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Pizza & Italians & Rollerblades
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The year is 2024. Pat and Enrique are eating pizza with Italians while rollerblading through the end of the world. What a time to be alive.
Have you tried the Philly pizza scene? What is your favorite pizza place? What makes a great pizza? Would you eat tiramisu and lemon gelato? Have you seen La Chimera? What do you think about grave digging? Could you be about that life but also a moocher? Would you mooch off of an old Italian lady? Was Enrique really in an extreme in-line skating group in the late 90’s early 2000’s? How more rad can you get to be a rollerblading nun that fights non-skate-believers? Could a butterfly knife cure death in real life?
Thank you for listening!
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Transcript
Introduction & Episode Setup
00:00:00
Speaker
all right cool another episode of what we saw last night this time we're out without julia because she didn't see the movies that we saw but we found value in these movies so we figured we'd do a quick short video and as always a um warm up question today's warm up question is going to be a quick recap and a throwback to what we ate last night um i'm gonna name some recent restaurants and arica that me and arica have been to And Enrique, give your quick 30-second review.
Pizza Reviews: Cozy to Colossal
00:00:33
Speaker
But we'll start with pizzata. Okay. That was the written house one. It was next to... Gelato? No, no, no, no. Okay, pizzata, okay, okay, pizzata. So, 30 seconds on one o'clock. It's ah a small place, so it's small, it's cozy, it has two tables and counters, so there's not much in there. Probably a bathroom, I don't know.
00:00:57
Speaker
that is only a bad thing if you're like waiting for your food or if you're busy but other than that it's it's great because then you don't have people in there and you can kind of sit down and chat and people aren't being nosy i don't remember the pizza exactly exactly to the to the tea because i didn't take a picture to picture of it but I know the quality of the pizza was high. it um they gave you so They also gave you, well they didn't give them to you, they had them on the side, but I thought this was great because they gave you the small souffle cups. oh yeah And the small souffle cups had exactly the perfect amount of like garlic garlic powder and red pepper flakes and stuff that you needed. like It was like the perfect amount. So somehow, you know,
00:01:46
Speaker
I found that and and that's actually very important to this so this place because it's a neat little thing that they have. the pizza was So the pizza was really good. Again, I don't remember any specifics of it. They did have homemade um homemade soda.
00:02:06
Speaker
So that was good. If you want to go to a place where you can sit down, kind of eat, Afterwards, you can go for a walk around Rittenhouse, let your food go down, you know, drink some homemade soda or don't drink homemade soda. That's the spot you go to. All right. There was a Lice. That was the one with the gelato. Okay. Okay. So the place is really, it's really intimate. It's not necessarily, I mean, you could go with anyone, but it's an,
00:02:42
Speaker
small intimate place like the bar as close to the seats as close to everything but it's quiet they had music on but it was still quiet somehow it was um dark for some reason the pizza itself was if you get a nice size rectangular pizza it's their is that their only size that was like yeah yeah it's like i think they only have one size yeah so like that was their only size that they had but it was it was a decent size, probably. For some strange reason, it was rectangular, but they cut it in some sort of triangle. song yeah Very ge much geometrical. Yeah. I'm not sure how that happened, but it happened. so but the the the i got the broccoli I got the sausage and broccoli pie. It was a white pie, which I'm not too much of a fan of white pies because I need some kind of creaminess, something.
00:03:38
Speaker
but that I'm not saying it in a negative way, just personally, but to my surprise, it was a well done rectangular pizza. the broc They had so much fucking broccoli on it. so like the The sausage were obviously homemade because they were large chunks. It wasn't like a a perfect circle. It was just like like if they just yanked chunks off of a sausage tree and then just like cooked them, which was really good. the the I'm not saying they had a shit ton of broccoli as a bad thing. It's like most places, I worked at Domino's when I was younger and they would tell you, you have to make sure you have a piece of pepperoni for every bite. So you had to put them a certain way and then you still don't even get it on every bite. This had literally broccoli and sausage on every bite because they did it right.
00:04:37
Speaker
The gelato was probably either imported from Italy or an Italian was making it in the back because the that I've never tasted anything so real in my life. The gelato, I had a lemon gelato and a tiramisu gelato for some fucking reason. And they put them together, which horrible combination, but separately,
00:05:05
Speaker
Perfect, like the it tastes like I was eating a tiramisu and the lemon gelato, it didn't it didn't taste like your typical like water ice, ah you know that kind of like light flavor, it was fucking strong. It was like I was putting mushy lemons in my mouth. So the taste itself was, I mean, it was the realest taste of lemon I've ever had. like I can eat a lemon,
00:05:33
Speaker
and it wouldn't taste as good as like, like you that tastes more like a lemon than an actual lemon. It was phenomenal. If you want to go and take someone on a date, the the it was pricey. So if you want to impress somebody and take them on a date where 90% of the date is you're just walking around downtown Philly, that's where you go. Because you can really show them you know, I could splurge on you, even though it's not like a splurge on you place. It gives that vibe. So, yeah, like the inside very well. And we like, it's pricey, but it's fill like, you left, you left filled like, yeah they don't skimp on their portions. And we saw Marlene with the pasta dish. Oh, right. That was massive. Like, right. So they, they really,
00:06:27
Speaker
you know like you know think It's like a play in the head like, oh, just got a good menu. I'm going to get this because it's good. at like And I say pricey, but you know what? I wasn't on a date, so it was pricey because one person, like for one person, it was a lot of money. you know i forget I forget how much a podcast is. Was $20 or something around that so something like that was like with with toppings year at the 20. Yeah, it was I had just like the plane Yeah, it was like 22 ish. Yeah, three something like that a gelato was probably What like four dollars a cup? withwe Something like that toes, you know, but that's one person So if you're having one pie for two people, that's a hand separate gelato. She's not bad. You could split the pies we we did that big enough big enough we did
00:07:19
Speaker
but I wouldn't have minded splitting in the future. yeah yeah yeah the the is ah oh man like i i got I had to stop eating this to save you room for for gelato. Yeah, I ain't no bitch, so I just ate the whole thing, but I felt really bad afterwards. Like really bad. like i I think I went to sleep afterwards because my stomach hurts so much from how much I eat.
