LNC Takes Us For a Ride

Ariel and Jonathan talk about hypothetical geeky amusement park rides, Jonathan peeks into his horror hutch to talk about two trailers, and we end up making a lot of Kraken jokes. Plus more!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Hey, everybody, Welcome to the Largener Drunkliner the podcast. It's
all about wikieky things happening in the world around us
and how very excited we are about them. I'm aerial
cast in and me, as always, is the ever diligent
Jonathan Strickland.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
There be grimlins up here in this podcast.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
You got grimlins, I've got landscapers. Also, I forgot to
close my door, but we'll see if that's a problem.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Yeah. Yeah, We've had a few little hiccups on our
way to recording this episode. For one thing, I'm not
in my normal space. I'm having a little staycation, so
I'm actually in a totally different house, totally different microphone
that is not playing nicely with riverside, which is the
the web service we use to connect with each other

(00:57):
and record. So if this episode sounds a bit funky,
apart from the fact that Ariel and I are both loopy,
that might be why.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
Yeah, it's a good thing you can't see me at
least today. Jonathan looks perfectly fine.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
No, hey, listen, I think Ariel looks perfectly fine.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
You're getting old. You need your eyes checked.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Now, I mean I am, I am getting old. That
part of it, and honestly, I do need my eyes checked.
I keep getting I keep getting all alert saying it's
been more than a year.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Well I was joking because I don't think you're old,
but thank you. Yeah, it's it's Friday. Yay.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
Yeah, We've got a lot of stuff to talk about,
but oddly enough, most of it doesn't really This is
an odd episode because we have more material outside of
our lineup than inside, which is simply because it was
unusual in that the trailers and stuff released this this
week where mostly for properties that don't really fall into

(02:04):
neatly into the geekosphere. There's some that are kind of debatable,
and of course I've got my little horror hutch, which
I'll talk about more when we get there.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
But you severely cut down.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
Yeah, because I was. I don't want there to ever
be a segment on Large Nardron Collider where it's like
and here's twenty five minutes of Jonathan talking like that
already happens. I don't want to make it a whole thing.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
I'm sleep deprived. I could take a nap. No, I'm kidding,
I'm kiding.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
It is true. That's true. Like Ariel's gonna go and
catch some z's while I talk about horror for a bit.
But no, I have decided I'll go in and talk
about it. Now. I've decided for the horror hutch, I
want to try and limit it to three on average properties.
If there are a lot of horror movies, and I
want to try and select the three that I think
are the most interesting or worth talking about, and then

(02:53):
anything else can just be either. If it fits in
the full lineup, that's where it will go. If it doesn't,
then we'll just not worry about it, because this is
not a horror podcast. You know, horror does fall into
the geek genre. I would argue, depending upon you know
your preferences, but even I have like borders I put

(03:14):
up around horror, like we've talked about it, where like
if it's a psychological horror, it's harder for me to
put into the geekosphere as opposed to supernatural or slasher horror.
And that's just in my head. Yeah, so we have
might as well go ahead and get started. The first

(03:35):
thing we have is a question. This week, I propose
the question. It is a question that I have asked before.
Ariel pointed that out and I was pretty sure even
when I wrote it. I was like, I think we've
done this one. But as I mentioned, I think last week,
we grow and change as people, and sometimes our answers change.
So Ariel, your question is, if you can make an

(03:56):
amusement park ride out of any geeky, proput pretty or concept,
what would it be.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
It would be the New Fantastic Four movie.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
Oh cool, So you got to see that? I did.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
I saw it last weekend, and yeah, I'll talk about
it in what we watched. But I think that the
just the aesthetic of the world and the way they
did the action would make a great thrill ride and
also just be a fun world to walk through. It's
like futuristic retro.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yeah, it's kind of like what Disney World wanted to
do when they were redoing Tomorrowland, right where they wanted
to make it that retro futurism. But even that can
be tricky. I think a retro futurism said in like
the fifties sixties would be a lot of fun. I
agree with you, that would be a really cool amusement
park attraction. Like I would love to see a ride

(04:51):
based on that, especially if it was a ride that
could tap into the rich history of Gonzo Bizarro crazy
Fantastic Four villains, because we only got a hint of
that in the movie. Like I wanted to mention to you,
but I thought it was be a spoiler that even
though John Malkovich was cut as the Red Ghost, the

(05:14):
Red Ghost is still sort of kind of there.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
Yeah. Yeah, it was an interesting choice, you know, but
it was a good movie, so I accept their edits. Yeah,
but yeah, anyhow, I'll talk more about that in a second.
I guess I could talk about it now I don't
either way.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
Well, I'll go ahead and give my answer for the yes,
the amusement park ride thing. So I thought I would
actually really dig a dark ride like haunted house attraction
kind of thing, modeled after a movie such as Poultergeist,
something that has, you know, a little bit more fear

(05:57):
factor going for And I'm talking about the original pulter
Geist from the eighties, not the remake that I have
yet to see because I've heard bad things, but the
original one with like Craig T. Nelson in it. I
would like to see a dark ride version of that
caliber of a haunted experience where it is scary without

(06:17):
being gruesome, Like it's not it's not gory or anything,
but it's very atmospheric and very scary. Preferably something that
could take advantage of effects similar to what you would
see in a Disney's Haunted Mansion ride, where it's more
than just the you know, the very basic animatronic thing,
not even animatronic, but just like creature that leaps out

(06:41):
and then slowly retracts back into place. I would love
to see something like that that could be really spooky
and you know, like a werewolf barmnsas spooky and scary
but not being gross.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
Woolf a mids so not scary, not as far as
like Cabin in the Woods.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
Yeah, nothing like that. Like I was thinking it over,
I'm like, I wouldn't want anything. I certainly wouldn't want
anything as gruesome as like saw or hostile or anything
like that. Like That's that's typically where you often see
the haunted experiences kind of go like in that direction,
for things like nether World or you know, the Universal

(07:29):
Studios Haunted haunts or Six Flags haunts, those kind of things,
they tend to go toward violent and gory. That that
approach to horror and I would love to see more
unsettling and tense kind of horror where it's you know,
it's it's that feeling of like if you've ever been
in a place that was unfamiliar to you that seemed

(07:52):
just unsettling and unwelcoming. Not violent, but like it's creepy.
That's what I want. I want that creepy. That's I
love ghost stories. I love that creepy feeling. That's kind
of my favorite genre of horror. I'll watch violent horror
as well, but that doesn't resonate with me nearly as

(08:13):
much as a really good ghost story, and that's kind
of what I'm after.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
Yeah, I can totally see that. I would. I would
be behind that that as well. One other thing Universe,
So I know that there's a big, like kind of
theme park that's sort of D and D Fantasy adventured
that's out there, that's so little independent thing, And I
know that Universal has done like kind of like their
Halloween horrorites. They've done like a special like D and

(08:37):
D sort of thing, But I would love like a dedicated,
high budget Disney Universal kind of D and D section
of a park.

