LNC Says "Welcome To Derry Girls"

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Large Nerd on Collider, the
podcast that's all about the geeky things happening in the
world around us and how very excited we are about them.
I'm Ariel Castin and with me as always his the
phenomenal Jonathan Strickland.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
And intro so nice. We did it thrice?

Speaker 1 (00:27):
Was it only three times? It felt like a hundred. No.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
One of those was Ariel's fault and the other two
were mine.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
So fault or genius. Yeah, I had this quirky idea
that I was gonna do like an ASMR intro. But
Jonathan and I are both fighting off a little bit
of a cough. Mine is like a lingering thing, and
I think Jonathan's is an oncoming thing. Yes, So I
couldn't get more than like five seconds in before I'm like,
I'm gonna cough. Nope, I'm gonna.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
Laugh, gotcha? Yeah? Yeah? Well. And also I mentioned to
Ariel in the wake of that that attempt that if
she were to do asm R, I would probably fall
asleep because I'm so wicked tired. I literally landed in
Atlanta this morning, came straight to my house and began

(01:17):
researching for this episode and it went straight into recording
and I am so sleepy.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
Thank you for doing this episode. The sleepiness, I'm sure
we'll only add to the Zadi bonkers.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yeah, there's some weird stuff we're gonna be talking about today,
so yeah, yeah, I'm excited actually to talk about this stuff. Also,
I believe correct me if I'm wrong, Ariel. Are we
missing next week? Is it missing?

Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yeah? Yeah, I'm heading down to Florida for a little
mini vacation on Thursday, so I will be unavailable to
record on Friday. I will miss you all, but but
that's neat a a vacation for me. Everything I've done
this year, I've taken time off, but it's always involved
like doing stuff with other people or four other people,

(02:06):
and I love it, but I am so tired.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
Yeah, now, you are well deserved to take a vacation.
I wanted. That's one of the reasons why I want
to make sure we recorded this week, so that we
wouldn't have to skip two weeks in a row, you know.
And I knew I was flying back early enough from
New York to be able to record. I was literally
just up in New York for a day. Not even

(02:30):
I don't even think I was there for a full
twenty four hours. No, I wasn't. I wasn't there for
a full twenty four hours. Flew up, landed at around
twelve thirty or one o'clock in the afternoon yesterday, and
then I left by nine so at nine am. So
but that was a work thing, and now I'm back

(02:51):
here to do our fun thing and one of the house.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
It was at least fun.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
It was fun. I was there for a launch party.
I met Questlove so awesome. You know. It's kind of
one of those things where it's just like, oh, okay,
that's that happened. But we like to start off these
episodes with a question, which we did come up with
about five seconds before we started recording. And in the

(03:17):
wake of all the superhero stuff we've had over the
last you know, fifteen twenty years, there's still some heroes
who stubbornly have not really made a big debut on
the big or small screen. So my question to you, Ariel,
is that are there any heroes or a particular hero
that you would love to see a show up in

(03:39):
either a TV series or a film.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
Yes, the goofy answer is, Ariel, who I know that
is a name that Kitty Pride goes by sometimes in
Kitty Pride has been in movies and TV shows. This
is a mutant alien from a glamorous planet who can
create doorways and teleport through them, and she joined the

(04:04):
Fallen Angels at one point. She's super obscure and the
only reason is because every superhero mutant super villain I've
wanted to play has hit the screen so far, and
I'm like, well, this one has my name, so maybe
I could play this one. But the real answer is Jubilee.
She has shown up very tangentially in a movie. I

(04:25):
think I don't know has she showed Was she in
New Mutants? Am I forgetting that?

Speaker 2 (04:31):
I honestly can't remember if she was in New Mutan
I never saw New Mutants, so everything I know by
New Mutants is through osmosis. I know, I know my
girlfriend was in it. Don't tell her she's my girlfriend.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. On New Tailor Joy Like, I really
like Jubilee, and the reason why is because she had
such a great character in the X Men cartoon, right,
and even in the New X Men cartoon, x Men
and any Amp, But she hasn't had that I can

(05:04):
remember like a very large role. She has shown up
in some stuff, but she hasn't had a very large
role in any TV or movies. And you can definitely
write in and correct me if I'm wrong, because I
needed to go back and rewatch stuff. So yeah, those
are my answers.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
What about you squirrel Girl, Yeah, she was supposed to
get her own animated series but that got canceled.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
Yeah, Malania Binchob was supposed to play her, who would
have been perfect for it. Yes, Actually she has done
some voice work for squirrel.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
Girl, I believe so, but the series that she was
doing got canceled. It. They may have made a couple,
but the it didn't last. But I would actually like
to see squirrel Girl realized in live action. I don't
know how you can do that in a way that
doesn't just come across as as goofy as the character is,

(05:53):
but that's kind of part of the charm. Like you
could do it in Deadpool. I think you could have
a Deadpool movie where squirrel Girl shows up, and that
would be okay because Deadpool is also a very zany
kind of comic book franchise.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
So I just don't want to know what he would
do to the West Coast Avengers.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
Yeah, well I also want to you know what, I
also want to see the West Coast Avengers because they're
all a bunch of screw ups. Well, I want to
say that squirrel Girl was also I think there was
briefly like a Midwest branch of the Avengers, which was
even more jokey than the West Coast Avengers were, right,
and DC has sort of done this too, Like they

(06:33):
had the Justice League America, which was like their A team,
and then they had Justice League International, which was kind
of the B team. Well, Justice League International was that
was in the nineties, and they had characters like Booster
Gold and Blue Beetle and.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
Are you talking about comics or the cartoon comics? Okay,
in the cartoon I think they just changed that to
Justice League Unlimited.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yeah, that was. It was a lot of fun. That
title was much more had a lot more humor in it,
although Guy Gardner was such a jerk, which I think
Nathan Fillian perfectly captured in Superman and also that one
episode of Peacemaker. So yeah, squirrel Girl is my answer.
There's probably if you ask me tomorrow, I would probably

(07:18):
come up with a different answer. There's some characters I
would love to see adapted for the screen. They've had
adaptations in the past, but either I think that the
adaptation is dated or it's somewhat somewhat flawed. So like
The Shadow is an example, Like I actually kind of

(07:38):
like the Shadow movie, but it's not great. I just
like it because it's very stylish. Or The Phantom, which
I also kind of like that movie, but I think
it could have been better. Both of those would be
fun to see a new adaptation. I just don't know
if there's an audience for it, so there might not
be any Like, there might not be a business reason

(07:59):
to do it right, Like I don't think I don't
think they movie theaters are like what would make Jonathan happy?
I don't think that enters into their conversations as much
as it should.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
Really, I think they're talking about it all the time.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
Well, if they are, they're doing a real crappy job.
At least Marvel is.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
Well, maybe they'll get better. They're working on it.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
Well, what what stuff have you watched this last recording?
So I'll get mine out of the way. I haven't
seen anything. I am behind on Fallout now, so I
need to watch episode five, but all the travel and
everything kind of threw me for a loop and I
haven't really sat down to watch any programming. But what

(08:43):
about you?

Speaker 1 (08:45):
So I am also behind on Fallout. I have not
watched episode four or five. Just bad bad timing and
like the level of brain you need for different shows, right, Yeah,
And part of it is like my serious brain is
all being taken up by The Pit. So I'm continuing
to watch The Pit. I didn't watch the episode that

(09:07):
came out last night. I tried, but it came out
at nine, which was too late for me to catch
it before I had other plans. But yeah, so I've
I've started season two of The Pit. Love it. Something
I didn't realize and I only realized through like interviews,
is that The Pit does not have a soundtrack, Like
there's no music because when you go into the er,

(09:27):
there's no music.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
Yeah, right, so when you go into the when you
go into the oar, there could be music, yeah, because
I requested it.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
But in the er there there's generally not music playing.
And you know, the show tries to be very act
and succeeds at being very accurate and amazing, just like
they're dealing with all this heavy stuff, but is such
a good watch, Like it never feel bad after watching it.
I can feel sad. There are sad moments I've cried,
but like, I didn't expect it to be a vengeable show,

(09:58):
and it was one hundred percent for me. I watched
the entire first season in less than a week.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
That's fantastic.

Speaker 1 (10:04):
But episode one of season two starts with a song
as the main character, doctor Robbie, is riding a motorcycle
into the hospital and it's by the Clarks, who are
very very popular in sell out arenas in Pittsburgh, but
have had very little to know radio play anywhere else.
Nobody else knows about them, and they're phenomenal. So I'm

(10:24):
so happy about that because I hope that they get
like this new nationwide resurgence because their music is so fun.
And I put Fallout on here, but then I didn't
watch it. I thought for sure I was going to
watch it, and then I started glad Lands, which is
the new dimension twenty mad Max where everybody helps each
other series. I love it. That's great and more important

(10:49):
than me loving it, my husband loves it, and he
doesn't love actual plays like they much like podcasts or
radio theater, the things that I love to do, they
put him to. But this one he was super into.

Speaker 2 (11:02):
So that's awesome. Yeah, I gotta check that out. I
haven't watched any of that yet.

Speaker 1 (11:08):
That one had never stopped blowing up like Chef's Kiss.

Speaker 2 (11:13):
Yeah. So okay, well, hey look at that. We're not
even fifteen minutes in and we've already done our first
two things.

Speaker 1 (11:20):
I can add more stuff if you want.

Speaker 2 (11:22):
I thought you also watching.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
I'm also watching Dowton Abbey and task Master Australia. I
won't go into that, gotcha.

Speaker 2 (11:30):
I remember, I remember the other day I sat down
to watch a horror movie. I was just in the mood,
but I can't remember for the life of me if
I even started one. If I did, I don't think
I finished it. So I don't think I had a
successful horror movie experience. But it might have been one
of those things where I went into one of the
streaming services, didn't see anything in the horror department that

(11:53):
caught my attention, and I just didn't care enough to
go to the next streaming service. You know, I need to.
I need to have like my TV kind of does
an aggregate sort of thing where it has suggestions based
upon what I've watched in the past. I need to
pay more attention to that because that might be a
more effective way for me to find content, as opposed

(12:13):
to hunting through every single streaming service I'm subscribed to.