00:07:42
Speaker
but it is a place that if you go, both of them are nice places. So if you were seeing this as, if if someone walked up to me and and asked me, hey, can you recommend a spot? I'm taking my girlfriend or boyfriend to Philly and I, can you recommend a spot? Either one of them too. It just depends like how, how much you want to impress. Cause if you want to take them,
00:08:11
Speaker
to a nice place where you probably can't wear cargo shorts, but you can slide in their cargo pants, then what did you say it was called? Alicia? Alicia. Alicia, yeah. It's spelled like Alice, but it's pronounced Alicia. You definitely go there. you know If you just walking around the city and you're like, let's get a bite,
00:08:35
Speaker
Then, what was this one called? Pizzadas? Pizzadas. Pizzada. Pizzada, I'm sorry. Pizzada. You would go to Pizzada. Pizzada also had slices too. Yeah. Yeah. You get slices, you can split a pie, which I would recommend probably splitting a a whole pie for now. The pie was really good.
00:08:52
Speaker
you could split a pie and take it to the park. Yeah, exactly. day like You could eat a slice or two, take that take the rest of them, you know, whatever, take it to the park, walk around, eat the rest of the park, give it to a squirrel, you know, whatever.
Pizza Place Rankings & Reflections
00:09:07
Speaker
ah Homemade soda, though, that is where it's at, so. yeah And we got two mongos, Italian family pizzeria, home of the mega slice. Alright, so...
00:09:22
Speaker
they say it was the largest slice in Philly. It's definitely not not the largest slice in Philly, but i'm I'm interested to see if maybe there is a slice bigger. This was, and I'm not a small man. This was like the, and I have a picture too. It's tip of my hand to close enough to the elbow. I mean, it was a large slice. They claim it was 30 by 28. Yeah.
00:09:51
Speaker
That's no joke. And like, I believe it. Mm hmm. But I'd like to slice. So here's the thing about large pizzas. You always have to think about how am I going to get the right measurement for the dough? Because when you make pizzas, you have to weigh the dough so that the dough is not stretched too much and it doesn't become too thin where you can't pick the slice up so the larger the pie usually the harder it is to make like the perfect perfect dough to carry it this place i don't know how they did it but i can pick the slice up as i can like a domino slice or like uh you know those places that have like
00:10:42
Speaker
An average slice. Yeah, your your average slice, which is not a negative thing. it No, no, that would, that may it's it's very eatable. Yeah, I didn't have to, like, you go to New York, you get these, like, ah super highly overrated large slices that are floppy and you have to fold them because the dough's made so bad, it's floppy, they don't really give a shit, they're like, I'm from New York. But like, it's also like, there's a few places in Philly that, like, they have big slices and they, I don't know, we're not, I don't wanna, cause like, those slices are also good, but They didn't master this aspect of it down. um So like I don't want to shout them out and i criticize them, because I like those places. But there's a few in Philly that are like, we have a giant slice. um And it's hard to, they're hard to eat. You mean to you need a knife and a fork, and you you can't pick it up. Right, right. Shit falls off, the cheese falls off. like When you got this slice, when they took it out the oven and gave it to you, everything was on. it was like
00:11:42
Speaker
it was like wearing compression shorts, you know, like everything's where it needs to be kind of thing. And the, the, the size was good. It wasn't, it, it was a thin slice, but when I say thin, I don't mean like it doesn't hold, hold its own. Like it's a, it's a nice thin slice so you can eat if you're brave enough, two of them. And that's about a fucking small pizza. That's a meal.
00:12:10
Speaker
Yeah. And the thing is, like they're they're thin where you're like, which what we did, oh, I'm going to walk like a mile or two to get another slice, which is a really crazy thing to do. But that slice, I'm only curious. It it was a phenomenal slice. I recommend it. And then there is the brand new Planet Fitness two, three seconds down the street. So if you feel bad, you know.
00:12:38
Speaker
yeah you know weve parked in the Planet Fitness parking lot and walked to this place because they were basically connected yeah yeah then and we hit up up ah hit up a the the final one on the warm-up question would be Richmond pizzeria or pizzeria Richmond I don't know which one it is so so this one would So first of all, let's move back to um the first one Mongols, yeah, it's called, right That you you can't go inside like they're inside is just them cooking So they give you a slice through the window you eat outside and take it with you, right? This place you go inside but it's like
00:13:30
Speaker
way different like the vibe and the experience and all that because you go here it's like a guy he's done the thing is the guy when we walked back saw us remember that we bought a slice and thanked us like that's you know that's like your there was a little bit of an attitude ordering which is like that's a very like Philly thing he was like what do you want Right. But then like you you walk by, he sees you, he like eyeballs you, and then he's like, thanks a lot for coming, guys. I appreciate it. Yeah. Which is awesome. you know that's That's cool, because this dude takes pride in his food, and he wants you to come back, which I will go back. Yeah, no. i know like i will I'm going to take people there to get a large slice. But Richmond Pizza or Pizza Richmond, and that place now,
00:14:17
Speaker
completely different vibe. It's, and I don't mean this in a bad way, but it's like kind of history. They got the VHS going on. It got like the fucking, what I thought was Chinese checkers, but turns out it's just a peg game. ah You know, they got the, they got the little cooler of water. You can sit down. It's air conditioned. So like two different worlds from sitting outside in the heat, eating a fucking slice of pizza. That's the size of my arm compared to coming inside.
00:14:45
Speaker
getting some cool air, getting some water, sitting down, kind of more relaxed. um The slice, though, was interesting because, well, one, I wish we would have gotten a white slice, but the the slice was interesting because you get it and it's like really dark. You know, it's like you can tell that the cheese was, you know, you could tell it was in the oven. And, but you eat it And it is, it's not what you think. I didn't think it was burnt when I got it, but I'm just saying like some people would get it and probably look at it and be like, Oh, this shit was burnt, but it's not. The thing is that it was a great slice, a lot smaller. Obviously put it like this. The other slice fit on two paper plates. This one fit on one. So it's about to half a size, but the slice itself, they, they sprinkle a little, uh, Parmesan cheese on top and it's on the crust.