Speaker 2 (08:45):
Yeah, I think the last time we did this. The
answer I gave was like dragon Lance the uh, which
is officially one of the campaign worlds re Dungeons and Dragons,
but it's like its own fantasy series written by Margaret
Weis and Trace Hitman, So that would fit right into
something like that. And you know, I imagine taking the

(09:06):
technology of Avatar flight of passage applying that to you know,
you're a dragon Lancer and you're flying through a fantasy
setting like that to me would be incredible, So I'm
fully on board with that. Plus, like all the other
potential things you could do would be lots of fun,
you know, having like the quintessential tavern where you can

(09:27):
actually go and get drinks and snacks or whatever, and
then occasionally adventures just meet up there and then head out.
That would be fun.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
Yeah, yeah, I agree. Or the other one and this
is another one that's like similar to existing, but I
like it so much better. Like we've got Jurassic Park stuff.
But I would love a Dinotopia Mmm.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
That would be fun.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
Because it's like if you're not familiar. Dinotopias also falls
into one of those kids books that, like I feel,
needs a resurgence every once in a while. It'll get
like a little miniseries or something, but it's never gotten
like a big budget movie or whatnot. But it's it's
a world where people and dinosaurs work together. They both
have their own like societies and technology, and for the

(10:13):
most part, learned to coexist. And it's just really cool.
It's a really cool, imaginative world.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
So good answers well, And I'm always curious to hear
what our listeners think, if there are any properties out
there that our listeners are like, I would love for
there to be an amusement park version of this. Let
us know, because, like I mean, there's probably tons of
stuff that we haven't even thought about that really would
be super cool. Like I still regret that I by

(10:41):
the time I finally went to Las Vegas, it was
after the Star Trek experience had already shut down. My
parents got to do it, and they loved it. Of
course they've also written Star Trek books. But by the
time I got out there, there was only like a
couple of touches that remained from the old Star Trek experience,
and now they're all gone. But the very first time

(11:02):
I went, there were still a couple of things still there,
but none of the experienced stuff was actually still going,
and I regret not having had that chance to go
through that myself. So that's always one of those two.
But yeah, yeah, hit us up, like, if there's stuff
that you think would be really cool, I would love
to hear your thoughts on it. They're probably, you know,
properties I haven't even really encountered that. I haven't you know, thought.

Speaker 1 (11:24):
Of same disease. I mean, I could go on and on. Okay,
so we've gotten from what we would like to see,
so let's go to what we have seen.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
Okay, for me, it's nothing. I because at first I
was like, oh, I should mention the thing I went
and saw by myself, but no, it was Fantastic four,
which I had already talked about. I yea, you know again,
I've gone on the Soul staycation and I'm a walk
away from a theater, but I haven't made time to

(11:56):
be able to actually go and see anything. I do
plan to see weapons, but I haven't seen it yet,
and perhaps see the naked gun, but I haven't seen
that yet either. So the only thing I've watched is
just like YouTube videos, and none of it is particularly
in the geek space. I am now watching my dog
who just he just got out of bed and now

(12:19):
he's walking around. So if if yeah, if I go silent, that's.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
One well, you know, thank you Tibbert. That was a
wonderful interjection. I've watched a bunch of stuff. I watched
The Fantastic Four. I thought it was a better story
than Superman, like more cohesive, like its own little capsular thing.

(12:45):
As Jonathan said, you don't really need to be familiar
with Marvel to watch it, which is great. I've watched
a bunch of task Master, which is just the most delightful,
low key, half a brain but hilarious thing to watch.
I'm watching more dropout stuff, cloud Word, Hoe and Smarty Pants,

(13:09):
watching more Love, Death and Robots, which continues to disturb me,
and watching Strange New Worlds, which continues to delight me.
Oh my gosh. Episode four of Strange New Worlds was
the best ever. It was everything I wanted in a
rocket can. It harkened back to Old Og and Star
Trek the next generation, and it just delighted me so
much that I texted all of my friends multiple times,

(13:32):
including John and that who doesn't watch the show, to
just talk about it because it was so delightful.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
I'm glad that you're getting so much enjoyment out of that.
I still have not pulled the ripcord to watch it.

Speaker 1 (13:44):
Well, like that episode in particular started off with like
like like original series, kind of aesthetic on purpose, kind
of camping it, and then it the episode has to
do with the hol of deck, but I know John
has like, well, the deck doesn't come in yet, like
testing a proto type of it. And they did it
in a very good real good reel is not the

(14:07):
right word. They did it in a very good way
that fits within the universe correctly, I think. But like
they hit every tone of everything I love about the
Holid Deck in that episode, and it was so just
Chef's kiss this week was also really good. This week
was because they tend to like alternate like a more
fun and a more serious, which I like this one
was a little more serious. It's still a lot of fun,

(14:30):
really cool concept. I don't want to run it for
anyone who hasn't seen it because it just came out yesterday,
but it was it was really good.

Speaker 2 (14:36):
Well that sounds great. Yeah, I'm just riding the mute
button as my dog walks around the house, drinking water
and barking. I uh, if you hear click click noises,
By the way, that's my dog's toe nails on the
hardwood floor.

Speaker 1 (14:52):
It's not a philociraptor. I so, but my favorite thing.
Like so I liked, I loved Fantastic four. I thought
Superman was more fun, but Fantastic four was, like I said,
a better story. I love Star Trek to Stranger Worlds.
But task Master is just delighting me so much. And
I'm watching it backwards. So I watched the latest series
and then series eighteen seventeen. I just finished up fifty

(15:15):
or I'm finishing up fifteen today. It's it's like I
can't ever go on hot ones because of my hot
sauce allergy. Even though I'm on allergy shots now. I
don't think I'll get to a point where I can
just im Bible a whole bunch of hot sauce. But
I will know I've made it if I ever get
to be on task Master.

Speaker 2 (15:36):
I have a quick question for you, though, as far
as task Master, because I've seen both of these variations
and I don't even know what my answer is, But
do you obviously task master. The whole concept is that
these comedians are given various tasks of varying degrees of
difficulty to complete. They're usually very challenging to complete, at

(16:00):
least the way it's written down. If you're taking it
at surface level.

Speaker 1 (16:04):
My courages lateral thinking.

Speaker 2 (16:06):
Yeah, right, So my question for you is, do you
prefer the tasks where there's an answer to how to
do the task, but you have to look around for it,
like you know, you need to turn on a switch
and then a black light will illuminate instructions or something
like that. Or do you prefer the ones where the

(16:27):
people come up with a creative way to complete the
task that is perhaps in the spirit of the task,
but not by the letter.

Speaker 1 (16:36):
So for as a viewer, I prefer the ones where
they do the lateral thinking, where it's really creative and
they come up with a way that Alex and Greg
didn't the hosts did not anticipate that breaks the system
they put in place, but still still completes the task

(16:57):
without breaking any rules. Those are my favorite, usually just
because the contestants are so delighted in themselves. I do
like the ones where they have to look around and
find out because that's very escape room, and I love
doing escape rooms, so they're all fun. I think I
would excel better at the ones where you have to
look around for something, but I enjoy watching the creative ones.

(17:20):
And I an improv. One of my favorite things to
do is to take a word and to turn it
into something that it doesn't mean but sounds similar to.
So like, I played a Cube game with my old
improv troop and the word was coroner, like the person
who takes care of corpses, and I took it to

(17:42):
be like, I've been standing on this coroner all day,
just waiting, and like that kind of thing is my
favorite thing. So like betting, Yeah, yeah, I like those
a lot too, But I also really do enjoy when
Usually the way it works.

Speaker 2 (17:59):
If you've seen a a season of Task Master, you've
surely come across this at some point. But it'll be
a thing where they all struggle to complete whatever the
task is, and then at the end they'll reveal that
there was a simpler solution right there in view, but
you know you had to look for it to find it.
That really only works for the ones where no one

(18:22):
looked right, no one thought to look, and so the
reveal just makes them all get even more like kind
of frustrated because it's after the fact and they're like, oh,
the whole time, there was like there was a light
switch I could have flipped because there was nothing in
the rules that said I couldn't flip the light switch.
I just assumed I couldn't, and it turns out I
totally was allowed to do it. Those are really fun,

(18:45):
but I also really like the ones where it turns
out only one of them was assigned the task and
they just assumed that everybody got it, and so they
find out through the course of the show, Wait, no
one else had to do that.

