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[Rec] 3: Genesis
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Join Nicholas and Mercedes as they continue their found footage experience, as they discuss [Rec] 3: Genesis! They discuss whether or not this one continues to push the series forward, or if this is more of a lateral move. They also touch a little bit on the newer dog centered horror movie, Good Boy, and movies they've fallen asleep to! This is a fun one!
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Transcript
Introductions and Weekend Movie Plans
00:01:12
Speaker
What's up, guys? We're Morbid Curiosities, your favorite horror movie podcast, and we're back with another episode. I'm one of your hosts, Nicholas Ewers, and with me is the lightweight champion of the world, the morbid mistress mayhem herself. Mercedes Martinez, how are you doing tonight, Nick? How's how's a life on your end of the Antarctic zone? Yeah, that's pretty accurate. I was going to say the Midwest, but you you nailed it. um I thought you were going to say the other side of the pond, maybe, as if we were separated. we were recording overseas, like I was in Europe or something. I'm not that witty to come up with Other Side of the Pond.
00:01:56
Speaker
that i don't know. i You could have done it. I believe in you. I don't. You have more faith in me than I do on that. ah But yeah, I'm not doing too bad. Gonna be seeing some good movies this weekend. i might be seeing Hamnet sometime coming up. Excited about that. And then for the first time ever, this probably isn't news to that many people, but Kill Bill Volume 1 and Volume 2 are getting released in theaters as The Whole Bloody Affair for the first time. It's only really been screened at the Cannes Film Festival and then a couple times in LA.
00:02:33
Speaker
I don't know where else it's been, but I'm going to be seeing that with my girlfriend. It'll be her first time seeing Part 2, and don't know. I think it'll be a pretty fun time. It's going to be almost like five hours at the theater, but...
00:02:46
Speaker
Yeah, I'm looking forward to this weekend. Can't wait for this week to be over. Same.
Movie Watching Habits and 'Good Boy' Discussion
00:02:53
Speaker
I don't have any upcoming movie plans for the weekend. However, i did kind of watch ah kind of um i did watch some of good Boy since it's streaming now. And okay the thing was when I watched it, of course, i fell asleep, but i was interested in the movie. that That's what sucks about me. I can be very invested in a movie and my ass will still fall asleep.
00:03:25
Speaker
It's rare if I can actually stay up during a film if I watch it at night. I'm so disappointed in myself. But I still got like maybe I'd say like 20 minutes or so left of the movie. So I'm going to try to watch that this weekend. I can relate to you about falling asleep in movies. Recently, i saw Wicked for Good and I fell asleep basically during the entire back half and was like, oh, God, what the fuck? Now I have to see this thing again so I can form an opinion on it and finish the fucking thing.
00:03:59
Speaker
And then I went to
Challenges of Staying Awake and Recent Watches
00:04:00
Speaker
see it like a day or two later and was so tired. And near the beginning of the movie, I was like, I've seen this before. So I took a planned nap at the...
00:04:11
Speaker
like during a chunk in the beginning of the movie and made sure I was somehow able to wake myself up. And then I had enough energy to get through to the end. It was ridiculous. But I, it's weird. When I hit the winter, when I hit December, I start falling asleep in movie theaters. It happened a couple years ago. was falling asleep during the Iron Claw and poor things. And it's happening now where I'm afraid of falling asleep. I think it's got to do with the weather or something like that.
00:04:40
Speaker
I really felt like I was, I know I wasn't the only person, but I thought it was rare when like other people fell asleep
Discussing 'Good Boy' and Listener Shoutouts
00:04:50
Speaker
in films and watching movies and theaters.
00:04:54
Speaker
But i was so upset because once Halloween ends came out, was so psyched to see it. i got tickets for the midnight showing.
00:05:05
Speaker
I was so fucking tired that day. And i was like, no, this is Halloween. i need to see this movie. I have to see this movie. I will be good. even drank an energy drink.
00:05:17
Speaker
I fell asleep after the initial scene. And I woke up but in the end when... Lori and Michael are a fucking battling it out. And i was like, what the hell just happened? Are you serious? Did I literally close my eyes for a second? And now it's the end. was so mad about that. I will never forgive myself for that. Sometimes it gets hard because these things are long and you're sitting in a dark room. And honestly, sometimes they might not even be that interesting. I, and you know, take this with a grain of salt, I guess. But I fell asleep during the first It movie. I just, I fell asleep immediately and then woke up during the credits and was like, fuck. I have to see this again, i guess. And then I saw it again and was like, yeah, well, fell asleep. But the clowns just don't do it for me.
00:06:13
Speaker
But, you know, even like important movies, I fell asleep to a little bit of Black Panther when that came out and felt like I did an injustice to the black community. i was like, well, i have to go see this again because I fell asleep and it's an important movie.
00:06:31
Speaker
It's just, you know, it's hard to control it On the topic of Good Boy, have I given my thoughts about that movie to you? I know we talked about maybe covering it for the podcast when it came out in theaters, but I had seen it in theaters, and I think I was okay with not covering it after i had seen it. But have I shared my thoughts with you at all? No, you didn't, actually. Maybe I'll wait till the next episode when you finish Good Boy. I can save it for our Rec 4 Apocalypse episode, not to reveal the movie we're talking about today. All right, sounds good because yeah I feel like that'll kind of like determine how I feel about the movie. i mean I'm enjoying it so far, but I'm so confused by it.
00:07:20
Speaker
And it's taking so many left turns. So, yeah, I just I need to figure out what the hell happens to this. This good boy, this good little doggie on there. yeah I don't remember being so twisty and turny. But, yeah, I've got some I've definitely got some thoughts and feelings on that movie.
00:07:39
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Yeah, guys, if you haven't check out if you haven't gotten to check it out yet, go check out Good Boy. it should be on Shudder right now. i think I remember seeing the Shudder logo before seeing it in theaters, but it's a super indie film about a dog and... Yeah, that's all you need to know. Go in and ah let us know what you think about it.
Initial Thoughts on 'Rec 3: Genesis'
00:07:59
Speaker
Yes, and before we jump into the movie of the hour tonight, i do want to give shout-out two of our listeners, Lance Roberts, of course, and we also got another one. I'm just going to spell out his name on social media, D12Go.com.
00:08:19
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d twelve go So just they reached out to us and let us like they took a screenshot of Spotify and it said like your top podcast, Morbid Curiosities. So, you know, it's just it's awesome to get that support from you guys. So thanks for tuning in every week. Thanks for like always being there for us, even suggesting stuff for us. You guys are real OGs. And yeah, just just keep up the support for us and we'll keep showing up for you guys. Hell yeah, shout out to you guys. You're the real heroes.
