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Weather you Like it or Not - The Wave & Twisters
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Woosh! Sweeping straight into your ears and through a small town this week is another episode of Block-Busted!
Mitch and Max battle their way through the majestic and harrowing fjords and tsunamis of Norway in The Wave (Uthaug, 2015) only to be met by fanatics who want to run headfirst into tornados in Twisters (Chung, 2024)
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Transcript
Introduction & Theme
00:00:07
Speaker
Welcome to Blockbuster, a movie review podcast where we have weather. I'm the drought buckaroo Mitch. And I'm your local weatherman Max. And today we are looking at the wave and twisters.
Expectations vs Reality
00:00:33
Speaker
I got a great forecast. Hit me with that forecast. We're going to look at heavy storms and earth movement. Do we have surprise quality coming in from the south? It's just my special touch. Because both these movies are probably better than you and I thought they were going to be.
00:01:03
Speaker
Yeah. I expected this week to kind of be a filler week. I think you probably expected this week to be a bit of a filler week. Technically, this week is actually a filler week, but anyway. Yeah. i Yeah. I was pleasantly surprised by both of these movies. So, um, should we just get cracking on?
00:01:25
Speaker
ah Yep. This is the fastest we've moved into the movies. I mean, you can get jokes and shit if you want. I don't know. I've got enough enough to make jokes about. I got mold in my curtains. If you want to talk about that. You got mold in your curtains? I think so. It's like, I don't know. Like the house is pretty like, we've just moved in pretty recently. So it's not going to be from us.
00:01:47
Speaker
And if there's mold in the curtains, they're almost definitely going to need to be replaced. And I don't want to deal with that right now. because that Absolutely. It does not work properly. Anyway, I forecast frustration.
00:01:59
Speaker
ahead Spun a warning for ah the wave and twisters. True that.
Struggles with Pronunciation
00:02:08
Speaker
Ah, The Wave, released in 2015 and directed by... All right. The Netherlands names. I can do this. I can do this. Norwegian norwegian names. ne Netherlands and Norwegian. Same thing. Norwegian? No, very different. but Very a good. Ah, it's the same place. um Directed by Roar Uthag. It stars Christopher Jerna, Anndal Torp, Jernus Hof Oftabror, Edith Hängrenrud Sande.
00:02:35
Speaker
Fridge Tov, Sahim, and Thomas Bo Larson. Whoo! Nailed it. No, no notes at this time. Thank you. Uh, Max.
00:02:47
Speaker
can you Can you surf on in with a ah synopsis, please? Sure.
Plot Synopsis of 'The Wave'
00:02:52
Speaker
um When a geologist is about to move across the country to work for the capitalist oil miners, he discovers that the mountainside which he and his family have lived on for until very recently is about to collapse and close a massive tsunami.
00:03:15
Speaker
then it collapses and there's a massive tsunami. It's a very simple premise, isn't it? I think so. And honestly, good. Like most disaster movies, keep it simple. Keep it easy. Let the drama be what's there, not the plot, right? You don't want complex narrative. You don't want to be kind of going, uh, I don't understand why this disaster is happening. You want a disaster to be happening and characters you enjoy dealing with it.
00:03:46
Speaker
I think important starting off point for both the movies we're going to be talking about this week. I'm, disaster movies are kind of like the genre that I have kind of no interest in. In my eyes, a disaster movie is just a monster movie missing the interesting part, which is the monster. I just always feel like it could, something could be more interesting if there's like a supernatural giant thing also there.
Subtitles and Movie Ratings
00:04:15
Speaker
But I promise that I have tried to take these movies on as much as just what they are rather than what they aren't. And this first one, um it's fun. It's very interesting. No, not very interesting. Just fun. Actually, I want to ask before we get into it, I want to ask if you had this problem as well. Did it, was it obvious that certain characters were saying the F word, but your subtitles was like shit? Yeah. yeah Or like crap or bugger or something. yeah um This was very funny. um It's so obvious that they're saying like a ah way to get around bikes.
00:04:56
Speaker
um eightmonstrations yeah like so But there's a lot of M-rated movies that like I thought for a long time that we followed a similar rule to America where you can only get one one fuck per PG-13 movie, which for us, the PG-13 rating is an M.
00:05:12
Speaker
But I've seen many M-rated movies that have just had multiple F-words just thrown in there. It depends on the context and the rest of the film and all that sort of stuff. Australian Readings Board, the Australian Classifications Board is a strange beast. Man, do they hate drugs. Absolutely hate drugs. They hate drugs so much. They hate it so much that your game or movie will be banned from this country.
00:05:36
Speaker
possibly if it has drug use in it. They also hate the C word, despite our interesting australian australian high Australian usage of it. Yeah, it's like whether one country that we're saying the C word is not likely to going to get you hit in the back of the head. Other things will get you hit in the back of the head, but not the C word. But for some reason our classification board against it doesn't like it.
00:06:00
Speaker
um But no, that was just highly amusing, but overall there, it's fun. those there's I am worried, Max, because what is there to talk about?
00:06:15
Speaker
i feel I think there's heaps to talk about. Well, you you go ahead then. Because I'm going to start off with, yes, this movie is fun. I think it's a very simple to the point ah disaster film. It builds tension very well. I think um you have this anticipating anticipating the sense of dread ah throughout the whole film. um What's set across this beautiful um Norwegian landscape. It's so pretty.
Realism in Disaster Movies
00:06:46
Speaker
It's so pretty. And you kind of just like add up, there's a point in the movie pretty early on where you look at all these beautiful mountains and you're going, Oh my God, they're going to collapse. Yeah. Just like looking down and going like, you're so beautiful. Dot, dot, dot.
00:07:02
Speaker
damn, are you going to cause so many problems later? Cause the movie front loads the explanation of how the tsunami is made just immediately with explaining ah an event that happened like 50 odd years beforehand or something. or Yeah. So I thought that was interesting because yeah, right at the very start of the movie, we get a whole bunch of, um, I assume was real life footage i of think so of um other similar events. So landslides, um, which caused ah tsunamis in um Norway, because of the sort of like ah mountains right up against the... um
00:07:41
Speaker
I think it's the Baltic Sea up there. I'm not 100% sure, but um mountains run up against the sea, and the um what happens when they sort of like collapse into the sea is that sort of rapid seismic activity causing the tsunamis. um And so it's not the it's not the first time it's happened. There's also a little disclaimer at the end of the film, which I thought was ah almost ah unsettling, which was yeah they um talking about this specific fjord and saying that it hasn't collapsed yet, ah but it will. And pretty much everyone agrees that it will. They just don't know when. Yeah, that extra part of we don't know when did actually give me goosebumps because
00:08:30
Speaker
I don't know. You get things like that all the time at the end of certain movies. Like I can't, not only coming to mind right now, but it's like, obviously at the end of biographical films, you usually get like a wrap-up. This happened next in their life. They lived happily ever after and then they died from syphilis. Yeah. Actually, if it's a rock star, probably AIDS. um Or cancer. People like cancer a lot. Yeah. Drinking, drug overdose. Yeah.
00:08:55
Speaker
Yeah, we'll be getting a lot of music, um, biropics recently and yucky. Anyway, um, well, but like this one, though, the movie's like, this is not real. Like at the the idea end, it's like this none of this happened. Like, this is not like a real thing that's happened. However, though, it can happen. This can happen. Like and it's going to like straight up. This is eventually going to happen. And It's inevitable, and we can't measure when it's going to happen. And even though I live, what, maybe 12,000 kilometers away or something? We live in an area of the world that is ah perhaps one of the lowest risks of ah tsunami in the world. Because we like we we're like right in the middle of the tectonic plate, aren't we? Where are we? yeah
00:09:46
Speaker
Yeah. So like we don't get earthquakes. We get earthquakes, obviously, but like we don't get major fault line. Yeah. me. We also like because Australia is not particularly mountainous. Yeah. You don't get a lot of, um, and that's partly because of the whole, we're not on a fault line thing. Yeah. The thing's
Living in Disaster-Prone Areas
00:10:07
Speaker
none unknown. The land's being pushed together to like, yeah, where it's also like super old. And so all the mountains are really flat.
00:10:13
Speaker
So there's less movement. But so just knowing that out there there's a ticking time bomb for some small community in Norway,
00:10:27
Speaker
not the Netherlands, it's just, yeah, it's spooky. Like it's, do you reckon, who do you reckon is still living there? Or do you reckon they just have a better warning system now, hopefully?
00:10:39
Speaker
they probably have like updated warning systems, but there'll be people who live there. um and I mean, like it it's, we're actually, we're going to have the same discussion when we go to the next movie. Cause I have the same problem with like tornado alley and living in tornado alley. You know, um my mom used to live there. That's crazy. Don't live there.
00:11:00
Speaker
Have you not seen twister and slash all twisters? Yeah. She was like three or something, but they live america yeah, for a year. I did not know that. Yeah. My granddad worked there for a year and they looked there for a year. What's to do there? Except get hit by tornadoes.
00:11:18
Speaker
Uh, pediatric work, apparently. Um, like all the people who ruin their backs from no pediatrics is children. and That's also chiropractic. Like, yeah, I was thinking of the and you're confused with like feet doctors, which is no, I said children. No, but you said back originally. Yeah. I mean, chiropractors, which is different from, I thought you were going to go like podiatrist, which is, that's a feet doc. That's the feet. Dr. Pediatrics is children.
00:11:44
Speaker
Right? Yeah. I don't work in the health industry. I don't even know this. I think this movie, what it does really well is it sets spends the first third or so of the movie building up this level of tension without being really explicit. And so it gives you some information that's important, but doesn't build it up to be this like huge thing. And then it just sort of happens. And part of what makes this so effective and so um sort of terrifying as ah as an event is that it is so sudden and unexpected and people don't know how to respond to it. and You're seeing a lot of people who maybe have a theoretical understanding of how you're meant to respond to it, trying to help people who don't really know. and A lot of people getting it wrong
00:12:38
Speaker
um because they don't know how to respond in their situations, which is you know completely fair because who does? um And then seeing the the immediate aftermath of of those sort of things um alongside the sort of little... I'm not going to call it a subplot, but the sort of B-plot of um the family unit being split apart and then having to work to pull themselves back together while you see all these other families sort of get torn apart by death and destruction, which I thought um they did quite well. I think they made it really tense, ah which makes a film like this really exciting when they build tension well. I know I said that a half dozen times, but it's good. Tension's a big part of this movie. I'm glad you're emphasizing it.
00:13:31
Speaker
um and And I had fun with it. I think what's really important with movies like this is that it's not trying to make you think too much. And it's not trying to overload you with explanation and jargon and things like that too much. There's a little bit of like, oh, the mountain's contracting or whatever, but... They give you diagrams. But it doesn't really matter.
