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Episode 149: "Alien: Romulus Review!!
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This week on the show the boys review of "Alien: Romulus"! This episode was a lot of fun and the boys had a blast recording it! We hope you all enjoy it and we will talk to you later!!
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Introduction & Preview: Alien Romulus
00:00:00
Speaker
Welcome back everyone to this week's episode of the Popcorn Podcast. I'm Tommy Cresta alongside of my co-host Ryan Ferran. Today we're here to talk about Fedi Alvarez's newest film, Alien Romulus. And before we get into that, of course, like every other bird episode. go Oh my goodness. We're starting early today. um Yeah. How you doing, buddy? Doing fine. How about you? Doing pretty good. Having a good week.
Sports Talk: Phillies & Bo Nix
00:00:24
Speaker
Philly's lost, which wasn't... Yeah. I mean, listen.
00:00:28
Speaker
It was a close game. You can't be too upset. I mean, you'd be upset about parts of that game, parts being named Jose Alvarado. We're fucking with Merrifield. Oh yeah, with Merrifield. Did you hear him after for the game? No. People are upset about it. It didn't piss me off that much. He was like, he basically said like, talking a little shit, but also said like,
00:00:48
Speaker
It's always good to play well against your former team, the guys who, you know, cut you because they thought you weren't good enough. It's like, it's always, it feels good to play well against them. yeah But he also said like, I can't blame him. I was playing terrible with Philly. Like he's, you know. Yeah. I don't get what's wrong with, you want to play bad better against the teams that cut you. Yeah. He was, they were talking about it on WIP. They were saying, they were like, you know,
00:01:10
Speaker
Wow, he's just kind of talking trash there, throwing a little shade. I'm like, it was he's a brave, because he was throwing a little shade, but he's you know he's ah he's a professional baseball player. that's That's what you do to an opponent. You talk a little trash, but he also, he was professional enough to say like, yeah, I was i was pretty shit, and yeah but it felt good. and so Yeah, Whitmerfield, that was a Alvarado fucking Jesus. Just stunk it up. Four walks and in an inning.
00:01:37
Speaker
You walk in a run off, you walk fucking Gio or Shala to walk in a run. Or Shala. Or Shala, whatever it is, dude. I don't give a fuck. Aw, man. I didn't even know he was on the brakes. Neither did I. I completely forgot. I know Ramon Lloriana was on the brakes. Is he? Yeah, he's the one who made the catches at the end. I didn't watch it. I was driving home. They made a couple of sliding. He made two sliding catches to end the game. That's fun. Yeah, Marcelo Zuna Homurd, of course he did. God. It's just, it is what it is. Yeah.
00:02:06
Speaker
Disappointment. Homestand was good though. Homestand was great. Yeah, we just got a long road trip ahead of us. Really? Nick Cassiannis and Nick Cassiannis extended his hitting streak. Homestand is on base streak. Dude, Cassie's up to 250 now. incredible That's incredible. That's what we should have made the bet. He's not getting to 30 home runs, but he's hitting, you know. he might I still think I've made a bet with Neat. I said he would get to 20 home runs, 260, 70 RBIs.
00:02:31
Speaker
You could do that. You could do it. You need to hit a couple more home runs. He five. He's 15 or 16 right now. I thought he He didn't just hit his 15. Oh, maybe it's 15. He just hit one the other day. Well, yeah, but I don't know. He might have 15. Yeah. um But anyways, yeah. In other sports news, Bo Nick's getting the starting job. Did he? Yeah. The first rookie starter since Elway. Holy shit. Yeah, a long time. It's a long time.
00:02:59
Speaker
Yeah. We're going in into year six, Daniel Jones with the Giants. Ooh. Was that a kid album on, the dude album on Twitter? Oh yeah. But they also, the Giants fans found another video of him trucking that kid. Really? He ran it and just ran through the guy. So fuck that dude.
00:03:16
Speaker
i just saw like one of the meme pages like do not talk shit on my quarterback you might suck now but fuck you still the fan your as over making forty million dollars a year as much that by paints giants fan yeah does but So there's a little sports segment for the actual podcast. Well, I'm not that upset. Those two, those two interceptions. The one was a deep ball that just, you threw it to a rookie in the cornerback, who's a veteran, just took advantage of it. I just saw About the pick six. The one of pick six was the meme pages like, terrible, but do at the same not talk shit on time. my quarterback. He might suck now, but fuck you.
00:03:48
Speaker
He was falling over in the end zone, you know what I mean? Like it was, that one was way worse, but at the same time he was like, yeah, I should have just thrown it at his feet. Oh, really? It's nice to look back on his. Theo Johnson, is that his name? The guy who picked it off? No, the tight end we drafted from Penn State. He's going to be good. Fucking big boy. Canadian too, which is the one thing that worries me about him. But, you know, he's a big dude. Canadian tight end. White dude who can barely play quarter.
00:04:18
Speaker
Vanilla Vic, baby. Oh, my God. Oh, shit. I think he is for another year. Dude, he made a trip, but he ran his fastest Tibery kill. He did. You cannot take that away from him. He fell. He did fall. He did fall. Well, I mean, it was Philly. There's some snipers out there, you know? There's some snipers out there. You have no idea. People get all over the stadiums, dude. Remember when, uh, fucking... Harvors don't run. Yeah, there's two guys in the roof for nothing. Like, how? Oh, my God. I would love to find out who those two were. Just how the hell they ran on the roof. They're best friends. They're firefighters. Are they? Yeah.
00:04:46
Speaker
How do they get on the roof? I don't know. They just brought a ladder into the same room. They just said that it was like a goal of theirs was to watch a home run from all on the roof. Good for them. It's fucking
Initial Thoughts on Alien Romulus
00:04:55
Speaker
amazing. Well, enough of about sports. Let's get into the point of this episode. And as I said, to talk about Alien Rongless for now or this new film, it just came out this past week. It's already made over $140 million, which is pretty Pretty good for a film, especially on the $80 million dollar budget, the smallest in the Alien franchise so far. Sitting at 7.5 out of town, IMDB 81 on Rotten Tomatoes, 64 on Metacritic, 91 on Google. And yeah, I mean, initial thoughts. It's Alien. I'm a sucker for this franchise. I like every one of the entries except for a resurrection where she hits the behind the back hook shot with the Alien. She did it, though. yeah She hit that shot. yes That movie makes me so angry. I just like that movie.
00:05:37
Speaker
um But yeah, the rest of the franchise, I've always been a big fan of it. I was very happy to get to go see Alien back in theaters when it was just out, I think, two months ago. I've grown to really like Ridley Scott because I used to talk a lot of shit on the guy. Nothing but mean to him, be mean to him. But he loves he loves Alien and there's not many directors like that quality. They're willing to do franchises. Yeah. And he he loves his. Yeah. But yeah. um Well, he's doing a couple now. He's doing Gladiator now. Oh, I think I. Oh, my God.
00:06:06
Speaker
I managed to sign it in the wall. If the others are making money, these ones are making a bank. He realized like, ah you know, retirement's not really in my wheelhouse. Let me just make some cash. But I love Fedi Alvarez. i'll I'll talk more about him in a little bit. I have some notes, but yeah, I'm a huge Fedi Alvarez fan. So I was super excited when this movie got announced. I'm super excited when the trailer came out and I'm all around very happy with the project. I definitely have issues with it, but I still think it held it up and it was good enough for me to put it in the rest of this franchise for a franchise that is so critically and financially successful. Yeah.
Film Analysis: Practical Effects & Acting
00:06:41
Speaker
It's my little like intro. No, I thought it was good. I'm not as much of an alien fan. I haven't seen, I've seen the first one. That's it. Cause I wasn't our guy. So that's, that's my, uh, that's my defense, my excuse. So I hadn't seen any of them besides majority of the first one, but I, you know, I kind of, I got the gist of it. Um, but I was kind of looking forward to this movie. I thought the trailers looked pretty good.
00:07:07
Speaker
I wasn't as hype forward as you were. And I don't think I liked it as much as you did. But I also, I still thought it was a, it was a good fun movie. Like it was, it was a good horror action kind of thriller type movie. It did its job perfectly well. I thought all the effects were really the standout, the practical effects were the best part of the movie. um Acting was good, directing was good. Everything about it was just solid. There was, yeah you know, there's not much to complain about. But I also thought,
00:07:32
Speaker
There's not much to really like write home about. Like there was nothing that's from this movie that's really going to like stick with me. You know what I mean? Yeah. Well, at the same time. There's a very specific two seconds of this movie that I have not forgotten about. Well, yeah. Yeah, that got you pretty good. But God. Yeah. I mean, I thought this movie just did its job well. It's a good summer action horror thriller. It's just a summer blockbuster. Yeah, exactly. You know, I agree. I love I mean, I love Kaley Sweeney.