Speaker 1 (12:18):
You can watch mighty nine, because that just keeps getting
bloodier and more horrific every episode.

Speaker 2 (12:24):
I don't know, I keep thinking I should get into
those things, like I like all the people involved, and
I like watching the excerpts I've seen, like I've watched clips,
but I've never sat down to watch a full episode
of either the actual play. Well, I did watch the
very first episode of the first season or first series

(12:44):
of The Critical Role.

Speaker 1 (12:49):
So something they're doing we might have talked about on
the show, so you might already know, and I'm sorry
if I'm just repeating information. Is they recently came out
and started releasing paired down episodes of the actual plays,
so it so being the whole four hours or cutting
it down just to the plot, so that might be
an easier entry point. I highly recommid men watching the

(13:12):
cartoon Vox Macna. At least it's a lot of fun.

Speaker 2 (13:14):
Well, The thing that you miss out on on the cartoon, though,
is the cross talk like goofiness that happens at the
table between just players, right, like the stuff that's not
in character. It's a player goofing on another player or whatever.

(13:35):
You miss out on that. Yeah, but otherwise, yeah, I might,
I might see if I can check that out, or
at least check out the somewhat annotated and edited down
actual play sessions, because, like I said, I like, I
like the compilations. I see. You know, there were ones
that I just found delightful, like the ones largely Laura

(14:01):
Bailey just being a dufus, like the ones of her
all the sending messages, those are just so much fun.
They're so silly because she just somehow feels compelled to
fill up all the words. Like the point is that
sending messages have a limit of twenty five words. I
think it is, and she took that as they need

(14:22):
to be twenty five words, not that they could only
be up to twenty five words, but they have to
be exactly so she just rambles until she fills it up.

Speaker 1 (14:31):
I mean, why waste why waste magic?

Speaker 2 (14:34):
No, it's great, I guess dote donuts yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:38):
I mean, are you pooping? Yeah, I think I do.
I do enjoy that. I will say like the mighty
nine cartoon is very well done, and I am enjoying
it the further along I get into it. But it
does lose Voxmachin is ridiculous and goofy, and they put
a lot of the jokes in there. But the Mighty
nine does lose a lot of the humor it, at

(15:00):
least at the very beginning, because they're doing stuff out
of order and kind of more plot focused.

Speaker 2 (15:06):
So well, let us move on then, before I end
up losing my voice before the end of this episode
to our thirty seconds or less? Did I give myself
the first one? Or did you Okay? Here we go.
Fans of the Wicked films will get a chance to
see two of its stars live on stage if they

(15:28):
happen to be in London. Ariana Grande and Jonathan Bailey
have been cast as the leads in Sondheim's Sunday in
the Park with George at the Barbican Theater. I'm curious
about this because it means Arianna will play a young
woman in Act one and a ninety eight year old
woman in Act two, but I'm sure the show will
be popular.

Speaker 1 (15:50):
I've never seen it. Godzilla minus one made headlines one
for being a huge hit and two for winning a
flip and oscar, which is the first Oscar that Godzilla
has ever won in its seventy year career. And we
are in luck because Godzilla Minus zero, it's sequel, is
coming out this year on November sixth, right after it's

(16:12):
released in Japan on November three. I still need to
watch the first one. I just need to find time
to watch it by myself because I don't mind subtitles
as much.

Speaker 2 (16:23):
Yeah. Well, Amazon is developing a TV series based off
the popular God of War video game franchise, and now
we know who will be playing Kratos in the show.
It'll be Ryan Hurst, who, funnily enough, provided the voice
of Thor in God of War Ragnarok. Hurst is also
known for his roles in Sons of Anarchy and The
Walking Dead. Also, just before we started recording, I saw

(16:44):
that Teresa Palmer will also be in the series, possibly
as Sith.

Speaker 1 (16:49):
I'm trying to remember who Teresa Palmer is.

Speaker 2 (16:53):
I didn't write down anything else she was in because
I knew I was bumping up against thirty seconds at
that point.

Speaker 1 (17:01):
More Godzilla news, because you're gonna keep taking us away
and I'm gonna bring it right back. We are getting
a new Godzilla monster piece theater for issue comic series,
starting with Romeo and Juliet and Godzilla with a mini
story of Robin Hood and the Monster of Nottingham. So

(17:27):
I am looking forward to that.

Speaker 2 (17:29):
Yeah, I just I don't know if you can, if
anything will live up to the hilarity of the title.
Romeo and Juliet and Godzilla. I think that's better. I
think I think that's even better than Pride and Prejudice
and zombies, right, Yes, I think so.

Speaker 1 (17:45):
But it could be funnier. Yeah, Romeo and Juliet and
Godzilla and a baby.

Speaker 2 (17:49):
Yeah, yeah, okay, and the candlestick Maker and his wife.
It's probably no surprise that twenty twenty six looks like
another year with a lot of horror films in it.
The Hollywood Reporter put to other a list of anticipated
horror movies, some of which we will chat about later.
I am excited to learn more about films like Hocum,
which we did talk about briefly in a previous episode Obsession,

(18:11):
Ditto Evil Dead Byrne clay Face Resident Evil and they're
vote plus. You know we'll get tons of smaller ones
throughout the year too. So boot.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
Studio Canon or sorry Studio Canal is coming out with
a movie Elsinore, which follows the actor in Charleson as
he prepares to play Hamlet for the National Theater in London,
all while dealing with HIV and AIDS. It's got an
insane cast. It's got Olivia Coleman, Andrew Scott, Billy Piper,

(18:49):
which is the news. Billy Piper just got added, Luke
Thompson from Bridgerton, and many many more. It is. It
is really interesting because that actor that the story is
following had HIV in eighty six, died from AIDS in
nineteen ninety and asked that after his death the cause
of his death would be announced to help publicize the condition,

(19:12):
and he was one of the first celebrities to do
that so in the UK at least, so I think
it's it sounds kind of like the very serious and
sad version of I Hate Hamlet, but an amazing cast.
I'm sure it'll be very well told.

Speaker 2 (19:29):
Screenwriters Donya Jimenez and Hanach mcmichon, then K Pop Demon Hunters.
So what's their next project. Well, it's a really big project.
It's like fifty feet tall big because it's the remake
of the classic B movie sci fi film Attack of
the Fifty Foot Woman. Tim Burton, who is probably the
perfect director to tackle fifty's era schlock, will direct. I

(19:53):
am hopeful that it will be cheeky, fun and filled
with feminine rage.

Speaker 1 (19:59):
Sounds delight. Kathleen Kennedy is stepping down as the president
of Lucasfilms, but the presidential ness will not go far
because Feloni, who is currently the COO and Executive Vice President,
and Lynn when Brennan, the president and general manager of

(20:19):
Lucas from the business, will be taking over the role.
Kennedy will be staying on as producer's producer for the
upcoming movies that are coming out.

Speaker 2 (20:28):
One of the concerns Hollywood has about the proposed Netflix
acquisition of Warner Brothers Discovery has to do with theatrical
release dates. Originally, we heard that Netflix plan to implement
a seventeen day window between theatrical and streaming releases. However,
The New York Times got a quote from Netflix's Ted
sarandus that the window will actually be forty five days

(20:48):
and maybe that will ease some of those fears and insights.

Speaker 1 (20:53):
I you know, I'm definitely on Netflix, like I'm rooting
for Netflix to get Warner Brothers Discovery, especially after this news.
A forty five day window is a much more.

Speaker 2 (21:06):
Like, yeah, a month, it's a month and a half.

Speaker 1 (21:09):
Yeah, that's that's pretty standard for movies nowadays anyhow, So, uh,
I am hopeful with that with that information, especially on
light of some other news that I didn't put in.
But I've started subscribing to some dailies for industry news,
specifically to help me in the business side of my career.

Speaker 2 (21:29):
And uh.

Speaker 1 (21:32):
One, there are several networks that are like pushing for
pilot season again. And then also Ben Affleck and Matt
Damon did we talk about this already that they are
the first for their their new movie The Bet is
the first to get back end payment from Netflix is
the rip? Sorry? Yeah, yeah, yeah, So usually Netflix flicks

(21:55):
plate pays a little bit more upfront and you don't
ask about how many people have watched it or how
much they've made residual crappy, but that Athletic in Matt
Damon have made a deal for their entire cast and
crew crew to get paid on the back end numbers
and to make that more transparent. And Netflix isn't going
completely to that model, but they've said they're open to
other deals like that, and I think that's fantastic.

Speaker 2 (22:17):
So yeah, well, and you know, you could do documentaries.
I don't know how many people would watch it, but
you could do documentaries about Hollywood accounting and how much
trickery goes into that in an effort for studios to
not pay people things like residuals, because you know, like

(22:38):
like it's it's kind of an open secret that studios
will leverage numbers in such a way to make it
seem like every movie lost money. Like they want to
be able to crow about record box offices, but they
also want to say, oh, that film lost money, because
that means they don't have to pay out, you know,
if if the if the movie's not profitable, they don't

(23:00):
have to pay out. It's kind of like the producers.
But yeah, that's kind of like this ongoing issue. So
if Netflix is transparent, that would be nice. It would
be a nice change of pace from the rest of Hollywood.
But yeah, it's one of those things that is inherently
different with the streaming system of delivery as opposed to

(23:23):
traditional box office.

Speaker 1 (23:25):
Well and the last after strike did adjust that a
little bit. So there is information out there on like
what series on Netflix and other streaming channels are getting
the most watch or the least watch or most popular.
So there is some metrics because they're working with ruters
now and there has been work to make that more
generally transparent, but it hasn't completely trickled into the payment model.