00:08:56
Speaker
And it's cool that we're ending up in some people's Spotify wrapped list or whatever the fuck they call it over there at Spotify. um I listen to us on Spotify, actually, but I mostly use Apple podcasts. I kind of.
00:09:11
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know. So my Spotify wrapped is going to be all morbid curiosities. shout out to you guys you guys rule pat yourselves on the back right now except if you're driving if you're driving park immediately stop all traffic and just pat yourself on the back because you know it's cool to have you guys along with the ride and it's cool that you guys are reaching out and showing that you're listening and that you dig the podcast Yes, thanks guys. ah Without further ado, would you like to jump into the movie of the hour tonight, Nicholas? Yes, guys, we're going to be talking about Rec.3 colon Genesis.
00:09:52
Speaker
colon genesis Or RecCubed colon Genesis. I'm not even sure if there's a colon in there. But this is a franchise that likes to play with the format a little bit. And I can respect that. My favorite format franchise I think might be Mission Impossible.
00:10:11
Speaker
But I love the the Cubed. And we got a subtitle now. We'll get into what that subtitle means when we get into the movie. Hell yeah,
Storyline and Setting of 'Rec 3'
00:10:22
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Mercedes, ah what were your initial thoughts on Rec. 3 Genesis?
00:10:27
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So I, again, haven't been watching trailers. I've just been seeing, you know, the artwork that you send me and then just pinch of a preview whenever I'm about to put the movie on if I'm streaming it. I just saw, okay, you know, it's going to take place at a wedding. Shit's probably going to go down really bad. and Like I said before, i thought my or I didn't have high expectations for this, but I actually didn't mind this film. There were some things in there that I was like, I could fuck with this. OK, you know, we're we're not all making stupid decisions. We are obviously some stupid decisions were made, but no there are some people that I was surprised I really liked. I ended up really liking the bride in here. and
00:11:22
Speaker
Yeah, it had some odd parts, but I can actually say I do like this film. That's wild that you're so positive on this one. It almost boils my blood that you're more positive on this one than Wreck 2. Almost boils my blood.
00:11:41
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ah Because I'll say this right off the bat. I think immediately this movie is a massive step down from Wreck 2 in a lot of ways.
00:11:53
Speaker
But I had a lot of fun with this thing. This is like solid B-movie territory. i was really vibing with it. I'm a sucker for zombie. I think that's what it is. I'm just a sucker for zombie movies. There were some times where some shit was happening. I'm like, holy fuck.
00:12:09
Speaker
That is a huge step down from what we were talking about last week. And then there be a zombie standing in the rain. And I would be like, fuck. Well, that's awesome.
Directorial Split and Impact on 'Rec 3'
00:12:19
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I'm back on board. this is So much fun.
00:12:23
Speaker
um I think I could like a lot of bad zombie movies. This is competently directed. That helps. i don't really love the look of some of this movie. We'll get more into it in the spoiler section, but...
00:12:37
Speaker
I'm going to have some criticisms at this thing. It's not going to be too harsh, even though maybe it should be, because the two directors, Paco Plaza and i think it's Swami Balaguaro, something like that, the directing duo that made Wreck 1 and 2,
00:12:56
Speaker
They did incredible work, in my opinion, with those two. And this being a step down, in my opinion, should be grounds for me to really launch some harsh criticisms at this thing.
00:13:09
Speaker
But I didn't walk out of it too mad. I thought, okay, we got two great movies. They're taking it in a Mila Jovovich, Resident Evil type of way.
00:13:20
Speaker
i kind of
'Rec 3' Wedding Chaos and Infection Introduction
00:13:21
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appreciated that. Yeah, I'm a defender of most of those movies. there' They're pretty fun, I'd say. And two of them specifically, I think are just genuinely really good sci-fi action horror movies.
00:13:36
Speaker
And whenever we cover them, we'll figure out which two of those are. I don't know if people would be able to guess, but we'll save it for that season. and I'm going a while, but Yeah, REC 3 Genesis, good, solid B-movie zombie territory. It hits some buttons for me. I think I'm an easy mark for the zombie shit. I'm sorry, listeners.
00:13:58
Speaker
Maybe I'm too kind on some of these movies. You can go listen to our final Destination 4 episode, our Child's Play 3 episode, and our Sinister 2 episode if you want to hear me hating on some movies. Yeah.
00:14:12
Speaker
I'm just as surprised as you guys are, though. When this movie takes some turns, I thought I was going to hate it, and I i had some fun with it. It's a just fun romp of a zombie movie.
00:14:24
Speaker
Yeah, so spoilers ahead for Wreck 3. It's not going to make or break your life if you don't watch it before you listen to us. Yes, it will. watch Watch this movie first if you haven't seen them. You could pretty much watch them in any goddamn order at this point. I don't know. Maybe you got to see the first Wreck before you see the second one.
00:14:48
Speaker
um Aside from that, yeah, it seemed this one takes place, you already said spoilers, before the first Wreck movie, I think. I think it was, well, I took it as it was taking place like around the same time um since we have um a Theo in there who's talking about how he got bit by a dog. so I'm like, damn, that was probably the same dog from the first one. Wasn't the dog named Max? Yeah.
00:15:18
Speaker
And there's news footage in the background at one point from the first rec movie when some characters are looking at security camera footage. I think it's Koldo, the groom.
00:15:31
Speaker
So all of these movies kind of ah sit like on top of each other timeline-wise. And I can appreciate that. I think it's kind of fun. it remind I think Cloverfield has two really strong entries.
00:15:48
Speaker
I think Wreck is three for three, though, in this movie. all of these things are kind of connected in this weird and fun way. They're very different, but when it comes to the found footage, movies that are playing with time or universes, I... 10 Cloverfield Lane isn't even found footage. Sorry, I'm rambling, but I think Wreck has a better success ratio.
00:16:12
Speaker
so We start off, you see um a wedding video playing. Someone put
Character Developments and Lore Inconsistencies
00:16:18
Speaker
it together. i thought that was an interesting way to open it up. like How are we watching this wedding video after all of this shit went down? It's like a DVD menu screen, which- ah To me, I was like, oh man, we're in for a fucking rough start. ah just I was like, who edited this footage that we're about to see? The other ones are just like, it's almost like you just picked up a camera and you started watching what was recorded on the camera.
00:16:47
Speaker
But right away, I thought this was shaky. Yeah, that's like how I was when I was 10 years old with my first camera ever. And I was just taking pictures of pictures because I didn't know what else to take pictures of. I was a weird kid.
00:17:03
Speaker
But anyway, so you see this couple, you know, they are about to get married. everyone or you You start to like meet some of the characters. so You meet Caldo. or co I'm jacking everyone's name up already. It's Caldo.