00:14:00
Speaker
and they kind of go, they're mountains contracting and that means they'll be on a rock slide. They have a bunch of folders that the guy shows you what's going to happen. like there's There's both very high-tech looking diagrams that um they have going for you and they also have the... Just like points to the word avalanche at one point.
00:14:19
Speaker
Yeah, um I just I always my favorite. I'm actually both of the movies that we were talking about that they do. This is my favorite thing is when someone takes everyday stuff to explain.
00:14:35
Speaker
a phenomenon or some sorts. So in this case, we have him explaining how the rocks all shift out and like he's using a bunch of folders and he shows like, and if they shift out and enough weight on the mountain, he slams it down and all the, all the folders shoot out. It's um it's like the classic one is I think it was first done in Event Horizon, but it might not have been done. It might have been done earlier is a wormhole is being explained by folding a piece of paper and shoving a pen through it at least Five times, I think, in five different movies. That's the classic one. The explanation of the wormhole. It's gone from Event Horizon, which is a schlocky horror film, to what some would call high art. I wouldn't, but some would. And then also Stranger Things. Is it in Stranger Things?
00:15:20
Speaker
yeah yeah yeah Yeah. Yeah. The science, the science science teacher and yeah i forgot he did that. That's like season one, isn't it? Like that's pretty early. Yeah. So like that, I, it's something that I feel like should annoy me and I know for a fact that annoys other people, but I always just find it really cute and quaint because I don't know. I just can't imagine anyone in real life ever doing something like that. Like, so you say that, but I regularly go to meetings at my real, real life job where instead of using actual like products that we sell in the business, people just see what is around them and go like, so if I sold this mentos, okay. 50 cents. I didn't really ah water and realize you with Jordan Belford. I wish. No, you don't. Oh, sure. I don't know. but which are sort of again Wolf of Wall Street. Have you not seen Wolf of Wall Street? I have not seen Wolf of Wall Street.
00:16:16
Speaker
Damn it! Max, come on. Lift your game. Oh no, I don't want to be friends with this guy. You do not want to be friends with that man. No, no. He's a coke-addled fiend. Yeah, and he did a stock market manipulation. I mean, he had that too, but whatever. um I think... I don't know. I don't know how much there is to say um this I want to do, like I want to do a thing with you. I don't interrupting, but I want to do a thing with you. I want you to guess. I hope you don't know this. Cause if you do, it's going to ruin that bit, but I want you to guess how much this movie cost to make.
00:16:49
Speaker
I don't know. can you get My guess is that like given the CGI, given that it has some really awesome set pieces, the location ah ah um I don't think would have cost a bunch. when um and um I don't know any of the actors, so I can't speak to that. I'm guessing like 10 million?
Cinematography and CGI
00:17:12
Speaker
Oh, you're about 4 million off, 6 million. Well, that's actually really impressive. It's so impressive because it looks really good. And like I saw that number and my mind just kind of flashed back to all like a lot of really good shots. Like one of the shots I think is the most impressive. And I think a lot of other people do too because it's basically it's the poster is the one where the two like the wife and the lady who was helping her find her son run back into the hotel and the wave is coming at them.
00:17:40
Speaker
Like that is, that's probably like one of my favorite shots of the whole movie. just And yeah, im deservedly sorry just because there's one that I really love that um is very reminiscent of like the idea of Kyron the Ferryman from um Greek myth, where the main character who I totally have forgotten his name Christian Christian um is sort of like paddle boarding through this, this really dark um lakey sort of thing. In the aftermath of the of the tsunami, there there's always like ah spots of fire everywhere, and it's super like misty and dark. and um There's these dead bodies floating in the water, and you get they and you get this very... like um yeah i My immediate thought was Chiron. Are you seeing Chiron?
00:18:30
Speaker
Chiron. C-H-I-R-O-N? That's the centaur. No, Chiron. Chiron. C-H-I-R-O-N? Yeah, that one. Yeah, just because if there's one thing that people... The Chiron is the centaur. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If anyone... If anything's going to get us mocked on the internet is getting Greek mythology wrong. Yeah, this is fair. Especially since we're the generation that are supposed to have read Percy Jackson. I mean, I did. I have read Percy Jackson. Well, there we go. We both have no excuse then.
00:18:57
Speaker
But I thought that shot was really it's really good. kwood And yeah um I think this film does a lot of those sort of nice set piece shots. um Again, you you get these um beautiful landscape shots. It's so pretty. Along with um at the start of the film and then the film and then in the back end you have these amazing sort of like aftermath of disaster um shots where um but there's rubble everywhere and crumpled up cars and and and steel beams and things like that. i And then even that gets set back across this beautiful landscape and it kind of makes you just go like... ah that w the ah yeah it but it It becomes like or awesome in the in the sort of biblical sense.
00:19:47
Speaker
Oh, it's like the awesome power of something. Yeah. So so the idea of like it inspires awe. And I think this film does a really good job at visualizing that as an idea and and visualizing ultimately what is like a natural phenomenon.
00:20:07
Speaker
that causes all this like a massive destruction, but also is part of nature and um part of something that is something really beautiful. sir I think this movie does a lot of work and a lot of heavy lifting in its cinematography to um really sort of emphasize that. Um, one of my favorite shots beyond just the one but who we've just talked about, cause I like the one you also said, um, I like the one where, uh, the Christian and like the neighbor's wife get into the car and both of them just kind of close their eyes and wait for the wave to get to them. Cause I'm the wife's leg is crushed. And so she can't run up the hill anymore. And so they get into the car and all that. And you just see the wave coming behind them. And it's so just,
00:20:56
Speaker
inevitable and once again, awe inspiring, but in like a horrifying way. And it is, it is just very scary. It's spooky. I think of all the natural disasters that get me uncomfortable, like, cause you know, like obviously once again, we're pretty safe where we are and all that. But I think tsunami is the one that like I find just kind of inherently is the most Interesting slash spooky at the same time. Like, I don't know. Water in general is something I find like I'm not scared of water, but.
00:21:33
Speaker
I don't know. I don't think I have facilophobia, but I don't really like being in huge bodies of water either. I think that's a normal thing, by the way. I don't think you need to have facilophobia to have that. And just like the tsunami basically is like part of that, like just uncomfortable in this or just a huge amount of water, which, you know, will engulf you and crush you and has no anything. It's just, it's, it's fascinating. It's yeah.
00:22:00
Speaker
Um, I do think though, that I think it takes, I think there's good. I forgotten the word. Damn it. Help me Max. Throw words at me. Just random ones. Um, peanut. Nope. Spaghetti. Nope. Um, lovely. No. Jelly bean. No. Um.
00:22:25
Speaker
cradle I got it pacing. The pacing is um a bit whack because I was thinking, well, my, because I was watching this with a room, my roommates.
Pacing and Climax Comparison
00:22:37
Speaker
um Most movies that I watch at home are now watch with one of my roommates um because they're always here. I watch it with my roommates and we're both like, all right, what's going to happen? Is it going to be a first wave? And then after that first wave, more of the rocks will fall and there'll be a second wave. And so we were like,
00:22:52
Speaker
when Because we had to pause. And so we saw that when the wave was rocking up, it's like an hour into the movie. And there's only about 40 minutes left after that. So we're like, Oh, I guess the second life happens pretty quickly after that. It doesn't. um I just think, you know, what it's probably a budget thing because it's only on $6 million. dollars So they probably couldn't do it again. But I just I needed more than just one wave destruction. I wanted to see it again.
00:23:18
Speaker
See, I think that's a very like, it's um a very American disaster movie sort of idea that you have the big one and then le everyone goes like, oh yeah, it's over good. And then you get hit with the second, yeah that the the after quake or the whatever. The second tsunami. The second tsunami. The wave number two. But I think like, for the most part, for me, I wasn't too bothered by the lack of that because you you really like The movie breaks up really nicely into these three um acts where you've got before the tsunami, during the tsunami, and then the immediate aftermath of the tsunami. yeah and
00:24:00
Speaker
um that the latter half of the film, a lot of it spent um in this sort of like bunker with the,
00:24:13
Speaker
I can't remember her character's name, the wife and the and the kids. And her name is Julia. No, Julia is the child, Iden? Iden. Yeah, Iden. Sondre is the... Sondre. Sondre.
00:24:29
Speaker
sandra Sondra I was like it can't remind me of like a video game character, but now I can't remember what the character was dryer song Jason Jason Jason yeah go say um But we spend a lot of time with them in this sort of like bomb shelter that they're trying to protect themselves from the tsunami with this guy who's panicking. um And you sort of see this relationship with between this like teenage son and his mother, which I thought was like, it's not the core point of the film. And they're there like,
00:25:10
Speaker
is and isn't developed a heap, but I think we get enough of that sort of idea that um in this like moment of panic, the mum is very have immediate priority is, where's my son? um And then she takes every sure she does everything necessary to protect her son, including the actual murder of ah of a man.
00:25:34
Speaker
Um, I mean, to be fair, to be fair, he was going to murder them. I am, I'm fully aware, but, uh, it's still kind of, I was, I'm still kind of like going, Oh, that's like kind of insane that they did that and just didn't talk about it. They were really fine when they exited the bunker, right? Like it was kind of back to like businesses and there's a level of probably compartmentalization, compartmentalization, but damn, was,
00:26:03
Speaker
i didn't What happened in the bunker? I don't remember. What happened in the bunker? Stays in the bunker, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. um But I thought that was interesting in the sort of like, you have a sort of a disaster within the disaster and and yeah um that bit that led to like ah sort of interesting story. And it allowed the other the character, it allowed Christian to sort of explore the aftermath of um the disaster with a sort of purpose as well. We get some really interesting shots like you know when he discovers the bus or what he thinks they're in. That bus is haunting, by the way. It's full of
00:26:44
Speaker
of these tourists who have all died in the tsunami. The bus was um meant to take people from the um the hospital the hospital, the hotel away from... Because the hotel is like 1.5 meters above sea level or something. like at this yeah it's It's basically at sea level. and so um like The bus is meant to take was meant to take everyone away and the main group who like kind of lives at the hotel but Too late to get to it and so I left behind um and the bust obviously just didn't get far enough and got hit by the tsunami and you just See a bunch of dead people and like amongst them is like this young woman who like for two seconds has chemistry with
00:27:25
Speaker
the um the the teenage boy and like while it's like that's very cliche you're also kind of like oh crap you kind of thought she was safe because of that chemistry because like yeah love interest right like you go there was there was like there was very very little all um sort of attachment that the film had to any new character. And that's sort of why there's this point right near the end of the film where where um Christian appears to be dead. And I was sitting there very willing to accept that they were just going to leave that. um And they they ah instead resuscitated him, which yeah you know is fine. and and
00:28:08
Speaker
Yeah, it's fine, I guess. If you want to, I suppose. Look, on the one hand, it makes sense. He's the character that everyone's rooting for. He's the main POV character, yeah. He's exactly- So I'm calling the protagonist.