Speaker 1 (18:58):
Yeah, And it's so interesting. It's so interesting to see
how different people respond because they all know what they're
getting into, right, Like just like on Dropouts Game Changer,
sometimes the contestants act frustrated, and maybe they are because
they thought they were too clever and then messed up somewhere,

(19:18):
but like, like, you know what you're getting into, so
you can't be too upset that they're asking you to
do these things. That's what you've agreed to. But it
is funny to watch each group of people like their
dynamics because I'm currently like I said, in series fifteen,
and they have been like going to bat for like

(19:41):
the word banana counts as getting a banana out of
a tree even though there was an actual banana in
the tree kind of a thing, and like arguing for
and against each other's points in a way that I
haven't I haven't seen any of the subsequent series. Do
maybe it happens more earlier on because I haven't gotten
there yet, But it is really interesting to watch to
the different dynamics. I definitely have like favorite people every series,

(20:04):
and I kind of want to put them all together
in like a.

Speaker 2 (20:08):
Like a like All Stars.

Speaker 1 (20:09):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that would be fun.

Speaker 2 (20:12):
I have to admit, like every time I see it,
because that's almost always a clip that I'm watching, like
it's like a particular task that's been you know, isolated
from the rest of the show, and I need to
just sit down and watch episodes from beginning to end,
as opposed to this piecemeal approach I've been doing. But yes, yeah,

(20:34):
it's the Mansuka stuff that I saw was delightful, Like
he clearly was having such a good time being on
that show that it was exactly the entertainment I needed.

Speaker 1 (20:47):
Yeah, he was great. He kind of invited himself on
the show, and then he destroyed their sets. Is the
big thing that goes around on YouTube. Our mutual friend
Kate was over for a craft day and she mentioned
that he tends to be a little bit more like
antisocial germ at first, so I was surprised that he
wanted to go on it. But apparently all of that
stems from a food allergy, so I completely understand that.

Speaker 2 (21:10):
Yeah, and I know that he had food poisoning on
his like last filming days while he was there, and
that made it more complicated. But you can't tell when
you're watching, like, it doesn't it doesn't come across. But
like in later interviews he talked about that. Well, now
that we have chatted a lot about what Ariel has watched, sorry, no, no,
it's good because like again, I didn't see anything this

(21:32):
past week. I really racked my brain too, because I
was like, did I watch anything, like even on Prime
or whatever? But I don't. I don't think that, at
least I don't think I've watched anything new. So everything
I watched was just like older YouTube videos and stuff.
Let's talk about thirty seconds or less. And I don't

(21:53):
remember who goes first, because I know, like, okay.

Speaker 1 (21:56):
Good, I go first. Yeah. So first things first, Hamilton,
the filmed version that we got on Disney Plus is
now coming to theaters for the first time. It released
a little trailer. It's just it's just a little teasery thing.
There's nothing particularly special about it other than lin Manuel.

Speaker 2 (22:12):
Talks to you a little bit.

Speaker 1 (22:15):
But it will be in theaters on September fifth, twenty
twenty five. Honestly, I kind of love that I saw
the filmed version of Disney's Newsies in the theater, and
it kind of gives you more of that seeing a
staged play field because it's on the big screen. It
matches scale a little bit better.

Speaker 2 (22:36):
Wonder Brothers Discovery sent a letter out to their shareholders.
It gives us a little more information on DC's cinematic future. First,
The Batman Part two with Robert Pattinson will begin shooting
next spring. James Gunn is currently working on screenplays for
three films, which includes Supergirl, Clayface, and a wonder Woman movie.
Plus we know the TV series Lanterns and perhaps another

(22:59):
season of The Penguin are also in the works.

Speaker 1 (23:03):
Next Hulu maybe going away as a standalone app. You
can still you'll still be able to subscribe to just
Disney or Hulu, but it will all be on the
Disney Plus app platform. Thing Bob Iger says, Who's the
Sea of Disney says that this should save people some
money and save them some money and also help them

(23:24):
make ads in such a package, ad sales better and
stuff like that for improved consumer experience. I guess we'll
have to see.

Speaker 2 (23:33):
In a cheeky short video on various social platforms, Sony
shared a quick look at the new Spider Man suit
that Tom Holland will wear in the upcoming film Spider
Man Brand New Day. He comes out wearing the suit
and says, let's get to work. The Spider emblem is
a little bit larger on the chest in this version.
We also know, of course, that John Barenthal will be

(23:53):
joining the cast as the Punisher, and Mark Ruffalo will
also be involved. So considering that both Ruffalo and Hollow
are attached to this movie, I figure we'll know everything
about this film a year before it comes out.

Speaker 1 (24:07):
We also heard about another film that is only in
early development, which is Spider Punk. One of the characters
from the second Spider Verse movies is getting their own
animated feature. David Kolia is behind it and a Jon sand.

Speaker 2 (24:22):
Is as well. In twenty twenty seven, Star Wars will
really have happened a long time ago. It'll be the
film's fiftieth anniversary, which just reminds me how old I am,
because I saw that movie in the theater when I
was a wee lad. Anyway Disney could birn that for
the fiftieth anniversary. The film will be back in theaters

(24:42):
on April thirtieth, twenty twenty seven. Now will it be
the original cinematic cut in which Han shoots first and
there aren't nearly as many critters on screen at one time?
I can hold out hope, a new hope.

Speaker 1 (25:00):
I've been feeling nostalgic lately for things like Rock Band
and Guitar Hero. Those are games that I loved as
a young adult that I was actually pretty good at.
And I'm kind of in luck, and so are you
if you're the same way. Because Red Octane Games is
getting back into the rhythm game game, it's not going
to be Guitar Hero necessarily or DJ Hero. They haven't

(25:22):
actually announced what game they're working on, but they are
working on anyone. How to Vague podcast.

Speaker 2 (25:31):
In a previous episode, we mentioned that the Highlander reboot
will star Henry cavill as McLeod and Russell Crowe as Ramirez,
the roles previously made famous by Christopher Lambert and Sean Connery, respectively.
But who will play Clancy Brown's famous villain, the Kurgan. Well.
I asked friend of the show Shay Lee that question.
She got it right with a single guess. It's Dave Batista.

(25:55):
At least he's in talks for it. At any rate,
there could be only one.

Speaker 1 (26:01):
I don't know who I'd want to play the Kurgan.
I'd maybe say John Ceno for Dave Batista, but I
think they'd both do a good job. Matt Smith is
also playing a battie upcoming. I mean he's played a
bunch of batties recently, but now in Sean Levy's Star
Wars Starfighter movie that's upcoming. We don't know exactly what
the role will be. There are some rumors that it

(26:23):
might be a young Palpatine, but Matt Smith, former doctor
who Love It, did say that it was a really
groovy part and concept, really groovy, really mavy.

Speaker 2 (26:36):
That brings us to the end of thirty seconds or less.
Here's where the show takes a weird turn, y'all, because
as I mentioned, as I mentioned earlier, like, we didn't
have a whole lot of stuff. We've got a few things,
but not a lot of stuff for our lineup, But
we did get quite a few things for the not
a Fit section? So are not a fit? Section is
longer than our lineup this week?

Speaker 1 (26:58):
Okay, but here's the thing, not a fit. I feel
like almost all of them are, except for maybe Ellen McKay.
Are all tangentially geeky.

Speaker 2 (27:09):
Yeah they're Yeah, they're all debatable, they're all they're all
border cases. First up, we got a trailer for the
upcoming Peacock series, The Paper, which is a spin off
of The Office.

Speaker 1 (27:23):
Yeah, in the Office, it kind of focused around paper
sales and eventually how paper was getting phased out because
of new technology. This focus is on a newspaper. It
does have Oscar from the Office in it, but then
a whole bunch of new characters. I it didn't grab

(27:45):
me as much, but honestly, the first season of the
US Office also took a while to grow on me. Yeah,
so maybe well.