00:08:00
Speaker
I've been a fan of hers now. I got excited when I saw her in Priscilla. she I think she was incredible in Priscilla. I love her in Civil War. And then, yeah, yeah I think she was really good in this. And they made it. Like, I was nervous of how they were going to do like the whole action here at the end, which is such a big thing with the original franchise, oh but Ripley. But they did it. They found a way to go kind of about it without her having to be just like an all of a sudden bad ass randomly. And I like how they went about it. And I know some people.
00:08:28
Speaker
an issue with that, but that's not what I had an issue with. I think my biggest problem in this entire movie is how quick the chest burst happens. Yeah, it does happen fast. That's my only issue with this in entire, like my only thing that I was watching it and even like the first time was like, it's really fast, especially like when you see like it's in every movie.
00:08:47
Speaker
it's always a little bit. Yeah, it's like they're totally fine. It's an hour, maybe a couple of hours. So yeah, that was my biggest issue. But as you said, the practical effects are so, so amazing. and this yeah I did not think that the ah I want to spoil it. The thing at the end. The thing at the end. The stuff at the end. I didn't think that that was real. And now, it came out that it is. I would never in a hundred and a million years expect that guy. They went for it. Yeah. I mean, many hours had made a very conscious choice. And I mean, all the xenomorphs were there. Like that was people in suits. It was either people in suits or it was puppets. Yeah. to
00:09:23
Speaker
the fact that they made like RC guard facehuggers was so cool and I genuinely think this is the scariest one the franchise because there there is certain there is jump the two jump scares like the two big ones but then there's some really just creepy fucking things yeah that whole last 30 minutes yeah so much creepier than anything else that's come out of the alien franchise yeah it was cool i think I think the best part was the tension throughout this movie as far as like scares go. A lot of the jump scares, the one jump scare fucking got me really good and then the other one got you really good.
00:09:54
Speaker
But they're they're decent. um It got me twice. It got me the other time when I saw O'Connor. And I was counting it. like i was one mississippi And I still like jumped. Oh my god, it was a good jump scare. Yeah. um But I thought the scenes where it's like really tense, like the one when they're walking, I don't want to totally spoil it yet, but the one where they're walking through. The room. Yeah. Yeah, that was a really good scene. That was really, really good. i thought that was the The scariest part was just like the tension throughout. You never know when something's going to jump out. So that part was fun. Yeah. no And I think the what was the kid's name? I don't think it David Johnson. He played Andy. Yeah, he was good. do Really good job. And at first I was like, oh, is this going to get like annoying? I was like nervous, like with the idea of like, because I really like his character and how sweet he is in the beginning. But then, of course, like you don't know how it's going to go over two hours. Yeah. Also, this movie flies by.
00:10:45
Speaker
it does. It does not feel like two hours. Not at all. But I uh, yeah, though, as I said, the practice effects were really cool. The sound design was, I mean, it's alien. That's like a huge part of the whole franchise. There's that scene with the chest burst. When it goes completely dead silent, all you hear is Isabelle.
00:11:05
Speaker
Mercado's scream. Yeah, so I like that whole say I like seeing the ship come flying in. Yeah, you got to have a good scream. It was a good it was a good harsh. Yeah, I was very into the whole idea of the movie. I the whole idea of using it and the way they use it worked. The sets are they just they were fantastic. The there was one shot the c same time. First off, when she's walking, when she first gets off the ship and the lights are all flashing, you know what I'm talking about? Yeah.
00:11:29
Speaker
oh I was just looking at Spider-Man for a second. um That shot was really cool. The shot of the ship when it's going to crash and all the lights are coming through. Don't talk about like the headlights are like coming through the ship. It's a slanted roof. Yeah, I think I know what you're talking about. It's in the trailer. I don't know why. when I was was like, man, it's such a little pretty like didn't have to be in the movie. Like it was just like a quick shot, but it looks so pretty. The whole movie is just gorgeous. I think Fedi Alvarez just has a really good, really good eye and he has always picked good cinematographers to bring along with him.
Alien Romulus: Franchise Context & Visuals
00:11:59
Speaker
But going into the actual where this movie falls in line, because I know I was definitely confused when like the movies come out. i I was like, the prequel idea, the sequel idea. And this is I didn't know this is dead in the middle of the franchise. Yeah, it's mid it's for it's the three clean up to and then the three after.
00:12:17
Speaker
It's, I thought it was in the middle of one and two. Yeah, but it's Prometheus Covenant. Oh, I figure forgot they were prequels. yeah Yeah. And you see, and people would like, you don't have to see any of them to see this movie. Like there's no, there's like Easter eggs there, which are nice. But if you've seen Prometheus, it definitely.
00:12:33
Speaker
I think enhances the ending, makes it make more sense. I like Prometheus. I haven't, so I don't know. You should watch the whole franchise. I think i'm Prometheus is good. Just go watch Resurrection. Just to skip over that final one. It's so bad. Yeah. I will say that. like If you say, I mean, it's tough to be like into film and not see a lot of like the famous scenes from all those movies, especially Alien 1, 2, and even like 3. The shot from 3 to everyone. Yeah, like the shot of the alien right up against their face. My biggest complaint about this movie is that they just play the hits constantly. But yeah, but it's so enjoyable. Except for the one that made me like full on cringe what with the one with Andy when he says the line.
00:13:16
Speaker
Oh, bitch. Yeah, when he said, dude, it's i know it's supposed to be a joke, but it's just so it just doesn't know the news. It doesn't fit whatsoever. I was like, oh, my God, that was bad. Good work, Bobby. Which won't say he's the and but the bionic person, the rook.
00:13:37
Speaker
oh oh Oh, yeah. He's in the original. Yeah. It didn't bother me. They asked the family, they got up. I didn't know he was dead. and I thought it was maybe him and they just de-aged him, but it's just full on CGI. It didn't bother me. You can definitely tell. It's not the best face CGI, not that there's ever been like a super fantastic one that I can think of right now. I mean, it was nice because it was they did like the puppet with the CGI, so it didn't look as bad as some of them I feel like sometimes come out. yeah But they did ask that. I did read about that. They did go and ask the family. They got full permission from everybody. They wanted to do, you know, they were very serious about, you know, handling it with care. and i I didn't think it was egregious or anything. I thought it was fine. but And it kind of worked in the story. Like it made sense of why it was all happening. Yeah. Did you, um, I think it's so hard to talk about this about spoils because you don't want to. Did you like, do you like the like look of a scene like,
00:14:33
Speaker
It's cool. look Like, yeah, do you find it cool? Like, I know some people like are like, why do people like like it so much? Do you think a lot of things look better? Predator alien? Oh, that's tough. I'm fully on the side of the xenomorph. I've always found the xenomorph so scary as a kid. I think xenomorphs are cooler looking just because they're more, you know, alien like predators are just Basically people with a different face. Their body doesn' pray is dope though with the skull mask. Yeah, it's cool. Yeah, I think the xenomorph is probably cooler looking. That scene when the xenomorph shows up out of the alien.
00:15:06
Speaker
man, woman, that yeah body, wall body. that That scene, I got so excited. I said to you, I said, I had the nerd bird coming to that scene. I was just like, I don't know. I think every time, like when seeing Alien in theaters the whole time, I was just smiling, even though I was terrified watching it.
00:15:26
Speaker
But just, I don't know. it I know it's a lot of fan service. I know it's not super original. It's following a lot of the same beats of the franchise. I know it's going to be Xenomorph, Xenomorph, face hugger, chest burst, Xenomorph. I think everything's good. Something else happened. Yeah, of course. But I still found Jordan. I'm still excited to see where that was going to go. And i really I really enjoyed the final 30 minutes. I thought it was so tense. And you knew something was going. like You're just waiting to see how bad it could get. Yeah. And that birthing scene.
00:15:57
Speaker
ah Yeah, it's rough but um I think to that point of like it feeling very samey I think they they did mix it up by making the face huggers a much bigger threat because there's so many i mean if you've seen the trailer it's not just like one who infects one dude and they kill it it's the move There's more face huggers than there are xenomorphs, a lot more. And they're almost more dain more like- Because they're faster and they're just everywhere. Yeah, know they're they're in the movie more than the xenomorphs are. They're even more of like ah of a monster um in this movie, which I thought was fun because the face huggers are super cool and super dangerous. You know, it's not just the xenomorphs who can get you. so Yeah, it was it was cool to focus on them. But I will say about the xenomorphs when we were talking about that.
