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Fear (1996)
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This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris feel the Fear and dive into Mark Wahlberg's first time playing a psychotic villain, as he does it again this weekend in theaters in Flight Risk.
Wahlberg plays David McCall, a seemingly perfect boyfriend to teenager Nicole Walker (Reese Witherspoon). As the couple becomes more intimate, David's darker tendencies start to surface. William Peterson plays Nicole's father, Steven, Amy Brenneman plays her stepmother, Laura, and Alyssa Milano plays Nicole's best friend, Margot. Zach and Chris discuss the infamous roller coaster scene, William Petersen's architecture project, combination coffee shops/pool halls, the insane ramp-up in the final 30 minutes, and more.
You can watch Fear by renting or buying it from digital platforms like Fandango and Prime Video. Next week, we're discussing the urban fantasy of The Last Witch Hunter, which is getting a 4K release for the first time.
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Introduction to Everything Action Cast
00:00:03
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Welcome to the Everything Action Cast, the official podcast of EverythingAction.com.
00:00:18
Speaker
Hello and welcome to the Everything Action Cast podcast for the week of January 20th, 2025. I'm your host Zach. I'm your co-host Chris.
Mark Wahlberg's Villain Roles
00:00:27
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And this week we are feeling the fear and talking about the 1996 psychological thriller starring Mark Wahlberg and Reese Witherspoon because ah it was the first time Mark Wahlberg played a villain. And now he's finally, after almost 30 years, he's playing a villain again in this weekend's Flight Risk with a disturbing ah bald look.
90s Thriller Genre Exploration
00:00:51
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But it is it is kind of is it is kind of crazy that like he hasn't played a villain. like he but his His first big role was a villain, that he then just now he's played a villain. He's played like shady characters. They always become more anti-heroes. But it's like a true like a psychotic villain. It's fear, then not enough flight risk. ah Well, I still think ah pain and gain. He's still like a villain. He's a charming villain.
00:01:18
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I think the difference of that one too is like, it's like, you know, it's a like based on true events. True. Just like, just like, it's like a, you know, a fictional crazy villain.
00:01:29
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And fear know definitely in that um sweet spot of, you know, the peak of nineties thrillers, where you had all kinds of, you know, it's psychological thrillers, erotic thrillers, all like, all that kind of stuff coming out, you had, you know, basic instinct and fail attraction, wild things, uh, jade sliver. Um, I think we were talking about like, what was it? The, the crush before we started recording Chris, like all they're all within like, it was like 92 to like 99 was just tons of these like, uh, thrillers.
Themes of Strangers and Danger in 90s Thrillers
00:02:03
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Uh, I think it was like,
00:02:05
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maybe like the 90s because it was like the error of people ah meeting strangers and then becoming like way too connected to them too quickly and then having like murderous like history being brought up. I always think about single white female. Yes. It's like another thing. The hand directs the cradle.
00:02:32
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Was it like a stepfather? Well, no, Cruel Intentions was that later. But it wasn't as bad. Cruel Intentions was just like these people in drama. Also a lot of things we're talking about. Also Reese Witherspoon. Yeah, that's true. um But she played like the more villainous role in that one. um But I'm thinking there's another like the stepfather. It's like a serial killer stepfather. That was more that was more like and that was like an 80s. That was kind of before this this whole like kind ofrick of strict stuff.
00:03:01
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Yeah, that's true. A lot of these other ones, I think besides single white female, which I haven't seen in a long time, I'm not sure she was a serial killer or an opportunist, but a lot of the time out these movies, um it's always someone has like a terrible like background. And then this is what makes them snap to like such a degree. Yeah. They become assessed with whoever like the person they're in relationship with to like the point of like,
00:03:27
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I need to kill everyone who will get in my way of being with this person. yeah yeah Or or they don't they don't love they don't they stop loving me so I'm going to kill them.
00:03:39
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If I can't have you, no one else will. yeah That's another like ah staple.
00:03:47
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Yeah, it was definitely, definite yeah it was definitely a huge thing in the 90s. And i I feel like it kind of transitioned into like, you know, lifetime movies now are kind of took over like this. That's where they live now is almost like yeah yeah like like that movies and you don't really hit theaters anymore. Like we get like a, you know, a gone girl or something every once in a while, but that they're okay. i like I also, but here's the thing. I also think there's a degree because if they were older, it becomes fatal attraction. If they were younger, it becomes like,
00:04:18
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kind of like a niche horror movie where like these like kids are like super messed up and it wouldn't be like a general audience but it hits that sweet spot of like teens where like really only Reese Witherspoon is the teen because Mark Warbird is not like who knows I still can't figure out like what's up like what's going on with that world like they don't really dive into it but it's like He's not a teen. No. And no one seems to be bothered by that part.
Summary and Character Dynamics in 'Fear'
00:04:51
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but yeah the basic So the basic the basic gist of fear is that ah yeah Reese Witherspoon is 16. She's going to high school. she like they live She lives in Seattle with her insanely wealthy father, William Peterson, who is architect.
00:05:06
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and apparently that that make like Like he's like the best architect of the world because they have this insane house and this insane land, but like and on the lake that where they have a private guard guarding their house. And, um, yeah, she goes with her friends to a coffee bar slash pool hall. We were trying to figure out what exactly like the like idea of this place is like, it's like this, they get sandwiches for lunch and they sell coffee, but then also that there's like this grungy, like 90s Seattle pool hall, like on the second floor of this place.
00:05:41
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and And she sees Mark Wahlberg, David, David McCall, and they you know make eyes with each other. And then later she meets him at like a concert, and then they start having a relationship. But then he is ah slowly revealed to be a psychopath.
00:06:01
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but ah and that yeah and it's it's and he's like Mark Wahlberg, I think it was a great job. like He's like super charming at first, and then just like slowly just like like turning on like the like crazy eyes is getting more and more crazy. ah Yeah, it's sort of like Reese Witherspoon never does the proper like dating scenarios in any kind of like high school romance. She likes the bad boy attitude, but she's so like like lovestruck. She doesn't realize like all these obvious clues. Like where are your parents? Like what are the friends you had like? What do you do for work? None of that. Like it is super like a nineties romance where all you listen to is Bush and you drive around, drive around your Corvair.
00:06:53
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Uh, but yeah, it's sort of like, I don't know if it's just the West Coast Seattle like scene, because I know growing up, um you know, you don't hang out by a lake or a nice highway.