00:15:45
Speaker
the um They had the homemade ah pepper flakes, which... yeah They warned you. But rightfully so. Right, right. Because you you can get a... Oh, I eat fucking pepper flakes. And it's like, okay, cool. But you know they made these, so it could vary from really hot to hot. And people might think they can because they eat it from a fucking pre-made bottle that's that's calculated and weighed and stuff, but they also had ice cream. I didn't try it, but I don't think it's their own ice cream. You said it was like a... It's from 1.900 ice cream. Okay. that's a They partnered up, and so like they have they have a soft-serve machine there, and the ice cream is provided by 1.900 ice cream. So this is a place that
00:16:39
Speaker
sells pies obviously, but you can tell this is a slice piece. People come in, get a slice, get two slices, because they don't sell soda. You got diet coke, water, and probably something else. It's those kind of places. I think it's just that. Yeah, it's those kind of places that it's like, we only care about our pizza. And to be fair, it's a great slice, so it makes sense.
00:17:09
Speaker
I did like what that white pie looked like because I love when they put huge clumps of ricotta cheese. So I'm interested to go back there and try that out. Yeah. I want to say all the places we have, we've been on a roll and it's been great because we've hit a number of different pizza places and all of them have been great. Now, if I were to rank them, I guess,
00:17:39
Speaker
which they're all pretty much same quality. I mean, they were all great. But if I were to rank them based off of like my ranking, I would probably, if I were in the area, if they all four of them were like in the same on the same street, and I just had to pick one, I would probably go Passata,
00:18:05
Speaker
yeah Rittenhouse, not Rittenhouse, port richmond pizza or pizza richmond yeah i would do last slice i would do the huge slice last because that's a that's a place you go as like an experience but that's a large fucking slice so like You can't really eat that all the time, because you're going to feel sick. like That's a large fucking slice. I know. Because I love the place, but it's easy like yeah it's it's it's massive. It's insane. And say and and and um' I'm also thinking of like you had to sit outside, or you had to take it with you. And again, none of these things are bad things. And I'm not saying this is the worst of the four. But if i were to like if I had to choose and all four of them were on the same block,
00:18:52
Speaker
I would definitely go like that. I would rather go into that small spot, go eat me a nice little... ah I also wish, though, that the giant slice was closer if be if that was a written house. I mean, it would be it would be the the thing is, it would be too popular. But I feel like, isn't Lorenzo's also a large slice? It is. And they have good structural integrity and they hold up. But I feel like around that area,
00:19:20
Speaker
You have big ass slice. And then what was that one? Old City. Old City that has another fucking huge ass slice. And then Lorenzo's has the famous huge slice. So there's a lot, like the market saturated around that area. Yeah. I feel like where it sat, I think it's perfect. I think that's why he thrives there. It's perfect. And to wrap it up, one other well I'm going to make one point and then we'll I'll wrap it up.
00:19:49
Speaker
yeah He's been there a while. And like you know you could tell, like they they love the fact that they sell a giant slice. So like they're out there in Port Richmond, I think, but also to wrap up, all these places are Greek. And people should check them out. Definitely. Let's get into it.
Exploring 'La Chimaire'
00:20:06
Speaker
Since we were talking about pizza, we we saw an Italian movie at the Bourse last Sunday. I think it was, yeah. Yeah.
00:20:17
Speaker
We did three movies, three days, three different theaters. We went to The Borse, saw La Chimaire. We saw Rollerblades at Filimoca. And then we saw, I Saw the TV Glow, which we'll be talking about on a full-fledged episode with Juliet, because she went with us. Yeah, La Chimaire, we saw that at The Borse, which is still one of my favorite places to catch a film. Unfortunately, our theater was completely empty.
00:20:46
Speaker
was was such a shame. It is a shame. I don't know, we'll get into why it was a shame, but a little bit about the movie beforehand. it's It was released in the Caine, last year's Caine's Film Festival and it did very well. People loved it. The surprise of, they said the surprise of Caine's, 2023, which Caine's 2024 is going on now, so came out about this time last year. Couldn't get outside of Italy and a few other spots in Europe, couldn't really get in American theaters, couldn't get in in um English theaters, which is disappointing. Oh, yeah. And they the online argument was kind of like, why can't this film take off? Because everyone who sees it likes it. And we don't know. You know, he played in New York, a few art houses in New York, and in a few like
00:21:36
Speaker
I think you I saw that it played in DC at the Italian Consulate. They had a showing of it. It had like some special showings. um you know they They played it at some Italian festival and in in California. It didn't get a large theatrical release. The boys picked it up and we saw it. A quick just recap on what it's actually about.
00:22:02
Speaker
um It stars the guy from Challengers. I keep forgetting his name, Alex. Josh O'Connor. Josh O'Connor. He's English, I think. English, is he's one of the UK, he's a UK guy. Yeah. Josh O'Connor is, he's the Englishman, he's from England in this, but he's been living in Italy in a while. When they opened up, he just got out of jail. You find out that he has this um dislike.
00:22:28
Speaker
thing, like special skill to find ruined, ruined artifact. And yeah, so like he he's basically a grave robber and he's, you know, him and his crew, they go out and they grave rob and they find tombs and buried treasures throughout Italy and they sell it through a mysterious veterinarian who goes by the name of like, Spartacus.
00:22:57
Speaker
They got um an interesting dynamic, and you know they they're living a very poor, meager lifestyle in the hills and in Italy. And you know he's living in a ah little shack, just making enough to survive. And he's kind of befriended a old lady that his her daughter died. He used to date her. The daughter died. But she had some money, so he's kind of like a mooch off of her. Yeah, what'd you think of the movie?
00:23:25
Speaker
So you you forgot to mention he had like a fucking super psychic power.
Character Analysis: Arthur in 'La Chimaire'
00:23:30
Speaker
yeah eventually has the power to file okay Yeah. Listen, this is probably, it's hard to, so... It sounds cheesy when you say it out loud. Like, oh yes, I'm super, but like the way they depicted it, it was great. And he, so here, I'll say this, he was phenomenal in challengers, which has nothing to do with this. But I went into this and as soon as I saw him, I immediately knew the movie was going to be good.