00:16:40
Speaker
There wasn't really like a money shot with the xenomorphs in this movie. You know what I mean? Like yeah I was waiting for like a shot, a full shot of them. Like in all the movies, there's always like that one. There's always just like a cool shot of like it screaming or something like that. They kind of tried to do it. I realized it more the second night, but it was too, like knowing it's like a held shot. yeah i it off it's the It's either right before she they fight, like with the whole epic, the climax of the movie, I guess.
00:17:05
Speaker
Um, or it's right before that when the xenomorph first shows up, there's a first shot in that whole sequence in the basement and it does like a close up on it and the little mouth comes out a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. But I do go, I did want like a.
00:17:18
Speaker
like on bull Which you kind of get it with Isabella Mercado when she's hiding. It's like on top in the water. I did want like that. Yeah, I feel like it's it's more so like the budget maybe like they this is the smallest bites. Yeah, like they definitely had to hide stuff a lot more and you can you can kind of tell they were trying to hide stuff um by just making it. It's always dark, which obviously like in a horror movie, it's going to be dark. It just yeah you know makes it scarier. So they help. They hit it well, but I do kind of just wish And it's not a super big knock on the movie. It was still good. But I just wish there was like a more of a money shot. Yeah. this The shot that you remember, because as you said, each movie kind of has like the shot. yeah Yeah. And like I said earlier, like this movie to me doesn't have a shot that I'm going to like remember for a long time. So, yeah, I just I think that was one of the things that was kind of missed in this movie. They didn't just have that shot. You know, I was so happy when that one kid died. Which one was he? Bajoorn?
00:18:14
Speaker
Jorn. Bjorn. Bjorn. I hated that fuck. He was such a little shit. I'm so happy to ass it hit him. Yeah. He was such a little asshole to Andy. Yeah. Well, hold on. All right.
Character Dynamics & Pacing
00:18:25
Speaker
So.
00:18:27
Speaker
um Isabella Mercado's character. Yes. Was Tyler's sister. Yes. Correct. I think that's the dad. Yeah. But they were cousins.
00:18:41
Speaker
Yeah, that's what because he goes because in the beginning of the movie, he's like, I don't mind my cousin. He's kind of a dickhead. But then they kind of like cousins like it could be because they don't kiss. they Yeah. But they do have them and like they touch foreheads and he touches their stomach. Yeah. So I was like, oh, it's kind of odd. Maybe they're not real cousins. maybe It's like fring husbands. Maybe maybe. Fucking Hope. We're really rooting for ah an uncle and his niece.
00:19:09
Speaker
In House of the Dragon right now. I can live with this. Yeah, but that's different, you know. It's not. It's different. It's different context. I that's I didn't even think of that. Yeah, because they said it and I was like, wait a second. The license naturally. I think the sun is. Right. Oh, yeah. That's why it's getting darker. Yeah. Well, I guess it's how it works. I'm excited for her, though. What is she? Oh, she's Hawker.
00:19:39
Speaker
Yeah, she is yeah, I should be fun. She's got some ups and down rolls recently She's got actress she's yes, she doesn't know she's and I just did madam web. She's gonna be in the last of us, too Yeah, she's um the love interest. Yeah, I figured her name I'm safe for Abby, which I know a lot of people being so mean to that poor girl. Yeah They had to give her extra scary. She's so fucked up. We're so fucking annoying Now back to my notes though All the set piece, I talk about that. I have a lot of notes. I don't want to read every single one. Yeah, of course. I said the feeling I got when you get to see the face on the xenomorph. And I do. I want to take my dad because he likes alien. He really loves alien. And he made him just watch aliens. I think me and you talked about recently. And he was like, oh day I've never seen this from beginning. And he's like, I was really good. So I'm trying to convince him to come see this one because I was like, it's a good mix of the two now.
00:20:33
Speaker
oh as I said the chestbursts were a little too fast. I think Andy and Ray's relationship I really liked because you can actually tell how upset it makes rain that he has his new plan. Yeah. Did you like the scene when he won't open the door? That was, I felt so bad. Yeah, that was sad. He's like open the fuck. And then you just see the Xenomorph land and start walking like, oh, okay. And then you can just hear, you can't really hear them because through the door, but she's like, don't turn around. Don't look behind. There's just this 10 foot creature that's going to impale you in a second.
00:21:06
Speaker
Connor wasn't a friend of ours, Connor. He is the best person to go with to watch horror movies. And he was like, oh, bitch, you're so dead. You're so dead, bitch. She got yanked and he goes, there she goes. yeah He's always so funny to watch a movie with. One time guest on the podcast.
00:21:22
Speaker
Yeah, then the episode corrupted. got her up there ah The curse of Connor. We have to do another one. with That episode was so funny. We were getting so angry at the Hollywood Reporter. remember there What was it on? It was their 100 Marvel movies. That's what it was. yeah and some of And the end game was like 38. And we were like, what the fuck is this? But we'll we'll get Connor back on again.
00:21:43
Speaker
ah I said I really enjoyed how fast paced this movie was because I, at one point, even rewatching, I was like, I feel like we're like really far in the movie. And I checked. I'm just like, got my phone out really quick. It'd been like an hour and 20 minutes already. I was like, Oh my God. Like, I was like kind of just, you know, we're like getting close to the end. He's like,
00:22:00
Speaker
Just start us thinking, I don't know. Yeah. Yeah, no, it's it it really doesn't let up. But I think it's impressive because it doesn't let up and doesn't have a lot of time for, like, character scenes. But the characters still, like, you still feel for these characters. Yeah, you don't want you don't want the main ones to die. Like, you're rooting for everyone. Yeah, like, yeah everybody kind of has, like, a specific kind of character. um Like, what's the word I'm looking for? Arc.
00:22:26
Speaker
Not arc, like a character like mold. You know what I'm saying? Like everybody's kind of like a traditional. Oh, yeah. like Like everyone fits their role. Yeah. Yeah. Like, there's you know, there's the asshole guy and then the the girl who the final girl is kind of like pregnant. classic and Yeah. The pregnant one. And then love interest. Yeah. Like everybody has that classic kind of character mold to him. But you still kind of feel for them. They still feel like personal. They still they feel like real people, except, you know, Andy feels like an Android. But You should. You should feel like one. Yeah. um But I thought that was impressive. Like you said, it's it's nonstop. It's very brisk, vast fast, fast paced. It doesn't feel like it's as long as it says it is, but they still manage to get these characters and like you feel something from them. yeah So I thought that was pretty impressive. Did ah I want to ask you, do if you were in this movie, like in this world, would you want to get killed by the face hug or chest burst? A xenomorph. The offspring.
00:23:25
Speaker
or the acid? Which way you could go? I mean, ah when you say xenomorph, what kind of xenomorph? You know what I mean? Because you can get impaled by the tail. I think the the mouth inside the mouth, it's probably pretty quick. It was an eye. It went through his eye. I understand, but you know, it's quick.
00:23:42
Speaker
I don't know. He keeps screaming after him. Yeah. I just wanted a little snack. That shot was so scary when he lifts them up and it brings it close to him. And then you see all the other ones. Again, though, I wish they kind of held that shot for an actual second. Like the actual scene. It hits him. We should have, you know, said something about spoilers. But we didn't say who. We could meet multiple people. But yeah, it hits him and just like immediately cuts. And it was it was cool. It was a good scene. But, you know, it was more than noise. Yeah.
00:24:11
Speaker
Well, yeah, again, I think it was just kind of hiding the budget, you know, cutting away pretty quick. But I think they did pretty good, though, like with what they do. So because there's a lot of definitely there's there's the scene where Kaylee Spaney notices the xenomorph on the screen. She's like, you see it and it like leans out a little. Oh, yeah. They did a good job with all. And all the technology looked so good. Like it looked exactly how I wanted to. look cause Yeah. You need to now may still resemble stuff from the 80s. Well, now it's new technology and all the CGI you can do now in practical effects.
00:24:39
Speaker
Yeah, I love it. It did look really cool. It was that, you know, retro futuristic type stuff, which I
Practical Effects & Tension
00:24:44
Speaker
just love. It's awesome. That's why I love Star Wars so much. The originals at least. yeah you you have your it's just It just looks so much cooler.