00:28:25
Speaker
you might call him the protagonist. and and it ah One might say that it may not be the the
Emotional Depth and Stakes
00:28:36
Speaker
make for the best most enjoyable ending if the protagonist is flying out dying. It's a pretty dour movie anyway, right? like You don't need that to get across just how like sad this event is. I guess at the same time, i the the movie pulled so few punches that I was really willing to believe that um paid you know he mouth-to-mouths his son to give him oxygen i and then just dies in the cavity underneath the hotel. What a horrible place to die, by the way. Oh, and the the fact that it's after the tsunami, yeah it's like everything's sort of like, everyone's trying to recover people. You should be able to be okay. And yeah he's um like putting himself at risk to to help his family. And um yeah, you get this really impressive sense of like, well, they they could do this and they it really felt like they were going to do this. And I think
00:29:36
Speaker
Uh, it really felt like the movie had a lot of just, um, bite to it. Um, in the same way that, um, he gets in the car with the, with the woman as a tsunami hits us with her neighbor. Um, and she's just when the aftermath is done, she's been skewered by a piece of like metal. Wasn't it rebar rebar or something? Yeah. Yeah.
00:30:00
Speaker
And they just go, yep, that happened. And he does' it doesn't linger either. Like it's just like, um he just gets out and he's like, I got to, got to gotta to go. I got to do things. Got my family. like I got to find my daughter. I got to find my family. And man doesn't have time to wait around to like check stuff out. Yeah. But, but it it very much was yeah. Take taking that.
00:30:21
Speaker
being really like dangerous with what it wants to do and not holding onto any characters as sort of um too as too precious, I think.
Plot Armor & Sequel Impact
00:30:34
Speaker
like that Technically, there was absolutely plot armor in this, but like it was done in such a way where like you were like, this plot armor is here to get us to the end of the movie, but once you get there, no one's safe. like I don't know Like a character has to get a certain point into a story before their death can be meaningful or anything. And like, that's, that's fine. But like, once you hit the end, you're like,
00:30:58
Speaker
This could go anyway, like this could like we've hit the end of the movie. You could be trying for so many different emotional endings right now. Like I don't know what you want. I unfortunately didn't actually have that level of, um, not attachment, but just like I was, I was more safe in knowing that he was alive because I knew there was a sequel. Um, and I knew he was in it. So I knew the whole family was in it too. So I,
00:31:24
Speaker
was like, ah, he's fine. Yeah. Well, that kind of that kind of ruins it. That did ruin it. And I'm actually, I didn't even think about the fact that for you that could happen. And I'm a bit disappointed that I knew there was a sequel because I feel like that would have elevated the movie quite a bit for me if I had that like,
00:31:41
Speaker
that ah level of scaredness towards the character. And, but yeah, I just, I just knew that things were at least for Christian and his family, things were going to be fine because I knew that they're all in the next one. I think at least, um, at least I thought I knew, I don't know. I haven't looked.
00:31:56
Speaker
ah Yeah, i just I think that the preamble before the wave... I think you probably disagree with me on this, but I just i think there could just be something cut out. I don't know what, um but just something just to make... The movie didn't need to be as long as it was, I think. It it it does go on for a little bit. Yeah. And there are a couple of moments where you kind of go like, well,
00:32:21
Speaker
yeah like Why is this there?
Critique of Bureaucracy in Film
00:32:25
Speaker
On the other hand, you have the sort of um bureaucracy of that and the failings. That stuff's fun. That's good. Which yeah which sort of helps support a lot of that um more jargony um part, so I was not willing to forgive the film a bit on on that in that regard because they used that um opportunity to sort of yeah be a bit like show the evils of bureaucracy.
00:32:59
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in like a meta way that was showing like look how much time they had something to do with dude like even in the movie they had so much time to do something before the wave happened and yet they didn't and it wasn't until the last minute that is that what you're saying or like yeah i mean like even then the the like we see the woman who presses the alarm she takes a while Yeah. um She takes forever. Press the goddamn button. And yeah, me and Ms. Manager watching the movie were just screaming at the TV. Yeah. no we um my My roommate and I were also just like, press the goddamn button. And I think that that was why I thought that that sort of chunk of the movie
00:33:40
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um worked for me. That's fair. I think, I don't think it didn't work for me. I'm just always,
Editing Suggestions
00:33:49
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I'm always of the opinion that every single movie can probably be made tighter. Like even movies I really like probably can be made tighter. And just like, there's, just feels like there's an obvious, like little bit of, little bit of, uh,
00:34:02
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ah faff just in that little first little bit that it could have just been made like a smidgen, more tired. I've said it too many times. The words make them. It's like somatic, semantic asphyxiation or something. Like it means like when the word you say too many times just means nothing. I think I'm good for scores. What about you? Yeah, I'm, I'm happy to do scores. Let's keep this short. Let's do this quick and quick. Yeah. Like a tsunami. I'm giving this movie 3.5 liters of water.
00:34:30
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That's not a lot but enough for you to drown in. ah You can drown in two inches. I i know, it's kind of terrifying. Wait, kind can I change it? I'll give it 350 meter tall wave.
00:34:44
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Yeah, that's tall. We were looking up, because the one in this is like only 80 meters, I think. 80 meters tall. Yeah. ah We were looking at my friend and I were looking at um my roommate, my friend and roommate. The tallest recorded wave is like somewhere around 500, somewhere around Alaska, saying which apparently it's horrifying, which by the way, that's recorded. Think about it.
00:35:05
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There's probably so many that are bigger than that that have happened yes out out of human sight or like when we were recording
Fear of Natural Disasters
00:35:10
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stuff. Yeah. So I think there's, cause my understanding is there's a whole bunch of like tsunamis that happened in like the glacial sheets because of like the glaciers keep pressing because of the icebergs and all all that sort of jazz. And a lot of it just doesn't get recorded. It hasn't been recorded because it's like in the middle of the ocean that no one cares about. Um,
00:35:30
Speaker
It's huge. Dude, the ocean is scary. Water is scary. Water is scary. What's your rating? I gave this movie four minutes before cerebral apoxia sets in causing permanent brain damage. I thought you were going to do four minutes before a tsunami, which is when I pressed the alarm button for a tsunami. Perfect amount of time.
00:35:57
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Now it's four minutes before cerebral apoxia sets in from drowning. This is in reference to the main character drowning. This is in reference to the main character drowning, and he seems to drown for a long time. he we looked I looked at that before, podcastcast because I was like, surely he can also survive that. He can su that and he can also suffer ah little to no brain damage. um And that's the amount of brain damage you want to suffer. That's him. You want to suffer zero ah very, very little to no brain damage. I mean, like if that's the category, like obviously it's like, you know, how many do you have? Zero to three, four to six, that type of like, you know, like, it's like, so if you want to be in first right you just the lowest bracket, you want to be in the lowest bracket. Exactly. Yeah.
00:36:40
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um We're also discussing he is laid on his back while his lungs are full of water. Don't do that. That's the one recovery position. If you lay them on their back, the water goes back into their lungs. Also when you're vomiting, don't put them on their back, put them on their side. Yeah, don't do that because it's the same thing and the vomit goes into your lungs and then you gas yourself.
00:37:06
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Sort of. You like vomit into your lungs, I mean, it's bad. yeah I mean, just any liquid in your lungs is bad. Don't put liquids in your lungs. No liquid in the lungs. The forbidden goon bag. My lungs are goon bags.
00:37:22
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o o sh
00:37:28
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um It's a tsunami and
Max's Mini Media Teaser
00:37:31
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a cyclone, a tornado even, um at the same time. what we And um there's a guy stuck in it. And wait, wait Max, can you hear what he's saying? Can you hear what he's saying? I think he said, Max and Mitch's mini media. What do you got for us this week, Mitch? I watched the animated prime TV show Batman the Caped Crusader just released. um Just released maybe two or three weeks ago, maybe a month ago. No, no, no, not a month ago, about two, three weeks ago.
00:38:05
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Um, I was super excited for this. I think I showed you and Mr. Manager the trailer and I was like, guys, check out how sick this looks. And like the music was funny in the style of the original Batman anime style of also returning creatives from that as well. No, Kevin Conroy. Rest in peace. I'm going to be real. A lot of celebrity deaths mean nothing to me because I don't know them. Kevin Conroy is.
00:38:34
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is heartbreaking. Um, sorry. Okay. Some background. Batman is my absolute favorite superhero. I know that's not original. I do. I'm well aware, but I just love him. I think he's brilliant. I've gone really into like Superman as well recently. Superman's actually really cool. If you don't watch the movies, if you read the comics, he's really cool.
00:38:55
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Um, and then some other like side, like lesson learned characters. I've also gone into it by Batman. beel baby I haven't watched, I haven't read any blue beetle, what I've been interested in. I was thinking more of like mister miraculous, miracle, mister miracle, mister miracle. Yeah. That's a brilliant, the mister miracle run is like one of the best comic book runs ever. Great. Anyway, but, but Batman is like my absolute favorite superhero. I just love what he stands for in like, And people go like, Oh, he's so edgy and he's so dark and like, ah it's like, yeah, if you get the wrong interpretation from him, he is like, but I don't think so. He, to me is also a different representation of hope and like persistence and just.
00:39:38
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channeling everything you can into like the goals you believe in. And that's like that's how I view Batman. like He is hopeful to me in his our own way. And like I think the best interpretations of him get that. like the The Batman is a movie about him realizing that he also needs to be a symbol of good things rather than just vengeance because that doesn't help anyone. So that's like, yeah. Anyway, point is, um and then also I love the Batman anime TV show that this is this is stylistically very similar to as well as a lot of the creatives, like I think one of the head creatives especially, like it was involved in the creation of this. I can't remember which one it was. I think it's Bruce Timm.
00:40:18
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I mean, it's it's a classic piece of animated media. Kevin Conroy as Batman, Mark Hamill as Joker. We're talking about um animated TV series. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, the animated TV series is absolutely brilliant. It's like the gold standard of Batman to beat. um I don't even like most comics don't reach it for like how good it is. It is. It basically has set modern the standards of what modern Batman is as well.