Speaker 2 (27:53):
And Parks and Rec took a while too write, like
I think it took like a season and a half
to really find its stride. This one, like the newspaper
is called the Toledo Truthteller, and like the ideas that
I think it's a paper, it's another paper company like
dunder Mifflin that owns all these different paper assets, like

(28:14):
a toilet paper manufacturing business, but also a newspaper, the
newspaper being the Toledo truth Teller. But it's like there's
no journalist working for this particular newspaper at this point,
and a guy is brought in to be the new
editor in chief for the paper. He realizes that the
people he has to work with are at best enthusiastic amateurs.

(28:36):
At worst, they're total bunglers. And that's where a lot
of the comedy is going to come in. And it
looks cute as someone who has worked in adjacent field
to journalism, because I would never say what I did
really counts as journalism. A lot of this resonated with me,
so I don't know that it's gonna be gut bustingly hilarious,

(28:59):
but I'm at least intrigued. Next up, we got a
trailer for a Brandon Fraser movie called Rental Family, where
Fraser I mean, like it's hard to believe some of
the roles that actors play. Sometimes they're playing like you know,
seeing Tom Cruise as a Navy pilot that kind of
stretches credulity, or you know, seeing Jack Nicholson as anything

(29:22):
other than Jack Nicholson is a bit challenging in this case,
Like it's really really stretching your believability because Brendan Fraser
is playing an actor.

Speaker 1 (29:31):
Yeah, I don't know if I can believe it now.
This so he's playing a guy who gets like rented
out to like kind of a rental girlfriend or a
rental bridesmaid, but for more intimate situations. And I don't
mean like sexy, and I just mean like family, like
playing somebody's dad, for instance. It looks and then like

(29:53):
where the lines blur and and if you're playing someone's dad,
are you essentially actually being their dad. It's really cute.
It's a fun concept. The trailer looks absolutely darling.

Speaker 2 (30:04):
Yeah, I think it appears at least to be set
in Japan, and like, you know, there are a lot
of American actors who have found work in Japan, particularly
in commercials, like Japanese commercials have a lot of very
recognizable actors in them because they can make a decent
amount of money shooting a commercial for a Japanese company,

(30:24):
and they also know that that particular stuff typically wouldn't
be seen outside of Japan, so like it doesn't impact
their image back home to do it, because before the Internet,
in particular, you never really had to worry about that.
In this case, that Fraser's character ends up going in
and finding out about playing this sort of role playing

(30:47):
role where he takes on the role of like a
family member for instance, or a boyfriend, that kind of thing.
And I think it's also kind of exploring kind of
the loneliness problem that which is worldwide, but it's it's
particularly focused in Japan, right, Like there's there have been

(31:08):
whole stories about the loneliness epidemic in Japan, so I
think it's kind of touching on that too, as well
as this idea of him getting this assignment to be
this little girl's dad essentially, and it's being treated by
her extended family as if he were her father, and
kind of the position that puts him in you know,

(31:29):
how does he how does he form a connection with
this young girl? How much of that is appropriate? Like
are you putting yourself at risk emotionally to get attached
to someone? And like you're just playing a part you're
not actually going to be, you know, dad forever. It's
a lot of interesting questions. I don't know how deeply
the film's going to go into them, but it definitely

(31:51):
looks cute. It looks like it's going to be tugging
on the heartstrings.

Speaker 1 (31:56):
Yeah, yeah, for sure, I think I want to watch it.
Bred and Brendan Fraser seems to be like an absolute darling,
so I fully believe him in this role. Next, we
have a trailer for j Kelly, which is a Wikipedia
calls it a coming of age comedy drama.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
I don't coming of middle age, not even middle aged,
cutting of late age.

Speaker 1 (32:19):
Yeah. It starts George Clutey and Adam Sandler as an
actor and his manager who travel through Europe and the
George Clooney is the actor, Adam Sandler is the manager,
and George Clooney plays himself. And so it's a really interesting,
like look on the public face that an actor gives
and how that isn't always necessarily who they actually are, Like,

(32:41):
I find that very interesting. That's very geeky to me,
both as an actor and from having worked with famous actors.
You know, the public faces is not necessarily who they are.
It might be a part of who they are, but
you know.

Speaker 2 (33:00):
Well, And there's even a moment where someone is asking
Clooney about him, like all his characters end up just
being himself, Like he's not playing a character, He's just
George Clooney who happens to be a fireman, or George
Clooney who happens to be a cop.

Speaker 1 (33:16):
Or what Jay Kelly, which sounds an awful lot like
George Clooney.

Speaker 2 (33:19):
Yeah, same basically, yeah, the same thing. So and also
the cast list on this is crazy, Like you've got
Adam Sandler and George Clooney obviously, but you also have
Jim Broadbent is in it, Laura Dern is in it,
Patrick Wilson, Stacy Keach, Greta Gerwig, and tons more. This
comes out November fourteenth, and it looks, it looks, it

(33:43):
looks interesting. I should have mentioned when we were talking
about Rental Family that comes out November twenty first. Oh,
and if I go even further back, the paper comes
out September fourth.

Speaker 1 (33:55):
Yeah, I will say with j. Kelly, actors are like
part of actor training is sometimes it is to put
on the persona of somebody else, like if you're doing
if you're playing a historical figure, for instance, or a
famous person that is not you. But often you are
told to be yourself reacting to imaginary circumstances and situations

(34:20):
because that's real, Like that feels real, right, So a
lot of actors are successful in like bringing their real
true self within a character. Some are more successful at
bringing their real true self just in that situation. I
think both are valid forms of acting.

Speaker 2 (34:35):
I think it also like it's one of those things
that tends to be more pointed when the actor in
question has particular mannerisms or a manner of speech that
is really like it stands out because then that adds
fuel to the fire for the people who are saying, oh,
you're just playing yourself. So I made the joke about

(34:57):
Jack Nicholson, that's a great example. Or Christopher Walken is
other one.

Speaker 1 (35:00):
Or honestly, Johnny Depp since Pirates of the Caribean, he
kind of sounds the same and everything.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
Yeah, or what's her face? Jennifer Coolidge, who is the George?
She's the Christopher walking for people who who like like
they say, like every every dude has got a Christopher
walkin and every woman's got a Jennifer Coolidge impersonation, which
I realize is gender reductive. Yeah, I don't actually agree

(35:25):
with it.

Speaker 1 (35:25):
But I don't have a Jennifer Coolidge. I'm not very
good at her. I've tried. I think I do walk
in better. I'm not gonna put anybody through either of.

Speaker 2 (35:34):
Those, though, Yeah I was. I was delighted when I
heard Ariana Grande do a general Coolidge impression of oh
that's really good.

Speaker 1 (35:44):
Yeah, yeah, it's pretty fantastic, which you know, even that,
who's to say how much of Jennifer Coolidge's persona is her?

Speaker 2 (35:52):
Yeah? Sure?

Speaker 1 (35:54):
Or like an Andy Kaufman esque front.

Speaker 2 (35:58):
Well, going from j Kelly to Ellen McKay, we have
another film with a character name as the title. In
this case, Ellen McKay is played by Emma mackie, and
the character is a lawyer and politician who's recently been
elected to governor. When she's in her mid thirties, which
come on, folks, Let's let the older people not feel

(36:21):
like total failures seeing someone being portrayed as becoming governor
of a state by thirty four. The trailer makes it
clear that at some point, I don't know how far
in her past, but at some point in her past
she lost her mom and her closest relative is her
aunt Helen, who is played by Jamie Lee Curtis. Her

(36:45):
father is played by Woody Harrelson, and he's kind of
a washed out character who's a little bit of a
bumbling idiot. And her assistant is played by Julie Kavner,
whom you would recognize as the voice of Marge Simpson.
That is pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (37:02):
Oh is she also the voice of Ros in Monsters Inc. No,
she sounds like Ras and Monsters.