Speaker 2 (23:49):
Yeah, because that's also tricky, right because you're talking about
subscription versus paying per like piece of content, right, So
then you're like, okay, if if we break it down
by percentages, like what percent of viewers are watching this
particular piece of content, how do we factor that into payouts,

(24:11):
like when we're looking at subscriptions as opposed to buying
per view or buying per piece of content. I am
glad I'm not the one who has to figure that
out because I think I think it's got to be
a huge chaotic headache.

Speaker 1 (24:26):
Yeah. Yeah, I've also found it hopeful beyond like that
kind of news, Like just because streaming has been struggling
so much. Taking a step back and going to what
we know has worked in the past heartens me, even
though it means there's technically less work, because streaming is
just when it was in its heyday, everything was being
made all the time. Is I get a list weekly

(24:46):
of the movies and how much they cost to make
versus how much they've made so far, And usually those
lists are at least since I've signed up, have all
been they've made some amount of profit.

Speaker 2 (24:57):
Yeah. Well, and yeah, that was like a big message
in twenty twenty five was that, you know, films were
starting to do better, and part of that was that
we saw a lot more low to mid budget movies
as well, which I'm all in favor of. Like, I
love a big budget movie if it's done well, but
I really like some of these smaller budget projects that

(25:20):
are telling stories that just there's no reason for it
to be a big budget movie, right, but the stories
are really interesting. So I'm totally on board with that
me too. Yeah, Well, let's let's move on to talking
about stuff what we could put in our show but
typically don't put in our show because it don't fit
so good. But these are a fitting enough for us

(25:41):
to talk about. That's what this segment's called.

Speaker 1 (25:44):
I feel like to this this week, fifty percent could
possibly have gone into our show notes.

Speaker 2 (25:50):
Agreed. Yeah, no, there's stuff in here where it straddles
a line. First up, we've got a full trailer for
the comedy series The Burbs, based off the film that
came out that I think was a surprise to Ariel
the last time we chatted about this.

Speaker 1 (26:10):
Yeah, I didn't know it was based off of it.
I never watched the original film.

Speaker 2 (26:15):
Yeah, I had Tom Hanks and then I think and
Carrie Fisher, Oh did it?

Speaker 1 (26:20):
I can't play Tom's wife, yeah, I which I only
know because my husband loved the movie The Burbs as
a kid. I found out yesterday when the trailer for
the full trailer for the TV show came onto YouTube
and I was like, oh, hey, that's based off that
old movie, and he's like, I loved that movie, so
that's cool.

Speaker 2 (26:37):
Yeah, this one. Keky Palmer is playing sort of the
lead character, and I love her. I just love her delivery,
she's I find her very funny. And Jack Whitehall is
in it as well. Mark Proch, who is the energy
vampire from what we do in the Shadows. He's in it,
and Julia Duffy, whom a lot of people my age

(27:02):
might think of as from the New Heart Show, but
I think of her as the princess from Wizards and Warriors,
which lasted like six episodes. But Julia Duffie's in it.
Haley Joel Osmond has a recurring role in it.

Speaker 1 (27:18):
He's very funny.

Speaker 2 (27:19):
Yeah, this all eight episodes, So there's eight episodes. All
eight episodes drop on the same day on Peacock on
February eighth. So what did you think of the full trailer?

Speaker 1 (27:31):
I thought so, I know, the first trailer, the style
of or the teaser, the style of comedy was a
little bit disjointed for both of us. Some of it
was very like slapsticky, blatant over the top. Some of
it was more nuanced, and it just felt disjointed. I
feel like this trailer feels a lot more connected. It
also looks makes it look a little bit creepier and

(27:53):
more suspenseful, not in a bad way or in a
drama full way, but it does deep in the story
that they're going to tell. I think I also had
missed that it was being done by Seth MacFarland, which
if if anybody has proven that he can do zany
plus serious, it's him with the Orville.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
So yeah, yeah, I almost look at the Orville as
being the exception to otherwise what is the rule of
his work.

Speaker 1 (28:23):
Well, I'm hoping this follows that trend.

Speaker 2 (28:26):
Me too, Me too. I mean, I agree one hundred
percent with what you said. Like I do remember when
we watched the teaser, like a lot of the humors
seemed kind of obvious and not It's almost seemed like
it had the cadence of a joke without actually being
a joke. Right, this felt better, And part of that

(28:47):
again is I think due to delivery. They've got some
really good actors and even if the lines themselves like
it kind of reminds me of when I did the
Renaissance Festival and I was in the Shakespeare parody and
I would get there on day one to do a
read through of the script with the fellow actors in
the parody, and as we would read, we'd like, none

(29:11):
of this is funny, Like this is just all of
these jokes are just dead on the page. But then
you would find ways of delivering it where it was funny.
I almost feel like like the performances are doing a
whole lot of work to make this entertaining. I think
with better material they would be even better. But I
think it's good enough, Like it's good enough for me

(29:32):
to want to check it out.

Speaker 1 (29:34):
Yeah I will, so I don't normally. Peacock is one
of the services that I don't usually have. I get
it around Thanksgiving every year to watch the parade, and
then I keep it for a month or two to
try to catch up on stuff. But it's it's we've
actually paired down our streaming services a lot, and this
like the second half of this year, which doesn't help

(29:55):
me for the acting side of it, but whatever. But
Tony is also interested. He did say he felt that
the trailer was a lot less zaany than the original movie.

Speaker 2 (30:06):
Yes, it's true, well, at least what we see in
the trailer, it looks like it's more so it kind
of gives me it's not exactly the same thing, but
it kind of gives me pushing Daisies vibes where it's
it's that mixture of heightened realism, like the heightened stuff,
where it's it's not truly realistic, it's not as grounded,

(30:27):
but then there is more grounded stuff. But like again,
the delivery is what sells it, Like when Kiky Palmer says,
why am I always murder adjacent? I need to know
more about that?

Speaker 1 (30:38):
Yes, yes, for sure, for sure. Yeah, I'd watch it
for her alone. She's very funny, like he said.

Speaker 2 (30:44):
Yeah. Next up we get a Big Bang Theory spinoff
called Vanished, where Penny is trying to find out what
the heck happened to Leonard. Also, I might have watched
this video on two time speed, so maybe I missed
some of the nuances.

Speaker 1 (30:59):
I mean, I was gonna say where she's trying to
get a big bang, but.

Speaker 2 (31:04):
Then that fizzles out when her when her date disappears
off the train they're on.

Speaker 1 (31:10):
Yeah, yeah, so it's Kaylee.

Speaker 2 (31:13):
Cuoko, Kaylee Cuoco, Yes.

Speaker 1 (31:16):
Thank you. I didn't I don't have her name written
down and I don't have the trailer open right now.
Is going on a trip with her boyfriend and they're
on a French train and he disappears, and so she
goes and tries to find him and learns about secrets
and intrigue and all of that, and everybody's like, well,
maybe he just ditched you. She's like, he wouldn't be
that way. It looks like a generic mystery actiony thing.

Speaker 2 (31:38):
Yeah, it kind of looks like there might be some
crime elements. There's some spy film type language in the
like cinematic language in the trailer. I don't know if
it will turn out that he's a spy or if
it turns out that he's a criminal, or maybe both.
I don't know. But this this series comes out February
first on MGM Plus here in the United States. For

(32:00):
folks who are in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK,
it comes out February twenty seventh on Prime Video. So
I say to you, gosh, darn it, because I don't
have MGM.

Speaker 1 (32:14):
Plus, do you want to watch this one?

Speaker 2 (32:18):
I mean, I'm curious about it. It's not really my thing,
like I can enjoy these kind of mystery shows. Nothing
about this trailer really made me think, oh, this is
one that I need to watch. But I do like
Kaylee Kuoco as an actor, Like I actually like her performances.

(32:39):
So I was curious about it. But yeah, I don't
know that it's enough for me to I think I
could technically pay for MGM plus through Amazon Prime, but honestly,
I just don't want to add more sub subscriptions to
my Amazon Prime subscription.

Speaker 1 (32:56):
I get that. I get that. The next one we've
got is a trailer for a movie called Misdirection, and
that really, like it is such a generic heist crime
kind of a A is a film or a TV show?

Speaker 2 (33:09):
I think it's it's a film. It's a film film.

Speaker 1 (33:11):
The only reason I added is because it's got Frank
Grillo in it, and I just find it heartening that
he is still making these generic heist movies when he's
also in the DCEU.

Speaker 2 (33:22):
Yeah. Yeah, a man's got to eat. Uh yeah. Yeah.
So apparently, like in this film, there's a couple and they,
you know, the couple who steals together, stay together. I
guess they are. They are hoisting, not because they want to,
They are hoisting a target who I guess is Frank Grillo,

(33:43):
And it turns out that he has a past with
the woman in the couple, and also that he wants
to kill them, and maybe it was a trap the
whole time and not like like it's hard to say
based on the trailer because there's not a lot of
details given. It does come out February tenth, so it's
not gonna be very long before it's out. This one also,

(34:03):
like like you said, it does feel pretty generic, like
there was nothing about it other than Frank Grillo being
in it that really caught my attention. So I don't
necessarily think I'll be checking this one out. I'm sure
it's fine.

Speaker 1 (34:18):
Well, and like to be fair, while I think Frank
Grillo does a great job in Peacemaker, in the DCU,
everywhere that he's been used, everything I've seen of his
prior to that has been pretty generic.

Speaker 2 (34:31):
Yeah, even that Time Loop movie. Did you see that
one where he's Okay, are.

Speaker 1 (34:36):
You talking about Slooper? I did watch Looper.

Speaker 2 (34:38):
It's that Looper. Although you maye think that you were
Ben Bowlin there for a second, because Ben and I
have this ongoing joke of oh, it's like in Looper
and neither of us have ever seen Looper.

Speaker 1 (34:50):
Sweet, I don't mind that comparison.