00:24:51
Speaker
It's like the beep like it's so it's definitely not like futuristic, but it' not at all it I don't know how it is so cool. No, it'll never be like that. It's probably never going to be like that. But it's so much more entertaining to watch instead of just like pressing a touchscreen that makes no noise like a fucking iPhone. Yeah, it'd be so boring to watch. But you're having to like, you know, manually press buttons and hearing a beep and stuff. It's just more entertaining. I did want more from mother. I want to hear um I wanted mothers like the system. I wanted to see more of like them trying to talk because that's how Andy controls it. He's talking through the system. Do you have any, do you have like a favorite scene though?
00:25:30
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um Probably the one I talked about earlier, the quiet scene. They had to stay silent. That was just cool. It was very smart. They had a really good like end to it. Yeah. It felt very old school horror. Yeah. But it's also like, it wasn't Like if you, if we talk about it, it'll sound like, you you know, hard character being stupid, but at the same time, it wasn't a stupid decision. How, how the scene ends, like it was, you know, had happen yeah it needed to happen. Yeah. Cause you had two really good scenes going off at the same time. And it was cutting back and forth between, and there was, yeah, I think.
00:26:07
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Fetty Hour is just the best. I really love how this guy makes movies. I think Don't Breathe is so good. I think The Evil Dead remake is amazing. It might be the best in that franchise. But yeah, there's just so much that he does well with and the use of practical effects. I mean, it is huge, like it's noticeable and it feel it makes it feel so much more authentic. Yeah. Because it feels like you can reach through and get attacked by these things. Yeah. and which yeah So Fetty Hour is great job. and Oh, I love how fast everyone dies.
00:26:37
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Yeah, like it's not like one and then very nearly everyone else. It's one, two, three, four. And it's they talk about this is the perfect organism. It's the perfect hunter. It's the perfect it's everything. Yeah. The perfect version of something of what we should be is what the whole point of this movie is, they said. And I know people are like.
00:26:58
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And it's all it's been people that haven't really watched the franchise yet. They're very much like, oh, well, this company's stupid for wanting to catch this. You know, that's like the whole kind of joke of the franchise. Like, yeah, this company knows that they're being stupid. that You shouldn't do it, but they're just going to keep trying. I did love the ah opening, like catching on there, like carving it with all the scientists and like their gear.
00:27:19
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And soon as soon as they're having kind of like, you stupid motherfucker, he's like, why? There's yeah, I just I love how dumb the company is. And I love the I love Jackson. I thought it looked really cool. The colony and the zero hours of sun. Yeah, that is. That's right. Yeah. Did I have a call? Oh, did you like the chess first sequence? Because I talked about it earlier. I really like the idea that I like the.
00:27:49
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The thing crawling out of her was so ugly. Yeah. And I love the the thing they brought in, like the X-ray machine. Oh, that was such a cool detail to use. Yeah. That's the only time you could see that like the budget was when she puts on her arm. Yeah. But that looked great when she did it to her actual chest. Yeah. It was cool. All right.
00:28:08
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What happened? Spoilers? I already got more. Oh, no. Yeah, we can have in the spoiler. All right. Spoiler. So when Luke Skywalker showed up at the end and took the face hugger to go train him. So going arm right now it looked amazing. But yeah, go watch the movie and then come back here and here's talk more in depth about the actual spoiler side of things. The who is your favorite death? Like who had the best death? I mean, probably was it Tyler that the eyeball one was probably the best.
00:28:38
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yeah I don't know. I'd like the girl, the either the chest first or at the end. yeah balance split When she gives birth and then the thing just... yeah ah that's That's what I was talking about. I was talking about the jumpskirly when I was like, there's two seconds I was stuck in my head. It's the shot of it of the offspring on all fours. When you first see it yeah and Andy looked... That was creepy. What a terrifying shot.
00:29:04
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and it's just silence like there's no audio that you can hear her whimpering yeah but it's just that it just tilts it oh my god yeah and i actually wrote in my notes about it what did i say oh yeah robert but brosky i think is how you pronounce it i will never forgive you for that disturbing ass look yeah yeah and very others and i guess fox and whoever else helped with that getting deciding We're not just going to CGI this. We're not just going to puppet it. We're going to go find this kid that got famous from playing basketball. Do you think he remembered him and was like, hold on. There's this basketball kid. We never planned that. If Eddie did that, if Eddie might do it. Or do you think he would like was trying to be an actor for a little bit and he was like, I'm 7'7". 7'7", 190 pounds. Yeah, I can do this. What do you think it was? Do you think Fedi Alvarez just hit him up? Like, hey. I feel like that there might have been like an idea of like kind of like bringing in the
00:29:56
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Promethean stuff. Prometheans, whatever they're called. Prometheans, I think they're called. Whatever. that The count. I know what you're talking about. Yeah. yeah That is pretty much. I don't think promethean it's It's not right. No, there's it's Project Prometheus. is what yeah Aren't they just called like the um engineers or something like that? Yes. Thank you, Prometheans. That moves so good. I'm rewatching that soon.
00:30:22
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um But yeah, I guess there was maybe an idea of that. And then they started thinking about how to do it. And maybe one, it was definitely like an intern. I was like, wait, what about this guy? And then they were like, no. And if they ever was like, yes, that's what we're doing. We're going to track this guy down. How tall is Kaylee Spaney? I don't know. Because that shot of how much taller, that's when I was like, oh, maybe it's not real. Let's see if it lists her height. You know what I'm talking about where it's standing there looking at her. Yeah. and She's looking up at it. Yeah.
00:30:53
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because I was like, it it can't be real, right? And I was like, look, at I was like, but it looks like a real person. Mm hmm. Because he's what, seven, seven. ah Probably around there. I don't know. man I don't know. I'm not finding a fucking height. She's she's not an athlete. It's not just listed. I want to bet I got this. OK, you want to go that far into it? I want to know. good I wanna know. Five one. OK. Holy shit. yeah He's a big boy. Two and a half feet taller than her.
00:31:24
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about this, about five inches, two feet, five inches. No, he's big, big boy. um Yeah, no, I mean the makeup look awesome.
00:31:35
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all the The design of it was just super, super fucking freaky. Look at the back of its head. It's bad. It was so it was just cool looking um that birthing scene, though. That that was rough. Yeah, that's. And then that was now because I was waiting the whole time, like from the trailer. They do that. shit Remember, like how the trailer opens panning over those pods and the ones full of blood and you get like a screen. i remember i was like I want to know like where this and they went for it. Yeah.
00:32:04
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You know, I just I'd like everything about this movie. I didn't have anything that was like. So bad that like it took me out of my of what I wanted, like that makes sense. Like it didn't take me out of the movie ever. Like it would never be so bad that I was like annoyed. Yeah. Well, the one time the fucking bitch get off her. You bitch. You don't say that. He says it like a question. It's like you bitch. It's all that. That was I wanted her to say it.
00:32:32
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If you're going to like hint at it. If you're going to, they didn't hint at it. They didn't hint at it. I'm saying what if you're going to hint at it. All right. Yeah, that was, that was the only scene that like took me out and was like, Oh God, that was bad. Connor thought that when the alien called her, that was Isabella Mercado.
00:32:48
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He's like, oh, it turned her into a Z. I was like, no, you stupid bitch. I was like, it just wants to kill her. Yeah. I have seen people complain about that. Like, why did it grab her? I don't want it to get, but it took, it could have just like impaled her on the way down, killed her. You know? Maybe we're trying to birth more of them. Maybe it wanted to get it because then you see the face that come out. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I was thinking. But I have some people complain about that. Like, why did it hold her for so long? It was like cradling her. You know? It's okay. Yeah. It was like, I saved you. You're going to be okay now. Why do you think, um,
00:33:18
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Why do you think everything's so like sexualized in this franchise? Like the face huggers are kind of like, they look like a certain body part. The way that the zoom was hatched look at a certain body part. You don't know what I'm talking about. I don't know about the face huggers, but no, like the face of a face hugger, like the bottom. Oh, I don't know. I haven't seen one in a while. Um, I don't know. Just fucking artsy Ridley Scott was fucking horny as shit.
00:33:53
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It's just a hole. Ew. What the fuck is that? It's where the tongue thing comes out of it. Oh, yeah, I understand that. I don't know. You like that? like where like I'm just wondering why. like I think about this, and because it's like this in all the franchises. It's not something new. Yeah, sure. I just want to know what Ridley's idea was. I mean, it's like that in like a lot of movies. You do a lot of stuff. Men. Men was significantly worse. Men was so much worse.