00:17:21
Speaker
Caldo, yeah. um so He's the groom. A bride-to-be is named Clara. We have teenage-looking cameraman named Adrián. They are just setting the basis of where we're at. So everyone's just making their way to the church. you see Caldo is a little nervous, but he starts talking to a few extra people. He talks to his best man, and then you see his tío come in
00:17:52
Speaker
That's when they start talking about... um His hand injury, he had like a bandage on his hand that was a little bloody. and he said, a dog bit me the other day. and he even tries to show it to the guys.
00:18:08
Speaker
I'm sorry. Why would you do that? Like a dog bit you. Keep that shit closed. You were either way fucked regardless. But dude, keep that shit closed. No one wants to see that.
00:18:19
Speaker
Yeah, and the character introductions too, we get this character, I think his name is Atun, but he is like a Steadicam operator that's filming the wedding.
00:18:31
Speaker
That's another thing that kind of rubbed me the wrong way a little bit. I was just like, okay, you guys are getting a bigger budget. I like the way that the bigger budget came through in REC 2, but they did it didn't become showy. It just felt like the filmmakers had more capability, but they...
00:18:52
Speaker
I don't know. They didn't take it to a point that rubbed me the wrong way. And I didn't really love that we were now getting a professional camera introduced to the movie.
00:19:03
Speaker
But by the time we actually get into the movie and the found footage aspect... I think there's three total cameras going. It's, um, Adrian, like you had mentioned at tune. There's a little girl named Tita from what I had read online. that It's Claire's younger sister.
00:19:22
Speaker
And by the time we're fully into the movie, I can't tell whose camera is what, what is happening. Who's really being talked to. I found that.
00:19:33
Speaker
the first roughly 20 minutes of this movie before, i mean, spoilers, it changes formats to be a pretty rough watch, honestly. How did you feel about having the three cameras and two of them being camcorder, one being steadicam?
00:19:52
Speaker
Did that really make a difference? And did you find it confusing like I did? I found it, it didn't like necessarily rub me the wrong way, but it was just like, okay, this is how they are building on, like you said, their bigger budget for this film. They are showing that they have someone just recording on a regular handheld camera and then they have a professional in here. I actually forgot um Clara's sister had a camera too So,
00:20:22
Speaker
yeah um They don't make it That clear, at least to me. i So I rewatched a little bit of this as I was getting ready to record. I had thrown the movie on. And that's when I fully picked up that Clara's younger sister was actually manning a camera at the beginning. It was almost like blink and you miss it. I thought that was just Adrian doing the camcorder the whole time. I mean, all of them, all of the like points of view from every cameraman person, even to have like the professional guy in there, like you said, it was kind of hard to tell who was who. So after a while, I wasn't even paying attention to that because I got lost with whoever was filming. um And, you know, it really surprised me when they even just like cut all found footage aspects and then it just looked as if we were watching a standard film later on, too.
00:21:25
Speaker
Yeah, I
Clara's Standout Moments and Plot Twists
00:21:26
Speaker
didn't know where they were going with it. I didn't see at what point like two of the characters lost their camcorders because we just dropped those two at some point. And then it's Attune and the groom and a couple other people locked in a kitchen and the groom is like, why are you recording? And Attune drops... everybody's favorite line, put it on a wreck shirt. He says, I'm recording everything. and i was like, okay, you had to get it in there. It was less smooth this time. i didn't like it as much. yeah then That rubbed me the wrong way.
00:22:03
Speaker
Yeah, it felt pretty forced. It felt like an obligation they were fulfilling to somebody when they said that. But the groom knocks the camera down and breaks it, and then it cuts to black, and then it's Rec. 3. think you see the red flashing dot, and then it's Rec. 3 Genesis. I thought that was a cool title drop. I don't...
00:22:26
Speaker
Remember if the other movies even had a title drop at all in the beginning? We never really talked about it. These aren't movies that present themselves as Hollywood films, typically in this kind of way.
00:22:40
Speaker
This is the most movie and least found footage, but... When they broke the format, I thought, okay, I'm on board to see where this goes. I think it could be kind of cool, but I am a little bummed that it's becoming a bit more conventional at this point. It's losing the rec personality. Yeah, I agree. um Maybe that's why i ended up kind of liking it a little more But when you hear the movie Wreck, you are automatically thinking found footage and zombies for the most part. So that was a big twist that, again, wasn't expecting. It kind of works for me at times, but the way they did kind
00:23:29
Speaker
it kind of It wasn't like a smooth transition. they yeah, they jump to, you know, the title of the movie and then they go to, you know, it's just standard film format.
00:23:44
Speaker
And in my head, i was thinking, Was this like a non-edited scene that's in here? Are we like behind the scenes right now? It just felt weird.
00:23:56
Speaker
It took a few minutes to adjust to. But yeah, I mean, i ended up liking it anyway, I guess. Yeah, it is a pretty jarring experience going from the found footage, the camera gets kicked, title sequence then. You are kind of just thrust into it being a conventional horror movie and ah That seems intentional. that The execution seems intentional.
00:24:26
Speaker
Paco Plaza, he was the one who decided to break the format in order to kind of just do so things, something a little different with the series.
00:24:37
Speaker
I had alluded to it earlier, i think on the first Wreck episode, that this was a directing team and they had split for these two movies. I didn't know if it was Bad Blood or if it was weird rights things, but it turns out that it was just Juwami. I keep forgetting his name. Like Huwami.
00:24:58
Speaker
Huwami. <unk>me I like listen to how it was pronounced and it sounded like it was a hard J, but I, I apologize to the family of this director. I know he's still alive, but I apologize to the director too. And everybody associated with him. I'm no mean to get his name wrong, but.
00:25:18
Speaker
ah they split because Jwami was just busy. He was making a movie, I think, Sleep Tight. I could be mixing up the director's movies. And so Paco Plaza was just like, okay, I'll do rec three. And they kind of split the movie, the rights to the movie in half. And it's like, okay, Paco,
00:25:39
Speaker
gets three, and Jwami gets four, and they get to fully realize their own stories and do whatever they want with the franchise, and I think that's kind of cool, but you can also see a little bit that they really have the juice mostly when they're together.
00:26:00
Speaker
These past two movies were almost five out of five for me, and this one is at a three for me, so... I wonder how it would have been if they just waited till their schedules worked out and they could have worked together, but I still appreciate the direction the franchise is in so far.