Speaker 2 (37:09):
No, it was a dude who did the voice for
Ros and Monsters inc.

Speaker 1 (37:13):
Oh, and you're right they sound similar. Though. It looks
absolutely lovely, very slice of life. I you know, we
talked about how maybe Slice of Life is coming back,
and which is a better phrase than I'm coming of
age for George Clote?

Speaker 2 (37:30):
Yeah, yeah, no, this definitely looks like, at least in
the trailer like there was no real indicator of what this. Yeah,
you tell them, Timblet, you're someone who's doing lawn work nearby.
Tibblet has thoughts on the matter. But no, I don't.
I didn't pick up on there being like a strong
storyline at least hinted at in the trailer. It just

(37:52):
felt like it was more of a character thing.

Speaker 1 (37:54):
Yeah, it feels like, and I know that you haven't
watched this, Jonathan, but it feels as if though the
Christmas episode of The Bear, we're happy because in the
Christmas episode, I think in season two of The Bear,
it's like one of the few episodes that's a full hour,
maybe hour plus long. It's the Dinner of the Seven
Fishes at Christmas time, and it's very dysfunctional, and it's

(38:17):
very tense and like you are spent. By the end
of the episode. You're like, thank god, not every episode
is this long, because man, the anxiety. But it feels
like a happy version of that.

Speaker 2 (38:28):
Yeah, moving on to something that is definitely story.

Speaker 1 (38:32):
Did you say when Ellen McKay comes out?

Speaker 2 (38:34):
Oh, I did not hang on one second. Let me
it's December.

Speaker 1 (38:36):
Twelfth, Happy birthday to me.

Speaker 2 (38:39):
Okay, Well, a project that I don't anticipate tugging on
our heartstrings quite as much as some of the previous
entries is Adulthood, which is almost like a dark comedy.
It's a film that stars Josh Gadd and Kaya Scotalario
who are siblings adult siblings who come back to their
childhood home because their mother has had a medical issue.

(39:03):
Her mom was getting stay at home care from a
nurse and then she kind of collapses in the home.
So they come back, and when they come back, they
also start exploring their childhood home and they find like
that the basement there's a really bad smell down there.
They discover that buried in the walls of the house
is a corpse, and they begin to suspect that their

(39:26):
parents were perhaps guilty of murder, so they decide they
need to dispose the body so that the sister's children
don't end up thinking that their grandmother was a killer,
even if she was a killer. Turns out, the nurse
later played by Billy Lord, is saying that she knows

(39:46):
about all this, and so she's trying to blackmail them.
They in turn turned to a guy played by Anthony
Carrigan who is like kind of a psycho weirdo, like
a crazy dangerous version of NoHo Hank, but not with
the crazy accent. And he's supposed to try and intimidate

(40:06):
Billy Lord into backing off, and it just looks like
it's it's kind of one of those kind of crime
black comedy type things. There's also police officers involved who
are investigating, you know, the two siblings try to dispose
of the body, which ends up start resurfacing literally and
cops get involved, and it just looks like a weird,

(40:29):
twisted black comedy kind of thing that comes out September nineteenth,
and then it moves on to video and demand like
six days later.

Speaker 1 (40:39):
I'm kind of interested in this one.

Speaker 2 (40:42):
Yeah, it looks it looks funny, like there are moments
in the trailer that look again, it's a dark comedy,
Like I wouldn't say this is a bright, shiny thing
to go watch for yucks, but if you like, like,
if you like Coen Brothers movies, it gives me the
vibe of something that's striving to be like a Coen

(41:03):
Brothers movie, but it's not nearly as it doesn't have
the touch of the Cohen Brothers to it.

Speaker 1 (41:10):
Yeah, I agree, it doesn't. It's not quite Cohen Brothers.
It's like if Nick Frost did a take on a
Coen Brothers movie.

Speaker 2 (41:19):
Yeah, yeah, no, that's not bad. I think I think
you're right on there.

Speaker 1 (41:23):
Yeah, when does zech you already said when.

Speaker 2 (41:25):
That comes out September nineteenth. Yeah, and then like, this
one's got a very short theatrical window. It's literally it's
one of those where it's that there's probably something in
the contract that required it to have a theatrical release,
but like literally six days after it comes out in
theaters will be on video on demand.

Speaker 1 (41:40):
Yeah. Speaking of movies that give the feels of other movies,
the next thing we have is a movie called Enie
Meani No, not the Justin Bieber song. It's n E
A n I E, which gives me very much baby
driver vibes.

Speaker 2 (41:55):
Yeah. It stars Samorrow Weaving. She plays a bank robbers
slash get away driver named Edie, and her ex boyfriend
is a bungling criminal who turns out to be in
deep debt with a local crime boss, and the crime
boss is essentially telling him and her because she is connected,
because you know, she dated this guy and he was

(42:18):
I guess part of her crew at one point that
they owe him three million bucks or else. As he
puts it, I will have a guy who will pull
your skeleton out through your skin who and he'll do
it for very reasonable rates. So this also was like,
it's like an action movie slash comedy, with a lot

(42:38):
of the comedy being hal Samorrow. Weaving is both exasperated
by the fact she has to work with her ex
boyfriend and also worried that she's falling for him again.

Speaker 1 (42:48):
I do love the very nineties like tagline of this movie,
which is He's her biggest blind spot.

Speaker 2 (42:54):
Yeah, very much a carpun type of thing. This one
comes out on Who Lose. This is coming straight to
streaming on August twenty second. I mean it looks like
it would be a fun distraction. I think Baby Driver
that can comparison is pretty accurate. Obviously it's not going
to have the same style as an egg Wright film,

(43:15):
but but similar tone.

Speaker 1 (43:19):
Yeah. Yeah, it is bound to be fun because it
also has Randall Parks, Steve's On and Andy Garcia in it.

Speaker 2 (43:24):
So yeah, great. There's a lot of like projects that
we're talking about today that have some really incredible casts.

Speaker 1 (43:31):
Yeah, yeah, which is also a geeky thing, like liking
casting is a geeky thing. The last doesn't doesn't fit
thing might fit into historical geekery because it's a trailer
for the coral coral coral.

Speaker 2 (43:47):
The coral yeah, because it's like a choral piece coral
c A yeah, C H O R A L like
the choral movement of a classical piece. This one starts.
Ray finds as a as a choral director. It's set
during World War One in England, so early twentieth century,
like nineteen fifteen, nineteen sixteen. And in the story, a

(44:12):
town's chorus master, like the guy who's in charge of
the choir at the local church of England church joins
the army and goes to the front. So the town
is in need of a new choral master and they
seek out. Ray finds his character, who is known to
be brilliant, like he's got a great reputation and gets

(44:33):
great results. However, he's also very keen on German music
and worked a lot in Germany, and obviously that has
there's a lot of stigma against that in England. It's
a very strong anti German sentiment due to World War One,
and Ray findes doesn't really he's not really processing that
because he's thinking of it in terms of art. He's

(44:55):
not thinking of it in terms of we're at war
with this nation. So there's comedy that comes from there.
Also the fact that it's revealed that apparently his character
is an atheist, and he's and so there's some reluctance
for the talent members to bring him in on this
specifically since he'll be directing a lot of sacred music performances.