00:34:22
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um Yeah, no, I think, I don't know. If you have like a birthing type thing, you just, you just go, sure, that makes sense. You know, like a birthing fetish. I was so confused. Like if you have a scene where like something's getting birthed, you just go, yeah, that makes sense. Yeah. Make it look like that. Vagina wall. It's cool, man.
00:34:42
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And you talked about something earlier that I really liked was the how they made the face huggers more of like a threat. Yeah. Because they're a threat in all of them. But it's not like he said one. I mean, there is thousands of them in this movie throughout. You don't see all of them. but I'm saying you see the casings of them. They see a ton. That whole scene when they get released is so cool with the red light, the water. Yeah. You never really see them in the water. You see them swim once and resurrect. And then there's seen aliens where one comes out. We never see a face hugger do it. It was a cool way to implement them into the scene now. And I liked why they go on the ship, the that they're trying to get to that planet, Yavaro. Yeah. Yeah, I had no problems with any of the decisions they made. Maybe the bitch was a little, little hokey. Yeah, the lionfish. Yeah, not female actresses. They also they recreate.
00:35:34
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It's not like scream. We were calling her. They chased the whole town. Mickey. um Yeah. normally So I'm like, just meant vi vietnam yeah, that movie looks so good. I'm so excited. Just won the Palm Day Award. All right. But yeah, we're not going to be that mean. Everybody was everybody was nice in this. Oh, for sure. And people were some fucking piece of shit. You guys come up, come up. and Yeah. Oh, the post rifle. We can talk about that. Did you like that, the autoing?
00:36:03
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Oh yeah, it was cool. yeah I thought it was a cool way to kind of like MacGuffin the me ah final fight. Yeah. I will say though, when, when Annie comes down with the last like couple of bullets, cause she's shooting and yeah how she fires like 20% left and she fires another like 15, like 10%. And he fires it for like five seconds and he's like, all right, now it's empty. I did like the herb. I liked the use of the zero gravity. I liked their way of like getting around.
00:36:28
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I had no idea in the trailer that that was going to be the that was blood. I like in my brain just never connected. I was watching. I'm stupid. Yeah. But yeah, I really like the I think the acid blood is something so cool with the with the creature. I mean, it's the perfect organism.
Action Sequences & Overall Recommendation
00:36:41
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Yeah. um And I like that they do like, there's a whenever you have I mean, this is very specific. But whenever there's like acid stuff or like something that melts through it always like stops at a point and it's never like, you know, just stops at a certain floor and you just never really think about it. They go like it it melts all the way through the ship. Like they just thought of it. And they were like, Yeah, it's not gonna stop melting shit. Yeah, because he brings it up when he's like, he's like, you can't shoot. Yeah, because there's Just be vacuumed in the space at this point there's more on the bottom floor. I really like the explanation of a
00:37:12
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um
00:37:15
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I guess operation for me is like them getting the blood and trying to blend in, make a perfect human now, which then leads to the ending. But I think that they just did a really good job of building on some lore, kind of explaining more of why these things are happening. And I like that they didn't do too much on explaining the actual xenomorph though. Like it's just the permanent reasons. It's just out there. Yeah. It's just something we have to deal with now.
00:37:37
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I do wonder if they're going to do more with them. like Do you think Kaylee Spaney is going to come back and do more aliens? I don't think so. like Do you think they'll just get to Yovaro and be happy? I i don't know. They might. She might just run out of gas. Yeah. She is like, I don't know if I'm going to ever make it. I was like, damn, this poor girl just fought a xenomorph. Whatever that other creature is, the offspring, and then a bunch of fake suckers.
00:38:02
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And the I did think it was funny the girl who does die to the chest burst. She just caught a stray too. She was not even part of the whole running away from the face huggers. Yeah, she's like waiting there and the thing jumps that just jumps right on her face. God. um Yeah. The jump scare got you with Rook, right? Yeah, when he wakes up. Yeah. Yeah. Because they touch him the first time and he's fine. And then they go back. And they're really doing it for him. Yeah. yeah That was a good jump scare. And that that jump scare at the end.
00:38:27
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Damn, and I knew it was gonna, as soon as the scene started, like it was like, the first time I was like, oh, there's gonna be one more. Of course, there's gotta be something. And I don't know if it was because maybe they timed it so well. I don't know how I saw it twice and it's got me again. Like it was a, it was a jump scare that I've seen and it's still, I did like the same jolt. I didn't jolt as much as I did when I watched it with you. Yeah. I got some air time with me. Oh, you jolt. Yeah.
00:38:48
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Yeah, I mean you had a you had a legitimate reaction to Rook and you know yours like you just yeah No, I don't know. I did make noise The dude in front of us was cracking up at Connor really like leaves covering family going It's just so, he's so loud when he reacts. Yeah. Dude, I was nervous because the scene next to me was like covered up, like just out of service or something. and But on the way there, you were telling me like they had facehuggers on the premiere. The whole time I sit there, it's like, is something going to pop out in the middle of the fucking movie? This random theater. I want to buy a facehugger mask. Yeah. Yeah. It looks like me breathe, doesn't it?
00:39:31
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That's cute. Does it have the thing? You know, this is the whole, this is the whole deal. Wrap around your neck and just go straight down your fucking throat. Someone should have made a popcorn bucket with the xenomorph, with the face hugger. Yeah. You can just pour it straight in. Oh, I was going to see if they reach in. To reach in. Cool, man. Grab by the tail, dude.
00:39:55
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Well, Andy grabs the one by his tail in the room and throws in an electrical horn that blows up. fuck That was awesome. Yeah, it really is just a super fun summer blockbuster. Yeah. totally And it didn't take away from the franchise. I didn't ruin anything. And it was just fun. Like I'll watch it again. Like if if it's ever on, I'll probably be like, oh, alien. Yeah. Now.
00:40:17
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Yeah, it takes itself seriously, but in a fun way. It's not too over the top. though Yeah, it's not too like it's serious because it's, you know, it's a harm and they're gonna die. Like they got characters that take it seriously. But I feel like they definitely had fun. Like while filming this. Oh, for sure. They definitely did some stupid shit with those facehuggers running around. Yeah.
00:40:35
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No I'm out that it was like miserable like freezing the whole time like that part might be sure yeah um I and yeah they do it is a lot and I know people are like oh it's just all fancy over which I think I said earlier too but there's a lot of it yeah it's so much fun like I just had a good time watching it for someone who loves the franchise I think it's a perfect entry like it's just great like there's nothing bad there's nothing like people have problems with Prometheus people have problems with covenant because they do they make decisions about the franchise now moving forward while this is just like Xenomorph fighting violence. That's really the whole movie now. Yeah, which is great. It doesn't need to be some Oscar. I mean, this one could get like production design and stuff like that. But yeah, yeah, i it's so hard to talk about movies like we talk about this all the time. Doing good movies for me is so much harder. But ah
00:41:25
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Yeah, my last two notes. I have said, of course, in alien fashion, you think things are all good. They're not. The final 30 minutes is me. Right. I've been talking about the Isabelle Mercado takes the injection of ah Prometheus. Fucking stupid. Yeah, I don't know why. And I guess it's because she was like bleeding issues. She's like, I'm going to die. She got impaled. She live.
00:41:47
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They put her in the tub. I forgot. I forget if she lives or not. I swear that at the end it shows. No, I think it just shows Andy. Yeah, it does it just shows Andy. like what Did you the all spring killer? hate that thing yeah Do you think it killed her or I don't remember if it killed her or not or she was coming out of her. The black tape. Maybe.
00:42:06
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was poisonous. I feel that's probably not good for the human body. Yeah. I mean, she definitely she's definitely all fucked up. But I forget if he gets his neck just slit open. He gets. ah Yeah. I forget if she was um if the thing killed her or if she was still in like the maybe she was in the thing that got fucking dropped out in the asteroids. No, she was laying next to the tubes. Yeah. I don't know. Because remember, she finds the thing like a no. Yeah. in Or whatever it was doing to her.
00:42:36
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Um, yeah, now I have an intro. I really want to know how they came about getting him. Like getting a kid to play the offspring. And i go i want to know how to and i wanted one made him call idea to do yeah I wonder if they just hit him up, like, so remembered the video and just said like, hey, you're fucking huge and you want a blank issue. Yeah. Or if he was maybe trying to be an actor. Maybe he likes the franchise. so Yeah, maybe. Yeah. Because there's definitely like a market for people like that. People will just like. I played the alien before. Yeah. Just seven physical specimens who are like, I can't act, but I can play a monster. Pretty cool. And just, you know, the woman who plays the nun.