00:26:20
Speaker
Yeah, they, i mean, they kind of, none of the films actually waste time with like getting you straight to the action. They had the wedding, they're at the reception, but that same Theo that um got bit, you know, he's puking his brains out outside. And this is where I start to get a little confused because the one camera kid, Adrian, he was outside, you know, filming around and
Final Showdown and Emotional Weight
00:26:49
Speaker
you see everyone in like the like the biohazard suits like at at a distance. What were they doing there? i assumed it was because the uncle had been bit. Basically, he had been bit by the dog from the first movie. Maybe they had tracked everybody who had interacted with the dog and are like, OK, we have to shut this down.
00:27:15
Speaker
i mean, it's the government of Spain. They could have been keeping close tabs on this one guy specifically. They're just like, okay, this shit is an actual viral outbreak, so now we have to go to where this guy is and lock down location.
00:27:29
Speaker
They really really don't give us any details behind the quarantine. The quarantine... in wreck one especially but one and two is as present as a main character would be in the movie but the quarantine that's happening in this movie is really a non-presence until the end where the characters even realize oh what there's a quarantine being put on us and they slowly start to discover it doesn't even the Ministry of Health has like we see them but they don't really have much of a presence and the movie doesn't take a whole lot of time paying mind to them i mean wreck 2 we were in their POV the whole time the first wreck their characters that were fully interacting with at one point and we're hearing their voices this it's just they're like a non-entity That's kind of a part that I wish was a little more present in here instead of just that one tiny scene and then they're seen at the end. i kind of like seeing them.
00:28:39
Speaker
to me, that's kind of like setting the stage a lot better, but... I mean, we're in the third film in this franchise, so we already know what's about to go down. But it's like, okay, if you guys are willing to force that line, we need to record everything. you know, you could have shown these guys more like, So you're saying if they can take the time to go back and reference the line, then they can take the time to go back and pay more attention to other parts of the story and other rec lore that we're not getting. It's just like, okay, don't don't tease me with the line. like Give me a little bit more of the backstory behind this infection. Is that like what you're saying? Just not even with that. It's just, I don't know. I thought we would see more of like the why can't I ever- um Ministry of Health. Yeah, them. like I don't know why. i just I like seeing them in these films because it's like, all right, they're they're about to fuck shit up because clearly they don't give a shit about who- is potentially okay and who isn't. But you hated the priest in the last one, though. He was like your least favorite guy. Because he was the priest, and he was only doing... like
00:30:00
Speaker
all the bad decisions here. I'm under the impression that maybe all of these Ministry of Health guys associated with this case, at least, might be priests or holy people. That's what I'm saying. I wish we got a little bit more of that. This movie does take it in a Resident Evil direction, but it's like, give us a little bit more into these hazmat suit people. like Expand a little bit more on the lore like Wreck 2 does, I feel. Yeah,
Reactions to Ending and Film Impact
00:30:33
Speaker
I agree with that because after, you know, shit hits the fan, everyone is separated. We're not even looking at found footage anymore.
00:30:44
Speaker
You have Caldo um and a few other people. They were able to escape from the kitchen and, you know, they're running in the woods. They've already, like, had to kill a few of these infected people. They end up by a church and, you know, some of their family was able to let them inside. And then the older woman says, like, you know, they they can't come in here and holy water stings them.
00:31:15
Speaker
They didn't really do much with holy water and the other ones. Yeah, they showed the priests saying all these prayers and you know trying to exercise the demons in Wreck and Wreck 2.
00:31:31
Speaker
But now they're saying they can't walk on like holy ground That kind of confused me because in those two films, they were able to go in the penthouse in a way. Well, anyone who got infected, you don't see them actually like run up and enter the penthouse.
00:31:55
Speaker
The people that were already in there was like the barbarian-looking demon. Yeah. yeah they They resided in the penthouse begin The penthouse was this this where all of this spawned from, basically, aside from whatever occurred at the Vatican or in Italy. yeah so How is it that they were able to be in there and you saw like all the religious like artifacts, everything, all the posters and everything there, but they can't enter a anymore? You know, my impression is that the penthouse is more evil, like that's where evil resides. And the religious artifacts are almost to slightly warded off. It's just precautionary religious stuff that really doesn't have much of an effect.
00:32:47
Speaker
But the church is the church. That was the holy ground beforehand. I almost look at the penthouse as a portal to hell, kind of, in this movie. At least like the experiments they've done almost opened a portal to hell, and that ground became super unholy.
00:33:08
Speaker
It makes a lot of
Final Thoughts and Enjoyment of 'Rec 3'
00:33:09
Speaker
sense, actually, because they had that whole spin on you can't see anything in the daylight or with the regular light. But if you turn off the light and they had the night vision and the second one, that's when you were able to see rooms and doors in that big ass tub or well where like that one guy ended up dying. So, yeah, I could see that that actually made a lot more sense. But But yeah, if they focused on more of the lore in this one, that probably would have amped this one up in like some brownie points. While we're on the topic of holy people and the priests and religion.
00:33:49
Speaker
the The priests in this seem almost utterly useless. Like, there's a a priest, I forgot his name, but he's in this thing, kind of. He's introduced with Clara, they're hiding out together, and Clara, like, speaks over the PA, the PA ends up getting cut off.
00:34:09
Speaker
And then I don't know what the priest ends up doing for most of the movie, but later on near the end, he just hops on the PA and starts reciting a prayer, and all of the zombies become immobilized. It it reminded me of episode one of Pluribus, actually, and I was delighted in the twitching of everybody standing still. But part of me is thinking...
00:34:33
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This guy was able to figure that out. Obviously, the priest in the second one didn't have a megaphone or a PA system to be communicating through. Why can this Ministry of Health, who is very capable of putting up a quarantine, why can they not be getting on the PA and just start reciting a prayer? Why don't they do that? Why is this priest able to figure that out? So there's some things in this movie where it comes across as characters are dumb or not thoughtful. But in my head, it just seems like story wise, they weren't really thinking about that.
00:35:13
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And then
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00:35:14
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in turn, it just comes off like we're stuck with a bunch of dumb characters. And then this makes it's what makes a B movie, I guess. Yeah, I thought that was strange too because i actually thought this guy got killed. i forgot how I thought that, but yeah, there was even a point where he's just like in a state of shock or just flat out fear actually just because all the infected people are about to like break into the the room that they're in um Clara slaps the shit out of him. and
00:35:46
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yeah you would think at that point too, maybe say a prayer in every other scene you have a priest saying a prayer when they they come in contact with these demons but this guy decides to do it at the very very end i thought that was a little strange Yeah, it's ah kind of odd. And one thing I did forget, too, I mentioned that they completely dropped the found footage format. And then I don't know what happened to the other characters' cameras.