(45:18):
It looks like there's a lot of humor in this,
and also it looks like it's the kind of story
that's designed to unify, uplift, and heal, and talk about
how music plays a part in all of those things,
like music has this amazing power. I would actually compare
it with that regard to sinners. Obviously very very very
different stories, but this idea of music having this spiritual

(45:43):
role in our lives and that it can have this
incredible powerful impact on us. I think both movies are
kind of exploring that I already told Ariel, like I
can tell that first of all, yes, I plan to
see this movie comes out Christmas. I'm sure I will
go see this, but I can tell already, I'm gonna
need to bring like a whole box of Kleenex because

(46:04):
I'll be sobbing. You know. Even the trailer was starting
to get to me a little bit.

Speaker 1 (46:10):
Yeah, for sure, I agree. It looks I don't I
don't I want to see it, but I don't know
if I'll be able to handle it.

Speaker 2 (46:19):
So yeah, I think you could handle I mean, it
is gonna be sad because obviously it's set during World
War One and there are gonna be some characters who
don't come back from that, and it's going to be sad.
But I think, I mean, I'm sure you could handle it.
The question is whether or not you would ever be
in the mind space where you would want to see it.

Speaker 1 (46:40):
Yeah, yeah, that's what I meant. Yeah, but it looks
very good.

Speaker 2 (46:45):
Yeah, yeah, I was very impressed by it. It was
kind of given me vibes of something like Dead Poet Society.
You know, it could fit into that kind of niche
of movie with perhaps a little more English humor to it,
with a being like zany money Python stuff.

Speaker 1 (47:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (47:04):
Well, I guess it's time to move on to John
Boy's Horror Hutch. I actually only have two things I
thought I had three, but I forgot that I put
the third one at the end of our actual lineup.
So we have two movies to mention and Ariel, if
you watched the trailer store either of these, let me
know I did not, Okay, I ran out of time.

Speaker 1 (47:26):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (47:26):
It's no, it's fine. Like, neither of these movies are
for you, so it's okay for you two to like
focus on the other ones that are more something in
your bag. So first up, as a movie called Shelby Oaks.
The trailer starts with I mean literally starts with a bang.
There's a knock on a woman's door. She answers the door.

(47:48):
There's a man who says she finally let me go
before he unalives himself on our front door stoop using
a pistol. So yeah, incredibly dramatic opening to the trailer.
And he was holding a little videotape, like one of
those small digital videotapes. And so she of course does

(48:13):
the responsible thing by handing it all over to the authorities. No,
she clears it off with some of the blood, brings
it to a player where she can review the footage,
and she discovers that the footage on the tape is
of her long lost sister who's been missing for more
than a decade. And her sister was doing like a

(48:33):
paranormal investigation type thing and went missing in this little
town called Shelby Oaks. So it prompts her to go
looking for her sister, you know, kind of like re
encouraged to open that back up and find out what
happened to her. So she goes to Shelby Oaks to
find information on her sister. It looks very creepy. Mike

(48:55):
Flanagan produced the movie. He did not write or directed,
but he is a producer on it. My favorite bit
in the trailer is she's having an exchange with an
old woman and she asks the old woman you live
alone out here? And the old woman says nope, And
I'm like, oh, I love that. Oh it's so because

(49:17):
she gives no more information and I'm like, that's so creepy. Oh,
it's so good. What a great choice. It comes out
October third. I am sold on this one. I will
definitely try and see this one. It's exactly the kind
of horror movie I was talking about earlier that really
appeals to me. Then we have a trailer for another
horror movie called Do Not Enter. This one follows a

(49:40):
group of urban explorers as they you know, trespass at
an old, abandoned hotel called the Paragon. And this hotel
had closed years ago and apparently at one point housed
a famous mobster who allegedly hit a fortune somewhere in
the hotel. So they go to check it out and also,
you know, do a little treasure hunting, and spooky stuff happens.

(50:03):
It looks like there might be some sort of double
worship element to this particular one. There's some small elements
of foilm footage that are included in the trailer, but
I get the sense, and that's just a tiny bit
of the movie. Most of it is done in just
standard cinematic approach. This one comes out August fifteenth, so
not too far from this. This one I'm less sold on.

(50:27):
There was nothing about the trailer that I thought was
particularly bad. It just didn't appeal to me the same
way Shelby Oaks did.

Speaker 1 (50:35):
And that's it.

Speaker 2 (50:36):
That's it. That's it for the Horror Hutch this week.

Speaker 1 (50:39):
But we're not going fully away from horror because in
our actual what fits the first thing we're talking about
is a TV show that started in twenty twenty one,
So where are we talking about it now? Because I
didn't know about it or I forgot about it. It's
called Invasion, and it's on Apple TV and it's getting
its third season.

Speaker 2 (50:58):
Yeah. I also either hadn't heard about it, didn't know
about it, or I'd forgotten about it. So when I
watched it. Here, let me read you what I wrote
in my notes. I wrote, I haven't been watching Invasion,
so this was mostly hard to follow for me, But
whatever happened before it was just the beginning. According to
this trailer, there's a mission to cross the quote unquote

(51:21):
dead zone and one of the members quote unquote knows
more about the aliens than anybody. I think I need
to watch the first two seasons to connect with this
at all, because this trailer did not work for me,
But that might just be due to my unfamiliarity with
The series comes out on Apple TV Plus on August twenty.

Speaker 1 (51:39):
Second, so they gave me pretty sci fi visuals and
so it kind of appealed to me. The premise is
that an alien species comes to Earth and threatens humanity,
you know, like they do and then events unfold in
real time through the eyes of a handful of ordinary people.
So basically or of the world, the world's meets this

(52:01):
is us. Maybe yeah, and apparently the threat has now evolved,
and that's that's what's happening in season three. I kind
of you know, I like monster movies, so maybe I will.
I will watch season one, two and then three.

Speaker 2 (52:19):
Yeah, this didn't This didn't grab me enough. I mean
it may be like I'll probably look at reviews of
what the series, you know, the reviews for the series
so far, just to see what people have been saying,
because maybe I'll check it out. But there is such
a long list of things that I have not yet
watched that, you know, I'm not going to add it

(52:39):
just based on this trailer. There wasn't enough there for me. Now,
our next thing I want to talk about this is
something that I think I absolutely want to see when
it comes out. It's going to be coming out on
Netflix on August twenty eighth and is called The Thursday
Murder Club. This is technically an adaptation of a novel
that was written by Richard Osmond, and it's set at

(53:00):
a retirement home where this group of retirees has formed
a Thursday Murder Club. They don't commit murder, they attempt
to solve murders, specifically cold cases. And originally there's three
of them. They're played by Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan and
Ben Kingsley, and they are they're like a former spy.

(53:23):
Helen Mirren is the former spy, which I totally buy.
I've seen Red, Pierce Brosnan is a former trade union official,
and Ben Kingsley is a former psychiatrist. They are later
joined by a fourth member played by Celia Imriy who
plays a retired nurse and shortly after she joins, there's
a current murder that happens and she convinces them to

(53:46):
use their deductive abilities to try and solve this now
current case. And it looks very English, it looks delightful
and the cast list is incredible.

Speaker 1 (54:02):
I agree. It looks like a goof here Knives Out,
but with more of a collaborative feel.

Speaker 2 (54:13):
Yeah, and again like it gave me, gave me reflections
of Red because Helen Barren played a you know, a
not KGB. She was actually m I six. She was
like a former m I six member. But yeah, other
people who are in this include David Tennant, so you
got a former doctor who Jonathan Price, who he's been
in tons of stuff, but he was like, he was

(54:35):
the the the governor in Pirates of the Caribbean. He
was also in Baron Monschausen and tons of other things.
Richard y Grant, who was the old Loki in the
Loki season one, Tom Ellis who played Lucifer in the
series Lucifer. Lots of other folks are in this. It
just it looks like it's going to be very dry

(54:56):
and witty and funny and probably dark as well since
it is about murder. So yeah again, Netflix, August twenty eight,
looking forward to it.