00:43:09
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yeah she's a very specific load she's making bank off of it it's just huge uh yeah then my last note as i said that look the offspring on all fours looking at andy in silence was fucking terrifying yeah it was cool because then i came home after seeing what kind of and there was just a skeleton in my dining room scared the shit out of me But yeah, no, I really, really had a good time. I i really enjoyed myself watching this movie. I love Alien. And yeah, I think if you like the franchise, it's definitely not a movie if you don't love Alien. If you're not a big horror person, stuff like that, maybe this isn't for you. But if you like action, you like a little bit of scares, not too, because I don't think it's horrifying. like No, I don't think so. If you want to see maybe a horror movie and it's not super scary, I think it's a good one. And if you like action, it's good. You like sci-fi.
00:43:59
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it's got It hits all the beats of a good sci-fi movie for me. Yeah, absolutely. I agree. And then what are you going to score it? I was thinking like 83. 83. Yeah. like It was a solid movie. Nothing blew me out of the water, but it was fun, very well made. I think production design, it could definitely get at least nominated for that at the very least.
00:44:23
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No, I think it could I think you can. I have a feeling it can. And hopefully it's going to be really hard to be doing. Yeah, about that. I give an 88, so I didn't give it quite 90, where I was wanting it to be. But again, it's not disappointment. Yeah, 90 is a really high score to get. Yeah, totally. Yes, I mean, we're within five. It's close. And I thought I thought you were going to get like a 68. No, you're very hard to judge your feelings on film. Yeah, my feet.
00:44:55
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What the fuck are they trying to pull?
00:45:00
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It's not Sigourney Weaver. Sigourney Weaver still looks great. Yes, she does. It's just a random pop-up video of Aliencast. Where are they now in 2024? It's Sigourney Weaver next to just some random old lady. It's just not Sigourney Weaver. Do you have anything you want to add to Alien?
00:45:17
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um Yeah, just go see it. It was it was just a fun time. It's a good summer action horror movie. It's just a ah fun time. I think if you're the person where like callbacks really piss you off, you're gonna have a couple scenes where you're like, Jesus Christ, that was that was bad. yeah And it's not just the get off or you bitch scene, which was the worst of all. of There's a plenty of calls. It is definitely like, hey,
00:45:41
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for This great scene, yes. Yeah, they recreate the scene we talked about earlier with the alien like right up next to her they do that they just they they recreate a bunch of stuff but it also Does enough of its own thing to stand alone and you know be its own movie doesn't fully rely on that like a lot of other ah they kind of It's pretty much like Force Awakens to this franchise. It's just fun callbacks. It's nothing that like- Rise of Skywalker. Yeah. It's not the entire movie is just based around that. it's It's its own movie, but with some fun stuff in there. So yeah, good time. Go see this movie.
Fan Questions Segment
00:46:16
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for I agree. And now for the first time in a very long time, we got some fan questions. Wow. i picked ten
00:46:23
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10. 10 fans. 11. 11 fan questions. We have 11 fans. We have 11 fan questions. Damn. We probably have like more than 11. Six of them asked two questions. That's 12. My math sucks.
00:46:40
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um First question, this question is from Owen. Did you think the film's practical effects in hampshire enhance the film's overall storytelling experience? Yes, next question. Yes, I agreed. I mean, that's the best part of the movie for me. so ah What did you think of the film's portrayal of the Alien and how it compared to other sci-fi films? I think Alien is the best version of an Alien. Yeah, it's it's probably the most iconic. it's It's just super fun. I think they did a good job of portraying it. It feels very scary whenever you know it's around. um But like I said earlier, there wasn't really that like money shot. um Yeah.
00:47:17
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so that's you know They don't really show it, at least in my opinion, they don't show it to like it's fullest glory, you know what I mean? They kind of, ah like we said, it's probably just hiding the budget a little bit. um Yeah, if you want to see it in Strubular, go watch.
00:47:32
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aliens probably aliens. So many of them. Yeah, like, yeah, they they just it's always in the background. It's lurking in the shadows. It's, you know, crawling ceiling or some shows more where it's like, you don't see a ton. Yeah, kind of do. Yeah. You know, it's there, which makes it so much scarier. Yeah. Yeah. They do a good job of showing it when they do show it. and It always looks cool. But yeah.
00:47:52
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It was good. um Oh, this is a good one. ah This question was from Sophia. um Hey, guys. So happy you brought back the fan questions. I've been dying to ask you about the upcoming The Crow remake. Hence why I picked this question. I know, Ryan, that you have very strong opinions on this. So I just wanted to ask, what aspects of the original do you hope they preserve in the upcoming remake?
00:48:15
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I mean, I would hope they preserve the tone of just fucking piece of shit. Dolly. Gothic city, but it doesn't seem like they're doing that. So, you know, that's cool. The premiere was yesterday. What was it? Now I just keep checking. I just want to know, I want to see like IGN or something. I'm like, yeah. I'm a good more American person. I don't give a fuck what they have to say. Question number four for Noah. Thank you, Sophie. That was a good question.
00:48:38
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um Yeah, because I guess they're asking you. on Yeah, I mean, it just it seems like they're just doing like, New York or something. No, it's Detroit. Is it Detroit? They filmed in Detroit. Okay, cool. But it just doesn't it doesn't look like how it looks like Detroit, not, you know, the Crow. gothic Yeah.
00:48:56
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the invest When we first turned it on, you were just like, I knew it was like, crunch I didn't think it was all fucking wrong. It was just like miniatures. Everything was on fire. It was fucking sick. more in the crew I love to do that movie. Yeah. If they open this movie with like a really shitty miniature. Oh my God, it'd be so funny. I'm so damned. Show me something. but Yeah. um ah Question number four is a question from Noah. Fediara has talked about being down to make a new Alien vs Predator film by co-directing with the director of Prey. Is this something that you'd be interested in?
00:49:28
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hell Yeah, could just be so much fun. Yeah, they couldn't they couldn't take it as seriously as they took both this It just needs to be an action movie. It just needs to be fun. Like that's that's all it is. Like the abp movies are dogshit Requiem What does it have to do with rec? What was the definition of record? We looked at all the definition of Requiem and we were like, why the fuck is that the title of the movie? They just picked a random word. That sounded cool um But yeah, I think Alien vs Predator with those two would be fucking awesome. I think it'd be a lot of fun. Yeah, totally. Because Prey's so cool and Prey does a good job with a super small budget to make something super interesting. I think it would be difficult to have a bigger budget. Yeah, you've got to go bigger budget, but you also have to use a lot of CGI, definitely. Because if you have two guys in a suit, just slapping each other. It's Godzilla vs King Kong, like the original. Yeah, it'd be so funny. I mean, again, the same thing I say when we talk about Godzilla movies, just one frame of two guys in costumes beating the shit out of each other. Just one, maybe two frames. You don't even realize what you're looking at. Oh, man, it'd be so fun. Just one. Just give me one. In the middle of a fight scene, just splice that right in there. And you don't even realize. Yeah. Just subconsciously, you're like, what? Was it one?
00:50:43
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So good, um but yeah, I'm I would definitely I'm down. I would like to see an alien versus predator again a Better version of it. Yeah. ah Hey guys. What there's not 10,000 xenomorphs climbing the fucking pyramids Hey, that's my problem with that movie It's so funny everything else. Yeah. Um, hey guys newer listener here just started listening about a month ago So I know you've probably been asked this but are there any particular genres or directors who work consistently resonates with you? It's from home I mean, guys who are just consistently good. like Who likes the guys that do every time you know that their movie comes out? That's your favorite, right? Yeah, I love them. It's just so much fun. Every movie, it could be whatever. It's just the way he directs and edits and just makes his movies. It's just so much fun. It's so you know infectious, I guess. Yeah, I'm not gonna lie. Mine's probably fatty hours, isn't it? Every time I know that the movie's coming out, I'm
00:51:39
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I have such high standards for both of them yeah and they hit on all of them. I mean, I don't think for the hours has a bad movie. I don't think the knee has a bad movie. Yeah. The knee is the one that like, I mean, Denise, the perfect director. then He's the best director. We're working right now. Don't be wrong. I love Nolan. yeah Nolan Nolan's a very close second, but the knee, I mean, Nolan's had, you you know, more movies, but oh, James Wan, probably. juan waza catholic at the time I love.