00:23:56
Speaker
and it's hard because I will have to watch these movies again but it is up there with Doom 2 and in my opinion Late Night with the Devil and Civil War like it's up there with that that category of like amazing movies that came out this year now the crazy thing about this movie is that normally I can find normally I can find like one or two references of another movie and plug it in and then I start to convince myself, because I get in like a puppy love stage, so I start to convince myself like, oh, this movie's this, this movie's that, so I can level down. But this was, I don't know, like this was so original. The acting was phenomenal, but there's no point in saying that because yes he's did he's great. The acting was phenomenal.
00:24:52
Speaker
But the story was, he he leaves jail in the beginning of the movie and you see, and you're like, oh, this dude's just a fucking asshole, man. He treats his people wrong. and But then you realize, like, he just rolls with a crew. One, they're fucking down for anything. But he rolls with a crew of just shysters. You know, like they fucking, they're just like, they're grave diggers. And they are Tomb Raiders, I guess we'll say. Yeah, they're Tomb Raiders. His crew is down for anything, anytime.
00:25:22
Speaker
like they go there There's a scene where they're out by the beach and they're they're dancing. they're they You can tell it's like they're in like the poor part of Italy. it was like It's very like kind of grungy, but they have like a singer in a band and they're out there dancing, drinking, having a good night. But he's like, shit, I got like, there's something nearby. like My senses are going off and they're like, all right, party time over. We we brought our shovels. They're in the truck. Let's go. like They had a fucking shovel on them at all times. Like they did did they didn't fucking play around. They had a shovel. They probably had those like foldable shovels on them, like literally physically on them at all times. Like during that scene that Pat's talking about,
00:26:11
Speaker
They're having a good time. They're having fun. They go to the beach. She's kind of like being romantic with this girl who's like the student of the lady he's mooching off of. and he But then immediately it's like, he kind of like pushes her away and is like, no, no, no, no, I got to go do my work. Everyone's like, man, she's so fucking annoying. And at first he's like, leave her alone, man. She's good people. She's nice. But when it came down to business,
00:26:41
Speaker
they were They kept calling her what, a broomstick? Yeah, she was real thin. Yeah, they kept calling her a broomstick. But no, it was it was it was just cool because you would see like he's just about that. like He's got this he's got like this kind of special ability, we'll say, to find tombs, basically. And that was kind of the plot of the movie was that that specific scene, because then he found like a tune that had like everything was intact and everything was perfect. And Spartacus is a bitch, so she fucked him over and stuff. But the the the movie was, you had your funny moments, obviously. But then like you felt for this dude, man. like um Arthur, you felt for Arthur. You're like, damn, this is for Arthur. This dude's...
00:27:34
Speaker
He's really a nice guy. He's a good guy, but he was um like, yeah, Arthur, Arthur had this thing and he could have been, I think it's a mixture of like, he seemed like a real good guy, but he also was, which just probably makes him more relatable. He was a lazy mooch. Yeah. Like he could have far done better than he was doing in life.
00:27:59
Speaker
But he just, he found the easy way of like, I'm just going to find someone to sell the stuff and like use his crew. Cause like he was, he was about the life, but he was such a mooch. He kind of mooched off the crew. Um, he mooched off, you know, the old lady, like he was taking all her stuff when, cause she's old, she can barely see her here. And, um, he would go in and.
00:28:27
Speaker
like sneak around the house and then, but then also like show up and be like, Hey, can you make me something to eat? And you make me some tea and coffee and I'm going to smoke in your house, even though no one's allowed to. He was a mooch there. He's a mooch off of the girl, the broomstick that he met. And like, even after he he ended up fucking his boys over, he had like a moment of clarity, some stupid shit where basically he was just fucked up in the head for some reason.
00:28:58
Speaker
completely ruined their lives, his crew's lives, and went and mooched off of the fucking girl. yeah that was That was basically homeless because they found out she had kids and they kicked her out. She was basically homeless, mooched off her at the end of the movie, and yeah and then still left her and fucked her over. he Yeah. His character was this tormented,
00:29:23
Speaker
genius but also just a lazy mooch but it made it very compelling and i think people like we were the way we're talking about it it was like a little bit like haphazardly and confusing um and like i think we should leave some things blank on like how he fucks over the crew and how he fucks like over her and like all the things that kind of like get lost in the in between because i want people to see it i want people to watch it oh yeah I'm not going to say how he fucked them over but yeah and what his moment of clarity was and stuff like that because that's important to the movie. but even Even the stuff like they show him, you know like he's about the life of like screwing people over real quick for a buck, but also he's about you know trying ah to but like he doesn't have the work ethic and drive to follow through to get to take him and the crew to the next level he's like the way i keep thinking about it he's like a if you play the high school sports there's always the athlete that is just naturally gifted and really fucking lazy every we have really lazy like they naturally have muscles and they're naturally tall so like
00:30:41
Speaker
They don't put in the gym work, or they naturally just understand the game. So it's like, they might be going in, and by year two, it's like the people are saying, this is a D1 recruit. But then by senior year, they're like, I don't know. like or Or they get the D1 recruit, and they get to a D1 college, and they lose it right away, because they can't you know maintain.
00:31:08
Speaker
it's it's It's because you know they ah they have the natural talent, but they don't have the drive to make the natural talent work. and that's actually a That's a perfect way of explaining it because they needed him. you know They would have been like, you're a fucking asshole, man. like Fuck you. But they needed him yeah because at any moment,
00:31:29
Speaker
his fucking like spider sense of tingle. And he's like, oh shit, nah, this is where we gotta go, right? But they also knew he was a fucking swindler, because they fucking did it to like they did it to people. People would be like, oh man, I got this intel, and then he would fuck him over. yeah And they would all laugh about it and shit, but you know it's like he had a close relationship with these people, but it was also, they knew they needed him, or they're not getting paid.
00:31:59
Speaker
And he made it dumb because well quite they did all the work. Yeah, he didn't want to fucking do anything. So he would find the place and then they would do the work. Like they're the ones carrying things. They're the ones. And like, yeah, they had a good thing going. But if he had more drive, I think they could have been a higher like up the criminal ladder. Oh, yeah, they would have been. they They would have all been rich. Yeah, they would have been rich. But you know what I think that would have done to them? That would have ruined them because then The greed would have came, and then it's like, well, I do all the fucking work. And I said, well, I'm the one who fucking finds it. So then that wasn't there because, oh, they're fucking poor. Yeah. No, they were all very poor. Like, they're good like they're good at what they do, but they're poor. This guy's living in a shack that had no heat. He was used to do the butane heater.