00:40:46
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and introduced Harley Quinn. It set up the fundamentals of so many villains who had previously been pretty two-dimensional and are now much more interesting three-dimensional characters. The main one that like most people go to point out is like Mr. Freeze was just a boring but Like silly villain, very silly villain. And now he is like a tragic like character that like can be ruined by certain people, but whatever. It's like testament to that that you say something like the Harley Quinn animated TV series using Mr. Freeze as
00:41:23
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and as a sort of like tragic character in a show that is like very la comedic, sometimes irreverent with the sauce. Yeah, that's a good way of putting it. Thank you. I think yeah ah the Harley Quinn show is great, by the way.
00:41:43
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um point But the point I'm trying to make here is that like this show had a lot to live up to and a lot i lot of expectations and I don't like it. um I think I need to specify there is a lot of criticism currently coming out about this show that I am not agreeing with at all. Stuff such as Commissioner Gordon is the wrong skin color. His daughter also the wrong skin color. Harley Quinn, wrong skin- It's all just racist bullcrap and horrible and disgusting. Oh, the penguin's a woman now. That's also apparently really bad. It's not. um I don't have any- That's not and any of the problems I have with this. Like, I don't care about that. um
00:42:25
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It's not a problem to me. What I have a problem with is that it tries and toes this line between serialization and episodic storytelling. And I don't think it does a particularly good job. I think it needed to pick a direction more, um, because not, so I don't want to spoil anything cause it is new. And so I don't want to like.
00:42:46
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stop people from seeing it like without, but just like to kind of vaguely describe my problem with it. Basically, there are characters who were introduced a few episodes before they are actually going to be plot specific to that e and to like their episode, basically. like there's a There's villains that are seated in early, but they're done in such weird ways that when it actually gets to their villain episode, it's very sudden that they're a villain.
00:43:11
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like the the It's like the the the civilian alter ego is there, but there's no indication that they're a villain until the actual villain episode, the episode where they are the main villain. I also really don't like the characterization of Batman in this show, as well as he doesn't seem to be the focus, which can seem a bit whiny.
00:43:35
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i know like I don't know. When I watch a Batman TV show, I want to watch a Batman TV show. It's kind of why Gotham didn't really do it for me. It's like I want to watch Batman. That's the character I'm there for.
00:43:48
Speaker
And he's not really the main focus of this show. Also, he treats Alfred like crap. He calls him Pennyworth and tells him this coffee is called by when he's annoyed with him and sends him. I don't like that. And I know at the end, they're kind of like alluding to him having growth, but just.
00:44:07
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I don't want to go into more because it goes into spoilers at that point and I don't want to spoil the show because it is new but just it's a very disappointing show and the last two episodes are like the best of the whole thing and it showed what it could have been but I'm not impressed and I hope if they have a season two they can fix a lot of the issues that I have with it but I'm not excited for it and that's really disappointing because I wanted to love it.
00:44:37
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All right. Your turn, Max. All right. I was at myth again. what and her Week three, baby. we Well, my, my week two week two with is week three, the final week of.
00:44:51
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myth excuse me I only suffered a small amount of sleep exhaustion ah and missed one movie because of it. oh no which one i you miss I missed the concierge, which is ah an anime thing. I wanted to see it, and but it was like a 930 screening and I was in bed by 830 and I was not doing well.
00:45:17
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brother I was like, I was like, I couldn't sleep because my anxiety was so high. Next myth, we should probably like split it a little bit. So yeah, we we should like coordinate next time. But yeah what did I say this week? way wait went wait let Let me have a look at what date I'm just trying to like backtrack to where we were. So it was 20th. So I would have seen, no, we recorded on 19th.
00:45:44
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Yes. So I saw a fair few movies since then. So originally, I think in the last episode, you said you were seeing 12 movies. When I talked to you after that recording session, you mentioned that the number went up. What's the final tally? So the final tally for myth for me is one, two, three. oh Turn up the can out loud so that gets a surprise. 14.
00:46:08
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I only went up by two. Is that including the one you missed? No. So it would have been 15. It would have been 15. Gotcha. But 14 plus the regular movies for the podcast. So 16. I've watched a fair few movies in the last, in the last two weeks. Oh, 18 because it'd be four movies for the past two weeks, right? Yeah. Yeah. Um, I mostly had a really good time. Um,
00:46:29
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I'm just going to quickly run through a couple and then I'll talk about one or two that I really like. Starting with that Tuesday, I caught East of Noon, which was a Dutch Qatari,
00:46:42
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um it'sta um like UAE collaboration, um which was very strange as an idea. I hadn't watched any films come out of, ah um I think it's UAE. Where's Doha?
00:46:55
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who <unk> ua ah q guitar no is qat guitar no i just get it right the first time um I hadn't seen any Qatari films, um so it was interesting. it was sort of like a um It was described as a satire. I don't know if I'd go that far, but um it's it was a sort of set in this ah vaguely North African-inspired town, um and commentaries on fascism and the way that
00:47:26
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ah Uh, the media controls us, which was interesting. I watched a slasher that I did not like. It it had blackface in it, which, which was, uh, it, this, the synopsis of that film, uh, slasher in an Ikea. Cool idea. I don't think it was a great execution. Dang it. Cause like slasher in Ikea. That's cool. I think that's a good idea. yeah Horror in general in Ikea, I think is a great idea.
00:47:55
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um I watched one called On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, um which was part of Mif's Bright Horizons Showcase, which is filmmakers on there with it um either their first or second ah feature film, um which was a really interesting ah Zambian ah film about the covering up of sexual abuse in a family.
00:48:21
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um So that, that one, uh, ended up being really one of my favorites from the festival. Um, not long after that, I saw good one, which was, I think made into my top three, maybe I'll do it like a little top top three later, but, um, which was people go on a hike and that was, it was nice and it was very pretty. That's the whole movie. Um, no, it's like ah the daughter ah daughter and her father and ah their friend and the friends kind of creepy. Um,
00:48:54
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I saw an awesome $7,500 budget Australian indie film um about cannibals, which was really fun. um the a man My final day, which was the on Sunday, so a couple of days ago now, I caught The Most Precious of Cargurus, which is a French film set in the Holocaust in Poland about um a small ah family adopting a Jewish baby who was chucked out of a train on this way to Auschwitz. I thought it was really beautiful. um Sorry, Charlotte, you're laughing. I mean, not not really. It's funny that the baby gets chucked out of a train. I mean, yeah yeah, that bit's kind of funny, but like um I thought it was really beautiful and a really interesting um style and a really sort of subtle
00:49:50
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take on um ah on the Holocaust in something that is not as explicit as a lot of other like Holocaust films are, which I quite liked. I saw a Chinese domestic noir called Rain, must Some Rain Must Fall. I'd had no idea what that meant going into it. It is shot like a noir. It is the substance of a like ah drama, but like about a family.
00:50:20
Speaker
Sounds kind of cool. so um Which was good. It didn't do a heap for me, but I could appreciate where it was coming from. and then My number one of the festival was Adam Elliott's new stop motion project, Memoir of a Snail, um which has been in development for seven years, cost only $7 million. dollars and ah was, for me, fantastic, and a really stark reminder about why I wanted us to do animation ah in the first place. So, um if I do a really quick little recap, if I had to go number one would be Memoir of the Snail, number two, for me, the most precious of Cargillers, and number three would would be Good One, um the the hiking film.
00:51:13
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It's really nice and pretty. This is your rating of just this week? was ah your rat This is my rating of the festival. I had a really good week. The substance was really high last week. The substance is comes in really close after after that. Gotcha.
00:51:27
Speaker
Um, which, uh, is getting a major release. So if you get a chance to go see that absolutely go do it. A memoir of a snail is getting a release in November. Sorry. I was just saying that we might be doing the substance for the podcast as well. Maybe, maybe what' we'll we'll see in the future. We'll see what it holds. We've had some problem with our programming, as you can tell, because this episode is not Fury road and borderlands.
00:51:54
Speaker
um And a couple of um the others are getting full releases later in the year as well. And hopefully we'll cover a couple more films that were released at Auden release, but were shown at Myth later on in the podcast. But I had a really good time. um I had been posting on Instagram. If you want to go check me out, that's self shameless plug USB chicken on Instagram. Just chucking some stuff off about what we're seeing at what I'm seeing at MIFF and hopefully we'll we'll be able to do a little bit more organised next year um and and maybe even do a proper episode about it rather than just me rant about like what movies I saw in the mini media. I'm busy with uni during this time. Next year we'll also be busy with uni but maybe I can... Maybe, be but but we can like schedule better. We can, yeah, if I will try and do it, not you telling me not the week of week in of like one weekend, but yeah, absolutely. And, um, the other thing I'll just like quickly note here with myth is, um, it is a donor supported. So if you are.
00:53:02
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Liquid, not like me, wish you should go support them. If you aren't Liquid, and under the age of 26, they have a $25 membership, um which gets you early access to some ah screenings at MIFF.
00:53:19
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along with concession tickets to a whole bunch of cinemas in Melbourne, and some cheap parking in the city, and a couple other things. So absolutely do that as well. um ah And cheap tickets at MIFF. So um if you're not a member, um this is this is me plugging MIFF. It's cool. It's a great festival. It's lots of fun. You get to go see films. Some of them are Australian, some that are made on absolutely no money, um and some of them are big international blockbusters.
00:53:46
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um And ah it was a lot of fun and I'm really excited to do it again next year. Woo.
00:53:56
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The wind, it calls to me again, Max. Do you hear it? What's that? Twisters? More of them? More than one? Twisting. That would have been pretty fun to eat during the cinema experience. right Yeah. I mean, i I don't normally get cinema snacks because they tend to be really expensive and I'm not, I'm controversially not a huge fan of popcorn, but... Dude, me... Wait, i'm really? Me too? I'm getting dirty looks from Mr. Manager.
00:54:27
Speaker
na No, no, no. Mr Manager is in the minor minority right now. I don't like how you get stuck in your teeth, but twisties? I'm, I'm, I'm bored for twisties. Yeah. No, but popcorn is not tasty enough for the amount of hassle that you get for eating it. Like it's just not worth it. Yeah. Although some vinegar popcorn slaps though. I ah see. I'm, I'd go original. If I'm having popcorn, that's original over flavored, but, um, yeah, I'm just, I don't know. It's not my, it's not my jam. If you can get like chicken salt, popcorn, that's, that's.