Speaker 2 (34:52):
Okay, but yeah, no, no, it was. It was more
recent than that. It was like a post COVID. It
might have been made during COVID, but like a post
COVID movie where he's in a time loop situation. Uh
and uh, he's like a he's like a law enforcement
officer with a kind of an estranged son that he's

(35:15):
trying to connect with. And the son's like, you know,
like elementary school or maybe middle school age, and it's
very like it's it almost feels a little bit like
bullet Train or smoking Aces, Like they're all these wacky
assassin characters that he's having to navigate through and he's
constantly being killed, and the day restarts and he has

(35:38):
to go through it again trying to not get you know,
get a little further into the day. Even that was
felt a little generic and also felt very video gamey.
He was fine in it, but like I watched that
movie look of a cast. Oh yeah, no, the cast
is great. Was the film called Boss Level?

Speaker 1 (35:59):
No? Is it Boss Level? I think the thing I
have Michelle.

Speaker 2 (36:05):
Yo, and yes, I had Michelle Yo. And Michelle Yo
is in it for like two scenes. Mel Gibson is
in it for like one scene.

Speaker 1 (36:15):
So it's called Boss Level. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (36:17):
Yeah, it's okay. It's it's not great, but it's okay.
It's kind of entertaining. I think Misdirection will probably fall
into a similar category it's okay, yeah, and then we
have a trailer for a film called Sweetness. This one
I argue, I could argue should be in our full
lineup because it has to do with fandom.

Speaker 1 (36:38):
It has to do with fandom, and also, uh, it's
it feels like a real love letter to Stephen King's Misery.

Speaker 2 (36:49):
Yeah, it does have a little bit of misery vibes
to it. So the basic premise is there's this young
young woman, like a girl essentially who's a fan of
this male pop star and she ends up kind of
like scheming to end up being in his car by

(37:09):
jumping in front of it, essentially getting hit by his car. Anyway,
she discovers that he is addicted to drugs, so she
decides it's her job to save him by essentially kidnapping
him and holding him against his will so that he
can detox from drugs. And so it has to deal
with things like parasocial relationships, and it does have the

(37:33):
kind of misery vibes in the sense of like I'm
helping you and the guy just wants to get away, I.

Speaker 1 (37:38):
Mean, but also in very literal in Misery, the writer
is handcuffed to a bed and this pop star gets
handcuffed to a bed. The writer is taken in after
a car accident where the nurse hit where Caddy Bates
hits him with their car. The girl meets him because
she gets hit with his car. Like a lot of similar.

Speaker 2 (37:57):
Yeah, a lot of parallels. Yeah, it comes out March seventh.
I think it looks like I mean, it's exploring stuff
that we've seen before, but from a different perspective, so
it might be really interesting. I thought it's pretty bold
to have a thriller slash horror film where the antagonist

(38:20):
is a young woman, right, and she's not overtly sinister,
she's just very much obsessed with this particular pop star.

Speaker 1 (38:30):
Yeah. Yeah, there's definitely things in the trailer that make
me interested in the story, but it might be too
scary for me. There's a lot of blood and I
don't know where it comes from.

Speaker 2 (38:41):
Well, don't worry, I know exactly where the blood comes from,
because from The Bluff, which we will talk about later,
because that movie had so much blood in it, they
had plenty to spare.

Speaker 1 (38:53):
But the thing is, like the Bluff trail. We'll talk
about the Bluff trailer at least I couldn't see where
it was coming from, so it was a little bit.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
Coming from everywhere everywhere, Like at one point I thought
I had to wipe off my screen. But yeah, we'll
get to that later. Oddly enough, that movie is not
one of the ones that's in John Boys Horror Hutch.

Speaker 1 (39:16):
No, it's horrific, but it's not a horror.

Speaker 2 (39:19):
Yeah. Uh so. First of all, huge thanks to Ariel
because she found half of the movies that are in
John Boys Horror Hutch this week.

Speaker 1 (39:29):
I would wager to say the two I found are
way cooler than the two you found, but that's probably
not the case. I've only watched the two I found
because the other two are related to Saw all right.

Speaker 2 (39:40):
First of all, the second one you found is not cooler,
trust me, We'll get to that. But the first one,
first one, I think is the coolest one of the
ones that you that I grabbed this week, and that's
for the Mummy. This is written and directed by Lee Cronin,
is not connected to any of the former Dark Universe stuff,

(40:00):
and this mummy is a mummy. It's not an Egyptian mummy,
which I think is I think in general, storytellers have
tried to move away from doing Egyptian mummy stories because
it comes across as disrespectful to burial cultures, right, Like
that seems to be passing. It's framing the Egyptian, the

(40:24):
ancient Egyptian practice of mummification as a monstrous thing. It's
othering another culture, and I can see why it would
be better to have it'd be about mummification in general,
not mummies like ancient Egyptian mummies. I get that this one.

(40:45):
The log line is the young daughter of a journalist
disappears without a trace in the desert. The shattered family
is stunned when the girl suddenly reappears eight years later,
But what should have been a joyful family reunion quickly
turns into a true and horrifying nightmare. This trailer is creepy.

Speaker 1 (41:05):
Yes, I was mentioned about to shake my head like
nobody can see that aerial. Yeah, it's creepy. Visually, there's
a lot of like suspense, there's a lot of like
just scary imagery. And also they did the thing that
twenty eight years later did where the soundscaping for the
trailer is chilling.

Speaker 2 (41:23):
Yeah, yeah, a lot of really creepy sounds. Actually, I
really like that that's becoming a bigger thing undertone. Obviously
we talked about that last week. That's the podcast horror movie. Yeah,
that's like all about soundscaping. Bring it on. I say,
this movie comes out April seventeenth. I'm definitely intrigued. So
I had no knowledge of this movie before you sent

(41:45):
me the trailer.

Speaker 1 (41:46):
I didn't before I found the trailer. But yeah, I
am intrigued as well. I did not watch the Evil
there rises, but I might try this one.

Speaker 2 (41:56):
Well, the next one that I have to talk about
is the other one Ariel Sen. She claims it's cooler
than the other ones that I have, and that's for
Gail g A L E. Yellow Brick Road. Yeah, no,
I disagree that this is cooler. Okay, So the basic
premise is it follows Dorothy, Gail's granddaughter as in the

(42:20):
main character from the Wizard of Oz. It follows her
granddaughter Emily, who's dealing with some creatures and manifestations from
Oz that have a horror kick to them. This was
actually based off a YouTube short horror movie. The YouTube yeah, well, hey,

(42:41):
they can be good, they're just usually aren't. But this
YouTube short horror film was titled Gail Stay Away from
Oz and so they essentially they took the basic premise
of that short horror movie and expanded it, but they
also changed things, so it's not like it's just that
story but longer it's it's different.

Speaker 1 (43:04):
I no, go ahead, continue on.

Speaker 2 (43:07):
I was just gonna say it reminds me a bit
of some of the other public domain ips that have
been turned into horror movies recently, stuff like Popeye and
Steamboat Willie and Winnie the Pooh and all that kind
of stuff, Peter Pan.

Speaker 1 (43:21):
This one, this one, to me feels a little bit
more logical because I know so many people who watched
specifically things like Return to Ozma was like that was
actually I didn't find it scary when I was a kid,
but so a lot of my friends did, like with
the Langeleer and the the you mean the wheelies, the

(43:42):
wheelies well, and then the woman who could like change
her face her head right.

Speaker 2 (43:46):
Or maybe the fact that that Dorothy had to undergo
shot treatment.

Speaker 1 (43:51):
Yeah. Yeah, And so there's a lot of imagery in
the books of like the series of Wizard of Oz
as well that can be really creepy. So to me,
it makes sense to have a story where Dorothy Gale
is now older and like, oh, you don't want to
go there, you know, and trying to protect her from it.

(44:11):
I also really like the character design. It's of like
the Scarecrow. It feels very Labyrinthian to me.

Speaker 2 (44:20):
I don't know, it just didn't hit me the same
way it hit you. Like I saw it and I
thought it looked like I mean, it probably is a
low budget movie, but it looked low budget to me.
That doesn't necessarily mean it's bad. It just like it
also has that color grading and kind of filter to

(44:40):
make everything look darker than what it should, and it's
applied in a way where I noticed it, and that's
a problem, right, Like when you notice something that's an
effect to in order to change like the appearance of
what you're seeing on screen that's distracting. And I just

(45:03):
it probably is a reflection of the budget. It's probably
not their fault. But also I'm not familiar with the
original short film. I just saw that it was based
off this thing. Maybe it'll be much better than I
give it credit for. It comes out February eleventh, so
if people are interested in seeing a horror movie that
revisits ideas from Wizard of Oz. I didn't think the

(45:24):
wheelies were from the books. I thought that was invented
for the movie Return to Oz. But I could be wrong,
but they do have a wheelie in the trailer.

Speaker 1 (45:34):
Well, but in the book. I think the wheelies were
in the book or something similar because I remember illustrations
of them.

Speaker 2 (45:45):
But also I know that they were also included in
the Wizard of Oz role playing games. So it's very
possible that they were in the book, because otherwise you
would have rights issues with the film because like while
the original books are in the public domain, the Return
to Oz movie.

Speaker 1 (45:59):
Is yeah, wheelers is what they are, and yeah they're
they're from Ozma of Oz.

Speaker 2 (46:09):
Gotcha.

Speaker 1 (46:10):
But there was also the woman that Dorothy comes comes
across who changes her head. Artsy actually had a script
about her, uh more similar character at one point where
you just changed the heads based on your emotion.

Speaker 2 (46:24):
Yeah, well Man has that with Manny Faces.

Speaker 1 (46:28):
So there fair okay, And to be fair, the next
two horror movies are going to talk about I just
simply didn't bother to watch because I saw they were
related to saw.

Speaker 2 (46:40):
Okay, well, neither least one of.

Speaker 1 (46:42):
Them, but the two links are the same, so they
will both looked, Oh.

Speaker 2 (46:46):
I must have accidentally pasted the wrong link into one.

Speaker 1 (46:48):
Of them is related to saw and I.