00:52:01
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i't Again, i even movies like Megan, where he's just producing it. Such ah a unique idea. And then, um what was his last movie? Malignant, which I thought was so cool. Definitely not as scary as I wanted it to be, yeah but it was just a cool concept. Yeah, it was a cool concept. James Wan's probably the guy I'm going to go with. There's also the classics, like fucking James Cameron does a movie every couple of years now. Spielberg.
00:52:22
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Yeah, Spielberg's always great. At least Scott. Cameron's always a guy like, even when, when a or not alien, um Avatar was coming out. We we were talking shit. It can't be that good. It's been with that guy. First one isn't even that good. And then it was just, it was just good. Like there's a billion. And we were like, it's going to flop. And it comes down to two billion. Cameron, Spielberg, whoever the fuck. they The guys who had just been around. They're superstars. yeah They don't miss anymore.
00:52:46
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um And now a long time ah but offside long time listener of the show I'd love to see more rankings episodes. Could you guys do some director rankings? Example like a fatty average ranking. Yeah, I'd be fun. That's from Sam. Yeah, not that Sam Okay, she doesn't listen to my show she's gonna go fuck out of podcast Yeah um Yeah, I'd be totally down to do that. Yeah, we because we already did we did no one with Raiders. That was fun. Maybe we do another one rares. We do a Denis ranking Denis would be cool. Yeah Even though I know i have everyone I know is my favorite. didnt its I mean, it's my favorite movie second favorite movie. You know my favorite deny movie, right? There's no way you don't know this. I definitely know it. It's just blanking right now. And I can't think of it. You're terrible. It's fucking um um next question. Sicario. No, it's not Sicario. Sicario is great. ah Fuck. I know. I know what it is. I'm like picturing it in my head, but I can't think of the title of the movie.
00:53:42
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You know what, guys? We're going to sit here and wait until Ryan answers this question. It's Dune. No, it's not. Dune 1's not even my favorite dude. I know. Oh, my god. My mechanic just takes his name. Blade Runner, Incendis.
00:53:59
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Do i I do love and send these? What's that? ah That's my recommendation. We go watch and send these on max. What's that short film? He did like the next floor, something like that. God, you're literally naming everything besides it. I know. That's my point. I don't get you can't think of this movie. You just watched the movie with one of the actors in there.
00:54:19
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Elvis. No, that wasn't him. Do not ever put Baz Luhrmann in a film doing the same conversation. Do not disrespect my man like that. God damn it.
00:54:34
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Cause you have to, the next question is, is for you specifically. Okay. So I can't ask yet. It's genuinely the one movie that I just can't think of the name prisoners. It's prisoners. Fucking God damn it. Exactly what I thought. One movie I just couldn't think of. god damn um ah Hey guys, happy to see fan questions are back. This one is for Ryan at the beginning of beginning of the podcast, you were not someone who would have considered yourself a horror fan or someone who watched horror movies, but you have watched the solid amount in the last two years. I'm trying to get into the genre. Do you have any recommendations for someone new who's trying to ease their way into the genre, Benny? Yeah, I think.
00:55:11
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I think if you're coming like me, we're like, I really like the universe. I threw you into it, too. Yeah, you did. Yeah, definitely. But um, I like, like I enjoy universe like I like fucking Star Wars and more like a film universe is cool with its own like special things. So that's why one of the first ones we watched was the insidious movies, which that kind of has its own like different world to it, like it's its own universe, which is with its own like set of rules and how it portrays the ghosts and demons and like characters, you know, come back. I think if you want to like get in the horror, those are pretty scary and also have a really cool like tie ins between each other. So that's a good series to get into. And that's four quick movies that are five, five. Yeah. Well, two that are good, one that's fine.
00:55:59
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And then two of them aren't very good. I see. I think three are good. One's OK. One's bad. Yeah. Because I love the first three. I do find enjoyment in all of them. I think the first two are good. Like, very good. One's three. Amazing to me. Three is really good. Three is
Horror Movies Debate: Insidious vs Paranormal Activities
00:56:13
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the girl, right? Yeah. Three is the probably the one that relies most on jumpscares. Yeah. Three is the one. It has some of the best jumpscares. Yeah. But also has, like, the least to do with it. But it's still part of the thing. There's still characters in the story, though. Yeah. Three is three as good. It's not as good as one and two. Four is my least favorite. That's the one in some random house where the guy's Yeah. It's more not that good. Yeah. But it's also like an origin story for... Yeah, it's just weird. It's just a weird movie. It's just another movie. But I think the Insidious movies are fun just because it's kind of like its own universe. I think it's a good... I was going to say either Insidious or I was going to say the Paranormal Activities. Paranormal Activities are cool. But sometimes some people have a bigger issue with like ghost stuff. I feel like Insidious is ghost, but it's also kind of like superhero-esque in a way. Yeah, that's the thing. I think it makes it kind of different. It's easier to watch.
00:56:58
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Yeah, it's like the demon has like its own like superpowers and like its own design and then they have to go and beat it. Like it's it's just a fun kind of hard. Upside down. That's Stranger Things. Yeah. I forget what it is too. But i think of it also the Conjuring movies are like genuinely good. And then you get to the was it the third or fourth one where it's in the house?
00:57:20
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That's, that's Annabelle. That is Annabelle. That movie is so much fun. It's, it's not good. It's not good, but it's just joyably fun. It's the perfect friends night horror movie. Yeah. Yeah. I'd say start off like, I still don't watch horror movies by myself because I'm a pussy, but we're just normal. Yeah. I'm normal. But, um, I'd say start off with ones that you think would be fun. Like watch it with someone though. Yeah. Watch it with someone because watching horror movies with friends and like you both kind of get a little creeped out. It's just fun.
00:57:49
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Cause you get creeped out. and when twenty of my jumps the other one just starts giggling yeah Once you realize that like you're both creeped out, you can't help but just laugh. And it's just fun. So get some friends together, you know, have a couple drinks. Drinks make it easier. Drinks
Future of MCU: Hopes & Doubts
00:58:02
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make it very fun. Drinks make your reactions a lot funnier though. Yeah. just I'd say just watch ones that you think would be fun. Ones that just have like a lot of kooky shit going on. Yeah. And then kind of dive into more of like the scary ones.
00:58:14
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Yeah, definitely don't jump. Don't do it. Ryan tried to do when he was younger and wants to conjuring. Yeah. And don't do that. That's a bad start off. Yeah, that was with a girlfriend who liked horror movies. And I was like, I don't want to, I don't really want to do this. Men the first one.
00:58:28
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Cause that's how I convinced you to get do it, right? I, we had the golf. Maybe the first one in like faders. Yeah. I remember, cause I remember that was like a huge thing to get you to what you're like, I'm not going to see this movie. And I was like, if it gets above an 80 and then it did. And then thank God it dropped very quickly, but it was an 80 when I forced you to go see it was, um, question number eight, this is from Oliver. Uh, yeah, Oliver, uh, what are your expectations for the future MCU films? And are there any specific characters or storylines you're excited about?
00:58:57
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Ghost Rider, I really hope Ghost Rider confirmed. Like, are they? Yeah, no, I didn't think he's got to show up, right? Like, he cannot do Ghost Rider. Maybe at some point. If not, then the Fantastic Four. Fantastic Four might be good. I need it to be good. I don't know. I'm hoping Mad Shack and pulls through, but.
00:59:17
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The mutant stuff I'm excited for. Yeah, mutants might be cool. I don't know. I got I want to watch X-Men 97. You know what you're saying now. Really? And it's really good. Yeah. um Captain america doesn't
Ranking the Alien Franchise
00:59:31
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look that good and know not ever said for it i didnt say tre cool thought there's a trailer it's lee it's like frommtom's phone gotch lookedd really cool though yeah Yeah, I mean, that's probably going to be shit, but also the characters are kind of, you know, say well Yeah, Daredevil hopefully is good. I don't know. There's not a lot of like faith. It's more so like expecting it to be bad. And then it's like an 80 and you're like, Oh, cool. Holy shit. Yeah. I, I, I can't see 80 is stretching. We're happy when it's like a seven day. Yeah, maybe. Um, yeah, I can't see anything coming out.
01:00:06
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I can't see anything like in the pipeline. That's going to be like a really good movie. I think we're in for a lot of shit and maybe one or two things that pan out and end up being pretty decent. And that's about it. Blade's never coming out. Blade's never coming out. No. There's only one blade. There's only one blade. Question number nine. Oh, can you guys do a quick ranking of the alien franchise? That's from Daniel. Ryan hasn't seen the alien franchise. You got it. um Bottom of the top, its resurrection.