00:54:56
Speaker
That is top tier. I forgot to close my door. Hold on two seconds. Should we maybe give full disclosure that we have had a break from the first half of the episode and now just, just in case there's anything that doesn't line up or anything. I don't know what it could be, but I'm just covering my butt right now. Even if that are all edited, sort of smooth, you weren't there. It's not so much that I don't think the editing will fall down. It's more just what if we say something that just kind of... What if I fall down? Because it's windy. What if I fall asleep? It's been really windy actually in the last couple of days. It's been like super windy. It's been pretty windy. It it made noises. I had a friend over last night who went... it's been The wind's makingking making weird noises. And yeah, but that's the whole story.
00:55:45
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like but There's like trees falling down and stuff. Is there really? Yeah, it's like, it's dangerous. Like people dying, man. Oh, okay. That's not a moment to me. I mean, like, that's not fun, but no, it's a topical. So released in 2024 and directed by Lee Isaac. choung It stars Daisy, Edgar Jones, Glenn Powell, Anthony Ramos, brenn Brandon, Brandon.
00:56:12
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hey Paria, Maura, Maura, it'd be laura Laura with an M, that makes more sense, Maura, Tiani, and Sasha Lane. Max, can you twist a ah ah so s so ah synopsis for me, please? I can twist your synopsis. I'm picking up absolutely, completely unrelated from the first movie. yeah Twisters tells the story of a meteorologist who is a
00:56:46
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tornado storm hunter. What are they called? Storm chasers? It's a storm chaser. But when things go awry, she stops doing it. Until she gets called back in. For one last joke. For one last joke. And then she falls in love.
00:57:09
Speaker
With the weather. With Glen Powell. He's basically a storm and in a... He's storm in... What's the storm in the teacup? What's the storm he wears? What's the shirt he wears? Sorry. Oh, the tornado wranglers. No, no, no. play Plaid. Plaid? Plaid. Plaid? Yeah, plaid. Plaid. Plaid? No, it's plaid. Plaid? What is it? Chequered. He's a storm in a chequered shirt.
00:57:38
Speaker
Um, I, did you, have you seen, you've seen the first one. We actually talked about this last week. You watched it in primary school or something. I distinctly remember not the plot, but I distinctly remember watching Twisters in primary school. I think. Twister. Sorry. Twister. Twister. Twister. Yeah. And primary school. It's my Australianism coming out. where we just chucked an S on the end of everything. Yeah. chuck an s on it a
Childhood Memories & Media
00:58:03
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Yeah. Um, so i yeah I remember being in primary school and I think we had to get a waiver because it's an M rated movie. Oh my God. Oh my God.
00:58:14
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You watch a man get ripped out of a storm within the first five minutes. He's like in a bunker and he's holding onto the door and the door opens and everyone else is fine. So if he just not had onto the door, he would have been fine too. Sorry, you were saying? Yeah. So I haven't watched the original in a while. Oh, okay. But, but, um, yes, but it it is something from my childhood. I'll say that.
00:58:38
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Yeah. Uh, I hadn't seen it before. I, I mentioned last week that I'd seen clips of it when I was really young on the TV and it spooked me cause the cow was flying around. Uh, and I didn't understand why or how, or what was going on. and It was tornadoes, tornadoes. Yeah. I didn't know that. I watched the first one in preparation for this one just because I am psychotic and I can't just jump into a franchise halfway through it. I kind of need to be able to watch all of it. And that's a rule that I do not stick to properly in multiple areas. A lot of video games, I just jump in on the last latest installment. yeah got yeah The amount of times we've had arguments over whether or not you should play the original Assassin's Creed game. I'm not going to do it. I tried. It's horrible. It sucks.
00:59:29
Speaker
it's there's just it The story doesn't interest me enough to go back to it and the gameplay is definitely not going to keep me around either. It's it like everyone says you can just skip it. You're the only person who you're more fanatical than I am. Like this is, this is a problem we both have, but you have it way harder. Yeah, I'm worse. I want to do, I want to do the whole series more. Yeah. You know, I started playing the original Witcher.
00:59:55
Speaker
I haven't played The Witcher 3, but I haven't played part of the original one. It brings you joy to do this, where I do it out of obligation. um Point is, whatever. Point is, I couldn't... i i we We flipped. We said... I said, Max, but um can I go see Borderlands today? You said, Mitchell, I don't want to do Borderlands. Can we do something else? I said... Unrelated to the fact that I have not what what played Borderlands.
Disaster Movies Theme
01:00:20
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Is it actually? Yeah, I haven't played Borderlands.
01:00:22
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But you didn't want to do it for unrelated reasons. It's meant to be bad. It's meant to be very bad. Uh, so yeah, very late into like the week, having weed, cause we did say we're going to watch bottle and some fury road, which I still think is a hilarious pairing. We, we, we had that as our backup. I do want to, I do want to stress that it was not, it was not, uh, this is fixed in stone. This was like, if we can't think of a better idea, we did announce it. We did announce it in the podcast. For the three people who listened to this, they're going to be like, why is this the episode we got instead?
01:01:00
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um but Anyway, we thought it was more interesting. And it is probably. um I mean, we we got to miss out on talking about Fury Road. I mean, Fury Road's, yeah. Yeah. I'm sure we can watch it. But like, anyway, yeah. We can do it with some really some. Yeah, I feel like the benefits of watching Fury Road would be outweighed by the absolute pain watching Borderlands would have been what would have been seeing. Anyway, um, but is yeah I, you said what we're not doing it. I said, what about twisters? And then we brainstormed some other earlier ones landed on a disaster movies. That is landing on the wave.
01:01:37
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When, sorry, I went, I hadn't seen Twister's though. Twister, dang it. Twister before, watched it in preparation for this. That is not a movie that begs for a sequel. I'm going to be real with you. No, it's really, ah so I was doing it. And this movie knows that it doesn't want a sequel. I was doing a little bit of reading. I was doing reading around this movie. So the original movie, insane movie, insane car, um, Oh, just insane creative team. Michael Crichton wrote it. That is insane. For anyone who doesn't know, that is the man who made Jurassic Park. He is the father of Jurassic Park. Like he did the original book and he also worked on the screenplay with Steven Spielberg. Like he.
01:02:18
Speaker
He wrote Jurassic Park. And also Westworld. And Westworld. He did the original Westworld. And in Westworld is, I think, if I remember correctly, the first ever like VFX shot ever. like it was in it's like yeah it's like a two early start It's a two second shot of a robot looking through night vision.
01:02:38
Speaker
And that's the first ever shot of like VFX we have. And it's he incredible, creative man who passed away and it is one of my greatest like It's one of my greatest sadness in life that I would ever actually be able to get to meet him. And like like I don't know if I ever would have anyway, even if it was still alive, but there's still the chance that maybe he would have done a book signing and I could have gone and like just seen him for two seconds and just like get to get to talk to him. And I warned everybody to do that because he's actually a creative that I hold very high and dear in like my heart. Yeah.
01:03:11
Speaker
Whatever. Point is insane that he wrote this movie. Well, Twister, not Twister. Yeah. So, so, um, doing some, doing a little bit of reading on this. So we have <unk> Twister gets made. It's, um, the cast of it is pretty insane for the time. seeing Um, obviously Michael Crichton, um, as a lead writer, Steven Spielberg producer um, just some really big names attached. Um, you know this see it Roland.
01:03:41
Speaker
I don't know, I've dropped my head. i want to farm roll and It sort of sits without anything for a couple of years. um And then in 2002, I think they announced that someone was interested in working on a direct sequel. And that sort of got stuck in development hell for 20 years. and unlike and Unlike everything else that gets stuck in development hell, instead of just like pushing it out, they got um one of the most interesting up and coming directors to take the idea of the original movie and just do something else with it and not have absolutely no relation to the original movie. and and I just want to start so actually talking about Twisters with
01:04:28
Speaker
I think it was such a good decision to not relate it to the original twist. Oh, absolutely. really And there's one relation. There's one relation. There's one relation and it's that at the very start, they use a Dorothy, the Dorothy thing. Yeah. the wisdom was the was And the Wizard of Oz imagery comes back as well in other spots. That's pretty much it. But like, given that that's the extent of it, it's nothing.
01:04:55
Speaker
and It's nothing and and the movie is better off for it. and absolutely um the It sort of it knows that it's this unwanted sequel to this movie that came out 30 years ago, but it does it in a sort of way that is new and interesting and I think that um It almost does a service being a sequel to this sort of cult classic movie, um because you otherwise I don't know how much traction it would have garnered.
01:05:30
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um i suppose like it's got It's got some names attached which which helps, but I think the fact that it is like Twisters, the sequel to Twister, um really sort of like propelled this into something that the movie was never going to be otherwise. And the fact that it's completely unrelated is both incredibly funny to me and just does so many good things for the film because it just lets it allows the film to sort of stretch its creative legs a bit and and have some fun with that.
01:06:01
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It is crazy to me that they decided the naming convention they should go with though is just the alien. um yeah well um I'm waiting for Twista 3. Twista cubed. Twista resurrection. Twista versus Predator.
01:06:19
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Twister versus wave. ah Could they just use Prometheus again? Maybe, what's a different, Zeus or Thor, Storm God. Twister Covenant, Twister Romulus. Twister Remus. Twister Athens.
01:06:38
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I don't know. Cause it's like a difference. because it's rome who made Who made Athens? It wasn't Athena cause she's not real. But like, would Romulus and Remus real? But like, fine, Athena. But we already did Zeus. Well, Thor? Anyway, a i think this movie is really dumb, but also it is fun. And it's it looks really good. So I think that's actually a big thing I want to talk about is that this movie could have been an absolute garbage dumpster
Social Media & Plot Points
01:07:12
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01:07:12
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First of all, clearly in general, just being an absolute garbage dumpster fire of a mess. to To be honest, I was expecting a garbage dumpster fire of a mess. Yeah, no, me too. With this film. And what I think is the biggest takeaway from this is that the special effects while smidgen wonky every now and then is overall really good. Like it looks really good. there's They have put the time and effort to make everything seem good. It looks like they shot on location for like a lot of stuff. like Maybe they didn't, but it didn't look... I wasn't looking at them like, that's green screen. like if they did a If they did green screen it, they did a very good job of it, I think. um it's just It's really good looking. I don't know how much other the praise I can give it though. I don't dislike it.