Speaker 2 (46:52):
Know, yeah, we'll need to we'll need to fix that
before we before you uploaded as the show notes, just
so that way people aren't going to the wrong thing.
But the okay, excellent, So Twisted is it's about a
couple of hustlers, a couple of scam artists, and they're
running like a real estate scam where they are renting

(47:14):
out properties that they don't actually own, Like it's kind
of like the whole selling you the Brooklyn Bridge kind
of scam. But they end up trying to pull that
on a guy who's a surgeon, and the surgeon turns
the tables on them and captures them and plans to
do some medical experimentation on them, presumably with the intent

(47:37):
on expanding medical knowledge. But you know, it's one of
those things that's limited by the fact that we have
these pesky ethical laws that prevent us from doing those
kind of experiments on human subjects. So he's just going
to bypass that and do it on the these scam artists.
So if you're into like medical horror, that kind of

(47:58):
thing like something that was in Saw or the human
caterpillar or human cynipede. That's a incynipede. I don't know
if it goes that extreme. I don't know what the
medical process procedures are because that's not really revealed in
the trailer, but there is like surgical horror associated with it.
So this comes out February sixth. Not really my thing.

Speaker 1 (48:22):
Yeah, not mine either. I feel like medical stuff, if
you have to go through it is scary enough on
its own. I don't need to add another layer of.

Speaker 2 (48:31):
I just medical horror just never really appealed to me,
Like that's just not my brand of horror that I like.
I like ghost stories, I like really atmospheric ghost stories.
I'll watch other types of horror as well, but medical
horror was just one of those where I'm like, if
it's really well done, I'll watch it, but it's not
something I seek out. The last one is this is

(48:53):
not a test. This is a zombie movie, which you
might say, aren't we over zombies at this point, and
my answer to you is apparently not. It's called this
is not a test because it's about a group of
students who I believe are trespassing on school property when
there is a zombie outbreak, and then the students are

(49:13):
trying to work together to survive the zombie apocalypse. This
is actually an adaptation of a novel, which I did
not know until I was looking into it further. The
novelist is Courtney Summers, whom I'm not familiar with, so
I don't know anything about the book other than it exists.
This movie comes out February twentieth. I don't know. I'm

(49:35):
kind of over zombies, so it didn't look like it
was badly done. I just don't know that I find
zombie stories that interesting, and maybe this one because at
least the zombies are the actual threat, and it's not
something where the zombies only exist so that we can
learn how terrible human beings are to each other, because

(49:55):
that's like every other zombie story, right, It's like, Oh,
it turns out the zombies aren't really the problem, it's
all the other humans. Can we maybe have stuff where
people band together and help each other bust back to
glad Lands, because y'all, I can look out the window
and see the world falling apart. I kind of need

(50:16):
my fiction to be a little more hopeful.

Speaker 1 (50:19):
Yeah, yeah, for sure. I I do like the thing
where the zombies are the real bad guys. I like
stories like that a lot better, especially if they're cheeky.
Was this one cheeky at all?

Speaker 2 (50:34):
A little bit like it? Certainly it doesn't go as
far as something like hot Sean of the Dead. It
doesn't go that far, but you know, it had like
little moments. It just it feels like it leans a
little harder on horror than comedy. But there is some
humor in there too.

Speaker 1 (50:55):
Yeah, okay, I was just asking because one of my
friends reminded me of The Holiday of Anna versus the Apocalypse,
which apparently was a really great zombie movie and a
really great Christmas musical.

Speaker 2 (51:07):
I was about to say it's also a musical. I
did not know it was a musical when I started
watching it, Like I knew it was a zombie movie,
but I did so when the when the musical thing started,
I was like, what the hell is happening?

Speaker 1 (51:19):
Did you enjoy it?

Speaker 2 (51:21):
No? I did not. I did not like it like
I wanted to like it. I watched the whole thing.
I wanted to like it.

Speaker 1 (51:28):
I did not, but I mean I do like Yeah,
so I like stuff like Hot Fuzz or Shanna the Dead.

Speaker 2 (51:35):
So you did the same thing I did. I said
hot Fuzz first too.

Speaker 1 (51:39):
Yeah. I didn't finish Daybreak, but I enjoyed Daybreak. Warm bodies,
Yeah stuff that any warm bodies. The zombies weren't necessarily
the villains.

Speaker 2 (51:50):
But yeah, all right, Well let's move on to stuff
that's actually in our lineup. We've got a decent number
of them this time. Some of them also dip into
the horror hutch area, but they were ones that Ariel
felt confident she could watch, so we concluded them on
this side. Though I didn't ask you about the Dreadful
before I put it in there.

Speaker 1 (52:11):
No, that's that's fine. I have thoughts and it was fine.

Speaker 2 (52:16):
Well, total we start. We start off with yet another
Avengers doomsday teaser, because you know, they just kept keep
coming out to keep to keep blood pumping in Avatar,
fire and ash Uh. This one features characters from Wakanda
as well as a foursome that are pretty fantastic, although

(52:37):
we only see one of them.

Speaker 1 (52:39):
Yeah, the the other the other trailer teasers kind of
made me feel like, why are we showing this. This
one actually shows us. It looks like something from the movie.
But the thing it shows us from the movie I
think would have been better as a reveal in the movie.

Speaker 2 (52:58):
Maybe I don't know that I would care. I didn't
care in the teaser, so I don't know that I
would care in the movie.

Speaker 1 (53:04):
I mean, like, I am excited about seeing more of
nay More. I liked the design of the culture.

Speaker 2 (53:14):
I wouldn't mind seeing more of Inmbaku.

Speaker 1 (53:17):
Yes, I love Imbaku. Winston Duke is amazing as that character, Like,
seriously my favorite character of the first Black Panther movie
because I like cheeky people. Yeah, yeah, so I'm excited
to see him, and I honestly think seeing Imbacu and

(53:38):
Ben Grimm together is brilliant. But I would have loved
that excitement as a reveal in the movie. That's where
I'm at.

Speaker 2 (53:46):
Well, that's a bummer. That's a bummer, Like it's not
something that I was looking for, Like I wasn't like, gosh,
I sure hope we get a no some screen time
with these two characters interacting with each other. Like I
honestly couldn't care us It's just my disenchantment with Marvel. Like,

(54:06):
I'm not one of those those jerks on YouTube who
just immediately bemoans everything about Marvel. I'm not that bad,
but I certainly am. You know, I'm not excited about this,
like I wish I were. Maybe I will be when
we get closer to release, but really, honestly, so far,

(54:28):
I'm just like, yeah, a lot of people we know
are in this movie. Yeah there's another one.

Speaker 1 (54:37):
Yeah, which is kind of also how I feel about
the Netflix's what Next little clip they released.

Speaker 2 (54:45):
Yeah, I felt like this. I felt like we saw
something similar to this toward the end of last year,
where it was again just a bunch of quick looks
at various upcoming films and series that Netflix is going
to feature in twenty twenty six. In this case, it
was done with a little framing device, like through narrative

(55:07):
of a young woman being having her fortune told and
finding herself being plunged literally plunged into the different stories
and worlds like usually thrown around like that. I can
only imagine what that shooting schedule must have been like
for her, where she's like, Okay, we're gonna dangle you
from this harness and we need you to flail your
arms and legs and scream like a lot.

Speaker 1 (55:29):
Well also, and just from a technical standpoint, they had
a lot of actors and sets from all the other
shows yeah, in there that were specific to that show. So,
like they got Millie Bobby Brown as Inola Holmes, Sorry
Millie Bonnie bon Jovi, she changed her name when she
adopted her her baby. They they had her as in

(55:53):
Nola Holmes interact with this girl. They had I think
Anthony from Bridgerton interact with this girl.

Speaker 2 (55:59):
So I'm curious if Killian Murphy actually was on set
with her or if that was a composite shot where
it was literally taken from an episode of Peaky Blinders
and they just inserted her in there, because I was like,
I mean, I guess if Killian Murphy's deal included a
requirement that he'd do that, he would do it, but

(56:21):
it seems so beneath him.

Speaker 1 (56:23):
Yeah, there were one or two moments that could have
been composite, but there were several that obviously were not.

Speaker 2 (56:29):
Yeah, but we we got lots of quick shots of
things like Bridgerton one piece, Peaky Blinders, Sesame Street. Sesame
Street included an adorable moment where she gets transformed into
a puppet.

Speaker 1 (56:41):
I love it. I just it was fun. But it
was just a lot of like little moments, like I
know that show's coming out. Sesame Street was maybe the
most fun bit.

Speaker 2 (56:55):
Yeah. Yeah. We also got a trailer for an Apple
TV series, the second season of Monarch Legacy of Monsters.
Did you start watching the first season?

Speaker 1 (57:08):
I have been trying, So I watched the first two
episodes on a plane a couple of years ago, because
it's there's been a big break because of everything between
season one and season two of this show on Apple,
so much so that I didn't think we were getting
a season two at the time. I didn't have Apple TV.

(57:30):
But I really enjoyed it because it gave me It
focuses more on the people than the monsters, which I
really liked, and it gave me kind of like a
a lost vibe, but in a good way, not in
a I just threw a bunch of darts at a

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board full of story ideas way. So I have been
trying to get I want to watch it, and I
can watch it by myself, but I'm like, why not
make my partner sit down and watch it? With me.
So I've been trying to get him to watch it,
and you'll watch it at some point. We just haven't
found the right day or time to start it, but
it is on my list. I love the fact that

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they cast Kurt Russell and Wyatt Russell is the same character.

Speaker 2 (58:19):
Yeah, that's kind of cool throughout time.

Speaker 1 (58:22):
That's just brilliant and amazing, and I bet it's wonderful
for them too if they ever get to act together,
although they might never share the set together knowing how
filming schedules go. The season two looks really good. They're
introducing a new monster, which looks really good. The effects
in the show are really good, so I'm excited for it.

Speaker 2 (58:43):
Kong shows up, Kong shows up.

Speaker 1 (58:46):
Yeah, I just don't know how because it's done by
the same group of people. Essentially, the movies can be
so crap, and this TV show can be so intriguing.
Maybe it's because they focus on the people.