00:07:08
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You know, like that that wasn't a thing in like New York. So, I mean, at least the city. um And then this is like ah such a weird setting because everything seems like it's remote, but then so close together, right? it's It's not like she lives in some remote town. Like she lives in like what looks like sometimes L.A., like, they you know, like a dance club, like rave scene. What is yeah this? And then and then like Then it goes back to like the serene would be like would be in other movies like a remote cabin where they go for like an interlude to like do something. And that's just her house, you know, like there's no neighbors just in the woods and. um Like, yeah, like it's weird because like you're not supposed to root for the spoil rich girl in this. This would have been like a different movie if she were like the lower income person. Mark Wahlbert was the higher income but like hates
00:08:08
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hates hearing no. Like, wasn't that make more sense? yeah He's like, yeah, he's never no one's ever like, stood out to him or like, denied him before. So he's like, Oh, man, snaps. Yeah. When that makes it see, it's such a weird thing. Because it's like, she's the like, rich comes from a well to do rich family. And then we were supposed to be like, oh no, this like Boston teen, Boston guy. I do like, this I do like the Mark Wahlberg, like he doesn't say specifically say Boston, but he's like, like the lie he makes up is that his parents are like out East somewhere, which we you have to assume it's Boston. I mean, based on his accent and then yeah his manners. Uh, you know, so that's where I'm like, Oh, so, uh,
00:08:56
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It's like she belongs in this culture. He's the outsider. But then his friends are also like also so raging like 90s cliches. Like sometimes they can't tell if they're in a biker gang, if they aren't a like a rap group. um They're the if there ah there's a they're a not so funky bunch. Yeah, this is like hilarious. that This was like the band like if Yeah, like Chris was in movies. Yeah. So this was the Funky Bunch. Oh, Mike, that'd be great. This indirectly becomes like a like a Hard Aids Night kind of movie. I think they like based on what I was reading, like some because I put up I put up the Marky Mark song from this movie for musical montages this week, on Never in Action. So I was looking at I was looking at like Marky Mark facts. I think the Funky Bunch broke up in 1993. So you're referring to this movie. So
00:09:52
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But I guess he was trying to do one more solo song. So it's like in the movie. I think it's like, like diagetics. It's like actually playing over the cafes. It seemed like Mark Wahlberg is just sitting in the cafe creepily alone. I think it's like, we've just been putting this out for the first time. But it's like a Marky Mark song. So does Mark Wahlberg exist in the universe of fear?
00:10:20
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and then David McCall just like happens to look like him. Well, okay, and to be fair, Marky Mark would never go to Seattle. Probably not, no. But if anything, this is like a relative, or this is supposed to be like another Wahlberg. Just a weird weird doppelganger that looks like him. It's like... Well, no, no. So Marky Mark is the... but Of the Wahlberg brothers, he's the Marky Mark twin they don't talk about. Hmm.
00:10:48
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And then it's like it kind of explains why he doesn't have his family. It's like he he's he's like anti Mark Wahlberg. But even though so Mark, Mark Wahlberg did have like a fucking violent temper. So that kind of is like true. I think around the same time, this is where like he who was accused of that, like attack. In Boston. Famously, I think there that might have been earlier, I think.
00:11:18
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They have a terrible ballicity. Yeah. Mm hmm. They're just like, oh, no, or even that. It's like, oh, no, that's it's a tie in for the movie. Fear.
00:11:29
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Yeah, that that for me, we need to be fired. Oh, yeah. No, that would have been like, OK, Mark, here's what we need to do. Take this stick and go find the first person you see in the street. But. But basically, like. The.
Teenage Rebellion and Cultural Settings in 'Fear'
00:11:49
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The like beginning of the movie before you even like get to know Mark and all that really Reese Witherspoon is the like almost it almost begins like clueless. Right. It's like her life, her her teen. It's like her dad doesn't understand her. she her Her new stepmom is still like figuring out the rules. Like there's a lot of things already happening just in the household. She got like a stepbrother Toby who becomes like the true hero at the end.
00:12:17
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um But yeah, it's it's it's very classic like teen girls rebelling against her dad because her dad's like, we're gonna go see a James Taylor in concert. And she's like, oh, I want to go see this. I want to go to this grunge party. It's like industrial warehouse. I get not relating to your parents. I also think like in the 90s, there wasn't much going on in terms of like music. So it's like James Taylor.
00:12:45
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Or do you take a chances on what is like experimental? Like, no, this is post grunge, I think in 1994. Yeah. because Nirvana was like 92. So we're like, we're like firmly in all everyone who came after Nirvana, like it's like alternative grunge. like And we're only like two years away from like Limp Biscuit. So it's this weird period of music where um I think there was a lot of revile to like a revision to um like older musicians having like that 90s.
00:13:21
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90s. Like. Come back where it's like, oh, I've got like one more song in me and I'll just like be a hit for like a week. Yeah. So not a bad concert. I i feel like the the sun is playing at like that industrial party that they go to.
00:13:40
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it' It's sort of Limp Bizkit-esque. If Limp Bizkit showed up, I wouldn't have been surprised, or if it was like actually a Limp Bizkit song. But then it also, it's kind of funny, because like it devolves into a riot, like what's like 99. So it's kind of like this weird like preview of what was going to happen a couple years later. You know what's crazy? That riot scene, it didn't seem like a riot. It just seemed like a music video that like was scheduled to just happen like that.
00:14:08
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I don't even, it's like two guys start fighting each other and the whole like the club just starts like going nuts. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. like it wasn't it like Someone fell onto like a candle and that's set like a curtain on fire, like the typical domino effect of chaos. yeah This is just two guys push each other what would be like a shitty mosh pit.
00:14:31
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And then everyone freaks the fuck out. Like somehow from there, Mark Warbur and Reese with this moon and about a goddamn roof. There's that and there's a police helicopter flying around and then like police are showing up in spotlights and then like everyone scattering. And then I don't know if people fall, but you know, it's it's so crazy because like.
00:14:55
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That has nothing to do with Mark Wahlberg. Like, you he didn't cause any of that. That's just something that happens in the club. Yeah. I mean, were they were they were like illegally using that ah space? Like, were they breaking trespassing in that space? I don't know. It had like a professional lighting and sound. They see like an actual club. So yeah, I don't think that's like they stuck in. Like if it was just like a DJ turntable and then playing music and There wasn't any, like, special effects or anything. I would say that, all right? But this looks professional to some degree. The flyers were the best. As much as we say now, now if someone hands me a flyer, that's just no, like, there's no social media, no online, no, like, brand, no logo that tells me, like, you know, my ticketing information is not gonna get stolen.
00:15:44
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I'm gonna be, okay, you know, unless it's like, I don't know, maybe I'm just too old now to go to some like house, some like, ah we're playing in the basement of this like, you know, this restaurant, like, I, yeah yeah. And it's like, oh, we're collecting money at the door, like, ah, man. I mean, I know some people live like that. I just didn't. And now as we get older, the chances of that happening is lower and lower.