Speaker 1 (55:05):
It just blows my mind that Helen Mirren was in
Red as old Spy. She was only sixty five at
the time. Yeah, and now she's doing this at eighty, Like,
thank you.

Speaker 2 (55:20):
She still looks amazing.

Speaker 1 (55:21):
Yeah, thank you for moving the bar, Hollywood, I really
do appreciate that. Do it more. Speaking of fun casts,
we also got a trailer for Code three. This one
probably doesn't belong in stuff that fits, but honestly I'd
stuck it there because I was adding it from my phone,
so I wouldn't forget it, and then there wasn't.

Speaker 2 (55:42):
I was wondering because I was like, why is she
putting Code three? And this doesn't fit.

Speaker 1 (55:47):
So we'll we'll just cover it quickly Code three. Code
three follows a twenty four hour shift of paramedics that
are burnt out, starring Rain and Wilson and Little Ray
Howary Amy Carrero. Yeah, and just all of the antics, good, bad,
and stressful that they go through and how they're like,

(56:08):
I can't do this anymore.

Speaker 2 (56:10):
Yeah. Specifically Rain Wilson is saying I can't do this
anymore because what he's doing is it's supposed to be
his final twenty four hour shift where he's also training
his replacement, which is the character played by Amy Carrero
who's named Jessica.

Speaker 1 (56:24):
Yeah, maybe maybe we can say it fits in because
EMTs or superheroes.

Speaker 2 (56:32):
Okay, I'm not going to disagree with you obviously, so
that you have you have painted me into a corner
on which I cannot get out. Also, I also think
it's interesting because this movie had its its festival debut
on September twelfth, twenty twenty four, at the Toronto International

(56:52):
Film Festival, and it will have its US theatrical debut
exactly one year later, September twelfth, twenty two.

Speaker 1 (57:00):
That's kind of fun. So coming up, I mean, it
does look like it's gonna be a little bit raunchy,
so but.

Speaker 2 (57:07):
Yeah, well I think it's gonna not necessarily raunchy, but
like you know, like if you've ever seen one of
those like police blotder articles in a free weekly paper,
or you know, one of those little articles that's like
weird but true stories, Like that's the kind of vibe
I'm getting of, like the weird stuff that paramedics can

(57:28):
see just on a daily basis, just based upon what
their job is.

Speaker 1 (57:33):
Yeah, yeah, I mean it looks funky.

Speaker 2 (57:37):
It does look fun. The next one also, I don't
know if this looks fun. I like the premise theoretically,
but I'm not sure that the trailer has sold me
on it. But it's a film titled Kill Me Again,
which falls into the somewhat tired subgenre of time loop movies.

(57:59):
We've got a lot of those over the last several years,
and some of them are great, like you know, Happy
Death Day I think is one of the better like
horror comedies out there, even without the time loop stuff.
But this one. The twist on the time loop concept
is that it's it follows a serial killer who goes

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into a diner and then discovers he is in this
time loop. It looks like it's a pretty short one
based upon the trailer. It's hard to say, like, yeah,
maybe even less than a night, Like it may be
a few hours, but one hit, one hit. Yeah, if
he kills somebody, and of course he wants to because
he's a serial killer and he's just that's all that

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he wants to do is kill people because that's how
simple people are. Okay, enough commentary from Jonathan, But yeah,
it's he gets pulled into this loop over and over again.
At one point, he's like claiming that he's a god
because he can't be stopped and he could just keep
killing people even though it's the same people over and over.
And as soon as that happens, it loops back again.

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I started to wonder, like, here's my theory. I don't
know if this is the case. I have no idea.
I haven't seen this movie, I haven't looked into it further.
But my guess is that it will turn out that
he's dead and this is his eternal punishment, and like,
at first he's all excited that he gets to kill people,
but then he realizes that that's all there is and
that it's really boring and it's the same people over

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and over and that's his eternity.

Speaker 1 (59:28):
Oh yeah, that I mean, the premise is fun, like you.

Speaker 2 (59:34):
Said, yeah, Like I said, yeah, from a high concept,
the premise is interesting. I just I don't know. Maybe
it's again, it could just be the trailer. Like we
say this all the time, it is very hard to
judge the finished product based upon a trailer. Sometimes trailer
houses do a great job, sometimes they make a movie
look way better than what it is, and sometimes they

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just fail to capture whatever it is that makes a
movie special. And maybe that's the case.

Speaker 1 (59:59):
He I don't know, Maybe it's like Dungeons and Dragons.

Speaker 2 (01:00:03):
Yeah, well it could be. Yeah, Like I was not
sold on Dungeons and Dragons from the trailer, and then
when I watched the movie, I was like, this isn't great,
but it is entertaining and it has a couple of
moments that made me cry. I was laughing so hard,
specifically the illusion spell sequence that made me laugh so hard.
I had to replay it because I was laughing so hard,

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which tells me like if I had seen it in
the movie theater, I would have been really obnoxious. I
don't know when this one comes out. I didn't write
it down, so I don't but like, honestly, I don't know.
I don't know. Maybe if it's your thing, you can
look it up. I just didn't write it down. We
also got another kind of horror comedy film trailer for

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Cold Storage. This is based off a novel by David
Kep who is better known as a screenplay writer, and
he in fact, he wrote the screenplay of this as well.
So it's zombies in the sense of like horseps, kind
of similar to The Last of Us, where it looks

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like it's like some sort of fungal infection that causes
people to go kind of zombie ish, and it's not
all at once either. They retain some of their cognitive
abilities for a while because they could do things like
operate machines and things like that, which typically in zombie
movies zombies aren't capable of doing that. Liam Neeson, isn't it.

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I think that's Liam Neeson and Vanessa Redgrave were like
the two big names on the cast list. I'm guessing
that that's where most of the budget was.

Speaker 1 (01:01:39):
And Joe Ker, well, Joe here, he's like he's in
Stranger Things. You wouldn't know that, but he's pretty popular.

Speaker 2 (01:01:45):
Okay, yeah, I having fallen off Stranger Things after the
first season.

Speaker 1 (01:01:49):
It's like, the main young guy in the trailer got it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:54):
It looks like it looks fine. I did decide to
read up on reviews of the original novel because I
was like, well, this novel came out, you know, like
seven years ago or something like that, so let me
look it up and see what people thought back then.
The interesting thing I found was that a lot of
people were saying, this feels like it was a screenplay

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that got padded out to be a book. And I'm like, oh,
you know what, that's probably true.

Speaker 1 (01:02:20):
It's probably true. You know, the trailer I think looks fun.
It says it's by the people who did Jurassic Park
and Zombie Land, which is true obviously, because David Kep
worked on the screenplay for Jurassic Park. I don't know
who did. I don't know if he was on Zombie Land,
but it definitely has that feel. It looks like a
lot of fun to me. I the kind of horror

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movie that I could definitely get behind, so I'd be
happy to watch it.

Speaker 2 (01:02:45):
Yeah, it feels a lot more like Zombie Land than
say The Last of Us, right, Like it has that
kind of vibe to it. Yeah, this trailer. I don't
know that I'll see this in the theater, but I
could totally see myself watching it when it's on a
streaming service. It comes out twenty twenty six, That's the
best I can do. I don't know the specific date.

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But and then the last thing I added like shortly
before we started recording, because I just saw it pop
up and thought I thought Ariel would be interested, because
I know that Ariel is interested in Scandinavian culture and
she's interested in monster movies, and this is both. It
is a film called Kraken.