01:07:59
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but I don't think it's brilliant either though. It's fun. I had a lot of fun with this movie and I actually think it deserves a whole lot of credit that um I just wasn't expecting to give this film. ah okay don' And I don't know how much of this is just a the complete subversion of my expectations of like,
01:08:25
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this is going to be a like oh shitty legacy sequel to a friend for to a movie that didn't need a sequel at all. and um i let you know It's not like we're in shortage of those at the moment. um what and i just think they um were clever with what they did. they were They used the characters and made the characters interesting. They, in a similar approach to the wave, don't pull many punches, and I think they
01:09:01
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often go to this sort of precipice where you are worried that they're going to end up being a bit cheesy and it knows to stay on the right side of it. um and I think, as a result, what you get is this ah culmination of these really exciting tense action scenes where they're doing dumb shit, like drilling the car into the ground and going into the tornado. Like this is not real, but I also don't care. Can you not do that though? Like I actually believed that. I don't know. I don't care enough to know if it's real or not. It was fun and I liked it. um That's fair. And it sort of like made sense in the world that they built. And um I think that's that's a lot of what what works really well here is they sort of like set up these ideas um that maybe are a little far fetched and maybe are a little like science fictiony, but it doesn't really matter because they
01:10:02
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don't spend so long on it that it becomes like jargony and they don't sort of, it feels consistent with the way that they're building this world with um these two sort of, so throughout the film, you see these two sort of organizations, you've got Stormpa, which is this like capitalist sort of organization with a whole bunch of money and they're using it to study. They work with a property development guy who's evil and cruel. Yeah, because he's a capitalist. Hate capitalism. And they have all the money, so they have all the fancy equipment that can
01:10:45
Speaker
create a 3D scan of a storm. like this It's dumb, and i'm ah I'm willing to admit that it's dumb. um And then you've got the like the YouTuber guy who like goes around doing YouTube videos of like, let's fire a rocket into the tornado. He's like, umm he's like when you hit a point in Minecraft and you run out of like things to do as a Minecraft YouTuber, um and they start coming with random challenges, but he's just doing that with tornadoes. Yeah, it sort of felt like a very like Mr. Beastie almost. Yeah, he's like, we're gonna, we're gonna shoot a rocket up this tornadoes butt. Little doesn't know though, it has to it it has to cover a car so that when the military shoot artillery at it,
01:11:31
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I don't know. but like in cities It's all bad. And then the like, the like crew around it as well was very like, oh yeah they sort of understand what they're getting at with that YouTube influence. The entourage thing. Yeah. And I think like that sort of understanding of it was really quite,
01:11:49
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um It was weirdly on the pulse. Yeah. I agree. It was, it was, um, something that didn't feel like it was, um, like you often see a lot of stuff, like when movies try and interact with social media, they're yet normally a year or two behind. yeah And this very much felt like it understood the core of what made those sort of things tick. Um,
01:12:17
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what makes those sort of things tick and and used that as as part of their narrative device. um and you saw You have these like two organizations go up head-to-head and each of them has their own sort of silly little ah like gadgets and what have you. you know in almost a speed racer-y kind of way. um It did give speed racer vibes. But um but i from what I felt, it it very much was like it felt part of the world and it didn't ever feel like excessive, um which I think is really good, especially when you're considering what some of these things are. um ah Yeah, the 3D scan of the tornado or shooting rockets into a tornado or
01:13:03
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um like stuff like that. And then from there, you build this idea of um this meteorologist who wants to might kill the tornado with chemicals and tame the tornado. and And it's only just also that it fits in. And um I think that that alongside this very It felt to me very natural progression of these relationships. Um, especially the relationship between, I've totally forgotten the, the main character. Um, Kate and Kate and Glen Tyler, Kate and Tyler. Yeah. So that's Daisy and Glen's characters. Yeah. Um, felt very sort of natural and it really felt like, okay. So, so his thing, his thing, his thing.
01:13:59
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There are a lot of movies that have Glenn Powell's character. Powell's character is a Southern guy who's a bit of a dick and look at the cool girl and I'm gonna... And yeah you sort of, like, he enters the film and you get the impression that he's gonna be this, like,
01:14:23
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asho the Yeah, the like Hallmark movie, um like, I'm gonna fall in love with you at the end, I'm gonna be a dick about it the whole way. yeah um And for me, and um I'm not gonna say this is definitive, but for me, it felt like they started with that and then went, well, actually,
01:14:46
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he gives this impression because of what he's doing like creatively. and He's not an asshole and he um is actually just a guy who's fascinated with tornadoes. and You see scenes with the two of them that slowly develop his character into less of a dick. And he also hates Stormpa because of the capitalism and stuff. And he hates Stormpa because of capitalism. Which is why he's a dick to those guys at the beginning. And then it sort of clicks into place, rather than just him being a dick for the sake of being a dick. Yeah, he's a dick because he thinks that the people in Stormpa are bad people. Because they're He sees them as very predatory and they are very predatory. And I think as a result, I quite liked the way that they treated his character because I felt it could at any moment just push it into that stereotype of the cool guy, the cool southern guy who is a dick and the girl falls in love with him at the end. But instead, he is much more mellow and then
01:16:01
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Realistically, at the end of the film, he's the one who goes after the girl, um which which I thought was a nice touch as well and ah and inversion of that sort of um sort of standard character idea. um And so I had a real lot of fun with that. He absolutely got arrested at the end there when he drilled. 100%. He drilled his car into the airport. Yeah. Okay. so So how many times have you been in that like drop of his own in the airport? It's like not regularly, but also glad of it because it's stressful. I've had to like drop people off there a couple of times. yeah um It's always like crowded, unless especially in Melbourne. It's yeah always crowded. The traffic never moves. If someone drilled their car into the ground, I wouldn't be fuming.
01:16:48
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Oh, it's lucky that it wasn't busy, right? Like there's no other cars around, but also he straight up, that's, that's, that's public damage. That's property damage. I can't remember what it is, but it's like, I don't know if it's public property at the airport. Like you can get sued for that though, for drawing drilling a hole. Regardless of what it is, you can get sued for drilling into the road. and I understand that like you got to rush in and talk to the girl, but just like get towed.
01:17:16
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It's better than what you're going to be facing if you drill a hole into the ground like that. You know what I mean? Like i mean he doesn't want to lose his like, you don't lose the car. You just, you just have to, you just have to pay, you'd have to pay a fine. You wouldn't, it'd be cheaper. Maybe a bit, maybe in that moment, immediately afterwards, more frustrating because your car would then be gone and you have to figure out another way to get back. But it'd probably be cheaper to pay the fine than the amount of like, cause you like,
01:17:46
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I just I feel like I Feel like his priorities were in the wrong order I'm really hung up on the fact that The there's a there's a switch between two scenes with this dynamic that you say is really good and I think overall is pretty good but just there's something that doesn't sit right with me and it's that there's a scene in a town that gets hit by a tornado and Kate is there helping out and Tyler and his ah squad are also there helping out. And then he's like, he's been kind of talking to her every now and then he's been semi friendly to her, but like also a bit like sleazy and all that and whatever. um And then he goes, uh,
01:18:30
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like He like goes off at her because she's working at Stormpar. Obviously, like he's in the right technically because Stormpar is a crappy company that um utilizes ah naturally a naturally occurring disaster to steal property and like get people at when they're at their lowest. So he's in the right for being grumpy for someone working with them, but he goes at her. She's like,
01:18:55
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the hell is he talking about he doesn't she's like I don't know what you're talking about he's like don't even and like hold his hand like you know and walks off and then the very next scene we're at her apartment and he's got a czar ready for her and he's like hey um Yeah, cause he when you go to the warriorier because he feels bad. It's such a whiplash turn. They need to be a bridge in there. It was a moment of heightened tension. He overreacted. He realized that he was i made a mistake. I understand. And he's trying to apologize with Lazar. I understand that in the actual film, there was hours between this. Oh, maybe even a day. Like, I don't know. Like, whatever. Probably not a day, but at least a few hours. I understand that. But for us, it is mere moments and it is totally whiplash-rific. I don't know. I thought it was fun. No, it's like, and then and then like, it's fun when they go to the rodeo, but also then he's like, he's like, I went to the rodeo and he's like, no, what's hilarious?
01:20:01
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That's hilarious, is that he's got a girl, like a city girl, right? and Because he believes she's the city girl, but she's not. She's actually from the country because she used to live out this way amongst the tornadoes as well. um this is Amongst the tornadoes. Little house amongst the tornadoes.
01:20:19
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um and she
Cultural Stereotypes & Decisions
01:20:23
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and so But she hasn't told him that because she doesn't want to get to know this guy yet because like she's closed off and like she yeah it's whatever. It's character development. I don't care about that part. That part's fine. You don't care about character development? No, I care about character development. I just have nothing to say on it because it's like fine and like whatever. like I don't think they did a bad job with that at all. um And so I have no comment on it. um But what is problem, not problematic, but just what's stupid is that he's like, this girl is from the city. I want to show her a good time.
01:20:56
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i'd like What's your problem with that? I just think I don't like the rodeo. I mean i don't like the rodeo either. That's the thing. Why would a country guy think that like like there's so many other things that the country can do? They're in a tiny town and with the rodeo on that day. gonna go to the room on light If you think that you're with a city person, you know what the country has that the city doesn't? You know what it has, Max? At nighttime, in a small town. You know what it has?
01:21:24
Speaker
Where are you? Non-light polluted sky. Show her stars. See, that's cheesy and romantic and they don't go there. What's wrong with cheesy and romantic? Because the movie takes it. It's explicitly not cheesy and romantic. Instead, I'm going to take a go to go watch a man get trampled to death by a poorly treated bull.
01:21:46
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And that's what they do in the country, Mitchell. I don't i agree with it. that's That's fine. I'm okay. And I agree with your personal and political beliefs of about Rodeo. I think it's insane that he thought that that would woo her if he thought that she was from the city. I i think you're overthinking this so much, dude.
01:22:12
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it just it in It felt, it rang untrue to me.
01:22:19
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I don't know. Did do you find this, this movie's obviously a a natural disaster
Natural Disasters vs Monsters
01:22:25
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thriller. yeah you Were you thrilled? The problem for me, once again, this is like the problem between natural disaster and monster movie is that a natural disaster, when it can't do anything like chase someone in quotation mark, it can just happen to be going in the same direction. So like,
01:22:43
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You know, there's like a level of, it's very easy to outwit because it's not, it doesn't have wits to out. And ye um and so like, I just want to find,
01:22:59
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Twisters, like cyclones, what are they called? Tornadoes. Tornadoes. I don't find them that scary. It's because I'm so removed from them. um But like a sunnado, a tsunami, spooky, scary, like horrifying. I mean, I don't want close to those either, but just once again, going back to like the idea of like water, water is spooky.
01:23:22
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Wind, not spooky. Wind's not spooky. Uh, wind's pretty chill. Uh, I have nothing against wind. yeah Um, I sound like Donald Trump right now. I have nothing against wind. Um, wind's spooky, dude. Wind's like stuff flying everywhere. Dude, just don't get grabbed. Have you been in like a big windy, like when it's really windy out?