00:16:09
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I forget what the name of the band was too. It was like, like occipital acid or something so like stupid name. No, that sounds about nineties. Yeah. but they But they were all like super psyched about it. It was like, Oh shit, occipital acid. We gotta go.
00:16:29
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And it is, it is, it is is crazy to like, so like, um, so yeah, we switched from like, so it's like, you know, she sees David at the coffee place, then meets up at the club. but And it's, it's, you know, it's nice Mark Wahlberg. So like that makes sense that she'd be like attracted to him. But then Alyssa Milano is attracted to like David's friend who looks like he's like a 30 year old biker.
00:16:52
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ah Like Logan, like David's like right hand man, but it's just like, that's the guy. Cause like the conversation she's like, she's like, Oh, that guy.
00:17:06
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That like balding dad biker guy.
00:17:15
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and then And then you meet the rest of the crew. It's just like the rest of the crew. It's just what but like, how do they all meet? They'll meet like in an institution. It's just like, yeah. Well, I'm thinking.
00:17:34
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So Mark Wahlberg met from just like, I guess, what is it? Like he went through like child institutions, right? For anger issues. Yeah. Well, William Pearson, I guess he has like a cop friend or something that pulls up David's history and he went from like foster house to foster house and then eventually just ended up in like institutions.
00:17:58
Speaker
And then they just kicked him out when he's 18 and he's, that's he's been like, you know, on his own. And then he found like his crew where they just been like, I guess it's like crashing people's houses since they got out.
00:18:11
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And it's in so I guess like, what'd you say? Like, is is Mark over like 20, probably this, would you say, or like 19? Yeah, I'm gonna say like 20. Um, even though I think he's at this point, he's like 22. So he's trying to play younger.
00:18:27
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Yeah. In order to match, like, Reese with a spoon, who I think is trying to play... She's 16. They specifically say she's 16, yeah. Ooh.
00:18:38
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And he's just like, well, ah and then when he goes to, like, me, like, research his family, he's just like, oh yeah, I'm, like, taking, like, an off year before I go to college. Because Wayne Priest is like, you're not at school, are you? Like, he knows, like, Wayne Priest knows what's up, like, um immediately.
00:18:54
Speaker
Oh, he smells it, but then he doesn't want to say anything wrong because, like, I guess everyone in the household is OK with this. Yeah, because he helps them, like, plant trees. And then the stepmom is just like, you're so fun. Ha, ha, ha. Pick me up and throw me in the pool. Yeah. Yeah, yeah they like that. Such a weird dynamic there. And I like how my boy plays that out into, like to like, mess with Willy Peterson. He's like, like your daughter and your new wife. they want But they both want me. Like, they both want to ride the stick.
00:19:24
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but they have their like crazy like confrontation outside the school. Uh, another thing is like, did William Pearson, I know he caught kind of peeking at Muslim Milano just from like being in right in front of her and he kind of catches himself to like not look, but there's that look that Mark Wahlberg gives her like, yeah, I got you. Like yeah that, that's, that that didn't, that didn't go anywhere. That's a note, right? Yeah. Yeah. Cause you think, that you think like Mark Wahlberg is going to use that like to,
00:19:54
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mess with William Peterson later or something, maybe like take some sort of pictures and then hide them. and his Like, for some reason, I don't have like take pictures and put him in like Wayne Pearson's office or something or do something to like, like screw up his relationship with Amy Brenneman. But then no, he just does do anything with it. hes He screws with his clock to make him late for to get to FedEx we're trying to get to. If anything, it's like if there's a if you focus on really the first two parts and maybe not the scene where Mark Warbird hits the high school friend. um This just is someone one those was like it's almost like silly romance comedies because it's like misunderstandings, like trying to be slick, trying to impress.
00:20:35
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um But but like honestly, he doesn't do anything wrong yet. There's nothing that is just like, okay, he's not like breaking tires. He's not bullying the little brother. Like those are classic things he would have done. You know what he also would have done earlier in this movie to really set the tone? Like kill the dog. Yeah. I thought that was going to happen so much earlier in this movie to kind of like instill the like, who did this? And it's like, you you know, that's something you can't, no one can blame, but like,
00:21:04
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Not like, okay. I'm thinking like fatal attraction to the thing where like the bunny rabbits dead. That was, that was late in the movie too though. Was it? Yeah, I would feel like I was pretty late in the movie. Oh, oh. So I mean, if you were trying to like escalate it in a way where it's like you kind of gaslight William Peterson, you do that, but he gaslights him like very to his face and it's like not really gaslighting.
00:21:32
Speaker
But I mean, William Pearson keeps telling everyone he's bad. The daughter says, okay, I don't believe you. I get that, right? But the stepmom is just like, what are you talking about? like
00:21:44
Speaker
Well, it's kind of crazy that um the first time they break up, um where because ah because because he because David beats up their friend Gary. um And that makes sense. But and then but then it's kind of seems like it's William Peters is like, well, I knew I knew he was a creepy guy. I don't want you to like continue. I don't want you to see anymore. Like the good thing you're not seeing anymore. And that kind of like makes resources like they should go make up with them. If my dad hates them, like I like him now.
00:22:17
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Because that kind see cause then she goes like goes out and gets like the roses, like it goes into the flowers and gets his cards and stuff. Oh, right. The big gesture of love. Yeah. That's how it works. It's definitely after they have sex for the first time, it's definitely when like when like's that's like when David just wraps everything up. It's just like, all right. I'm i'm crazy now. like Because it's like it's like the next day after they have sex, like he that's when he beats Gary up. And then he starts wrapping up all his like manipulations and stuff.
00:22:50
Speaker
because Because, yeah, before that, before that, it's just like he is kind of like, you know, try to be charming and try to be sweet and try to be like like the perfect boyfriend.
00:23:01
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ah Yeah, it's like a snake hiding in the grass waiting. But it's. It's also like a time limit, too, because he doesn't really have I guess that's what pushes it is like, where do you go after this? Like his friend in the house, is the one like, hey, what's your plan after we like mess up our lives. Well, yeah, I think they have to, they have to leave the house that they're squatting in that they've also like destroyed with spray paint and making weird shrines and of whatever else they're doing in there. So like drugs and then, but it's either, it's either Logan's parents house and they're and they've been out of town, but they're coming back or it's just some other random people's house and they have to leave and find another house to like squat in.
00:23:51
Speaker
So they're like, like all David's buddies are just like, Hey, we gotta, we gotta get out of here. Like we, like we, we gotta get out of here soon. Like what are we going to do? Like, cause David's the leader of them. So he's just like, well, I gotta figure out what's going on with Nicole. I gotta figure out what's going on here. He's going to take her along and just sell, you know, uh, I guess drugs. We don't really know what they do. You know, like it, besides play pool.