00:36:22
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Actually, right after they dropped the format, they go right back into it because the characters that you mentioned escaping the kitchen... They have to use night vision to get out of an air vent. And then I don't know what happens to the camera. Does it like fall and break? Probably, but they reintroduce it for a second, then hop right back into the found footage format or not the found footage format. They hop right back into it being just a regular horror movie, regular cameras. But yeah,
00:36:56
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There's a point where we're with a crew and you think, okay, this is going to be the crew that we're stuck with. There's multiple points in the movie, actually, where we end up with crews of people and you think, okay, this is going to be our team.
00:37:09
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And then, for example, this crew, there's a guy who beats an infected to death with like a tire iron or something. And then moments later, he gets bit when he's in a car fucking around.
00:37:23
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And I started to think, okay, the deaths in this movie don't feel as weighty as they did in the previous two movies. They almost feel inconsequential. Sometimes
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00:37:35
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they're played for just a bit.
00:37:37
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There's a moment that I actually thought was pretty funny where two of the characters, Caldo and just some other guy that's a part of the group, are in night outfits, which I want to touch on the night outfits in a second, but one of the dudes gets dragged away and just gets munched on behind some curtains. I thought that was funny, but the deaths have very little weight in them in this entry. Even in the the initial scene where the uncle, he falls off the balcony and he bites like the neck of his wife.
00:38:17
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That was like, okay, well, i felt I didn't feel like any type of like remorse or whatever. It's like, all right, well, I was expecting that to happen because she was literally right there. And then when in that scene where, you know, they're outside, the guy, he's using like the star wrench to, um you know, beat the shit out of the one infected zombie or whatever.
00:38:42
Speaker
i was laughing because I was like, that was 13 times. I love it because he didn't hesitate on trying to hit the zombie and he even like did more than a double tab just to make sure this fucker was actually dead. Why would you just go in a car and be in such like a close space to a dead body after you just saw this other shit go on? i wouldn't want to be by any corpse or any dead person or anything in general in that situation. So once he just leans over and starts eating him, that that was like, I don't know, to me that was kind of lazy. And yeah, the part where the guy is just dragged away in the night suit and then you could just hear his body getting like chewed on. i was like, all right, that just made like that scene even more comedic. Yeah, he just stands there and is like, oh my God, ah I guess I'll get out of here. The guy in the police car, I don't know. I felt like they could have done a little bit more. The past two movies really utilizes people playing dead or these zombie demon people playing dead.
00:40:00
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We're just playing fast and loose with calling them zombies or demons across these episodes, but that's totally cool. Yeah, I don't know. There are a couple other deaths, too, that we'll get into throughout this thing.
00:40:14
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But ah one thing I wanted to touch on briefly is the the knight's armor. I've had that very idea. Not as lazy as these guys did it But I've thought, okay, if you find a full night suit, like head to toe, one of those heavy ass ones that covers your entire body where you can't even see the face unless you flip up a little metal thing.
00:40:43
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If you walk into a horde of zombies like that, like, yeah, maybe they could knock you over, but I think you could be pretty safe. And then you could do the walking dead ah thing. I think Shaun of the Dead maybe does it too, where you just like dump a bunch of zombie guts on you and they think you're one of them.
00:41:03
Speaker
you just do that on a knight's outfit and yeah, it'll smell horrific, but I think you can get around. You can commute that kind of fashion. Why am I not surprised that that thought came to your mind? I could so see you doing something like that. I've been sitting on it for years. It's something that I brought up multiple times. I think I first had the thought when I was a kid after watching 28 Later. It's...
00:41:32
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It's kind of funny, but almost any time I watch these things, I just think, yeah, you could wear a night suit, and I think you'd be impenetrable with a sturdy enough suit.
00:41:42
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One of those real classic ones. Just go to a museum and steal one or something during a zombie outbreak. I would be very fucked in that situation because those things are huge, and I'm tiny. That thing would swallow me. i would not fit in that at all. Koldo at a different point in the movie ends up grabbing a sword and I think it was what they used to cut the cake. I can't believe they used a real sword to cut the cake. That seems irresponsible. I think you would use some kind of prop sword that's maybe as sharp as a butter knife, but not an actual sword that you can fillet zombies with or chop off limbs with. I liked that. I respected that. I was like, okay, cool. you know they're They're really going at it with their with their love for each other theyre with that sword there. so i mean It came in handy in the end. It did. and
00:42:36
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but To bring us like a little bit back to the plot, I really like that these two are separated. and i mean The point of the movie is pretty simple. It's the bride and the groom trying to reunite, get back to each other.
00:42:50
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as they're separated by all of this chaos. I would have appreciated if this movie tried to achieve more, but it's a straightforward enough story, and it works for ah a zombie viral outbreak type of thing.
00:43:05
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There's a point where Clara and Rafa end up in the this like underground tunnel system, which I guess the writer and directors like loved. And so they decided to go in and do rewrites of the end so they can incorporate this location a bit more.
00:43:26
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And we get some good zombie action. Clara picks up a chainsaw and ends up killing some infected down there to some pretty awesome music.
00:43:38
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There's a certain point where the two kind of cross paths. I don't know if Rafa dies at some point down there or what the deal was with him. i can't remember. But these two see each other through a grate in the ground.
00:43:52
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And I really like this moment where it's like, okay, they're so close to each other, but they're separated and zombies are coming for them and shit's getting intense. And this is where I think we're in the back half, like the last like 30, 40 minutes.
00:44:09
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This shit really was working for me all the way through to the end. I think the whole back half of this movie has a lot of juice. and That's what I found crazy because I was watching it thinking, I'm surprised this movie isn't pissing me off right now with just some of the details. like Me personally, i just don't like it when female characters, they're wearing a dress and they make like such a drastic change to it and it's just for like you know the eye candy. um where the dress is significantly shorter. And i was laughing because i saw, you know, she uses the, Clara uses the chainsaw to like cut just like a piece of her dress off. Just, it was just exposing her leg where her garter was. And it was funny because Rafa was just like, wow.
00:45:05
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It's like, dude, shut up. But I thought that was a little funny. And then, When she even was i think it was the part where her and the priest were trying to climb down from the room that they were in out of the window. you see she jumps down and she has like her thick ass heels on still. and I was like, oh shit, she's been, you know, kind of...
00:45:34
Speaker
fastpaing yeah fast-pacing this whole film with those fucking heels on. Okay. And then when they were down in that little tunnel, she just like came out with that chainsaw and was basically telling this dude, like you know what? Fuck you. If you want to leave after you told me like this guy can show me a sign that he's still alive. He just did. going go get him. if you want to leave, kick rocks, whatever.
00:46:01
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But then she even decides she's going to fight these zombies that are coming to them. um It's like, dude, you don't know how many of these fuckers are going to be coming at you.