Speaker 2 (58:59):
Maybe. So this will launch on February twenty seventh. Yeah,
you like You see a little scene in the trailer
of a rift opens up between Earth and a world
of monsters, and that's where the monster kind of invades
into Earth and then apparently Kong lays down some smack

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at some point. So, yeah, if you're into monster stuff,
like Ariel is this, this could be something for you
to check out. I've never been a big monster movie
kind of dude. I did like that Godzilla movie we
mentioned earlier. I did like that one, and I like
the original King Kong. I never saw Peter Jackson's version.

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I never saw any of like the Skull Island stuff.
I haven't seen any of that. So this is not
my that's just not my bag.

Speaker 1 (59:50):
I like the character of King Kong. I like the
idea of King Kong. The movie King Kong is heartbreaking.

Speaker 2 (59:56):
Well yeah, that's the point. Yeah, it's a try. It's
a tragic Beauty and the Beast kind of story, like, yeah,
it's meant to make you sad.

Speaker 1 (01:00:05):
Yeah, so I don't like it, but I do like
the concept of the character.

Speaker 2 (01:00:08):
Its succeeded in what they tried to do, and I
hate them for it.

Speaker 1 (01:00:12):
Yes, yes, But but now I wonder if you would
like this show, knowing the things that you did, like.

Speaker 2 (01:00:20):
Maybe I'll check out. Like, because I've got Apple TV,
I can always sit down and watch like an episode
of the first season and see if it resonates with me.
I should do that and see, because it may be
that's one of those things where it's like, man, I
shouldn't have been holding out, or maybe I'll think, man,
I'm glad I held out because now season two is
coming out and I don't have to wait three years

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or whatever.

Speaker 1 (01:00:41):
Well, if you do watch it, I am interested to
hear your thoughts on it, because I know if I do.

Speaker 2 (01:00:48):
Play sure, sure, well, it's kind of like if I
made you watch you know, some of the horror movies.
I like. You know, there's things that I genuinely find
entertaining that you would probably like not enjoy, And you know,
I can't expect you to enjoy it just because I'm
willing it super hard, right that that doesn't really work.

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But we'll see. This might very well be one of
those things where I find the characters really compelling and
I want to learn more about them and see them
interact in this you know, weird environment with all these
giant monsters and stuff. We'll see. We'll also see if
I will go and watch Scream seven Legacy. If I do,

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I feel like I need to do some homework because
I think i've mentioned before. I don't think I've seen
any Scream films after the third.

Speaker 1 (01:01:36):
One, which is the best one, so.

Speaker 2 (01:01:40):
It's Ariel's favorite. I think my favorite is still the
first one because it was just such a surprise. It
was such a great surprise. But yeah, I haven't. We
saw the trailer now for Scream seven Legacy. We had
talked about this one before because we got a teaser
not too long ago. But the basic premise is that
I'm new ghost Face Killer has targeted Sidney, that's Nev

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Campbell's character, Sidney's daughter, and is saying that he's going
to kill the daughter or hurt the daughter, but not
until Sidney is there to witness it happening. So very
sinister and you know, psychotic. And I've heard that lots

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of actors from the previous screen movies are going to
show up in this, like Matthew Lillard, and I'm thinking,
who's he gonna play. He cannot possibly play the character
he played in Stream one because that character died like
dead dead, and Matthew Lillard playing a teenager then was

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a little bit of a stretch, but now would be
an enormous stretch unless you just say, oh no, it
turns out he lived.

Speaker 1 (01:02:53):
Yeah, it's because I was about to say it could
be in a flashback, but he has aged quite a bit.
He still looks great, but he does. Yeah, he doesn't
look like he can't pass.

Speaker 2 (01:03:01):
I mean, it would be funny if they just did
it without even trying to explain it away. And he's
just supposed to be a teenager. That would be that's
like wet hot American summer style jokes there.

Speaker 1 (01:03:13):
Yeah. Yeah, he is no longer thirty passing as seventeen.

Speaker 2 (01:03:18):
Yeah, but I have no idea what any of the like.
I think David Arquette is supposed to be in this too,
and I'm pretty sure his character got killed in one
of the I never saw that happen because he was
still alive at the end of Screen three, but I'm
pretty sure he got killed in one of the screen
movies too.

Speaker 1 (01:03:36):
Yeah, that's what I've heard as well. Yeah, I'm super
interested to see what happens.

Speaker 2 (01:03:41):
Yeah, it comes out February twenty seventh, so where I
got a little bit of time to watch those other
movies so I can at least at least have an appreciation.
I know, there's not like a ton of continuity from
film to film. But I think what watching all those
movies helps you do is it helps you say, well,

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they've done this kind of twist in this movie, and
this kind of twists and this other one, So it
kind of helps you eliminate possibilities because you're like, they're
surely not going to repeat themselves.

Speaker 1 (01:04:13):
Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I was supposed to watch Scream
four this Halloween and that didn't happen.

Speaker 2 (01:04:19):
But oh wow. Then we get a full trailer for
One Piece season two. Now, I never watched the anime
and I have not seen season one of the live action,
but I will say after watching this trailer, I kind
of want to change that because it's so bonkers.

Speaker 1 (01:04:38):
It is bonkers. So I tried watching season one of
One Piece the live Action on Netflix, and the first
couple of episodes felt very like kitty and cheesy, which
I expected, but a little more kiddy than I expected.

Speaker 2 (01:04:51):
Huh.

Speaker 1 (01:04:52):
However, this trailer looks great, and the trailer at least
the characters are not acting in the way that annoyed
me at the very beginning of season one. So I
want to go back and finish season one so I
can watch season two and not just because David Destmalian
is in it.

Speaker 2 (01:05:07):
Well, the fact that there's a character who at one
point has a wig that's hiding a series of cannons
in it just made me go, like, what I mean.

Speaker 1 (01:05:17):
The main character can stretch out like mister fantastic, It's
it is a bonkers show.

Speaker 2 (01:05:22):
Is it ever explained how he can do that? Or
I don't know? Okay, so I ask.

Speaker 1 (01:05:30):
I have been interested in One Piece and for a
long time, but by the time I got interested in it,
by the time it came across my radar, the comic
books and the anime cartoon were both so far in
there was no way. There was no way I could
do it.

Speaker 2 (01:05:45):
That is I have heard like, this is like a
really long running series, and one of the things that
prevents people from getting into it is just that you
feel like like if you were to get into it now,
you would only be watching old stuff. For you, it
would take you forever to catch up, Like it's just
it's been going on for too long.

Speaker 1 (01:06:03):
As of early twenty twenty six, the One Piece anime
series has over one and fifty five episodes.

Speaker 2 (01:06:11):
Yikes. Yeah, that's like a prison sentence.

Speaker 1 (01:06:17):
Again in nineteen ninety nine, which great. Great that they've
been so long running and that people like it so much,
that is awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:06:23):
Absolutely, Yeah, it is intimidating to figure out where do
you jump in do you go from the beginning, because like,
if it's if it's your typical series, there's gonna be
people like okay, so it's not gonna get good until
you get six years into it. I have.

Speaker 1 (01:06:40):
I have almost burned some friendships by being like, no,
you have to watch Lost with me. It's so much fun,
but you have to watch past the first ten episodes.

Speaker 2 (01:06:49):
Yeah, because she knows I dropped off before that. I
did not get that far.

Speaker 1 (01:06:55):
Well, like the end, a lot of people didn't like,
so I don't push it anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:06:59):
But yeah, well, One Piece Season two launches on March tenth,
and this is a Netflix show, so if you have Netflix,
you'll be able to catch it there. Next we finally
get to the whole bloody affair. We got a trailer
for the bluff we had talked about this This is
the pirate movie, apparently set in eighteen forty six, which

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confused me again because I think I read somewhere it
was supposed to be in the late eighteen hundreds, and
that's the mid eighteen hundreds. But at least explains why
one of the characters is carrying a revolver, because those
were invented around eighteen twenty three, so at least it's consistent.
But yeah, this is the one where it's the pirate

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slash mafia revenge movie that we talked about last week.

Speaker 1 (01:07:47):
It is interesting because even though it is set in
the past, there were certain moments that felt a little
modern for me.

Speaker 2 (01:07:55):
Yeah. Yeah, well, I forget, what's the name of the
guy who plays the captain who's coming after her? Country
music Australian country music singersread, oh like Carl Urban, right,
I'm not going to do it to you two episodes
in a row. Yeah, Carl Urban plays a captain who

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is seeking his former captain, whom he thinks has betrayed
him and stolen treasure that was rightfully the cruise or whatever.
And then it turns out that this former female captain
is very capable of protecting herself and her family through

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the use of extreme violence. This was possibly the bloodiest
trailer I've seen in a really long time.

Speaker 1 (01:08:48):
Yeah, there was there was one particular moment in the trailer,
So there's a lot of scary stuff, and there's a
lot of scary stuff that happens to her, and so
I feel like the extreme violence that she did felt justified.
She's also trying to keep her daughter safe. Right, hard
to watch, similar similar to how The Hunters is hard
to watch the TV show about hunting Nazis in the

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seventies because it's it's very violent and there's a lot
of like just upsetting stuff that happens. But I did
find it intriguing. Uh. And there was one particular moment
that I thought was especially visceral, and it's when she
attacks a guy's leg by cutting up.

Speaker 2 (01:09:31):
It and oh, yeah, she's got a knife shoved into
his leg in the lower thigh and she's pulling the
knife up the thigh, so she's cutting, she's cutting length
wise up the thigh, and yeah, it looks it looks
incredibly brutal.

Speaker 1 (01:09:51):
I am very thankful that at least in the trailer,
and I hope in the TV show that they don't
show like a close up of that. You see it
happening from a distance, so it's not Yeah, it is
visceral and it's upsetting, but it's not super gory.