00:24:16
Speaker
and go to bands and carnivals and and do crazy things on roller coasters. I don't know what else they do. What is it like? Well, some there's a scene where some guys come to the house and they're like, we want to adopt a dog. And then the one friend's like, oh, yeah, go sit in like the the room, the drug dealing room and then we'll get you sit get your your dogs, quote unquote, which is drugs, I guess.
00:24:38
Speaker
So I think that's the main thing they're doing. And then I think Billy Peterson also, at one point, I think he finds out from maybe his another cop friend or something because he's he recalls the cops and he's like, hey, they had their own cartel. I think it's after he goes to their house and sees like he finds the insane shrine. but It has Chucky in it for some reason. Chucky doll. And then, um,
00:25:00
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Yeah. and like like i love the but My favorite part is like the horribly photoshopped scene, a picture where like Mark Wahlberg has put his face over William Pierce's face. Yeah. that I guess it's a metaphor, but it's also like early Photoshop, so what are you going to do? Does David know how to use computers?
00:25:22
Speaker
Like he had to go to like a Kinko's or something. Yeah. Cause he doesn't have a computer at home. Cause it wasn't, it wasn't like he like caught a picture of him. It's not a cut picture of him. They placed over it, like, or taped over it. It's literally, it's a manipulated picture. Yeah. No, it's like early Photoshop. Yeah. Photoshop was a thing. But I think when Peterson, when you talk to the cops after that, he says like, Oh, they're like, they got their own like cartel going out over there. That's a cartel.
00:25:50
Speaker
ah oh This is just what he said, this is what he said. And it's it's also hilarious that like the cops just refuse to do anything. They're just like, eh, whatever. Kids will be kids. They'll just be kids. Maybe it's also that thing where it's like you don't feel pity for the rich architect that lives in like the chateau and the lake. Yeah, with his with his private guard. and he Maybe that's also kind of plays into it. like If it was a ah commentary about that,
00:26:18
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But it's it's not. It's just like the cops in that town are incredibly shitty until you throw someone falls at a rave or like not even a rave, a dance club. And then they're all like, you got to send the helicopters. We got to do all the crazy budget things. There might be underage kids and drugs at this party. We have to go stop them. Someone's having fun. Fuck that. Yeah. Because I think even when um Mark Wahlberg and his crew are trying to break
Police Response in 'Fear': Ineffectiveness Analyzed
00:26:51
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into their house. They're and they're talking to the cops. like The cops are still like kind of like not believing them.
00:27:00
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Because they don't get any help they they don't get any help from the police. And then it had like i guess they they cut the phones off at one point, so they can't call the police anymore. But like when they're trying to when they're talking to them on aleat ah the phone right before they start breaking in, they're still the cops are still like, like well, eh.
00:27:18
Speaker
We don't know. you're saying see You're saying you smashed your car and ah you found like a creepy shrine to your daughter teenage daughter at their drug den? Maybe we'll we'll get someone to look into it eventually. I mean, that's sort of what happens in like still today if you say crazy things where it's like not even crazy, just sort of like I've got serious complaints and like the police sometimes are just like, oh,
00:27:48
Speaker
That's not on our radar. We don't do this all time. We'll find a report. Yeah, yeah. Unfortunately, that's like how the law is. It's not like. It's actually in small, weird towns like that. Was this Seattle? Yeah, I know, but it's like not as urgent as I guess what was happening in 1990s for like this is before you can blame like international like terrorism. Yeah. So back then it was just like.
00:28:16
Speaker
Uh, like, Oh, I've got an crazy ex. It's like, Hey, yeah. So does like everyone else. I'm kind of surprised. Like Mark Wahlberg did call the police on William Peterson. Cause he, pull he does that whole thing where he pounds his chest, meth, mechanic style to like give himself bruises, I guess. And then, um, but then just, it just shows Reese Witherspoon that and then Reese Witherspoon is like super mad or dad. But like, I feel like Mark Wahlberg took that stuff further to like call the cops on wait Pearson be like hey like this guy beat me up like this guy assaulted me but I guess they didn't maybe they just what cops like fight his like you know drug den or whatever fight what they're doing yeah but he's yeah there's a lot of like evidence um and even then it's like I think you still file like a complaint against someone so they still like go and serve it so
00:29:12
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They don't do any of that. like great cause that would Because that would make William Pearson seem like really bad to his family. They're just like, oh, you beat this like ah young man up? Like you beat like gave him like beat somebody that has bruises on his chest? Yeah, you got a restraining order against each other. It's like, OK, well, now Mark Warbur can't go to this house.
00:29:33
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So that's fine. But then I guess like Mark Warbur can go around and spread rumors that this architect beat him up. Yeah.
00:29:45
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but I mean, who's Mark Warbert telling? It's not like Mark Warbert also called his clients in Vancouver. It was just like, hey, you don't know me, but like the architect guy, he beat me up. Yeah. All right.
00:30:01
Speaker
Yeah, don't do business with them. just the The guy designing your mall, I guess maybe, mall or college or whatever that thing is that he's making that time over there. It's like he's so dumb. He doesn't know what that building is either. He's just like, yeah, I heard you're building like a Disneyland up there. and Don't do business with them.
00:30:24
Speaker
Yeah, because it seems like David doesn't interact with anyone except for like, the people in like, Reese Willsman's like immediate facility, like, it's... Listen, Milano, their friend Gary, and then Reese Willsman and her family. That's the only people, and his friends, the only people that he like interacts with. It's all he knows. He doesn't know any other kind of situation. Like, is the, is Reese Willsman's mom still alive?
00:30:51
Speaker
I think what they say is that she is in Los Angeles and then we was living with her until like a year ago. And then she just like basically just moved up to like Seattle like ah a year or so ago. So she kind of is just like just getting into like but like with living with her dad and then like like living with the stepmom and everything. and Okay. So yeah, he has no idea about her life. It's, it's just sort of like,
00:31:20
Speaker
for all you know later on. It's like, oh, it's my brother. And he's like, you got a brother. What? Like freaks out about that. I'll kill him. Yeah, we're like blood. I'm like your brother.
00:31:35
Speaker
<unk>m I'm just thinking like, it's like the third act is such a different vibe and like acting tone. It's great. Like it does make up for all these slow points you have for this movie.
00:31:49
Speaker
Yeah, the the the first hour the movie has like these kind of spikes where like something like one thing crazy will happen. But then the last half hour is just nonstop craziness. It's as if like there was a movie plot they left behind or something else, and then they just um inserted it in because all these other minor characters who we've never met really are just now involved.