00:46:13
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But you were determined to fucking fight them off. I was vibing with this girl. I don't know why. Maybe it was the eyeliner. Like, I loved her eyeliner. It gave her, like, that little...
00:46:25
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goth type of Tim Burton look because of how slender she was and she had kind of like a corpse bride looking um a wedding dress on so maybe that was why I liked her a lot You're right. i mean Clara is badass. i think she's an awesome final girl. I do dig her more than Angela, especially Angela in Wreck 2. Oh, definitely.
00:46:54
Speaker
Clara is awesome. When she was going down or like making her escape earlier in the movie in the heels, as you had mentioned, I was getting real Rebecca Ferguson in Mission Impossible Rogue Nation vibes, and if she took off her heels, I would have thought it was more badass because there's a point in that movie where she's making an escape out of this like concert hall castle type of thing with Tom Cruise's character, and she sits on a leg a ledge and like presents her feet and makes him take off her heels so she could run... And it's a real like badass move. And I was getting fucking Ilsa vibes from from Clara a little bit. I like how badass she was. But I was able to forgive the heels because later when she's climbing up that grate and trying to get out and Caldo is unscrewing it, trying to let her through...
00:47:52
Speaker
She takes her heel and stabs it through one of the infected's eyes. And it's a really cool shot. An awesome scene. It's it's just badass. This character is awesome. Even, like, you had mentioned the makeup she wears is super cool. When she picks up a chainsaw,
00:48:13
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I thought, okay, she's this movie is leaning full into Evil Dead mode. She's become Ash right now. And I love her even more for that. Even my girlfriend was on board for her. She caught the end of this movie when I watched it a couple days ago and was saying that this chick was pretty badass. And i was thinking, okay, these...
00:48:35
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uh Paco you really you really nailed it here with Clara Paco and Clara is also I forgot the actress's name but it's his wife who plays Clara and they don't mention in the making of's I saw it and was watching a little bit of uh that kill count guys YouTube video that he has for this movie and he same Yeah, he dropped that info and he talked about how she was really involved with the creation of the character and the dress being altered. That was ah her choice and her decision the way it was altered. That was very cool to learn. And I just, I appreciate her. We'll we'll get to her fate in a second, but it kind of sucks that she's she's not going to be making an Angela-style return. It at least doesn't seem like she'll be coming back for Wreck 4 Apocalypse. Yeah, and to go back to the part where, you know, she was able to, you know, be at that, like, the little vent thing where Caldo's trying to unscrew it for her, that part was sad, and even thought that was going to, like, bother me you know okay now we have to have a love story in here okay that's just kind of getting too mushy for a rec film but it's a wedding what did what did you expect well yeah but that that's what i'm saying like i didn't have high hopes for it um couldn't it be vince vaughn and owen wilson from wedding crashers starring in this thing Where's Bradley Cooper? I know. he Oh, my God. The last time I watched that, I forgot he was in there. And when I saw him, I'm like, wow, he looks like a fucking tater tot. Me too. I always forget that he's in that movie. It's just a ah thing with that. i I don't know if any other people have that, but I'm right there with you. But yeah, I i don't know. I thought their love story was going to like bother me, but it didn't because you know they you could see they they're holding on to the fact that the other one is still alive. They can sense it, which I absolutely love that detail. And then they end up making it to the end. And I feel like maybe I like them more because they are not making...
00:50:59
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dumb ass decisions or asking dumb questions and again like I loved everything that Clara did and even the part where she stabs the one zombie in the eyeball like all the way that fucking was like ew but amazing at the same time um And yeah, they end getting together. The one part that did bother me was obviously they share an embrace. They share a passionate kiss. And I'm like, what the fuck?
00:51:32
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Both of you guys have blood on your mouths and you're kissing. How are you two not going to get infected at that point? That was the one detail that bothered me. Maybe it was their own blood or blood from somebody who wasn't infected yet. I guess, whatever. But yeah, I just, I love Clara's act now, think later type of mentality because so the two, they end up reuniting and they are basically like, well, we're about to die because, you know, the zombies are coming every which way. But then that was when the priest got on the PA system and started, you know, saying a prayer you
00:52:16
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What does it do to the zombies? Does it like stun them? Because yeah, they're like standing there twitching and you related it to another movie or show. What was it? Oh, I related it to Pluribus, but that's something a little bit different. Guys, check out Pluribus if you haven't. I don't really want to spoil what's happening there.
00:52:37
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But i think it's just immobilizing them. Like, whatever it does, it renders them just useless. They can't do anything. They can't move. They're just stuck in a paralyzed state where they're well not paralyzed because they're shaking, but they are just still shaking.
00:52:57
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Right. yeah, they were able to make their escape and, you know, they enter the ballroom. They see their family members that are all zombies and you're like, okay, they're actually going to make it out. They keep walking. They keep walking.
00:53:15
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But then, you know, you do feel bad for Clara in like, one part of the film you do see her you know kind of standing there because she sees her mother who's already infected and that part obviously painful to see this on the other hand was funny because they kind of hinted well they did hint it a hint at it in the beginning their grandfather had a hearing aid that it was it wasn't working or whatever but he's infected and he comes up and fucking bites Clara and Caldo says you know like damn you and your hearing aid or something and I guess that was the reason why they had mentioned it so he couldn't like hear the prayer going on. Yeah, it was like letting back a bunch of feedback, basically, preventing him from being able to hear. It felt like A Quiet Place fucking ripped this shit off, basically. I was like, wait, hearing aids in horror wrecked that before A Quiet Place. A Quiet Place fucking stole this shit.
00:54:32
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i'm I'm saying it here first, folks. Those Quiet Place people, they're frauds. But... Are you not a John Krasinski fan? I am not crazy about the Quiet Place movies in general. I think they're kind of softball a little bit when it comes to horror. And ah you can listen to These Guys Got Juice. We covered Quiet Place Day One, and that's the one I actually like the most out of all of them. But we get into our feelings on A Quiet Place. You can really hear us go pretty deep into that.
00:55:04
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But I really feel like a quiet place is something where if you take more than five minutes to think about it, there's massive holes in the monsters, the way they function, the way the world works. And While they are entertaining popcorn, I just feel like they're very flawed movies and I can't not see the flaws and not really see how they couldn't have just like created a better creature and had more thoughtful ideas.
00:55:39
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But yeah, that's my little quiet place tangent. I like Quiet Place Part 2 and how like bleak and dour and hopeless that is. and I love Emily Blunt and the addition of Cillian Murphy.
00:55:51
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and God, there's an I forgot that actor's name, but ah there's an actor in there who I really love who's also in Day 1 who fucking meets his fate in A Quiet Place Part 2 way too early. They throw that character away and pissed me off. Jiman Hunsu, that's his name.