00:32:48
Speaker
like to light his cigarettes and heat his house. Yeah, like the first one third of the movie he's got like a fucking fever. Yeah. Cause he's so cold and there's no heat. There's, I don't even think he showered at any point in the movie. He just cut his hair at one point. Yeah. Like he never showered or anything. He was just, he wears the same and it's like just this dirty suit. here Everything about him was dirty. Um, but it was,
00:33:18
Speaker
it was perfect to his character yeah because that's who his character was. it's like They always say that the smartest people couldn't don't remember to tie their shoes or stupid shit like that. right Don't take showers because they're so fucking smart. I don't know if any of that's true. That's what I heard growing up.
Final Thoughts on 'La Chimaire'
00:33:38
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and it's like that concept of he It takes so much out of him.
00:33:46
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which is funny because he doesn't do shit but it takes so much out of him to find these tombs and then do the bare minimum because he would dig a little bit but he would do the bare minimum and they would get the shovels they were doing the digging he's just doing like the fucking he's having like a moment and he would dig a little but they're doing all the heavy lifting and If it's his character, that all of that fits his character so much because it's like he carries this burden of they need him regardless. And he doesn't care about anything else. I don't give a fuck about this chick. I don't care about nothing. All I care about is raiding these tombs and not getting caught by the cops. That's all they cared about. And that was cool because I'm sure
00:34:43
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that in areas, poor areas like that in other countries, that's all they care about, man. I need to survive. How am I gonna how am i goingnna buy these chickens? yeah know How am I gonna get this grain to make fucking whatever bread tortillas? And like they offered him, when he gets out of jail,
00:35:00
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The one lady is like, I got a job lined up for you. And he's like, oh no, I'm good. Yeah. She had like a great job lined up for him. they She was like, it's going to, you know, I think it was like physical labor, but he would be making money. Um, yeah, it was physical labor. He would, and then there someone in a warehouse. Yeah. And he would be making decent money and he realistically, he could have done that and still done the grave robbing on the side.
00:35:27
Speaker
And like and you know he was he just like he looks there and goes no, I don't need to work right now I don't want to work and that's when you immediately realize this fucker dude is lazy as fuck Yeah, then you start paying attention a little bit more. This guy is just taken from everyone <unk> We'll wrap up with La Chimaera If it's streaming we'll keep you guys posted. We'll post on our Instagram whatever if it I hope it gets a US s streaming release It's still in the force, so like I've been texting my parents to go see it, I hope they do. i'll leave I'll leave with this. If this isn't nominated at least for Best International Film, it's just a disappointment.
00:36:13
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Oh, I agree with that a hundred percent. i mean I mean, I don't know. There might be more international films and one might be greater. I mean, if it doesn't get but if its yeah it was it was good. It was it was fascinating. It was honestly, truly, like I said, top five best movie of the year, probably best movie of the like top 10 best movie of like the past like two years. Probably phenomenal. Great watch.
00:36:41
Speaker
really happy we were able to watch it.
Enter the World of 'Rollerblades'
00:36:44
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And yeah, we we only I only saw it and I was like, oh, I've read that thing and it looked just interesting enough. We had nothing going on. I was like, let's go. And we were gonna flip a coin. And it was like whatever the one movie was and this one. And then I guess at some point we realized, well, no, this is only playing at the boars. Who knows how long it's playing for? And yeah.
00:37:11
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That was a great choice. yeah was like yeah the The other one was something that just came out in theaters and is it everywhere.
00:37:20
Speaker
yeah let's let's move on we down on Monday, which we mentioned before, and if you haven't listened to listen to Frank's interview, but stop this right now. Listen to Frank's interview, Frank Thoreau.
00:37:38
Speaker
the interview from Mad God and and listen to Eric. Yeah. So listen to Eric's interview who runs Filimoca. And you'll get an understanding of why we're talking about this movie, but Rollerblades.
00:37:56
Speaker
Yeah. that's So we went to the Psychotronic Mondays um This one that had just passed, and we when we saw Rollerblades, which I don't say this lightly. I hardly, rarely do, because I take um certain movies, they're like close to my heart. This was probably one of the greatest movies I've ever seen in my life, and it's by no chance a great movie.
00:38:28
Speaker
Like it's it's not even close, but it was possibly the greatest movie I've ever seen in my life. It's can I can I give the OK, because I know Pat not doesn't believe that I was in in in an extreme inline skating group when I was younger, but I was for a brief period of time. And this movie not only hit the nostalgia, but it It hits so many triggers in my heart, I guess we'll say. The movie, the movie was that. It was a world where beginning of the movie, they pan through, it's like a dystopian, I think you you mentioned on Letterboxd, like um what Mad Max was supposed to be kind of world. Yeah. Well they, remember they said, Most Angeles. Oh yeah, yeah.
00:39:24
Speaker
lost Angeles it was oh no no no it was the city of lost angels what names out yeah yeah no but the straight in the beginning it starts off with these chicks rollerblading in like a fucking gang formation it was the most awesome thing in the world and then at some point they show you like this dystopian worlds like trash it's like your typical 90s version of a dystopian world and They pan through a grave and it says skate or die and you can obviously tell that that person did not skate because they're dead and The the whole I guess the whole idea of the movie was in this new world Everybody skates the the most people and there was no rollerblades in the movie. They're all roller skates, but which is
00:40:24
Speaker
that's the only knock i have against this but it also was really funny so it's not enough yeah it was that's fine but like they had skateboarders no bikes shopping no bikes which I respect that they had a guy who had a like a longboard that was a guitar and so the movie was fucking bizarre right but you had your doctor what was his name hold on Well, talk about the nuns first.
Plot Twists & Dramatic Showdowns in 'Rollerblades'
00:40:56
Speaker
Okay, so... Cause they were the the good guys and they said they're the nuns. Yeah, you had you had this, like, society of magical nuns who basically what they did, their religion basically was to skate and fight because they so fucking were all martial artists and they each had their own butterfly blade.
