. I'm still not sure if I'm going to watch season four. You know what I'll probably do? I'll probably give it like one to two episodes.
01:00:22
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And, you know, I mean, like if I can find like something in there and I'm like, all right, you know, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll check it, I'll check it out. But otherwise, like I can't like say for certain that. I think you should give it at least two.
01:00:40
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I can do that because I'd watched the first episode and I was like, all right, like, I don't feel like I need to binge this. I can kind of like, I'll try to do like one a week. So that way when the last two come out, I can watch that all together. Yeah. And then I just watched the second episode and I was like, fuck, I kind of want to watch another episode. So the second thing it went back because season three was very, very different from the previous two. I think we both can agree on that. Yeah.
01:01:07
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that season three was very different from the previous two seasons. Now, would you consider what you've seen so far very limitedly? Would you say it's more of a continuation of the third season or more of like a drawback to the first two seasons? I mean, it's definitely a continuation because they're all split into like between California and Hawkins.
01:01:32
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Yeah. So and they're all older, which was and since it's taken so much longer in between seasons, it's like some of them look noticeably older. So it's like like because when they start off, a lot of the first episodes kind of catching up with the characters and where they are. And like they're still talking about the, you know, the mall burning down is the cover story of what had happened at the end of last season. Yeah. And it's
01:02:00
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a lot of, you know, figuring out where the characters are right now and what's going on, because they've gone from like middle school in the last one, now they're like freshmen in high school. And it's only been like less than a year, because it's just like, it picks up on where they're just about to go on spring break and the fire with them all happened the previous summer. So it hasn't been that far, but they've all like aged, like it felt like it looked like three years for some of the characters. You're like, wow, they clearly got fucking taller and older.
01:02:28
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And that's that's especially true for what's his name. I guess I would call him the main character, the one that was in it. I can't think of his name, Mike, the one that was in it. Yeah. Yeah.
01:02:49
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I would call him the main character. Yeah, he's definitely gotten taller. And yeah, he was in Ghostbusters. Even Will got taller as well. And like, but he still got that that weird 80s haircut. Yeah. I mean, obviously, obviously, you know,
01:03:07
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the aging process is something that none of us can avoid. So the kids are going to grow up. It's not animated. It's just a little jarring at first, because you're like, wait, they look like three years older, but they've only really aged like six months. Yeah, I guess it is a lot of times your growth spurt does happen between middle school and high school.
01:03:28
Speaker
But like, it's supposed to be a six month time difference. Yeah. And so that's why I was like, oh, yeah. So it doesn't really like work out. The second episode, I'd gotten over that and I got really into like where they're going with the story. It's a lot of nightmare on Elm Street vibes right now. So it's kind of now you had mentioned between Hawkins and California.
01:03:52
Speaker
This takes place in both places. It takes place in Indiana and in California. Yeah. But right now I think, I think the previous three seasons were all, all took place in the Hawkins, Indiana. Well, because, because, um, who was it? Will and 11 and, um, uh, Will's mom fucking, um, why am I drawing a blank?
01:04:19
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Why are there either one or either? I was trying to think of her character name and the.
01:04:24
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the older son, they all moved out to California to get away from Hawkins because all the shit was happening in Hawkins. That happened at the end of last season. They showed up leaving. So, uh, and then I can understand why he'd want to get the fuck out of there. Yeah. And then Mike flies out during spring break to visit, but all the, uh, the horror stuff is just starting to like happen in Hawkins. Like none of that has happened.
01:04:51
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over there yet, so I guess they're going to be drawn back into Hawkins at some point. It's like we gotta go back to the root of the evil type thing.
01:05:01
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Yeah, like we can finish this once for all or whatever, although there's supposed to be another season, so it won't be once and for all. Oh, really? I thought I thought I thought this was going to be the conclusion. No, they've already announced that there's going OK. And they said it was going to be less time between this season and the last season. So hopefully they're already either filming or like close to done filming and it comes out like the end of the year or something like that. Yeah, we don't have to wait a whole other year. The seven to split, that's just so freaking weird.
01:05:29
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Well, let me tell you what the runtimes are for all these real quick before we before we head out. The first episode is an hour and 18 minutes. The second episode is an hour 17 and the third is only an hour three. But then the fourth an hour 18, fifth an hour 16. The sixth episode is an hour 15. And then the seventh episode is an hour and 38 minutes.
01:05:51
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OK, so these are all over an hour, like they're all like miniature movies. Yeah. And then the final two, I don't have the time for the the eighth episode right here for some reason. I guess they don't have it up, but that's supposed to be at least an hour and a half, I believe, almost two hours. And then the last episode is two hours and 20 minutes.
01:06:14
Speaker
Wow. That's, that's like a full length. Yeah. I still, I still think that the seven two split is, I've just never heard of a show doing that before. Unless there was like a natural disaster in the country where like, you know, like a nine 11 type thing where like, all right, we're going to take a break in light of the national emergency. I guess
01:06:38
Speaker
They don't I guess they want you to I guess they're trying to figure out how to keep subscribers because they've lost a bunch of. Yeah, well, that's I was I mean, obviously, that's the point. But it's still ridiculous. Oh, yes. But like that's what. Yeah, I know. Yeah, obviously, that's what they're trying to do. This is a financially motivated move. But it's still ridiculous. I'd be OK with like even if they went down to like two episodes a week, I think would be fine with me.
01:07:07
Speaker
Like, I just think one episode a week is too long to be waiting for something. But I feel like at least two episodes a week is how I can roll in the whole thing out at once. I think that's how it always should be. I think it's the way it always should have been done. Yeah, I just feel like I understand. It's struggling right now. Yeah, Netflix is struggling right now. They have serious competition. There are apparently hemorrhaging subscriptions. So, I mean,
01:07:37
Speaker
You know, I get it from like the financial standpoint, but it's just still very, very, very quirky that they're doing it. Given that you said that there's going to be another season. Yeah. So, you know. Yeah. Yeah, but that's that's all I got. I did have one other piece of news real quick, if we can knock it into it. Yeah. Resident Evil four is getting a remake.
01:08:04
Speaker
it well it seems like all the Resident Evil games are getting remade like it's just like you know like I kind of forgot about that news that just happened yeah no I mean I mean that the first three have gotten like remakes and um
01:08:20
Speaker
I don't, Resident Evil 5, it feels like didn't actually come out that long ago. So like, I don't think they would go that far. But like, yeah, I mean, Resident Evil 4, for a lot of people, they say that was like one of the best games that they've ever played. I mean, I think we saw, I bought a GameCube just to play Resident Evil 4. So, you know, I can't say that I'm unhappy about that. So yeah, that's good news.
01:08:48
Speaker
All right. Yeah. Well, that's all I got. Thanks for listening. We'll see what we watch coming up, because I mean, we got Jurassic Park coming up. Oh, yeah. That is dinosaurs taking over the world and shit. So yeah, we can never get enough of that. We can never get. I mean, we can. I hope this is the last one. I don't know, man. Like I like the Jurassic Park. So I like the idea of
01:09:15
Speaker
returning, I don't know, like the dinosaurs kind of getting their revenge. Yeah. Hopefully they like, you know, the scene where Chris Pratt's like holding his arm up to the Raptors. I hope one of them bites him off in this. Well, what can I say? I mean, the dinosaurs did a better job of managing the planet than we did. So, you know, well, you know, anyway. Yeah. Well, it was it was it was good. It was good to see you again, buddy. And
01:09:44
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Hopefully, we will not have like such an epic break in between the next cast. But we always say that we always do. So yes, what happens? Whatever. Life is life. All right, man. All right. Take care.