00:56:12
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But yeah, I don't fully love the Quiet Place movie. Why am I talking about these things again? How did we get here? Oh, the hearing aids. Yeah, yeah. I really like Clara and Calda when they're walking out as the prayer is going, how everything kind of tones down and gets peaceful for a little bit. There's two outdoor moments involving Clara that I really enjoy. It's that one where they're just walking and you see the paralyzed zombies and you're just hearing the prayer.
00:56:44
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It feels like there's a bit of relief. And then there's one where Clara has to kill her mom or her grandma. They have an altercation in the rain. I thought that was gorgeous looking, but...
00:56:57
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I like these like so moments where the movie takes time to really be slow and we really get a different side to the zombies and this world has a little bit more atmosphere or at least these scenes have a little bit more atmosphere. But yes, back to the hearing aid. Sorry for digressing. No, it's good.
00:57:19
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But yeah, you have that part where she gets bitten and you're just like, fuck, come on. They were almost out. But she just up and is like, right, you got to do it.
00:57:34
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and I'm thinking, wait, what the fuck are they planning? wanted him. They got to do it. they yeah She was just slapping her arm on this like table thing and was like, all right, just cut my arm off. and I was like, damn, there was no hesitation there with her. You can't hesitate. You see that shit traveling through her veins so fast. gross. Oh my my God. My girlfriend was like, would you hesitate to do that for me?
00:58:06
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I was like, no, I would do it immediately, but I would apologize and say, sorry if I don't get it in one swing. and I would be so worried that the sword would break on the stone after the first swing, and I wouldn't have actually gone all the way through. oh man. I was thinking about all the ways I would fuck this up, how I would botch this whole operation. Daddy's Oh my god. You see, that's realistic.
00:58:35
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My dumbass is over here thinking like how ah Ray and Bobby were in Scary Movie when they're like, all right, come on, come on. And Bobby keeps stopping him like, wait, wait, wait, before he stabs him.
00:58:48
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um But yeah I was very, very like, proud of this woman for just like not hesitating at all but I was like fuck her man is gonna like wait one second too long because obviously he doesn't want to do it but it's like dude you got no choice and in my eyes too I'm thinking it's not really gonna make a difference because i feel like that shit already spread like in two seconds and you know he does it and you're just like oh shit you know it actually worked okay but like how the fuck is he gonna explain that once they leave they're gonna be like why is she missing an arm like she's still infected And then you just start to feel even worse because she starts puking up blood. and then they were by like where the saran wrap type of deal was um barricading them inside. saran wrap, I'm sure. Saran wrap.
00:59:48
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That's exactly what they used to quarantine. We all know that shit is strong at times, but we all know i don't know the technical terms for anything. I fucking hate saran wrap.
01:00:05
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That's a tangent for another episode. but I feel that. Just like a plastic seal, it's some type of seal that they put over it Yeah. So they're by like this gate and there's like a gate in between her and Caldo. And, you know, they're just looking at each other and I'm like, damn, they got something in between them again, separating them. You know, he just crosses over and he, you know, he that just shows he's like willing to die with her and for her and whatever. but like you see her eyes are red now. They've changed. She's clearly infected, and he picks her up and walks her through the tunnel out of their little you know quarantine zone, even though they're being told not to
01:00:55
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but What was the point of him leaving that area? like but i don't i don't I don't get it. I kind of have a little bit of issue I'm like, okay, what the fuck is happening here? ah Before we get into it, i want to say, so Claire is like getting pale and more pale as ah right before they leave this quarantine.
01:01:19
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And i I just loved how gross and sickly she looked. Not that I'm into it or anything, but I don't know if it was makeup or CG, but it looked really good.
01:01:32
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You know this chick's infected. It's like, oh, damn, you cut off her arm for no reason. Maybe it slowed it down, but God damn. Yeah, when he picks her up and they walk right out of that thing and you hear the voice from the agents going, don't walk out.
01:01:49
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Stay in there. I'm like, this is happening the same day as the fucking shit going down at the apartment? You guys are really keeping them locked in that thing. You're shooting and people. You know, they were sniping that fireman out into the hallway, really trying to make sure they stayed in there.
01:02:11
Speaker
And these guys let them walk out the fucking quarantine door saying, stay in there don't come out please we what the fuck are you guys doing and then they do a temperature check or something it was hard to tell they like scan them real quick Beep, beep.
01:02:34
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You know, typical movie scanners where it's like, beep, they're sick. Kill them immediately. It's like, what does that test do? It looked like you got their temperature.
01:02:45
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Yeah, they let them get all the way out there and are like, she's sick and you're fine. And they're basically they're going to let him go. It's so ridiculous. It doesn't abide by any of the rules. The other two movies ah have set up for this.
01:03:02
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But the guy's like, all right, we're going out together, baby. And he pulls her closer and gives her a big old smoochy poo. And then she fucking rips his tongue right out of his mouth in such an aggressive, disgusting way. It's horrific in all the best ways. I loved it.
01:03:25
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My girlfriend asked me what if I would rather have my arm chopped off or my tongue ripped out. And I was like... The arm being chopped off was swift and done, and yeah, it would be painful, but the tongue being ripped out, that thing extends, it's stretching, and it's being, oh. oh There's like, Spiral in the Book of Saw has some tongue stuff that I'm thinking about right now. Tongue stuff is just so gross, ah and it got ripped out. I don't think I could do the tongue thing.
01:03:57
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yeah But yeah, she's following zombie mode, and she's like, rah. and then they light him up. And their two bodies are on the ground. Their hands are reaching for each other. And my girlfriend was like,
01:04:11
Speaker
She's infected. How the fuck are they reaching for each other? She was she just ripped his tongue out two seconds ago. Then we hear the Ministry of Health people get on and they're like, prepare to infiltrate. Three, two, one, we're in And they say, quick and easy.
01:04:31
Speaker
That's the end of the movie. Fucking... I don't know if that quick and easy was a callback to the other movies, if they said that before it seemed significant, but i mean what are you what are your thoughts on all of that? The tongue being ripped out, ah the hand holding, what did you think about that? so The tongue being ripped out.
01:04:55
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i I hate that. i yeah I would agree the arm being chopped off would be the better alternative. Any tongue shit I can't deal with because of Freddy Krueger just seeing like all his little bits when he's like sticking out his tongue and shit. It freaks me out. and um even that part where nancy's talking to him and he has like his tongue through the the phone that was disgusting so that's what i think of unfortunately to go back to your point on like clara's makeup this is where i was like really appreciating it because yes she was like
01:05:43
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so much more pale and is infected eyes are fucking bloodshot red blood is like pouring from her mouth since she had like yacked it up but like when she screams at everyone That alone was like a horrific sight to see because she was just able to pull off that look so well. Like you said, like, damn, this girl's dead. This girl's infected.