00:32:17
Speaker
Like there's there's like There's that guy that gets killed by like the the jeep. Oh, yeah. Like a lot of Mark Wahlberg's crew are just they kind of like you see them a little bit before, but then they just assemble. It's like, where where are all these guys like who these guys? And I get like they're all degenerates. Yeah. Who squat. Hmm. But I also feel like They don't have a plan. They just went, oh, let's go there. And like, this is for like Mark Warburg's love. Well, they also, they're also getting revenge because William Peterson broke into their house and broke all their stuff, even though you can't really tell because the house is already a trash heap. But they're they're mad about that. So they're going to go, but he trashed our house. We're going to trash his house. But they go to straight like assault and then murder, like try attempt at murder. So it's a, it's an escalation of what they were trying to do.
00:33:18
Speaker
Also, I was expecting one of them to the crew guys to do that thing where it's like last minute heel turn. I mean, logan Logan kind of does, because he tries to like, I guess rape this one, and then David kills him. That's not a heel turn. That's just like one creep trying to outcrop the other guy. I mean, they're they're already heels. I don't know how they would like to be more appeals. True. But I'm talking to one guy to be like, hey, I think we're in too deep. that The other reversal.
00:33:48
Speaker
what's thes what's ah What's it called when it's a reverse heal? Oh, um I don't know. like Just like seeing, like trying to be logical or trying to be like reasonable. Yeah, the reasonable one. But they're past that. They're just like, it's too late now, man. We're getting too deep now. Yeah, none of them have that moment.
00:34:09
Speaker
Yeah, they're all all of them are all 100% in. They're all like all in with whatever David's doing.
00:34:21
Speaker
But yeah, like and it's and it's almost like it's it's right at like half an hour left. like it's just like The point when David like carves a prison tattoo into his chest, assists Nicole forever.
Climax and Security Irony in 'Fear'
00:34:31
Speaker
It's like when you're just like, oh boy, here we go. This is what you're waiting for. Because I think the trailer showed you more of the third act, like bits of it. And then like a lot of the buildup was like, you should be careful who you let in or something. And then you see yeah like all that go down.
00:34:51
Speaker
Well, I think they definitely showed, like, they didn't, they couldn't, like, it was censored of in the show. It was like this, like, the iconic scene where Mark Bowers outside the, they're looking through, like, the peephole, and he's just like, let me the fuck in!
00:35:08
Speaker
Which I i guess Mark Wahlberg improvised that. And it was like, was like I'll take it. And then like, and then the director wanted to take it out. Brian Grazer, the producer was like, no, that's put that in the movie. And Mark Wahlberg just reciting from memory what he said to a person once. Let me hear the fucking house.
00:35:29
Speaker
it is It is funny that um so James Foley directed this like later would like direct like the last two ah ah Fifty Shades movies. What? So he went from like this and then like, you know, like get decades later, he was like, ah ah like ah another weird relationship movie.
00:35:51
Speaker
He was he was in like TV hell for like a while. He was just like doing a bunch of like TV episodes or like ah music videos. I wonder why he's got a creative art style.
00:36:05
Speaker
Like this movie isn't terrible. It's it's competent. I understand everything. The only thing is just like the world around it that we're just like, what's up with the cops? What's up with the high school? What's up with the rave? And just just how how like quickly it ramps up. Yeah, but like they're all unstable, I guess. You're right. I think they all met at a group home or something.
00:36:32
Speaker
When, when, um, when Mark Wahlberg kills Gary, that, like, that's such like an awkward kill. Like, I'm still trying to figure out how he actually likes because it's, they get on, like, he gets him on the ground and like does like a neck snap, but it's like, it's such like an awkward positioning of how he snapped his neck.
00:36:51
Speaker
Uh, it's the Wahlberg strength. I guess, I guess so. Yeah. One hand on the one side and somebody can break both sides of the neck. Yeah. Poor, poor Gary. I mean, he like He's like, the like yeah if Mark Wahlberg is like toxic and masculine to me, he's like healthy and masculine to me, I guess. because like he has You expect him to have like a secret crush with something, or be like like that's why he's like friends with her, but it's just like he's just friends with her because he's a nice guy who doesn't want anything. Yeah, he doesn't even fester her. There's no there's no like um romantic feelings that he's willing to just like
00:37:27
Speaker
lie about being a friend first. Nope. He's just, he's just, he, he's just, uh, resubmit, like some, some of his friend, but yeah, and that is that gets him killed. Yeah.
00:37:44
Speaker
And then what else? I then, yes, then marco he destroys when he peaches his car, his like beloved Mustang. They, yes, he has posters of Mustang, like but put must mistake posters on his office. So he like loves that car.
00:37:58
Speaker
Then it gets destroyed. And then, yeah, he he carves like the the prison that you in his chest. He almost he runs almost runs off the road. yeah I kind of I kind of expected like like her to like get killed in that scene, like like actually get we're off the road in that scene, like off a cliff or something. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I thought she was going to get killed in that movie. Yeah. Like because it's in the terms of like how bad ah Mark Wahlberg is or Danny, like how Danny David David David.
00:38:27
Speaker
david Like he's, he killed like her friends and now she's trying to kill her family. Like it's escalating, but no, it's, she, she makes it all the way through. And at the time, I think Muslim Alana was still pretty popular. So she plays like third build in this. Well, I think didn't charm start in like 97, I think maybe. Yeah. Yeah. It's like right after this, I guess.
00:38:54
Speaker
a couple of years after she, I think she was, she was still in her like, um, you know, kind of rebelling against who's the boss and trying to be like more, like, you know, in more adult movies, like it was like, was it poison Ivy and like, and like making like teen steam and all that stuff. Yeah, that makes sense around this time. Like she probably wasn't poison Ivy the year prior.
00:39:20
Speaker
It was, it was all, yeah, it was all kind of around this like era, like mid nineties.
00:39:29
Speaker
yeah Yeah. Yeah. You think, like, yeah, you think that would be like pretty escalations. Like she would get like killed by David somehow. But then he just like, he's like, you better, you better tell her, you better tell Nicole to get back with me. You better tell her, like, I want to like take you back. You got to do that. You got to tell her. but but he just goes You couldn't write emails back then. You couldn't cyber stock. You had to drive a car into them. Yes.
00:39:58
Speaker
no cell phone no one has No one has cell phones. They have car phones, but no one has cell phones.
00:40:07
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And then when the telephones be cut off in the house, and they're like, toy screwed until they figure out, I guess, Reese Wispoon knows, like, light signals, or I guess just a pattern alerts to guard. Like, I don't think she was actually doing like, SOS or anything. Yeah, it's just flashing lights. Yeah.