01:23:43
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Yeah, I've been outside and it's been ultra windy. Like have you seen like branches fallen and stuff? I've seen tree fall over. You know, we have a good friend who got hit by a falling tree in the wind. Well trees are scary. Yeah, it was caused by the wind. I think that it was like if the tree wasn't there, then the it would have been fine, right?
01:24:07
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So like the tree tree's the real factor here. and i I, the tree is there all the time and the wind is there some of the time. Like I'm just not scared of wind. Okay. It's not scary to me. I think there's like, there's a slight fear of being picked up and thrown around. Like absolutely that is a bit spooky, but beyond that, I'm not watching twisters and being like, Oh man, this is spooky. I'm watching her like,
01:24:33
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Cool. This looks kind of neat. I think the scene that I think was actually probably the best in trying to get me to be like, whoa, was at the very start when, um, she buggers up and she's like, Oh, this is just going to be an EF one and we're going to shoot nappy sand into it or whatever. And it's going to, um, defuse the tornado. And that's when like her whole team does nappy sand, right?
01:24:57
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I think so. Like I know i say that as a joke, but I do actually i just think that's right. Cause it's like, they're just trying to like remove the moisture out of the air. That's what that does. Yeah, exactly. So I think I'm not wrong. Um, I said it as a joke, but I was accidentally correct. By the way, guys, just, just in case you missed it the first time around, the part of the movie is to shoot nappy sand into the torn to d see if it can diffuse them by like removing all the um moisture yeah moisture, which turns out, according to this movie, you can, as long as you shoot s silver nitrate along with it to make it rain. To make more water. To make more water, exactly.
01:25:32
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um but ah the the start when I think it's it's when they're running and there's like a guy who's lagging behind and he just gets joined and that's like, Oh, okay. And then there's the chick maybe behind her and then she gets hit by like a tree, which I guess we've just spoken about, but like, I was like, whoa, Hey. And then he, so like, they run under a overpass that what's on the pass on the pass. Wrong direction. upon Maybe there's no, no.
01:26:01
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You're passing under. They go under the underpass. Are you in the underpass? Surely there's like a two-part thing, right? No, because an underpass goes under the... Oh, so you can be on top of the underpass or you can be under the overpass? Yes. Okay. So they go under an overpass, which they actually... Clued as to them, they're like, we shouldn't do that. um But it's like the only thing they can do, which is funny because in Man of Steel, there's a tornado and it's also in the dumb scene where he just lets his dad die because his dad's like,
01:26:31
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No, don't. This will be a lesson for you. Even I totally defeats the purpose of Jonathan, um, Jonathan Kent, um, dying. Anyway, uh, they go on, they go under the overpass and they, her boyfriend and her like basically get safe, like are hiding in the thing. And then he just kind of gets yanked as well.
01:26:51
Speaker
That part, probably the most harrowing, I think, of the whole film. I think it's meant to be as well. I don't think the movie's meant to get that intense. Because it's meant to be, look at why she stopped doing this, look at how horrible this horrible thing is. Yeah. I mean, the closest it gets is the climax at the end where they're all sheltering in the theatre and then going like,
01:27:12
Speaker
Oh, that's cool. It is cool. And I was... i hot as film I felt a degree of tension there. I think though there was enough there for me to go like, oh, like, yeah, i'm I'm concerned for the safety of of these characters. You sort of see people get yoinked a bit and... I felt bad for the people who got yoinked who weren't main characters, who just weren't, because no main character gets yoinked in this, I'm pretty sure.
01:27:36
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Um, no, no, no, no. Yeah. It's a really character who almost gets yoinked. The, um, the, the drone, the drone operator. Yeah. the drone yeah always cost She gets yoinked, but not fully yoinked. Like there's a, a new linkage that happens. Um, she gets yoinked both ways and eventually saved because the nappy. You're trying to yoink backwards.
01:28:05
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ah ki sounds like you' having a stroke um What was my point? I thought it was tense. You thought it was... Oh, I think it like...
01:28:20
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I think I didn't buy into the characters as much as you did, and that's like the problem. um Like to for something to be tense or scary or fun or anything like, not fun, fun can, you don't need, remove fun. Sorry, I don't know why I said fun, but for anything to be tense or scary or anything like that, for you to be invested in the outcome of something in a movie, generally at least, you need to have characters that you're actually invested in. That's that's the whole point of a character, it's to give you someone. And like while I like these characters,
01:28:50
Speaker
I was actually kind of okay if they died. I'm going to be real. i um I wasn't at any point like, Oh, I hope they live. Like it's like I wanted them to die. I wasn't wishing for their death, but I wasn't that worried about them surviving. And I think unlike the way the characters do here feel like they've got a bit of pot armor as well. They absolutely, the whole part where um like a whole, is it like a building or something drops on Glen Powell and his leg is fine. Like yeah it's his leg that gets got and he's fine.
01:29:26
Speaker
And that, I mean, obviously that is at the end, but like you, these characters are such larger than life heroes, basically. Like that is exactly what they are. And that is absolutely fine. I love action heroes. I watched so much action, so many action movies. Like I have nothing against that. It's just like the wave. I was more invested in, like we were talking about this before, even though I technically had the knowledge that they weren't going to die, but I was still more invested because these characters,
01:29:51
Speaker
were grounded and were basically real people dealing with like a situation that they were thrown into. My other thing is that I have no sympathy for these people because they did this to themselves. so I feel sad for the townspeople because they just live there. Once again, why do you live there though? Don't live in tornado alley. That's silly. But like, but like they did this to themselves. They went out there and were like, let's hang out where the tornadoes are. Like, you know, it's like an area like I want to be where the natives are. I want to seal them, seal them, see them whirling, swirling. That's pretty good. Uh, yeah, see, i dont I don't know. I don't, I don't know if you need to feel sympathy to feel like it's not sympathy. It's just like, I don't know. I, I don't know. I was, I was happy with that sort of large van lifeness. that's no That's fine. Yeah. And I think, I think, um, like.
01:30:46
Speaker
this like If we're directly comparing this movie to The Wave, The Wave is much more grounded in a sort of realistic approach, whereas this one is, and it doesn't really ever try and hide the fact that it is sort of supernatural and like science fiction-y and everyone's like slightly above average human. um Everyone stats like 20 out of 20.
01:31:14
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um you know like and It's a D and&D reference, no one's going to get that. um And yeah, just the the fact that they're a bit like larger than life, I think really works in this world. And I think that's what I keep coming back to is that the way that all the pieces to me fit in the world that they've built make sense, um because I don't really see Twisters as a true to life.
01:31:41
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natural disaster movie, like more so a action movie in which natural disasters occur. Yeah, um I this this once again, it's just stepping to the thing of just like I would be more interested if the twister was a monster instead.
01:31:58
Speaker
Like I just, that would be more interesting to me. Like these people, the exact, basically make the exact same movie, but it's a monster and I'd be on way more on board and ready to go. I think just the fact that it's, it, cause I would love to watch an action movie with set pieces and stuff like that. Like this is, this is fun for me. And I had fun. Like I'm not saying I didn't like, I think this is a fun movie and I think you can get a lot of just enjoyment for the two hours that this is like the runtime drags a little bit.
01:32:28
Speaker
but not nearly as much as other two hour movie like two hour long movies kind of just drag for me in general anyway. Like I do have my issues. I don't feel like it I have a status. It's absolutely a movie that did not stick around for way too long. Like it's it's it's paced pretty well. The action's pretty good. I just think the subject matter of a tornado is just not that interesting to me. I would rather see a Godzilla.
01:32:52
Speaker
Which because i Godzilla is basically a natural disaster movie. And like there are movies, there's one like Shin Godzilla plays it like that. It's like because it's talking about like how governments react to disasters and stuff. And they so they treat Godzilla like a natural disaster. So like it's just the idea of it being a creature with ah its own ideas, not ideas, but like its own agency um versus just a wind.
01:33:21
Speaker
Yeah, see, I have the ivis sort of opposite sort of ah like mindset in that both the fact that it's completely devoid of agency and completely devoid of intent is terrifying to me, but also the fact that and this sort of thing is much more likely to happen than a Godzilla. I'm infinitely more likely to be swept up and killed in a tornado than I am going to be heat blasted by Godzilla. I believe it's called turn
Tension & Realism in Scenes
01:33:59
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ah ah Atomic Breath. Sorry. um and i'm not gonna get I'm not going to get Atomic Breathed on by Godzilla. And for me, I think that
01:34:14
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is what I like about these movies as well is that there is that sort of unpredictability to them and that Yeah, the the idea that you're dealing with these things that aren't like controllable and they're not um acting for a reason, but rather they just are and and part of the world. And like again, in like in comparing the two, I think The Wave does this really well where it takes this idea of this like natural beauty that can be deadly. um and And I think that really is, for me, what makes these sort of movies
01:34:50
Speaker
um ah interesting for me and and what makes them exciting for me. I do really like, i'm I am a big fan of just people driving away from things, um like epic things. So like, um I did enjoy the kind of penultimate thing, which was like where it rocked up to like an electric plant. Like there was a giant tornado that rocked up, it wasn't probably an EF5, like rocked up to some sort of electric plant or something.
01:35:16
Speaker
And like it's set on fire and like stuff like that. That was cool. And yeah, like everything starts exploding. Yeah, that was cool. I like and then they're like, they're like, we've got to drive away. And that was pretty rad. I like that stuff. I like I like cars doing things. I had a lot of fun also with um the scene, which we're talking about before where they get she went power takes takes Kate Kate.
01:35:43
Speaker
to, to the road year. Um, and then this tornado hits and they're trying to help all these people take shoulder. I had a lot of fun in that bit. Sorry. Well, like the lady who was like, it's not a tornado. And then like the sirens cut off and she's like, see, not a tornado, but the sirens cut off because they were ripped out of the ground. And then they get thrown through and then they get thrown through the window and she's like, Oh, it's a tornado. It's like, wow. Good, good, good job lady. Um, I dunno. I think my i found that like to be one of the really like tense moments of the movie yeah um
01:36:16
Speaker
i think that that's probably like yeah something that maybe does really well is build that, um, like the, the sort of fear of, of these unpredictable weather events. I think what something in that scene section as well, that like kind of get does actually get to me a bit is when someone does something that I absolutely kind of believe I would have done and it's what gets them killed. It's like they get into the car go and drive away. Like, yeah, that's obviously, uh,
01:36:46
Speaker
Like in my brain, I don't know, I don't know how to survive a tornado. I don't have to, I don't have to know that currently. And maybe I should know more, but I like in my head, it could be like, I think you're pretty safe at the moment. Pretty safe. Yeah. I don't know. If I go to America, I'll try and have someone around who knows stuff, but also depends on where in America I am. Also, I think at this point in time, I have worse things to deal with if I go to America. Um,
01:37:12
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But like just they do drive off and that's what gets like they get thrown and die. And I went, Oh, that probably would have been me if I was in this situation. I'm not jumping in the pool. That's whack.