01:00:35
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Alien 3, Covenant, Prometheus, Romulus, Aliens, Alien. I think Alien is, I know a lot of people like Aliens more, I think Alien is still leaps and, I think a Alien's like a 96, Alien's like an 80, it's about a 90.
01:00:52
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But I think it's like a pretty solid gap for me. well yeah For everyone else, it's very switchable. i gotcha Alien 3. Also, Alien 3, not as bad as people say. David Fincher tried his best. Man went for it. It's it the opposite of what fans want. It's the opposite of fanservice. They're like, let's see what the fans hate. And they did that. But
Chronological vs Release Order for Franchises
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it's not bound to rewatch. ah Question number 10.
01:01:16
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ah When you guys rewatch a franchise, do you watch it in release order or chronological order? I watch it in chronological. I like release order. You do like release order. I never understood. I mean, it depends. Why? Why is that? It's just the way the story was told originally. But but if it's in chronological, that's the story of the way the story is. That's the way it goes. Well, yeah, but like, if you show your kids Star Wars, you're gonna show them new hope first. Yeah.
01:01:43
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Because if you show them the prequels first, then you know Darth Vader is loose in the father. And that completely ruins that reveal. Yeah, that's like a little reveal. that What the fuck are you talking about? That's the biggest reveal ever. It makes more sense if you do it the- If you're rewatching, yes. But if you're watching something the first time- It says rewatching. All right, we'll fuck off. If you're watching something, if you're watching it the first time, watch Chronological. Because that's how they wanted the story to be told. If you're watching it again, then watch it in Chronological.
01:02:12
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You said chronological. I said yeah. Why should release order if you're watching it the first time? Second time through you do chronological. Yeah, I think that makes sense. Yeah, because Luke was showing his girlfriend the MCU and he did it release wise. Well, I would have done it. Yeah, make that makes sense. I would have done it chronologically. I mean, I don't think it hurts to do it. Maybe ah the MCU. I think it's more of a choice thing. Yeah, really at this point. Yeah. But yeah, I also think like if you chronological
01:02:38
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There's probably some stuff that they're going to be like, what the fuck are they talking about? Because you haven't gotten to that movie yet. Yeah. Like there's things like that. where you're like Yeah. Yeah. We're like, you know.
01:02:51
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That hurt.
Reboots & Remakes: The Crow & Game of Thrones
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um Final question. If you guys could have any film be remade reimagined or a franchise rebooted or have a recall, what would it be this from Eva?
01:03:04
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It would have been the crow. That would that was always something I was very... I know people think it's untouchable. It's not to me. I was very excited to see more. I want a newer adaptation. Dark Man's up there. I don't know. A series that can be... I'm trying to think of a series that are, like, reekwool. Really reekwool. Yeah.
01:03:25
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um
01:03:28
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Um... I don't know. The reekwool one, more confusing than I am. in a couple years, I mean, in like. 20 years when Winds of Winter finally comes out. Do Game of Thrones again. Do Game of Thrones. Completely, and completely faithful Game of Thrones. Death books never come out. It's never coming out. Death books never come out the same day. blade Blades yeah where alllis blade them wings of Winter and then Song of Spring has to come out too. so Halloween. Halloween? That's a good one. You left a dirty taste in my mouth as it was last year. I'm quite angry. I think a modern day Sandlot would be pretty cool.
01:04:05
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Yeah, like the travel team kids against a bunch of kids that play pickup. Yeah, that might be fun. like You definitely have to switch some stuff around you know because baseballs don't cost a fucking dime anymore. but I do not. A bucket of baseball is $60. Yeah.
01:04:18
Speaker
But I think it'd be fun, you know, you kind of do the same story, but just modern stuff. Set it in Philadelphia because, you know, fuck the Dodgers and, uh, yeah. Set it in Philadelphia. Yeah. Set it in fucking trucks. Get me a Robin. I want a Batman with a Robin, which I think we're getting, but yeah, we are braving the both. Forgot that's like a whole thing now. Yeah. Um, but yeah, it's not going to be good, but.
01:04:41
Speaker
Don't say that. Don't do that. I don't trust what's his name. Neither do I. But maybe he'll leave the project. He's not. But yeah, that's the end of the fan questions. Thank you guys for submitting them. I'm going to try and do these more often because they are fun to read through. Except, oh, I'm calling out the one that I brought to Ryan before the podcast. The one dude calling me out, he was like, congrats on your girlfriend. I really thought you were going to die alone. Yeah. Stupid motherfucker. Fuck you. I like that guy. Yeah, he's a good guy. Good job. It was you. That's my brother.
01:05:08
Speaker
Yeah, but yeah. Oh, what's
Weekly Movie Recommendations & Critiques
01:05:11
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your recommendation of the week? I gave one already. Why you were trying one of our I said in Chinese. We're Beetlejuice. I gotta tell you. We're the crow. I just watched Beetlejuice for the first time with my dad. You say some shit about Beetlejuice, we're gonna fight. We're gonna we're go to drop hands. We're gonna fucking fight. You didn't like Beetlejuice? I didn't like Beetlejuice. I liked i like i like Beetlejuice himself a lot, but it was very fun. That's all that matters. The movie was fucking boring as shit. i it was not I did not have a good time. All you care about is Michael Keaton. Yeah, Michael Keaton was a lot of fun. Hopefully, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is just Michael Keaton. Just call Beetlejuice too. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. Don't say it a third. Beetlejuice.
01:05:49
Speaker
Okay, what's your recommendation of the week? Completely. I just didn't like buildings. It's just boring. Say your recommendation of the week. So he's not my style. Burton is not my style. He's not. I respect him, but he's just not, you know, I hope I hope he follows this bill just close to the original. thing He does his last like four movies. Yeah. I hate the CGI Burton. What is my recommendation?
01:06:14
Speaker
of the week. It's not Love Lies Bleeding. I watched that movie. I watched it. I didn't like it. I didn't hate it. But it's wild, isn't it? It's kind of wild. The end is wild. Yeah, it becomes a body horror, my dad said. Kind of, yeah. It's not bad. But if you watch the beginning and you like the tone, the feel of it, you'll probably love the movie. I do want to watch it. I do. It's fucking something.
01:06:42
Speaker
Um, yeah, it's not that. Let me see. It's not bad though. It's not that. It's definitely not that. That girl's a badass though. Huh? The bodybuilder girl. Oh yeah. She's yoked for that movie. Dude, she's fucking huge.
01:06:56
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Yeah. Muscle mommy. Sweet. I don't fucking know. Can't think of any movie you think you should watch? Let me hop on ah HBO Max and see what I've been watching. Oh my goodness. Give me a second. Some other things
American Football Predictions & Banter
01:07:09
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you guys should watch. The Bear. I'm almost done. I'm on the final. Oh, yeah. The Bear is very good. Very good. Shimp Crazy. What the fuck is Shimp Crazy? Watch Halloween. Oh, Hard Knocks. I'll recommend Hard Knocks. The Giant Giants. The New York Giants. I don't care about the Bears.
01:07:22
Speaker
They're going to be good this year. No, they're not. Bears win six games. You heard that here. Six games. Oh, OK. If Caleb Williams pans out, Caleb Williams is going to throw more picks than Touchstones this year. OK. DJ Moore. DJ Moore, Keenan Allen. Keenown's chubby. Andre Swift. Did you see that? What? Keenown gained like 30 pounds. Did he? Chubby. Whatever. He's going one pot by biscuit away from me in tight end.
01:07:49
Speaker
I did not come over. They got a tight end, too, didn't they? Who's their tight end? They have Colcomat. Colcomat, that's who it is, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Their bears are going to be good. But anyways, near the Giants, hard knocks. It's very good. With the knocks in there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, they're going to be shit again. Yeah, the Giants are going to be terrible. So even though they're going to be terrible, who knows? We got Brian Burns, baby. We got Brian Burns. That D-line. We got Jaylen Hyatt. That D-line, baby. We got the League neighbors. Even though you watch hard knocks, they wanted a quarterback so bad. They did? They just couldn't trade out for one.
01:08:19
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ah Thank you guys so much for tuning in this week's episode continues supporting the show or tick tock or YouTube or instagrams everything like that Yeah, we'll be back. Oh ah I know what will be the preview in this week It's time for the crow baby is it coming up this week Thursday, baby shit Yeah, so while we were coming back to review the crow and I think i'm going I'm excited for. I'm going to hold out. I think I'm excited for it. ah So yeah, ah we will talk to you guys then. Make sure, as I said, to follow the pages. And yeah, Ryan, like ever always, what do you want to tell everyone before we let them go? Fuck the crow.