00:40:30
Speaker
Uh, I guess better than nothing. so I get like, especially if they are the only client. Yeah. Cause it's, it's, it's, it's guard for their house. Like they they have a private guard for their house. But then, and then and yeah and you you also find out William Peterson designed his house to be like a fortress. Basically it has like bulletproof windows and like reinforced doors and everything. But then what, what is going on that this man thought about that for his own Seattle house?
00:40:58
Speaker
But he doesn't, but he but he doesn't build any walls or anything because apparently Mark Wahlberg can just let you just park and just walk through the woods and just end up at the house. There's no, you know, fencing you can just totally avoid the garden. It's like, it's like, like just break in through the woods. Why have a guard if basically just if you pass the one guard, that's it. You're like in, you're in the backyard. or Yeah, I don't, I don't think Mark Wahlberg even interacts with the guard at all until they're like, they kill him. Cause like, I think he just like constantly just shows up and like bypasses the guard constantly. lake Cause the guy was just like, who are you? Like, who the hell are you get guys? Like, can I get this car?
00:41:37
Speaker
So I think they would just like maybe that guard is the, is the night shift guard. He doesn't really do anything, know anything else. I think it's the same guard. I think they just had the one guard. Really? Yeah.
00:41:51
Speaker
but Yeah. yeah wonder I wonder what a shift is. Cause like he can't be there all the time. Like it's 24 seven. He lives in that shack. That's his house.
00:42:03
Speaker
Just watches the monitors and watches like a team, like his tiny TV. Oh, that's a guard. Especially if William Peterson is paying. Well, probably he's, he's a millionaire architect.
00:42:21
Speaker
Yeah, I feel like ah his downfall was like, I don't know, not having dinner with Dave, right? Like you feel like if they had like a family dinner with him, they'll get like all this information, all they need, like right there and then. Like they have a pool day, but I feel like they didn't really like get to know each other. And then once he does, he's like, okay, no, like we got to stop this now. Well, he finds the condom, he's like, oh, shit, no, like get this guy out of here. Yeah, but that could have been like any kind of thing, you know, that's just like a typical like freak out parent. You know, I let a basically a grown man hang out by six year old daughter. yeah No, that's like. So many questions all around. I get it, it's the 90s, but God damn.
00:43:20
Speaker
but but Well, but he does, he does gather, he gathers all the like the background info and then it's also after he beats up Gary and gives Nicole a black eye. And that's when he starts being like, this guy is a psychopath. We have to get rid of him. But then that's when no, one but no no one believes him. Right. It's like too late. They got caught on that trap. He didn't have a CSI skills yet. Well, it would different if William was if like William Patterson, Peterson used, um,
00:43:49
Speaker
use like his architect skills or something. Like he built something stupid. Yeah. Like he caught him on camera. He did something else. Like, but then, okay, we say that a lot because you think the movie is going to focus more on Reese with a spoon, but like it's almost like almost equal amount of time they spend with each other. Like how much you follow both characters. Yeah. There's a, there's a lot, there's a lot of Billy Pearson, um,
00:44:18
Speaker
having meetings and like on phone calls for his architect firm and like constantly driving to vancouver to close whatever this deal is like that's like that's it's like almost it's almost as important as like the main plot that's like because there's like a lot there's so much like time dedicated to this like random subplot of way peterson needs to close this deal yeah uh i mean that's what distracts you i think so that way when the uh the surprise third act happens, you really are caught off guard.
00:44:53
Speaker
ah Which I remember before we saw this, I was surprised you've never seen those this. This is your first watch. I was like, ah some some like movies derived from this. I think Fatal Attraction is the better one, just because they don't need the deal, the teen side and the whole like um bad decisions, like red flags that you would get.
00:45:15
Speaker
Uh, this, this though, uh, I think because it starts all wholesome in the beginning before you realize how like Dave's real life is like, and then it's like, okay. Okay. No, they, she's so like ignoring all the red flags.
00:45:35
Speaker
Yeah, well, I think I like the first the first time you kind of get the sense that there's something wrong with David. is is She's like, so he's like in his bed, just like staring into nothingness, just like like, just be like, like, like he's in prison. It's like, oh, yeah, I'm gonna, I'm gonna kill her family one day. That'll make her love me.
00:45:53
Speaker
like
00:45:57
Speaker
or needs or needs to bust out his ah trademark roller coaster move. That's what we have a favorite date thing. Yeah, we ship we haven't really met like this. I think it's but that probably the like the most iconic scene of this movie is the roller coaster scene.
Iconic Scenes and Cultural Impact of 'Fear'
00:46:10
Speaker
Right. or Like one of them, at least one of them, I think first for me is always the the door. Yeah. But then the roller coaster scene is a lot of what people refer to as like at the time, like ah like memorable. But it's Like a sexual. so for like oh Yeah. Yeah. But it's, it's sort of not like it isn't age well anymore. like i Like I was, I was saying before we started recording, like I thought it was like way more graphic or like you, like, I don't know, like, was yeah, more like going on, but it's, it's just a lot of like response from his face. Like it's like all kind of more implied of like what's going on. I mean, you see, you see the hand going in the dress, but then you're, then that's kind of like it. Then you see like, bar walbers be like
00:46:55
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. Well, that's not like the slow horses song plays or whatever it is, the wild horses song plays. Then the like ah like cart next to them, just so of like or the cart behind them, like what do you what are the people doing in front of them? I guess i guess they they can't really see, but um yeah, it's still.
00:47:20
Speaker
and also if this is like a modern roller coaster they'd be like cameras like they're like the on-ride camera the camera like the speaker would be turned on and then they'd be like hey you are not you were kicking you out right now but we were we werere also talking before like it's it's such like a blunt metaphor of like oh they're going up the hill and then they go over the hill you know what that means yeah but uh One of the things I think about now, if i if you show ah an older person, like an older woman, especially now, like this, and like, yeah, does it sound like hot? And they'll be like, no, that's a dirty ass roller coaster. You're spending all day, like, playing carnival games, and then you're just gonna try to, like, touch me there? Like, oh, yeah. And like, that's how you get, like, crazy infections.
00:48:12
Speaker
Yeah, and it's it's it's it's not like a you it's not a brand new like smooth work. It's like's like a little rickety like it's clanking. like Oh, yeah it's like you're gonna get like a splinter from just like stepping in it. um Unless it's like a famous is that like, I don't know, we're assuming this because we're not from Seattle, but it's it's actually a Vancouver. It's like a it's in play land in Vancouver. It's called the coaster. Oh my god, because I was thinking,
00:48:38
Speaker
Do they say that this is the same coaster from that movie and then people like sit in it and then try to recreate that scene? You know, like that's the, now I'm just thinking like, uh-oh, like they didn't, like it being just like a generic roller coaster, fine. but But because like a generation grew up with fear, it's like, no, I, I remember this. Yeah. It's like the Joker stairs. If it, if it came out today, there'd be so many people like taking selfies or like like being like,
00:49:07
Speaker
I'm on the coaster, like show your O face on the coaster. Yeah. It's like, it gets worse when you think about it. That's why I'm like every movie that has that erotic thriller part of it. They try not to be in like big public spaces because the public, the company that owns it are going to be like piss. It's like this blew back in our face in such bad ways. It's good PR. Terrible implications.