01:37:25
Speaker
I'm lucky that... Oh, and also then the guy... No, actually, no. The one that did frustrate me there was ah when Glenn Powell was like, don't stand up. And he's like, stand up? Gotcha. It's like, no, no. He said the opposite thing. And the guy's like, no, no, no. I can make it. Just let me stand up. And Glenn Powell's like, no, just snake crawl across the ground.
01:37:43
Speaker
That was silly. Dude, don't get up. Yeah. I mean, I like, I find frustrating and tense when people are stupid. um But people are stupid. But like, but that's why. So like, I think this movie does a lot to go like, yeah, look how stupid these people are. Yeah. Look how frustrating that is. It's just like,
01:38:03
Speaker
Like I know, I don't know how to survive a tornado. So maybe this is like rock glass window. That's my point. They live in a zone that's known for tornadoes. It's not even that. It's like they're in the tornado place. They're in tornado alley. There's these two guys who are like but like, we're tornado experts, quick. Do what we say because we are tornado experts.
01:38:30
Speaker
Yeah. And then they're like, yeah, no, actually, I'm going to brother. i'll I'm just going to stand up. I'm going to actually just do a quick dip. Thank you. um I need my
Food Cravings Inspired by Movies
01:38:39
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refund. actually Oh, that guy was surfer. I hate customers, man. See, that wouldn't be me because I would be like, hey, um Five out of five. No problems. I wouldn't complain. um a Rat in the room. I didn't see it. Dude, rat means I got a friend for free. Um, I, I really like
01:39:04
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The mum. The mum was fun. kate Kate's mum. And ah she made barbecue for Kate and Tyler. And I walked out and I said to the roommate who I saw the movie with, um can we get a meat platter of some sort for dinner? And we did. So we got like um like a ah ah ah Lebanese, um, like, ah nice wow like it was like some nice rice or some to bully the place that you we order from. They just give you a pack of pizza, um, like a bit of bread. Um, I know the one, yeah i another the other one. Oh, which one do you, which one I'll to miss.
01:39:47
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Oh no, I've got a different one. There's the chicken place that does this as well though. Yeah. There's a chicken place. Yeah. This is like a Lebanese place. I think it's a different this is so it's all the chicken place. It's on a different place. Yeah. But like, I think multiple places kind of do this, but just any place that does do this is top tier because any place that gives you a whole pack and a pitot. Yeah. Cause you're not paying it we didn't pay extra for that either. They just gave that to us, which is like, thank you. Cause I guess the money they're making is like from the meat and all that, which makes sense because yeah. But anyway, we had really nice dinner cause it was yummy and we got to,
01:40:17
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Yeah. Should we give some scores? We watched DuckTales. Yeah, let's do scores. um I gave Twisters two sets of Twin Naders, which is four. Four Naders. Four Naders and five. um I'm giving this tornado an EF3 rating. Yeah. Did you can only know how much it is after the damage has been done? Well, the damage
Off-Topic Story & Fan Mail
01:40:51
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was however much it cost to go see the movie and then almost being pulled little over for a drug test by the police on the drive home.
01:40:59
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Well, did you have drugs in your system, Mitchell? ah No, at that point in time, I did not. So it would have been fine. But i also, yeah they were all good. Yeah, well, but also, um they, ah the the section was full, so they couldn't leave me in. So they just waved me past.
01:41:13
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I got lucky. but also i didn't get lucky so much it was a so me do i know have drugs in your and then drink you like yeah it's more convenient It's more convenient. I get really stressed when I have to stop for those as well. Cause they're like, have you had any drugs? And I know for a fact or drugs or alcohol, and I know for a fact I have not had either, but my, my stress part goes,
01:41:35
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Yeah. Have I, have I had drugs or alcohol? I had soy sauce earlier. What if my mouthwash that is alcohol free comes up? I think there was vanilla essence in a banana bread. Oh dude. I once, this is ah such an off topic story, but I want to tell this once when I was driving around in like out back, New South Wales, um, I had contacts on and I was wearing sunglasses.
01:42:01
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And my license says I need glasses to see because I do. like I'm absolutely blind without them. So I can't drive without like something correcting my vision. and But the contacts were doing that. Anyway, I got pulled over by police um for like just a routine stop as I entered a um town or something. um I think they' were doing ah think they're doing alcohol and testing again.
01:42:21
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Um, ah so I was passing through a town and they stopped me and they checked my license and I did the test of past findings. I hadn't been drinking. And then they're like, Oh, are your sunglasses? Um, are your sunglasses prescription? And I went, no. And my stomach dropped cause I was like, how am I seeing right now?
01:42:42
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And then I remembered I had contact lenses and I was like, oh no, fine. But for like two seconds I was like, have I been driving this whole time? Like just blind? But no, no. And I could see at that point in time. So I was wearing contact lenses. Like I just forgot that I could see. Anyway. Yeah.
01:43:04
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ah The wind and the waves crashed together. oh
01:43:12
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What's this? A letter maybe has washed up. In a bottle? From the tsunami. Message in a bottle. Sorry, fan mail? We got two pieces of fan mail. Do we actually? No, we've got one and a spam. I'm going to read the spam anyway. No film buff. Our first piece of mail is from Tashia McGilvery. Sounds like a spam. um The email address they lee strong i you want the email is
01:43:52
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It's the spam one, so I don't care. It's not Tashia McGilvery, it's DavidLeahStrong. I feel like we've been lied to in some way. Hey there. Hi.
01:44:04
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To ensure there is no interruptions to your service, kindly take a moment to confirm your renewal data date details at your earliest convenience. What are we renewing? Simply click on the link provided here to review and update your information as needed. If you have any questions or need assistance, feel free to reach out to our friendly customer support team. and then there's like ah serial number. What are we renewing? And an attachment with a PDF that Gmail has scanned and said that it's fine. It's probably looks like a fake McAfee invoice. It's probably that part's fine. It's the link. That's not going to be good. Yeah. but What are we renewing? Our McAfee subscription. Oh, McAfee. McAfee. Do you say McAfee? McAfee. Did it McAfee?
01:44:52
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I think I don't, I always pronounce it McAfee, but maybe I'm wrong. That's the, that's the antivirus software, right? Yeah. Yeah. I think it's antivirus. I don't know. I don't care. I'm not going to correct you. You can say however you want. Oh, sorry. And then there were two smiley, there were two emergencies. One's like the smiley with the tongue sticking out. And then one's like a, a laughing emoji. Also cheeky, some two cheeky emergencies. The spam's pretty cheeky with us. From McAfee, but not McAfee.
01:45:21
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and Anyway, but that's our spam mail for the week. Spam mail. Actual fan mail. Fan mail. Yay. ah Actual fan mail. We have fact checking on films to die for. Oh, that was like two episodes ago, one episode ago. This is two weeks ago. Yeah. Dear BB Potty. Hell yeah. I believe Max's dad actually makes an adaptation of a Persian granola, not muesli.
01:45:45
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He also eats this with Greek yogurt, which can be purchased lactose-free in stewed quinces with an infusion of rose water, not milk. I was worried we got something really, really wrong. And it just turns out that it's just you being a goof. So I'm okay with this. Regards, Mr. Manager's travel advisor. Who could that be?
01:46:05
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Thanks for pointing this out. What's the difference between granola and muesli? I can look it up right if now if you want. Muesli and granola contain a mix of oats, dried fruits, nuts, and seeds. Muesli may have added dried flakes of other grains like wheat. What's RAGI? Is that ragi or regi?
01:46:24
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and I do not know. Brown rice or joie. While granola usually contains added sweeteners like honey, dates, maple syrup, or chocolate. I think it's a vibe. I think the difference is vibes. Yeah, that's a fan mail for this week. Do you remember why we were talking about... Oh, it was the cereal. Cereal. Because we're talking about cereals, yeah. Cereals, yeah. Because I said wheatbix and you said granola.
01:46:49
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but Well, I said musically. Obviously, I was wrong. Yeah. Adaptation. Um, sorry. Was adaptation a reference to our episodes? Like a couple of episodes before that as well? and and ah i don't I don't know. that they happened so That's almost out of the email. Right back. Was that a reference? but Was that a reference to our adaptation meta episode? Which also came
Closing Remarks & Next Week's Preview
01:47:10
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out a episode before that, I think? Yeah, it came out before this the episode.
01:47:22
Speaker
Uh, Oh, my notes aren't in front of me. That's why I've blanked. This has been the Blockbuster podcast. I've been maxed. Oh, are we going to do our weather man? I can't remember what mine was. I was drought buckaroo Mitch. Yeehaw. Let's start again. Yep. Wait, let me see if I can do it off by heart. I'm going to see if I can do it off by heart. All right. You ready?
01:47:42
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This has been the BlockBusted Podcast. I've been DrapBuckRooMitch. Yeehaw! And I've been your welcome weatherman, Max. If you want to give us any reviews, nope, fucked it. You can send us questions.
01:47:59
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You can send us questions for reviews and warranted hate mail at blockbustedpotty at gmail dot.com. but it's about p double d That's potty spelled P-O-D-I-E. You can also find us on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter at the handle bbpotty. Let us know if you like the fan mail or send us some. um If you don't, let us know if you like Filmbuff. If you don't like that either,
01:48:24
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um Leave us a review on Apple podcasts or Spotify, five stars. yeah um And leave a comment and we'll read it on the podcast. We should check those before we start the episode, shouldn't we? Yeah, probably. i I have a feeling like I have this gut feeling that um we're not going to have any. We still only have three ratings and no reviews on Apple.
01:48:53
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We have no comments on Spotify. So leave us a comment, or a review, or both, even. Give us five stars so we can annoy more people. And ah make sure to recommend us to your favourite podcast listing friends yeah um ah on whatever your podcast listing app is. Yep. Your pod catcher, I believe it's called in the business.
01:49:22
Speaker
Uh, next week, I think I got this right, we're doing Ring and I Saw the TV Glur. Um, food Spooky TV movies. Spooky TV. But not movies made for TV, but movies are about the TV. Movies about spooky a spooky TV. Just one TV. No other. It's the one, only one TV.
01:49:45
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This week, I'm going to ask you to check out the weather. Flag kite or something. Unless you're in Melbourne, it's really windy and stay safe. Perfect time to flag kite when it's windy. is nothing to be scared of.