Speaker 1 (01:03:25):
You're You're mostly right. I am interested in Finnish culture,
which is not considered a part of Scandinavia, but I
do also like Scandinavian culture. Okay, fine, now it's true.
I actually I did not know that the Kraken was
a Scandinavian monster. For some reason, I thought it was

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like Greek.

Speaker 2 (01:03:48):
Or well, yeah, because because Clash of the Titans made
the Kraken a Greek monster, but it was never part
of Greek mythology. It was part of Scandinavian mythology.

Speaker 1 (01:03:58):
I just learned that today.

Speaker 2 (01:04:02):
I mean like, there were a lot of kids my
age who just grew up thinking the Kraken was part
of Greek mythology, and which is understandable because that's the movie.
Doesn't bother to make the distinction.

Speaker 1 (01:04:13):
Kind of like dragons and unicorns and mermaids, they kind
of go all over right a lot of culture.

Speaker 2 (01:04:19):
And there are there are sea monsters in Greek mythology,
like Schillad stuff, but obviously those are different courbdis and
that kind of thing.

Speaker 1 (01:04:27):
Yeah, this looks it looks like a monster movie. Nothing
about the Monster Movie particularly interested me, other than the
fact that the beginning of it, when they were talking
about the fish reminded me of the fish Doorbell in
the Netherlands, which I think is an absolutely brilliant idea.

Speaker 2 (01:04:45):
Have you heard about this door bell? No?

Speaker 1 (01:04:47):
Yeah, so it basically is and you can actually watch
this online. This is a bunny trail. I learned about it,
I think on John Oliver, but it's it's in the
Netherlands and there's basically like this damn and when the
fish starts showing up at the dam, once you can,
like if you're watching the doorbell, you can report if
you see a fish, and once they've seen enough fish,

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they know to open the dam for the fish.

Speaker 2 (01:05:11):
Oh, yeah, you know what, I think I have heard
of this. I did not know that it was referenced
as the fish doorbell, but I totally get why it
would be.

Speaker 1 (01:05:18):
Yeah, so all over the world you can watch for
fish to come to this dam and like report them
if you see them to help them get to the
other side.

Speaker 2 (01:05:26):
Well, this trailer is shot where it has characters speaking
in Norwegian, but also other characters speaking in English, which
is interesting to me. I only saw that they have
a release date for Norway for October twenty fourth, So
I don't know if this is going to get global
distribution or not. I would imagine it will, But the

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basic plot appears to be that there's this fish farm.
A group of Japanese business folks are visiting the fish farm,
potentially I guess, to see about whether or not they
will invest in it. There's also a scientist there who's
using sonic technology like sonic waves to run experiments, and
apparently this drives the fish nuts. But beyond that, it

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looks like it drives something more monstrous that lives deeper
in the fjords, thus the Kraken. It irritates the Kraken,
and the Kraken ends up cracking heads when is irritated. Yeah,
I thought it looked. I was like, well, you know what,
I would watch this. This looks this looks wacky to me.

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I don't know that it will ever get like a
theatrical release here in the US, but it definitely looked.
I love watching horror movies from other cultures that you know,
it's not just England or the United States or Australia
or New Zealand. Like I love watching ones where it's
from other places in Europe because, for one thing, it
tells me what other people consider to be scary or

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interesting mythology, and you learn more about a culture that way,
and I like that. I think that's pretty interesting stuff.
But yeah, I haven't don't know if it'll ever get
the chance. I did find it interesting that there was
another film called Kraken that also came out this year,
but at least that's the English translation for the title

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is Kracking. And this was a Russian film that came
out earlier this year that featured a rescue mission. It
was a naval rescue mission in search of a missing
submarine and a monster under the sea appears to also
be involved. And I was like, oh, that's how cool
that we get two Kracking movies in the same year.

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Not that I don't I don't know that I'll ever
get a chance to see the Russian one either, but
I just thought it was interesting.

Speaker 1 (01:07:41):
Yeah, it is interesting because when you first of all,
the art is kind of similar Tiny vessel giant octopus.
I for both, but it's kind of hard to find this,
this Norwegian one, so good find.

Speaker 2 (01:07:57):
Yeah, it just it was. It was one of those
that just popped up on my recommended for you on
on YouTube, and I was like, I gotta check this out.
And I apologize for okay, okay, I just had to
check this too. I wanted to give Ariel a recommendation
if she has not seen it, because now I'm speaking
about like European horror movies. This one's a horror comedy

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found footage style thing, but it's a troll Hunter. Oh
do you ever get the chance? Oh, have you seen it?

Speaker 1 (01:08:28):
I've seen bits of it.

Speaker 2 (01:08:29):
It's that one I think, like, I don't think it's
so scary that you would find it off putting or anything.
It's certainly like most of the scares are things where
you see something large moving, but it's not you know,
you're you're too close to be able to get a
really good look at what it is. Like you just
see part of it moving and that's it. But yeah,
if you if you ever want to watch a European

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it's it's really a horror comedy in some ways. I
would recommend troll Hunter. It's a very entertaining movie. And
I from years ago is like ten years ago when
it came out.

Speaker 1 (01:09:03):
I'll add it back to my list.

Speaker 2 (01:09:05):
Yeah, that one's a good one. I saw a lot
of European horror moviies over this was pre pandemic. I
remember I went on a kick where I watched a
bunch and that one stood out to me as one
that was really entertaining. There were other ones I watched
that also I thought were quite good, but they were
they are not your thing. A reel.

Speaker 1 (01:09:23):
Yeah, yeah, I'm not surprised, not surprised. Well, that is
all we have for this week. It wasn't too bad
for all of our Loop de Loop Denis.

Speaker 2 (01:09:35):
Yeah, we did have some technical issues in the middle
of recording, so that's telling me that this will probably
be not that much more than an hour long, which
is one of our shorter episodes.

Speaker 1 (01:09:46):
Yeah, hey, go us if you want to let us
know anything, Jonathan wo I lost the thread there, Huh.

Speaker 2 (01:09:59):
If they want to each me, what they're going to
have to do is you're going to have to go
and learn to be a chiropractor, right, You're gonna have
to enroll in whatever school is teaching it. I don't
really believe in chiropractice, so I don't really think of
it as being a true medicine. But that's me then,
I'm an old man who yells at passing clouds. Don't

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pay attention to that. But if you really need to
ask me something, you are going to have to be
a chiropractor first. Why Because my back needs cracking, just
like the last two movies we talked about. So if
you can be you know you can, you can be
the person to add the crack into my back and
in a way that's not going to injure me. Then
you sure ask me a question, I'll be happy to

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answer it. If you can hear me or the sound
of my old bones popping.

Speaker 1 (01:10:47):
Better cracking for your back in than craking for your bacon. Yes,
if you want to reach out to us another way,
like if you're allergic to cracking back in seafood, like
Jonathan actually is, I don't think you'd be able to
eat cracking. You'd probably want to avoid it.

Speaker 2 (01:11:06):
I mean, I could probably give it a try, except
that my partner would forbid me from doing it because
she's had to drive me to the emergency room too
many times already.

Speaker 1 (01:11:15):
Yeah. Yeah, Anyhow, if you want to reach out to
us in a normal way, you can do so on
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find an invite to the discord on our website www
dot large end drun Collider. It is a little bit
out of date, but I will be getting it back
up to date soon. You can also reach out to

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us long form. Our email is large neurdron pod at
gmail dot com. We love hearing from you. We love
peeking out with you. And until next time, I am
Ariel under the seacast, and.

Speaker 2 (01:11:49):
And I am Jonathan. I've changed my mind. I want
my amusement park ride to be modeled after Timeloop movies,
so you never able to get off Strickland. Nice, Nice,
get your money's worth. The large Nerdron Collider was created
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