00:49:35
Speaker
ah I think they seem also would be would have better instead of if they instead of wild horses, it was like good vibrations. Oh, my God. Got your good vibrations. How's that not a song? OK, but honestly, like I'm thinking like ah any kind of like sexual thing in a movie that's sort of because it it's the only thing in this movie that has like a public sex thing. Otherwise, it's the typical romance in a bedroom, whatever.
00:50:05
Speaker
Uh, Harry met Sally where that scene, uh, at the diner at Kat's deli. Yeah. Okay. They still have like a thing. People go there and they do whatever. it but if you get a roll the booth yeah Yeah. The fear roller coaster. Okay. Yeah. I'm just like the pervert who's like, ha ha like trying to lure people there. And then it's like, do they, do you think there's a sign that says that too? It's like sit in the front seat of the coaster.
00:50:35
Speaker
Made famous by fear. Come listen to Wild Horses. it they play That's like the soundtrack that plays on this um the coasters you go around. Yeah, yeah. It's just like, oh, wow. I thought this is a song that like they heard themselves. like No, it's just something they play at this roller coaster.
00:50:54
Speaker
but But yeah, anyway, I just wanted to talk about that. Just because I thought about it and I was like, huh. Man, they really tried. I kept thinking they they really tried to hide the branding of that. like that theme park. Yeah. they they They make it seem like it's just like a, like a boardwalk kind of like carnival or something that's in Seattle.
00:51:18
Speaker
I think that whole, I think that, whole oh, no there it is. i'm um I'm on the roller coaster database. There it is. Coaster. Is it still operating? It's yeah, it's still operating. It's up there. I'm not saying we got to go do it together.
00:51:31
Speaker
exactly I feel like if we ever somehow end up there, make that make that the new vital trend. You have to everyone go to play land in Vancouver and like reenact the fear scene. It's in the front seat by yourself or or just like play play play but like have yourself or just play wild horses while you go around.
00:51:54
Speaker
You know, as crazy as it is, I think in order for some movies to survive and stuff, they have to play gimmicks. I could see I could see some dumb movie just trying to like some marketing company just like, all right, we got to do something. That's how we say to keep this movie interesting. Mm hmm. If Craven had a move has seen like that. Mm hmm.
00:52:22
Speaker
Pretty sure the spider, like the mar the Sony Cinematic Universe, it's to be around. Yeah.
00:52:29
Speaker
Craven had a wild horses scene.
00:52:36
Speaker
I think Fear popped up on Netflix a little bit ago, but I don't think Netflix, I just remember them like, they had like a YouTube short or something, or a TikTok or something, where they had like the door scene with Mark Wahlberg, like, remember Fear? It's back. But I don't think they were used to it at all, at least that I saw.
00:52:59
Speaker
No, I mean, Mark Warburg is trying to always distance himself away from showing that he's grown and stuff. So I don't know. The fear scene is romantic to some people. Some some. There's some romance size about that, if it was didn't end in a terrible, violent thing. ah But yeah, the. The like this movie be kind of like rolled under the radar for a while only like I think the last thing I saw vividly remember like referencing this was either family guy or um like it's always sunny in Philadelphia there's like a person that does the the chest thumping to give him bruises but even then that was like season eight out of like 15 so
00:53:58
Speaker
No, fear hasn't been like a cultural zeitgeist in a while.
00:54:04
Speaker
I think a lot of people are talking about it, especially this week, because Mark Wahlberg is a crazy villain again, finally, for flight risk. Yeah, I figured. But I just want more Mark Wahlberg. I kind of want if they either did a remake of fear Mark Warburg's the dad this time. That'd be great. and who i mean But who would be like who'd be like the David? um Just grab, I don't know, Timothy Chalamet.
00:54:47
Speaker
Tom Holland. Just the Uncharted cast is inferior. I'm fine with that. Mark Warburg says he's like Sully Mustache.
00:54:59
Speaker
He got confused about like what movie he was going to be in. yeah i guess I didn't see Uncharted yet, but like he doesn't have the mustache in that movie, right? It's like the like last scene, the sequel setup scene. It's like, finally.
00:55:19
Speaker
Yeah, like for most of that movie, he's just he's just like normal-ass Mark Wahlberg.
00:55:28
Speaker
It would be, it would be great to like, see him try to be like an arc, like some sort of architect. I'm like, I'm trying to, I'm trying to decide this mall. Like I gotta, I gotta Photoshop this mall. I gotta, I gotta, I gotta make a deal in Vancouver.
00:55:43
Speaker
Just like, it'd be probably be as believable as him being like, like an inventor and transformers. Oh my God. So I'm just, I'm just, I'm just a regular, I'm a regular student adventure guy.
00:55:57
Speaker
You know, I'm also thinking, is this the only movie where Reese Witherspoon and Mark Wahlberg like work together in?
00:56:08
Speaker
Um, I'm trying to think. I mean, I feel I did. You just like look at like the filmography is like, I don't remember them being in a movie together. Yeah, that is the only one. And they're fine together.
00:56:34
Speaker
Yeah, I don't, yeah, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm looking at research was far. I don't, I don't, I don't think I don't see her like the Mark Wahlberg movie.
00:56:45
Speaker
Research was definitely like, she definitely kept up like the like thriller thing of like, like, cause she was in like Cruel Intentions, like couple years after this and then American Psycho 2000. And then she kind of like, after that, she kind of like went into like, you know, the romantic comedy kind of realm. Yeah. Well, she did the like, I'm a,
00:57:03
Speaker
late 20, early 30s woman who hasn't found love yet for a while. Um, it's also interesting that like, uh, the same year of fear, she's also in that movie freeway with key for Sutherland. That's your phone. Love was cutest. All on that one. No, that was another like, um, like key for, key for someone was like a serial killer. And then like, like, like, um, Mr. Richmond's like, it's like a runaway and like kids are starting to picks her up and then he's like, Oh, by the way, I'm a serial killer.
Reese Witherspoon's Other Thrillers
00:57:33
Speaker
Oh, good.
00:57:38
Speaker
But and then there was also like, um, it's pitched as a like modern spin on Little Red Riding Hood, like keeps sounds like the Big Bad Wolf. And then we supposed to be was like, really over riding I think I've seen that one. So I heard of it, but never seen it.