00:41:24
Speaker
And they would make the cheesiest fucking sounds when they would open this blade, but the purpose of that blade, they would say is, we don't use our blade to kill, we use it to heal. So whenever, in a movie, they captured some of these nuns and they killed them, they slipped ones through, and the nuns would put the knife to the dead person's a wound or whatever, and it would heal. So now it would fucking heal. And that was like their purpose in this like dystopian world was to promote, they were like the the religious group. So they were like the the healers. they were you know They wanted people to follow their ideas, I guess.
00:42:14
Speaker
They were the healers, they were led by Mother Speed. Who was in a wheelchair? Yes, she was in a wheelchair. um But she trained all these like non-ninjas and they had a dog. Oh yeah, the dog was amazing. The dog didn't have skates though. Yeah, but he was, the dog was great. um they They were to shepherd us into the new world.
00:42:44
Speaker
kind of like bring us to like a better living plane, better existence. And um the the bad guy who was against that and he wanted to just rule the world and have chaos was Dr. Sakoi. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. yeah so I think they pronounced it like Satokoi. Something like that. Because it kind of sounded like Santa Claus a bunch of times.
00:43:09
Speaker
Yeah, it's like, I didn't know if they were trying to say Satan and Claus and... Right, yeah. It was like a mix between Satan and Claus, but Santa Boy, Santa Boy. you You were introduced in the beginning of the movie, you're introduced to, I think her her name was like Cross or something. Yeah. You're introduced to this like super badass chick who's... Sister Sharon Cross. Yeah. She like skates around and kit like, she' the the movie starts off and you eat they introduce her character, there's a guy just walking and she's skating behind him and she's like, okay, you fucking walker. And she like stabs him to death, right? um She gets like chased by the police and fucking kills the police. But when I say she's bad-ass, I mean, she fucked everybody up in this movie. There wasn't a man or woman in this movie that could beat her in a fight. Like she was fucking cool as shit, right?
00:44:08
Speaker
she was like the main goon for Dr. Saticoy who basically got sent on a journey to get the magic healing stone that the that the cold had well not the cold that the the what would we call them the nuns we'll say the nuns had that the nuns had and that stone was used for for good you know was to to have like perpetual energy and could heal And it was what carried their like beliefs belief system, yeah. And so basically he's like, I need this to, basically I need this to get my evil plan in motion, like get any other story. And she goes and she infiltrates this group of nuns. um She goes, she gets herself
00:45:03
Speaker
quote unquote, beat up by some skaters, but really, she just kicked her ass and um with her hands tied behind her back. it so And she was like, yeah yeah. The only reason she had bumps and bruises was because she literally said, I can beat y'all with my hands tied behind my back. She got beat on for a little bit, untied herself, then kicked all her asses, which, I mean, you kind of saw it coming because you knew she wasn't going to fucking sit around and be be a chump she infiltrates this group and then you get introduced to the sheriff who talks with vows and these and thou shall not come on to the you know that kind of shit but he has a son who his son doesn't like skate doesn't know how to fucking skate and the dad's like we're gonna teach you how to skate and you know you get introduced to that so
00:46:00
Speaker
At some point, um Sharon Cross goes into this, um goes into the nuns. She infiltrates them. She learns their ways. At some point, you kind of tell that she's getting like, she's actually learning their ways. And she's actually like, you know what, I like this a lot. And those people are good people. But then she hears Sadakoy's voice and he promised her he promised her half of his kingdom. Which like, he probably wasn't gonna deliver. Right, right. Shocker, bad guy's bad. Yeah, it's like an episode of Psych when the uncle kept offering everyone 50% of the pirate treasure. And there was like 13 people who were getting 15% of the pirate treasure. It's like that kind of like, goofiness where it's like, I'm gonna promise you this, but then he probably also promised his other goons half of his kingdom to do his dirty work.
00:46:59
Speaker
But she's like half the kingdom. OK, cool. She steals the she steals the stone. um The her her like master, she was the apprentice to this other head nun who was like the she was like their top nun who was their most valiant warrior.
00:47:18
Speaker
She steals the stone, goes back to Sadako's lair, realizes Sadako is just a lying piece of shit. They get, you know, eventually, I don't know why the sheriff was, I don't know why the sheriff was ah like a major part of this story. but The sheriff was great. So i won I'll explain the sheriff. The sheriff kind of looked like Dave Koye. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Why did he look like Dave Koye? He had a son named Little Chris. Yeah.
00:47:48
Speaker
He was like, and they took little Chris and he had the deputy who was just like, you kind of look like John Stamos. Oh yeah. because But like, yeah, like if the yeah real young attractive John Stamos, not that he's unattractive as an older guy, but like young attractive John Stamos and like middle-aged Dave Collier, but like they're very big knockoffs. And he's like, cause remember he was like the little Chris,
00:48:16
Speaker
um He went out, and this is like a lesson, the moral of like the story is always wear your skis because he went to the playground without a skis and he got kidnapped by Dr. Sanicoi.
00:48:28
Speaker
and then the ah guy The guy, the deputy or whoever he was, the sheriff, he goes, oh, I'm going to get him back. And he kept telling the nuns, like, not to help him. Yeah. Even though, like, straight the numbers, man, you always take the help. He was the sheriff and thought he could do it by himself. He's like, I'll do this by myself. It's my fault. My son got they got kidnapped. He was without his skates.
00:48:59
Speaker
wait but he said when he looked into the camera and said he was out his skates, everyone in a the the room, the theater started laughing. like that That was the kind of vibe of this movie. i We were having so much fun throughout it. like This is a movie you can't watch alone no because it's too much fun. like you'll You'll watch it alone and be like, oh, that's funny, that's funny. But when you're with like a group of people, and youll you'll laugh your ass off. like it just It's so silly. And then the sheriff, he kept making bad decisions. Because like you know like in the post-apocalyptic world, you're the last line of defense, you gotta work with the church. They have the ninjas. they The thing is, so the the there was a lot of plots in this movie. That's why I said the movie is by no chance.