Speaker 2 (01:10:04):
Yeah, yeah, you're the camera is set on the opposite
side of the guy's thigh, Yeah, the side that doesn't
have a nice sticking out of it at the moment. Yeah,
the whole fight sequence looks like she's got some real
Jackie Chan kind of moves on her too. But she
also seems really good at picking up practically anything and

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using it as a lethal weapon, you know, whether it's
a machete or a rock. Yeah, so, yeah, definitely, it
looks visceral. I will probably check it out because I
love pirate stuff and I'm not bothered by extreme violence
on cinema. Usually there are exceptions. There have been a

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few cases where I'm like, wow, that was too much
even for me. But this comes out February twenty fifth,
so I'll be checking it out.

Speaker 1 (01:10:52):
I think I will also check it out. Yeah, there's
a lot of violence in some of it I might
have to turn away from, but it didn't look like
they were glorifying in any of it too much, if
that makes sense.

Speaker 2 (01:11:03):
Yeah. Yeah, it'll be easier to say once we get
a chance to actually watch it, whether it feels like
it's just really violent or if it's actually glorifying violence,
you know. I mean we both also come from an
era where the glorification of violence was hand in hand
with action movies, right, Like that was how action movies
were made.

Speaker 1 (01:11:22):
Yeah, which I think is one why I feel like
the violence in the trailer for the Bluff hits a
little harder because again it's rough, but it's what would
you do in that situation? You would do anything you
could to survive it, right, right, Yeah, so it feels
a little bit almost more real. But also, yeah, it
looks very interesting to me. I'll probably watch it as well.

Speaker 2 (01:11:45):
What about The Bride? We got a full trailer for
the Bride. This is the one that Maggie Jillenhall is directing,
and it's I wrote Bonnie and Clyde meets Bride of
Frankenstein in my notes Bonnie and Bride, Bonnie and Bride. Yeah,
Bride and Clyde, Bride and Clyde.

Speaker 1 (01:12:04):
I think this trailer sells it a little bit better
because it gives a slightly better through line on the plot. Yeah,
of like this, this main character did not want to
be turned into the bride, but then she does, and
she kind of embraces it after a while it seems
like I'm still it still feels a little disjointed. It's

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still I don't know, it still hasn't grabbed me.

Speaker 2 (01:12:30):
I'm wondering if Maggie Jillenhall was like kicking herself when
Pretty Things came out, because it's giving me out Poor Things. Yeah,
it's giving me. It's giving me some echoes of Poor Things,
and I'm like, oh, this is kind of like Poor Things,
but it looks like it's flashier and not as interesting
to me. Not that it's done poorly, but I thought

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Poor Things was more intriguing from the trailer versus The Bride.

Speaker 1 (01:12:58):
Did you end up watching Poor Things?

Speaker 2 (01:13:00):
I haven't watched it yet. I've learned more about it
since then, where I'm like, I'm gonna need to be
in our particular headspace to watch this movie.

Speaker 1 (01:13:08):
Yeah. I watched it simply because I learned about how
Emma Stone had to film it and I wanted to
watch her acting process. Yeah, because it's super impressive and
I thought it would be great from a standpoint of
like learning the craft. But the story was a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:13:29):
Well, and again, like just based on trailers, I found
the Poor Things trailers to be much more like they
grabbed me more than the Bride trailer has the Bride.
I don't know. There's kind of like a surface level
of flashiness that makes me think of things like Sin City.
Not that it looks anything like sin City, but sin

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City was so stylized it was more style than substance. Right,
this feels like it's a little better balanced. It doesn't
feel like it's sacrificing all substance for the purpose of style,
but definitely feel stylized, heavily stylized.

Speaker 1 (01:14:05):
I so I love noir, and I love that era
of like gangster, old timey gangster kind of story. It has,
it has I said, this is when the Teezer came out.
It has everything I should love in a movie. It
has so many things I love, and it just doesn't
put it together. It feels like all style and no

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substance to me.

Speaker 2 (01:14:27):
Okay, well, maybe we'll get another trailer that'll change our minds. Like,
I don't think it looks bad and it may be
very entertaining. It just again doesn't It didn't capture my
imagination the way Poor Things did, But that that doesn't
mean that this is bad. It comes out March sixth,
I will probably watch this because I am curious if

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they can make this into some sort of Bonnie and
Clyde kind of horror story.

Speaker 1 (01:14:58):
Possibly it would be successful.

Speaker 2 (01:15:00):
Yeah, possibly with Bonnie turning against Clyde at some point
in this version. Next, we've got a trailer for a
gothic horror film called The Dreadful, which also serves as
a reunion to two Game of Thrones actors, because Sophie
Turner and Kit Harrington are both in it.

Speaker 1 (01:15:18):
Yeah. Yeah, so you got to get past the fact
that they played cousins in.

Speaker 2 (01:15:22):
Game of Thrones and actually they were siblings.

Speaker 1 (01:15:27):
Siblings, kind of half siblings.

Speaker 2 (01:15:30):
They weren't. It turned out they weren't. They were cousins,
but they thought they were siblings. Siblings. Well spoiler for
Game of Thrones.

Speaker 1 (01:15:41):
Sophie Turner plays a woman whose husband has gone away
and her mom is into some shady stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:15:49):
Yeah, her mom is like or her mother in law. Really,
I think it's I think it's her husband's mother who
is possessive and paranoid. And then she encounters a man
who was friends with her husband, someone she knows that's
played by Kit Harrington, and it turns out that her

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husband apparently has died in the war, and Kit Harrington
survived and comes back, and the two of them begin
to kindle a relationship very much against the wishes of
the mother in law, who does not want that to
happen at all, And you get some pretty crazy stuff. So,
like the little description I pulled was set in the

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fifteenth century, during the Wars of the Roses, Anne and
her mother in law Morwin, exist on the outskirts of
society when someone from their past re enters their life,
which is like the most vague description I've ever seen.
And you watch this trailer and you're like, hey, whoa,
there's some crazy stuff happening here.

Speaker 1 (01:16:55):
Yeah, apparently it's based off of in nineteen sixty four
Japanese historical trauma.

Speaker 2 (01:17:01):
Wow, interesting to me. I did not know that. Well,
I'll say, the trailer looks like like this film was
well made. I Yeah, I'm a little curious because it
definitely feels more like a psychological thriller than like it doesn't.
It doesn't feel like it's a supernatural horror. It feels
like it's a psychological horror kind of film.

Speaker 1 (01:17:23):
Yeah, Yeah, it looks interesting to me. I don't mind
dark medieval stuff, right, it is fifteen hundreds of medieval.

Speaker 2 (01:17:33):
Sure, I mean well in England. Yes, Like you could
argue the Renaissance didn't arrive till because this is fourteen hundreds,
fifteenth century, fourteen hundred, so this is this is before
you get you know, Henry the seventh winning out over
Richard the third. So that's and England came to the
Renaissance late because it's separated from the rest of the

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continent by the English channel.

Speaker 1 (01:17:58):
Yeah, yeah, so so yeah, I don't mind dark medieval stuff.
But it does look really scary.

Speaker 2 (01:18:06):
Yeah, I thought it looked pretty intriguing. It comes out
February twentieth, so this might be one I check out.
It's all of the ones that I'm interested in. This
is kind of like at the bottom of the list,
not that it doesn't make the list, but it's not
like I won't prioritize it. In other words, you're.

Speaker 1 (01:18:24):
More interested in the bluff than the dreadful.

Speaker 2 (01:18:27):
I think I am okay, I think I am Yeah.
I'd love pirates, man, I love pirates, and I love
movie violence. I don't love real violence, but movie violence
is okay. Next up, we've got a trailer for a
Netflix series called How to Get to Heaven from Belfast,

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which I think is from at least some of the
creators of Welcome to Dairy not Welcome to Day Dairy Girls.
Dairy Girls be amazing, though it would be, it would be.
This was my Keith Urban moment, and I told Ariel
she should take advantage and make fun of me whenever
I do this.

Speaker 1 (01:19:10):
Yeah, we're too So we have this and then one
other thing to talk about. So I did my faux
pot at the beginning of the episode, and you ragged
me through the entire thing.

Speaker 2 (01:19:22):
Yeah, I saved mine for the end.

Speaker 1 (01:19:24):
He saved years for the end. And how the heck
am I gonna? Okay? So, yes, this story is about
Penny Wise chasing after some people from Ireland.

Speaker 2 (01:19:36):
It's good.

Speaker 1 (01:19:37):
It's going to be our next smashup.

Speaker 2 (01:19:41):
The military has a truly crazy plan for Ireland. No,
it is Dairy Girls, not Welcome to Darry Yes.

Speaker 1 (01:19:49):
Yes, And it follows these women. I think they're in
their thirties. I have a friend die and they go
to her funeral and then they realized that did she
or did she? It turns out to be a miss.
There might be some supernatural stuff in there. They try
to figure out what happened, and they go on this wild, crazy,
mad cap adventure to figure it out.

Speaker 2 (01:20:12):
Yeah, it looks it looks it's a mystery comedy series,
and it looks wild because like the village they go
to is just apparently completely populated by weirdos. Yeah, yeah,
but yeah, it's a thing about like one of them
opens up the coffin that their friend is going to
be buried in and realizes that the body inside the

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coffin is not their friend that they all believe to
be dead. So now they're wondering, like maybe she's actually
still alive, so they're trying to solve the mystery. This
comes out February twelfth. It does look like it's going
to be very funny. You might want to watch this
with subtitles on if you're not particularly good at sussing
out the Irish dialects, because they are pretty strong.

Speaker 1 (01:20:58):
The kind of like the little teaser line for it
is cracking. This mystery will be some deadly crack, which
crackin Irish means fun.

Speaker 2 (01:21:08):
Yeah, it's quite crack.

Speaker 1 (01:21:11):
I mean it has a few meanings, but that's one
of them. And that's I like that word play.