01:06:11
Speaker
and you know, they're fucked. And the guy... ah I get why he did it, but like him kissing her, he sealed his own fate. That was like a sure way for her to fucking rip out his tongue. and yeah For them to hold each other's hands at the last second bothered me. Obviously, he can do it, but like how is her brain still able to function to do that with him? It's like, what, did you just remember that this guy was your husband? and you're able to, you know, have that one piece of, you know, reflection on your life right now before you're about to die.
01:06:56
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yeah didn't that part didn't work for me, but everything else did. Yeah, overall, I think the ending worked for me. There's a couple holes it could poke in there. It doesn't hold a candle to what the first and second movie, especially the second movie, in my opinion, are doing.
01:07:17
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But I really enjoy the back half of this movie a lot. And I know like as we're starting to wrap this thing up, ah we usually do our final thoughts. Before we get there, I want to say there's an MVP in this movie who hasn't graced this podcast discussion yet.
01:07:35
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And I feel bad about it. And I wanted to shout out the character who maybe this whole movie should have been about or who should have made it to the end, who should have had more of an impact, is Sponge John. Oh my God.
01:07:51
Speaker
I forgot about i His ass was in my notes. I made sure to write him down. He's all over my notes. I took a note every time he showed up in this movie and glanced over it. I mostly remembered because I have an angry emoji next to next to when he dies.
01:08:10
Speaker
and yeah i Sponge John is the real hero. you know He can't use SpongeBob because copyrights. I think that's a great bit. It comes up a couple of times. It's awesome.
01:08:23
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This character works. There's a point where they have a fire held up to him and he's like, keep the fire away. The scene's very flammable. was wondering if he was going to get lit on fire accidentally at some point in the movie. That would have been funny and horrific.
01:08:38
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he dies a pretty meaningless death. I was kind of bummed in that when he gets reintroduced, I was hoping that he would stick around. Like, you know, the French girl that Rafa bangs, she ends up talking to Clara at one point and it's like, I wasn't going to come. And Clara's, or she's like, I'm surprised you invited me. And Clara was like, I did it be nice. And have a weird moment. And she's like, I'm sorry for inviting. it Then she dies immediately. These characters who you think are going to have significance,
01:09:05
Speaker
die but the biggest criminal act this movie commits is not giving Sponge John more attention and more of a pivotal role within this story.
01:09:18
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ah Sponge but John is a hero. He is an American hero. He has my heart and the heart of many in this world.
01:09:32
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And I think we should maybe elect him president someday. Who knows? Maybe we'll get there as a country. We'll see. But maybe we're not ready. I don't know. But hashtag SpongeJohn2028.
01:09:47
Speaker
twenty twenty eight that That character alone could have been SpongeBob's dad That was how SpongeBob's dad looked in the show. good point. um yeah That part was hilarious. i Before he even said his name or they said his name, I was like, why is he dressed like a generic SpongeBob? What the hell? I love the bit where he was like, no, it's, you know, Sponge John and all the copyright shit that made me laugh so much. And then i did think it was weird towards the end or when he made another appearance in the movie where he was um saying he didn't have clothes on underneath the costume. Like, that's kind of gross. He probably had like boxers on, but like,
01:10:41
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Dude, come on, at least have a tank top on. What's wrong with you? why Why would you be in the presence of children like that? Like, one of these children could have been little badasses and probably set your suit on fire.
01:10:57
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and then everyone would have saw that you were naked. Not the fact that you were burnt to a crisp, but that you were naked. Damn, you let us down. Yeah, shout out to Sponge John. i second that.
01:11:12
Speaker
But ah hell yeah, he rules. Wish he got lit on fire. Any final thoughts on Rec 3 Genesis? What do you got? What do you got for us?
01:11:24
Speaker
It has its faults, but i enjoyed the film. No fucking idea why. Maybe it was just because of the character, Clara, on her own.
01:11:36
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i i liked it. I didn't like the armor type of deal, even though you did make a good point on that. and yeah Some little mishaps here and there, but just her alone was able to you know hold this movie up to where...
01:11:54
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Yeah, you know, i I didn't really like the second one, but I i can like this one more. i wish they had it a little more or had a little more storyline to it ah when it came to the zombies. But we'll see what happens in the next one. Like, I just always have to end it with that. But yeah, I i like this film. Justice for Clara.
01:12:18
Speaker
We shall see how the next one goes. I've seen a poster for Rec. 4. you guys don't want to know anything about that, skip 15, 30 seconds ahead, maybe a full minute.
01:12:31
Speaker
But think Angela's on that poster, and Claire is not. I think Claire is gone, but i'm I'm interested to see what happens. I don't have high hopes for this one going in. I'm going to be honest, but maybe my expectations will be subverted.
01:12:53
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Maybe I'll have a lot of fun with it. I'm kind of hoping they go back to the found footage thing, but we'll see. I really have no idea what Rec. 4 is going to be like.
01:13:05
Speaker
I think this one is good as a B-movie. I understand a lot of people probably don't like it. I rated it three stars on Letterboxd. I think That's fair within this franchise. um This is solid B movie territory. Again, i could see myself re-watching this. I was looking at the Wreck Blu-ray box set earlier today, debating on pulling the trigger. It's on sale for like $40, so maybe. And if I do that, I think every now and then I'll be throwing on Wreck 3. If I like Wreck 4, maybe I'll be doing... rec marathons. We'll see, but that's all I got about rec three Genesis. I'm excited to be back here and close the book on rec or hit eject on the VHS player.
01:13:47
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I like that line. But yeah, I would say go for buying the Blu-ray set just because, i mean, you like one and two and you can at least have fun with part three. So three out of four isn't too bad for these films. So you should get it Yeah, and part two is damn near a masterpiece. The more I think about it, the more I like it.
01:14:13
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I really enjoyed listening back to our episode on it. i thought it's pretty ah I thought it's a pretty solid listen. I'm assuming if you're hearing in this, you probably have heard our Wreck 2 episode if for some reason you listen to this first.
01:14:26
Speaker
Go check out that one. I think that's a top-tier Morbid Curiosities episode. ah Guys, if you're newer to the podcast, if this is your first season, go check out our back catalog. Give ah give some of those episodes some love. We got the Terrifiers. We got the Chucky out there.
01:14:41
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01:14:59
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We got another five-star review today on Apple Podcasts. That's pretty sweet. I'll try to shout them out on a later episode. And Mercedes, you got any closing statements, any closing thoughts for the people? Just stay tuned for what we got in store for you guys and just stay spooky out there. We've been Morbicuriosities. Let's go.