00:49:56
Speaker
the greatest movie ever written or anything like that. It's just ah probably the greatest movie I've ever seen because the stone was a major plot. But then the um kid being kidnapped was a major plot. But then there was like that. Well, how would we call it like that? Like change of heart. That was the major plot. And like the movie ends off where He goes to rescue his son, the head, the, I forget the girl's name, the head, the head nun that was like their greatest warrior, but she goes off to catch. It was ah Sister Fortune was Sharon Cross's new adopted name. Yeah. in the In the church. But she goes to look for a Sharon Cross or Sister Fortune because she stole the rock. But as she was
00:50:51
Speaker
Coming back to returning she met her they fight. She's like ah She basically defeats the the valiant nun, but she doesn't kill her because she's like ah She she quoted one of the nuns Quotes where she's like thou can only be defeated if thou let it itself. Yeah like and they things the the lyricsre not the lyrics Oh my god, the soundtrack was phenomena phenomenal. Yeah, but that i
00:51:23
Speaker
We'll start writing this one up, the soundtrack. So I forget the guy's name. I don't think it matters, man. It does, because we're going to reach out to them him to have him on. Because like I remember we're sitting there in the theater, it just started, and the intro like There's this super like intense music going on. And they said, like, music director, whatever. And I went to him and he was like, he's doing a good job so far. And then, like, midway through the movie, Enrique's like, this is the best soundtrack. I've ever heard. Yeah. Ever in my life. It really was. And the thing is, the movie was so goofy. But when you when you see it as a whole, right, it's no different than any dystopian movie written
00:52:04
Speaker
you know, your Star Wars movies, your fucking dooms. And I know these, it's kind of probably sounding like crazy that I'm saying that, but it's the story itself. If so, and I looked it up. A lot of the the main, the main actress that played Sharon Cross has like 20 movie roles, right? She has rollerblades and like 19 pornos.
00:52:31
Speaker
Yeah. You know, and and it's like she was a porn a porn star that somehow knew how to do her own stunts on roller skates. It was phenomenal. Wait, Sharon, which one? Sharon Cross. All right, so I'm looking at the one, yeah, because the porn isn't on... a It's on IMDB. It's on IMGA, not on this. She's, the non porn movies are, she's in movies by the same director. Yup.
00:52:57
Speaker
And she's in return Class of Newcomb High, which is a ah Lloyd Kaufman movie. So like, similar, really schlocky. She knows her of roles, but she knows how to play them really well. The sheriff is in one film, and it's Rollerblades. And to be fair, he was not a good actor. No. so but And he wasn't a good rollerblader. He was decent at best. Yeah. But the...
00:53:28
Speaker
to end it To end off the story, right? So he goes he goes to rescue his son. Basically, you find out that that Sister Fortune, Sharon Cross, has redeemed herself and her sister realizes, her sister in Rollerblade Christ realizes, you know what?
00:53:48
Speaker
i mean i what's the What's the phrase they used? i I was lost just as you were, but now we're found or something like that. Super religious. Yeah. she she ends Some guy is like an assassin. He goes to kill them. She throws herself in front of She throws herself in front, saves the um the nun, and then when you're like, oh my god, the nun's just gonna bring her back to life, they're gonna finish and go kick some fucking ass, immediately the nun just says, oh yeah, I forgot to tell you, I can't use my blade to heal two people, I can only heal one person. And the guy in front of us, I've never heard someone laugh,
00:54:33
Speaker
as much and as loud as this guy. like He had the time of his life, and when they said these cheesy things, it was, you can tell that this story was just written like on a fly, but it was it was great. Because she still, take away the silliness, she sacrificed herself no different than like how Vader sacrifices himself for Luke. you know like It's the same shit. you know and it's like It's just silly.
00:55:01
Speaker
You know, so, but anyways, she sacrificed herself. The other nun gets like this burst of energy and she's like, I'm going to go save everything, fight Satoko. And then somehow,
00:55:16
Speaker
Satoko ends up getting the stone and everyone, you think it's like, everyone's defeated. He hops on his like boogie board, motorized boogie board thing he was on.
00:55:28
Speaker
And he's like fucking floating down, like down a ramp basically like, but because he was gonna launch into the city and blow it all up and then everyone was gonna die or some, I don't know what his fucking plan was, because he was gonna die too. But as he's like, he goes off this ramp and as he's flying, she takes her fucking knife and throws it and somehow she, it hits like the wheel of the boogie boogie.
00:55:57
Speaker
hitting the He was already in the air. yeah like It hit the wheel. It hit the wheel and she goes fucking Sadako goes flying off and it had like the cheesiest, most horrible CGI of him falling off. And then she saves the day and then the the sheriff is like, you know, thou lost, thou stone. And she's like, Oh, I just realized that the power wasn't in the stone. The power was inside of us. Yeah. And the fucking room, the fucking room just exploded with laughter because ah hint one, it's some of the, if you intended to make this this way, it's the greatest
00:56:45
Speaker
Like you're the greatest writer ever. if you and I don't think they intended it to be this funny. I think they intended it to be kind of serious. But if you intended it, to like if you in particular wrote that because you knew it was funny, that's the greatest writer ever. And I know that's not the what happened. But on that off chance that it is, I then this is truly the greatest movie ever because he intentionally did that. I'm gonna go as far as saying he did intentionally do all of that and he is the greatest writer ever but to end this the aesthetics of this like late 80s early 90s
00:57:29
Speaker
um Los Angeles it's graffiti and then they had like the punk kids that were I think they were skateboarding they had spikes on their hair they kept calling him spike head and They were like the gang kids, you know, they were basically bothering people and beating up people like that aesthetic and then The fact that a lot of these actors were doing their own stunts, not all of them, but a lot of them were doing. They had to, because there's no way. Right. They're doing their own stunts. And on fucking roller skates, you know, they were climbing. The Sharon Cross went up like a deep incline.
00:58:14
Speaker
on roller skates, and you can tell she was struggling boot in real life. You can see the leg muscles like popping at her like face. You knew she fucking did her exercises because that what that they had ah they had to do that in one take. There's no way she's going to fucking climb up that incline.