Speaker 2 (01:21:15):
So yeah. And then we have Send Help the Sam
Raimi Experience, which is really kind of a behind the
scenes short film, not even a short film. It's a
little behind the scenes video of the making of Send Help,
and also just the actors in Send Help talking about

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what it's like making a movie with the legendary king
of schlocky horror, Sam Raimi, and it's fun. It's a
fun little insight into Sam Raimi's weird process.

Speaker 1 (01:21:51):
Yeah, yeah, so Send Help. Did you talk about this
in your horror hutch at all?

Speaker 2 (01:21:56):
We talked about it in a previous episode, because this
is the one where it's the CEO of a company
and one of the staff members of his company that
both get shipwrecked on an island, and on that island,
she turns the tables because she's the capable one and
he's injured. So then he's still trying to treat the
situation like the power dynamic from the office is still

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in play, and she's like, oh no, that's not happening. Now,
that's not the world you're in. Now, we aren't in
a world where you're in charge. That's and then it
becomes kind of like a battle first a battle of
wills and then an actual battle between the two characters.

Speaker 1 (01:22:36):
Yeah, I it's one that you talked about, but it
didn't like stick in my memory like a lot of
horror movies. But I do you like Rachel McAdams a lot.
This This little teaser thing does its job, though it
kind of makes me more interested in it just I was.

Speaker 2 (01:22:53):
I was interested in this because I love the fantasy
of seeing someone who's fairly low on the ladder being
able to turn the tables on someone who otherwise just
makes their life miserable at work.

Speaker 1 (01:23:08):
And I liked the idea of actors being like, yeah,
he does a lot of weird stuff, but it's very
collaborative and he gives us a lot of power in
the power to be creative in on set. And I
think that's wonderful because Sam Raimi has done some stuff
that I know has been uncomfortable for actors, like in
the Evil Dead TV show. Yeah, he did that right

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where Bruce Campbell had to drown in so much fake blood.

Speaker 2 (01:23:35):
Well, like I want to say that when they made
the first Evil Dead movie, Bruce Campbell at one point
showed that he could do a full flip and land
on his back right like a full front flip and
land on his back. And they decided to incorporate that
into the movie, which meant they had to do it
over and over and over again while they were getting
the shot. And that's when Bruce Campbell was like, Yeah,

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don't show Sam what you can do unless you're able
to do it without injuring yourself, like a billion times
in a row. Send Help comes out January thirtieth. This one.
I'm actually really interested in this because I think the story, like,
I know, I'm going to be rooting for the psychopath.
I'm going to be rooting for the worker who has

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like has the opportunity now to be the one in charge,
and she takes it to extremes, like it becomes clear
that she has kind of lost it. But I'm I'm
so like, let's eat the rich that I'm on her side.

Speaker 1 (01:24:40):
Yeah, yeah, it looks fun, it looks good. I don't
think I will go to theaters for this, just because
I don't know if I'd be able to handle it.

Speaker 2 (01:24:48):
This would be hard for me too, because like Sam
Raimi's recent stuff, I've watched, but I've only watched at home.
And I don't know how I would have coped in
the theater. Drag Me to Hell, for example, which is
not recent, that's from like more than a decade ago now,
but it's it is hard to watch in points, like

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it's just so horrifying for me. Some people no problem
with that, But that one was like really intense in
certain parts, And I don't know if I would have
been able to comfortably endure that in a theater as
opposed to watching it at home, where I could pause
it if things got too intense and I could take
a moment to gather myself before it continued.

Speaker 1 (01:25:30):
Yeah. Yeah, but I mean Doctor Stranger in the Multiverse
of Madness was perfectly fine to watch in a theater.

Speaker 2 (01:25:36):
Yes, you know, one of his well known horror movies.

Speaker 1 (01:25:41):
I mean it was one of his horror movies. It
happened he was so scary.

Speaker 2 (01:25:47):
That wasn't Sam Raimi. That was the Coen Brothers.

Speaker 1 (01:25:54):
It shows up on his I know that Multiverse Madness
was Sam Raimi, but it shows up in his IMDb. Oh,
because he was in the cast.

Speaker 2 (01:26:03):
Yeah. I was about to say, Sam, There's no way
Sam Raimi directed Hudsucker Proxy. That's a Coen Brothers movie
like Raising Arizona.

Speaker 1 (01:26:09):
This, Hey, audience, you already if you listened to us,
you already know and you're in the same boat. But
this is why you need to fact check and not
trust Google AI.

Speaker 2 (01:26:18):
Yeah, because otherwise you start saying things like how to
Get to Heaven from Belfast was made from some of
the people from Welcome to Terry, And the more I
think about, the funnier that is.

Speaker 1 (01:26:28):
Yeah. Yeah, I can't see. I can't make fun of
you now because I just said the Hudsucker Proxy was
a Sam Raimi production.

Speaker 2 (01:26:34):
No, no, no, but that that one is, like, like,
the only reason I know that it's a Coen Brothers
movie is because I really like Hudsucker Proxy. It's an
outlier for the Coen Brothers. I don't think it's one
of their better movies. Like, I don't think I love it.
I love the movie. I love it. It is whimsical
and strange and fun and it has one of the

(01:26:59):
best for what's what's the actresses at Jennifer Jason Lee,
who's in it, but she plays a the actress Okay,
she plays a reporter and is doing a mid Atlantic
accent and just firing away at such a fast cadence.
She is so good. Bruce Campbell actually in an interview,
talked about how incredibly good she was and that it

(01:27:21):
intimidated him. He's like this, this actress who's like younger
than I am. She shows up and she knows her
lines and she performs at a level that is just insane.
It was scary, and I'm like, that's awesome. But but
like I think, in the great Canon and Cohen Brothers movies,
it isn't one of their best. Like I think, Oh,

(01:27:42):
Brother Where Art Thou is a masterpiece. You know he's
in Arizona.

Speaker 1 (01:27:47):
I think Brother Where Art? That is the apex of
all of their creation.

Speaker 2 (01:27:52):
Uh. No Country for Old Men is really good, but
it's not based on an original idea, right, That's an
adaptation of a novel. But it's a great movie.

Speaker 1 (01:28:03):
I would also say that one's not fun, and I
like their funner stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:28:07):
That's fair. It is not a fun movie. No Country
for Old Men is incredible, but it is not fun. Yeah,
I mean, Raising Arizona is fun, Oh Brother Art All
is fun, The Big Lebowski is fun. Burn After Reading
is fun, but not one of their better movies.

Speaker 1 (01:28:26):
I only watched Like. I bought that when Blockbuster was
going out of business, so.

Speaker 2 (01:28:33):
It was like fire sale kind of thing.

Speaker 1 (01:28:35):
Yeah, it was it Blockbuster Either that or I bought
it in a five dollars bit at Walmart. Either way,
I bought it and then had it on my shelf
for years and only watched it in like the last
three Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:28:49):
I mean I like most of their movies, not all
of them, but most of them. But yeah, Hutsker Proxy
holds a special place in my heart because it is
it's so unlike their other movies. It's much more childlike
in its approach. And you know, I don't know that
it's a perfect movie or anything, but it is. It

(01:29:11):
is a lot of fun. How did we get off
on talking about Hudsucker.

Speaker 1 (01:29:14):
Proxy, Because I was trying to say that Sam Raimi's
stuff was very scary in the theaters, Oh right, Madness
or Hutzarcker Proxy or the Spider Man's Yes.

Speaker 2 (01:29:24):
Spider Man, Spider Man's Like watching watching Wats's face do
a disco walk down the street was terrifying.

Speaker 1 (01:29:31):
Yeah, yeah, uh no, I I very much appreciate what
he has done for Hollywood and storytelling.

Speaker 2 (01:29:39):
So well. I was convinced before we started this episode
that it was going to be one of our shorter ones,
And technically I think there's about ten minutes of stuff
at the beginning that I'll be cutting out because that
was our our failed intros. But once again we stretched
it out to more than an hour and a half
of our actual recording time. I know the episode will

(01:30:01):
be some a little shorter than that.

Speaker 1 (01:30:04):
Yeah, Yeah, so that was fun. You know, it heartens
me that we have so much awesome stuff, potentially awesome
stuff to talk about for the new year already, Jonathan,
do you want to tell them how to reach you
this time?

Speaker 2 (01:30:19):
It's pretty easy. You just need to go to New
York City and find whatever building Questlove is leaving in
a hurry, and chances are I'm inside that building and
also the reason why he's leaving it in a hurry.
So that's how you do it.

Speaker 1 (01:30:34):
Yeah, And if you're wrong and Questlove tells the authorities
that you're chasing him.

Speaker 2 (01:30:41):
No, no, Questlove is leaving, you need to go into
the building he is leaving, So you're not following Questlove.
You're actually going in the direction that's opposite the direction
Questlove is going.

Speaker 1 (01:30:51):
But Are they going to have to stalk him to
find where he's going first?

Speaker 2 (01:30:54):
They're going to have to find out where he is
where he is first and then go to where he
isn't Yes.

Speaker 1 (01:30:59):
Yes, well if you don't want to do that or
New York is too cold for you right now. I
know that for some of our Canadian listeners and UK
listeners that's not going to be the case. But well,
I don't know because Greg Davies and Alex Horn we're
just in Chicago for their US task Master tour and

(01:31:20):
they're like, oh, thanks Chicago, it's so cold, which surprised me.
But anyhow, Yeah, if you don't want to go to
New York, you can reach out to us on social
media on Facebook and Instagram and threads. We're large Nur
Drunk Colleider. We're also larger our drun Collector on Discord.
You can also send us an email. Our email is

(01:31:42):
large Neur drum Pod at gmail dot com. We love
hearing from you, we love geeking out with you. Thanks
for being a part of our geeky family and listening.
Until next time. I'm I'm going to stick some ASMR
in here somewhere. Aeriel Caston and.

Speaker 2 (01:31:58):
I am Jonathan Hey. Welcome the theory. Strickland. The Large
Nordron Collider was created by Ariel Caston and produced, edited, published, deleted, undeleted,
published again. Cursed at by Jonathan Strickland. Music by Kevin

(01:32:20):
McLeod of incomptech dot com

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