00:57:58
Speaker
It should be up. It's actually up on the site for Everything Action Theater this week. So if you want to watch it, like 90 centimeter spoon thriller, you can head over to site, check that out. So I'm going to put it up on YouTube in full. But it's also it's also constantly just bouncing around like Tubi and Pluto and all those kind of services.
00:58:27
Speaker
But yeah, fear. Anything, any other fear thoughts, Chris, or anything that wrap up? I do like that they didn't try to franchise this. No, we did decently well in the 90s and um they, you know, in this era of movies, they didn't try to do a, well, let's see how far we can milk it. Like it told a very complete story, which I enjoy. Yeah, I feel like, I feel like, yeah, I feel like they definitely killed off David.
00:58:57
Speaker
Like he got yeah thrown out a window onto like a rock cliff on the lake. And yeah, so he's not coming back for a sequel.
00:59:11
Speaker
And i there's no closure after that. like Like this movie ends in that and then just like the end. And then it should to end of like a narration from Reese Witherspoon. It's like, that's the summer I won't ever forget.
00:59:27
Speaker
This is somewhere I became a woman.
00:59:31
Speaker
It ends with the cops finally showing up. But then they have a dive boat. So I don't know why there's divers going into the water to look for something. I don't know what they're looking for. The dog? The dog's body. Because all of the other crew are lying around the property.
00:59:54
Speaker
um And the guards also like on the property unless, I mean, cause they don't, they don't show like David, like slipping, like his body doesn't like disappear or anything. It's not like a, it's not like like a sequel twist or anything. I'm like, Oh man, his body disappeared. Where'd he go? Yeah. That's what I'm saying. Like it's, his body's definitely there. Yeah. It's like, we're going to do some, uh, some diet practice while we're here. Cause like this like, so nice. It's like a couple of our guys here just like practice, like fighting bodies.
01:00:22
Speaker
Well, we know that this area loves to overkill ah any excuse to launch everything. I think that's the dumb thing about like the the brag about this it being in Seattle, ah meaning that like Even responding to that club fight, they threw a helicopter at it. So now they're responding to a lake incident, so they threw a boat at it. Yeah, a wealthy family was attacked in their house. Now they're just going to throw all their yeah they got choppers and like yeah the dive team and whatever else.
01:01:02
Speaker
yeah we we you't But yeah, you don't you don't get the like and the ambulance like they're like you know they're like kind of processing what happened. it's just like They throw Dave out the window, cut to like credits, the cops show up, that's it. It's like, we're done, he's dead. They're all scarred for life now.
01:01:20
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yeah
01:01:29
Speaker
Yeah, definitely, definitely a kind of like a, you know, a fun 90s thriller. Like if you're into like the 90s thriller, it's kind of like, that kind of like, ah you know, fail attraction, basically instate that kind of vibe.
'Fear' as a Psychological Thriller
01:01:43
Speaker
Yep. I definitely read like on Wikipedia, I read that someone quoted that this is fatal attraction for teens and it is. Yeah. Right. This is one of your first early like erotic thrillers. It's not bad. I don't I don't like I was trying to I don't think I would say it's an erotic thriller because I got through it as like like explicit sex scenes.
01:02:06
Speaker
Okay. Okay. That's true. It's, it's also, I think it's also like rocks. There was also more like the the sex is more of a plot point of like, that's like, why like someone's going nuts or something or that's like, what's like, oh yeah. They're addicted to the, the, the, the Iraq part. Yeah. Or anyone else. true Well, I mean, da Dave is a rightly obsessed. Yeah. I would, I would say this is more like a domestic thriller where it's like, you know, the person's like trying to infiltrate their, like this like normal family life and then destroy it.
01:02:40
Speaker
result There's all kinds of like different subcategories of like the thriller genre.
01:02:47
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but I mean, Wikipedia says it's a psychological thriller, which I guess kind of... Yeah, because really pure the the dad perspective is psychological. Yeah, like he's getting like all these might like he and David are playing mind games with each other.
01:03:08
Speaker
But yeah, definitely check it out if you haven't seen
Watching 'Fear' and Comparing 'Flight Risk'
01:03:10
Speaker
it. um It's not really, it's not streaming where you see it's like kind of like rented digitally or try trying to find a copy somewhere. um But ah yeah, it's if you' if you see flight risk this weekend, you want another you know evil Mark Wahlberg, this is kind of your only option. So you got those two movies now. And come back next week, we'll be talking about ah The Last Witch Hunter. It's found it's getting a 4K release, finally.
01:03:35
Speaker
every Everyone's been clamming for it, so we're diving into, I think the only movie that's based on the main star's D and&D character.
01:03:47
Speaker
But is it set in the D and&D world, or just sort of like... No, that's that's the weird thing, is like it's not like a D and&D fantasy movie, it's like an urban fantasy, which is not D and&D at all. This is the same modular thing.
01:03:59
Speaker
Yeah, it's it's it's like another game system that used D&D rules, but it's not D&D, but it's just D&D character. ah We'll we get into all that next week. Vin Diesel, witch hunting for family.
01:04:15
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um Also next week, ah check out the site. We're going to have our commentary for the Wolfman. We watched the original, the 1941 Wolfman, because obviously the the new Wolfman came out this month.
01:04:28
Speaker
although ah didn't do that well, critically or commercially, but we're gonna we'll talk about the much more ah revered original one in our commentary next week. So I'm going to check that out. um Also, you can also heard say I have a review of Back in Action, the new spy movie, the latest of a dozen of these like secret spies that revealed that there are families such as spies.
01:04:57
Speaker
Which included like Mark Wahlberg in The Family Plan on Apple TV Plus. But it it yeah just seems like there's like ah like every other movie in streaming is like, oh, this person was secretly a spy, and now their family finds out. I also feel like ah Daddy's Home would have been a secret spy movie. Yeah. but that like That's like the twist. Mark Wahlberg says the CIA or something. I feel like Daddy Home.
01:05:27
Speaker
three would have been that. Yeah, back in action, um just very review, but the short version, it's it's it's it's insanely bland and forgettable. Oh, no. Like you see this movie like 50 times already. yeah Like paint by numbers. yeah only The only interesting thing is that it's Cameron Diaz back on screen after a decade.
01:05:51
Speaker
Uh, you know what this, that movie needed was a white while horses rollercoaster. Yes. that But then, but it had to be like the 2000, like whatever 25 version. like So, uh, I don't know. I don't know what where you would go to do that nowadays. But yeah, head to the site, check all this stuff out. Um, we'll be back next week with less witch hunter.
01:06:18
Speaker
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