00:58:36
Speaker
in in like four or five takes. This whole movie was taken in one take. Basically. I think it was just all continual. like There was no stopping and editing. I just think this whole movie was all... And it probably sounds goofy. It probably sounds stupid. It probably sounds silly. There was a lot of unnecessary tits in the movie. oh there was like Nothing but gratuitous nudity. Yeah. There was like a bath scene where they're all in the sauna. and they're it's still like It's for the women to heal the with the nuns to heal themselves from like coming back to from death. And they're like, that's supposed to finish the healing process. But they're just like,
00:59:15
Speaker
rubbing each other and you know there's just a lot of like unnecessary nudity and unnecessary like just like sexualization of women and stuff but to be fair the main fucking actress was a porn star so but like it was that thing like these and other women in this movie have done porn yeah this was about you take like someone you this is a fun silly movie you don't watch this for women's rights you don't watch this of course you don't watch this for any deep meaning it's just you watch this because you want to watch a fucking rad movie yeah and the reason I brought up that you got a porn star to basically do
00:59:59
Speaker
a lot of fucking things that a Hollywood actress would never do. yeah like All those stunts, all that fucking like days the whole movie, they're skating. I think she took her skates off one time and that's when they were healing her. Because they mentioned um we're cleaning your skates or something from sin or some stupid shit. And the the whole movie, everyone's on roller skates. And if anyone's ever been to a skating rink or anything like that, or has done like seven to sevens back in the day, where you would go at 7 p.m. and they would lock the doors, you won't be able to leave until 7 a.m. you You know how much your fucking feet hurt. And like, I went skating as an adult,
01:00:44
Speaker
Recently, you know, you're not a kid like you know, you're it's it's strenuous and I did I did some some small research and and Rest in peace to the actress who did Sharon Cross because she died not much after that from ah like a massive stroke. So like that's ah a bummer. But I remember watching the movie, and I don't know if I said it out loud or not, I would fucking watch 10 of these movies with her in it.
01:01:17
Speaker
I like, I wish they would have done a series of, I did just see recently that there's a part two. There's a couple of them. They get real weird. They're they're all, they're significantly worse rated, but I'm down to watch them. The thing is, I'm not joking when I say this was, and there was a trailer for a movie with Corey Heim or or Feldman, one of the two that look alike, and and a bunch of other like,
01:01:44
Speaker
eight, eighties, nineties, like popular stars called rollerblades or like a prayer to rollerbladers or something, which I was like, Oh, I wonder what this movie's about. And then I realized it's about roller skating. And I was like, I have to watch every roller skating movie I've ever seen. And like this movie not only made me happy because like I've, this was, and I was telling Pat when we left, this was,
01:02:13
Speaker
So as a kid, i had a my dad got me a video camera as a kid, probably like 10, 11 years old. And I'm not trying to pretend I was Emily Hagens, but we made some pretty cool ass fucking films, you know what I mean? And who were my stepbrothers at the time, the kids that my dad was dating, this woman. and um She had three sons and a daughter. They were all around my age. So anyways, we made some fucking cool ass videos. You know, we would do like kind of like Project Badass on on It's Always Sunny.
01:02:44
Speaker
or we would like skate and like jump off of real tiny ledges, but it'd be like a fucking step or two. But we would skate and jump off. I mean, we were 11, but to us, we're like, we just jumped off a fucking roof, you know? We would do this stuff and I'm watching this movie and all I could keep thinking was, my God, this is exactly what our vision was as a kid. Like every time we would rollerblade,
01:03:12
Speaker
and we would record ourselves rollerblading, or we would do like, ah her bathroom had like a little roof that went down. So we would climb out of there and then do stunts, what we would call stunts, or we would like jump off of my dad's porch onto like a ah mattress, but you would never see the mattress, you would just see us jump. Like this movie was the exact vision of fucking videos we would make when we were young. So not only did this movie make me happy because it reminded me of that. I mean, as fucking goofy and silly as the story was and the dialogue was, you can't say that wasn't a great fucking fun movie. It was just fun. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. We went in and we had a blast. like And and that that's what it's all about. And I'm glad that
01:04:12
Speaker
Whoever chose it, the the chick who chose it, she she came dressed up as the nun. I follow her now on letterbox. What was her letterbox? I think Bunny something. because So the first time I went to the Psychotronic, when we went to go see Love God,
01:04:29
Speaker
I remember immediately as soon as I saw, like as soon as we saw Love God, someone from the Psychotronic, um the I don't know if it's like one of the members, just someone that was there, they added me on Letterbox. And then immediately after I posted my review on Rollerblades, if anyone wants to follow her, she's amazing because she came up with this movie and I can't think of any corny thing, she probably Like I don't think she can probably do any corny thing ever because if this is the movie you brought to us, then I'm sure everything from now on is probably fucking awesome. Tunnel Bunny on letterbox if anybody wants to follow her. But yeah, she came up, she was dressed as one of the nuns, gave us a quick introduction, immediately sat down and the movie starts.
01:05:25
Speaker
and And I haven't looked back since. It was truly one of the greatest movies I've ever seen. I cannot express how much I don't ever say that kind of stuff, but it was. Overall, five stars, coolest fucking thing you can watch.
Concluding 'Rollerblades': A Nostalgic Cult Classic
01:05:43
Speaker
It's literally what you wish life really was. Roller skating, fucking martial arts, butterfly knives, a fucking evil villain.
01:05:55
Speaker
and then all the hobos just have rollers roller skates and skateboards. like it's It's literally what you wish life was. I don't know. That's it. That's my take. I hope people check it out. Invite your friends over. Have a movie night.
01:06:11
Speaker
You cannot watch it alone. yeah And you can't be closed-minded. You have to be open-minded with any movie. Both movies take a level of open-minded and I hope people check them out. Right. And I think I meant in general, too. yeah But for this movie, you have to know that it's not made to be an Academy Award-winning film. It's made to be fucking fun as shit.
01:06:40
Speaker
A classic, if you want to call it, or what do they call it? A cult classic? well This is a cult classic. This is definitely a cult classic. it's it's The movie was made with those intentions to be a cult classic. So if you go into this movie, do not watch it alone because you need to laugh with someone else. I don't laugh much in movies. I could not fucking stop laughing, man. This fucking movie was hilarious.
01:07:08
Speaker
in all the right ways, not even in the bad ways. But yeah, that's my take on. And if anyone watches this movie, follow it up with Brink from ah the old Disney Channel original movie. That, which any day that I'm allowed to, Brink is possibly one of the greatest sports movies ever made, just so happens to be also a rollerblading movie.
01:07:37
Speaker
um But yeah, watch that immediately after and then go buy some fucking rollerblades or roller skates, whatever you want. yeah ae